Rant time!

Teabags: year after year, there has been less and less tea contained within until the chance of a typical, tasty, good English cuppa became nigh on impossible.

So the purveyors of tea now charge you again to have a full teabag by marketing their product as 'extra strong' - and naturally this is always more expensive!

Funny how the standard, inferior bags were not marketed as extra tasteless!

A whole generation of people have been brought up on something resembling dishwater. That fact is one thing - but then they offer it to me as a friendly gesture!

Of course, the lost art of 'mashing' has more than a little to do with current, poor standards of tea in this country.

If you want the finer flavours - all very well - I enjoy a delicate Oolong or Lapsang Souchong as much as the next Chinese but that is not really what you want when 'a good cuppa' is the requirement!