Tea Shortage

You may remember (I mean really, you probably don't) that in January 2022 I received from my employers a good supply of Tetley tea bags. I cannot remember how many they were, but it was a lot of tea bags. Last week, tragedy stroke: there were no tea bag in it. Not a single one. Now, it was not the only bit of tea stock I had been using over the last year and a half, I had bought loose leaf tea and various other brands, but this was the only bag I had left. And as I had taken it for granted, it was suddenly empty. So I spent a whole working day without tea. It was a long day. I finally bought some at the nearest corner shop, a much smaller bag of Tetley tea, enough to get me going for a few weeks. I intend to stock properly soon.

Tetley Tea

Well, I'm back at work since yesterday and that means, well, that I need tea to get through the day. Especially socially jetlagged as I am. Thankfully, I received from my employers a good supply of Tetley tea bags. They were giving a few special prices in a lottery a few months ago and I was lucky enough to receive this one. Seriously, it is sometimes more usefulthan my work laptop. Tetley isn't my favourite tea brand, but I could have got far worse. In any case, it does the job.: I stay awake and (mostly) alert.

£1 of Tetley tea

I am trying to remedy the tea situation at work, because the tea brand they have (PG Tips) tastes rank. So today I bought myself a box of 40 Tetley tea bags. Somehow I am skeptical: the very look of the box with its stuck up middle class Englishman that we see in the advertisement campaign make me think it'll be mediocre at best, but it can't get worse, right? At least it was only one pound.

Tea and survival

Yesterday, there was no more Twinings' Earl Grey, which is what I have usually have with my breakfast. I survive starvation and exhaustion at work with a beaver's diet, but I also need tea for survival. I have one cup in the morning, and it is usually enough to keep me alert for the day, especially if I struggled to sleep the night before. There's free tea at work, a choice of either Earl Grey from Twinings or some banal Tetley or PG Tips tea, which tastes like rough mud. It wakes up all right, but it is much less enjoyable. I prefer Twinings in any case and since their Earl Grey is fancier, I just have it. But there was no Earl Grey, so I had to go to the other kind, whatever it was. In my state, a bit asleep light headed with hunger and in need of caffeine, I threw two bags in the mug. My colleague in charge of supplies laughed about it, I apologize saying I was definitely in need of tea to wake me up if I couldn't count to two. She said: "Oh but have more, it's not rationed." Thankfully it is not. I wonder how I could survive a war if tea and sugar were rationed. I certainly wouldn't be able to go to the front! Anyway, I thought what she said was a great unknown line.