The Kinks - Have a Cuppa Tea,

Masters of Reality - T.U.S.A.

Slang for tea

Brew
Cuppa
Rosie Lee
Char
Builders brew
High tea
Afternoon tea
Cream tea

And don't forget to dunk those biscuits!

William Gladstone and tea

“If you are cold, tea will warm you;
if you are too heated, it will cool you;
If you are depressed, it will cheer you;
If you are excited, it will calm you.”

Sydney Smith and tea

“Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”

Bryan Lee O'Malley and tea

“What kind of tea do you want?"
"There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?"
"Let´s see... Blueberry, Raspberry, Ginseng, Sleepytime, Green Tea, Green Tea with Lemon, Green Tea with Lemon and Honey, Liver Disaster, Ginger with Honey, Ginger Without Honey, Vanilla Almond, White Truffle Coconut, Chamomile, Blueberry Chamomile, Decaf Vanilla Walnut, Constant Comment and Earl Grey."
-"I.. Uh...What are you having?... Did you make some of those up?”

Henry James and tea

“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”

Douglas Adams and tea

“A cup of tea would restore my normality."

C.S. Lews and tea

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

Tea and sympathy

Tea and sympathy

 

A shoulder to cry on, an ear that will listen to your woes.

 

Not one's cup of tea

Not one's cup of tea.

Not to my taste and I do not wish to partake of that which is on offer.

Not for all the tea in China

Idiom

Not for all the tea in China.

 

There is not enough tea in China for me to do as you bid or request.

Just one's cup of tea

Idiom
Just one's cup of tea. Perfect and just right for me.

Intensive tea

Tea appears mundane, brown, if drunk correctly with a smidgin of cows juice. But beware, for within the circle of teas on the market lurks a terrible and unstable tea, a tea of legendary strength.
Home I go, into the kitchen I stroll on a msission to make a cup of Rosie Lee. The glass mug is selected. The kettle is filled with just enough water to boil for said tea, and switched on.
A tea bag is selected from a harmless blue coloured box of brew. The name should of given a clue to what would happen next, for that name is Tetley Intensive.
Water boiled and poured into the mug. Teabag picked up and plnoked and swished around in the mug to aid the brewing process.

Stand back, and then...BANG. The mug explodes clean around its circumference just above the base. At the same time a shower of scalding hot water showers my legs and the surrounding work surface. Truly Intensive tea from Tetley!

Lego at Cambridge University

...and back within transmission range.

''Cambridge University is set to offer one academic a dream job as the prestigious institution's professor of Lego 

The lucky academic will head their own research department after Cambridge's faculty of education received £4million in donations from the Lego Foundation.

The winning candidate will start the job in October, and will be the director of the university's Research Centre on Play in Education, Development and Learning''.

So there you go! The applicant should have hands on experience with Lego and an imaginative mind. That narrows the field somewhat. I remember Lego before the company changed, as economic needs necessitated, and switched to specific kits. Then with red and white bricks and a larger green base...now that was imagination!

 

Lifts

When is a lift or elevator, not a lift or elevator. The answer is simple. When it stops lifing and elevating. In fact it comes to a crashing, gears jamming halt between floors and nothing works. Wonderful way to spend half an hour.