Tea

In my 20th year on planet earth I was converted to tea. (I have not previously drank an equivalent drink on another planet.) There are some peer pressure things that I refused to give into such as the unwritten rule in our secondary school that the more rolls you had in your socks the cooler you are. I'm proud that I stood up for myself on that one, but it's quite inconvenient not to like tea or coffee. Most social things happen around tea coffee or alcohol, thank goodness I like alcohol!

I had a friend in uni called Josh who loved tea passionately. He said that we couldn't be friends on a deep level until I started liking tea. We'd sometimes make bets where if I lost I had to drink tea. Which reminds me he still needs to go to tesco wearing my red prom dress. I can't remember what bet that was from but he defiantly owes me that. Anyway one day I was trying to cheer him up (I think I've actually written this on my blog before somewhere) so I downed a whole mug of tea, and shortly after I began liking tea.

From that day to this I have always been a social drinker of tea...it's great when someone invites you round for a cup of tea to be able to say yes rather than 'well I will come but can I have a hot squash?' I do genuinely like tea but I'm not addicted to it like some people. I only have it with other people. (apart from once when I was living in Palestine and Amber stapled a tea bag to a postcard for me. That was a good Yorkshire brew I had in Bethlehem that day.

However today and yesterday I have got home from work to an empty house and though 'I NEED TEA!' I think it's working with kids that makes me need it. So maybe the real addiction will start here. I feel there is a parallel between today and the day I bought a book just because I wanted to read and I bought it with real money not a book token. It's that kind of day that you have to re-assess your while life and principles.

On a completely different note I would like to wish my lovely husband a well done for his stand up routine last night it started with 'FREE TIBET FREE TIBET FREE TIBET ...when you purchase another Tibet of equal of greater value.' He also managed to accidental throw a packet of jelly into a chandelier, and as he predicted we weren't ready for that jelly.