Forum home› The potting shed
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

🐫CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 7. If you have a dose of the cameelious hump🐪

1…2324262829…97

Posts

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I haven't drunk tea for half a century - can I be the antigreep?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I drink loose leaf tea and we use the same set of leaves all day. I swear the 4th brew is the best one.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Talking of being scroogeily greepy, the shrinkage of snacks continues apace. Just bought myself a snickers bar during the SM shop, an attack of nostalgia. It was only 50g and cost 95 cents 😮 
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They're shrinking them purely because of the health benefits to consumers😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Of course, silly me, @B3. Failed health strategy if you end up buying two to make up for the titchiness of one, tho!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited March 2020
    wild edges said:
    I drink loose leaf tea and we use the same set of leaves all day. I swear the 4th brew is the best one.
    Are you secretly a tight Scot ?
    I really should do loose tea again. I used to do it. 

    Better for the waistline @Nollie, if not the purse  ;)
    I had a craving for those when I was pregnant with youngest. Hasn't put me off them - I think of her every time I have one  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Fairygirl said:
    wild edges said:
    I drink loose leaf tea and we use the same set of leaves all day. I swear the 4th brew is the best one.
    Are you secretly a tight Scot ?
    I really should do loose tea again. I used to do it. 
    The guy who sells the tea told me to do it. It's seems like a terrible business strategy to give that advice to your customers though. He says he sells more tea in the long run though because less people switch back to bags to save money.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    That's interesting @wild edges.
    Of course - I can't go to a shop right now to get it..... :D

    I'm very fussy about my tea though. It would be gey weak by the time I'd had four mugs... ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @WonkyWomble and I only drink Darjeeling.  I like mine so weak you can see through it.  I probably only have three or four cups of tea a year.  Most of the time I drink coffee  B)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    edited March 2020
    I remember @wild edges that my Grandma (NE England) used to put the kettle on the range at 6 in the morning to make tea for my Grandad and Uncles. All miners who couldn't survive without their tea. Going back about 60 years now mind, that teapot stayed on the side trivet all day and by the time they were all back it was the consistency of stew and would tan leather! I always drink leaf tea and I like it strong but I couldn't drink that.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
Sign In or Register to comment.