Has anyone mentioned yet that there is a good parody called "Tea Shanty" to the tune of "Lowlands" in the Digi Trad?

I have a friend who only drinks herbal tea and refers to what I drink as "ocker tea", meaning that Aussies generally enjoy a good, conventional cuppa.

One of my favourites in this category is "Billy Tea". This is just a brand name, and not to be confused with the real billy tea, which is traditionally a handful of loose tea brewed in a billy of boiling water on a campfire with a couple of gum leaves thrown in. Milk and sugar is optional. The tea is quite strong and has a smoky flavour.

Other favourites of mine are Prince of Wales and Irish Breakfast tea.
Sometimes when I am in the mood for something different, I like green tea or chai. But I don't really think of them as a cup of tea.

In my family, tea is a social event. If someone in the family drops in and a cuppa isn't offered in the first five minutes, we would be considered inhospitable. My mother in law used to have different rules about sugar in tea depending on the circumstances. She always put sugar in for us if she was serving it to us in the living room, but if we were at the table, we had to put our own in. It was confusing at first, until you worked it out.

The most important thing is that it should be as hot as possible. I don't like those dinky little shallow bone china cups that let the tea cool down before you are halfway through.

But the BEST cup of tea is always the one you have been looking forward to after hours of work, when you can sit down and have a break, or the first one of the day........and especially if someone else makes it for you!