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Date: 13 August 2008 17:57:05
Have you noticed how no one in Britain knows how to make a proper cup of tea nowadays? The best you can hope for is an individual pot wit a not very strong teabag in it; the usual is a mug with a tea bag floating in it; and the worst is when you get given a cup of water that has gone off the boil, and a tea bag which you are supposed to put in it yourself. So it was with pleasant surprise that at Sissinghurst Castle café, on our travels in Kent, we were presented not only with a pot of tea for two (made with real boiling water) but also, wonder of wonders, a pot of hot water to extend the pot or adjust its strength. This is almost unheard of nowadays in even the most old fashioned of tea rooms. Admittedly, it was still a bag, not leaves, but then you can't have everything.
And another thing: why does no one queue properly at bus stops any more? Or is that just in London?