Buzzing

Sorry for the lack of posts recently, I wish I had an excuse but I don't really - I am just lazy. I will get round to doing that 25 Facts thing at some point (I'm up to #17). I am only writing this post now because I have drunken so much tea this evening I'm too awake to go to sleep.

I love tea. I honestly don't know what I would do without it - seriously. If you know me you know that I always have a selection of teas for different occasions:

English Breakfast: Business tea. Best in the morning for a serious caffeine hit to get you in gear for work; its richness and strength confers an air of gravity and purpose on your affairs.

Darjeeling: It's mid-afternoon, you've been working all day and your head feels delicate so strong tea could bring on a serious headache, but you need enough caffeine to recover from the after-lunch dip. Deliciously light and refreshing Darjeeling hits the spot. Such a refined tea you feel like you should be drinking it from fine china.

Earl Grey: Marmite tea - in the sense that people either love it or hate it (it certainly does not taste like marmite). My mother thinks perfumed tea is blasphemous, and a friend of mine one said it tastes to her like "old socks". The scent of bergamot is not for everyone but I happen to think E.G. is wonderful - especially in the evening when men "read poetry or sit in the dark and think what a hollow world this is".

Lady Grey(TM): A Twinings only variant on E.G. highly recommended. Perfumed with bergamot with an added citrus zing, this tea is liquid summer and has got me through many a Trinity term's revision sesh.

Green Tea: you don't need to be one who buys into all this detox bullshit or one who needs their chakras realigned to drink green tea. Oh no, it is not a new-age fad. Remember now, no milk in this one. Caffiene free, it's perfect just before bedfordshire. Anyway I'm a very tidy person to the point of obsessivness - if my chakras were not aligned I'm sure I would notice.

Fruit Tea: I use the word "tea" very loosly. Bought a pack over the summer and found it to be not my cup of tea. I just kept it on the off chance someone might want a cup, and so that I can claim to have 6 types of tea at all times.

Orwell said that tea is "one of the main stays of civilisiation in this country", which is undoubtedly true, and in celebration of this fact here is a musical ditty...