I have a very large mug made of blue glass that's my favourite implement to drink tea out of. I don't sip tea a la HRH Liz with my pinky finger up, taking dainty ladylike sips, I guzzle tea, I inhale tea, I drink more tea per day than you could possibly imagine. My blue glass mug has more mileage than Marilyn Monroe at a Kennedy family picnic. I think that if you cut me, I'd even bleed tea.

I don't know when this habit started, I only know that I got it from my grandmother, who was, and is, an incessant drinker of the herby brew. I have far surpassed her however. I am sure, as I said above, that I drink more tea in a day than she does in a week.

Tea is a wonderful restorative and curative. If you're sleepy, tea helps wake you up. If you're wide awake, tea is refreshing. If you feel ill, tea makes your tummy feel all googly and nice. Nothing better than tea on a cold day. You can wrap your fingers around the cup for warmth, and feel like you've had an internal hug as it slides down your throat to points south.

Tea is the drink you share with friends. Tea can be sweet, bitter, warm or cold, just like people. Tea has personality. Tea should be considered a major food group. Tea can heal, and tea can get you high if you're of a mind to boil marijuana leaves.

Tea goes so well with the best meal of the day: dessert.

I'm addicted to tea, I'll admit that freely. If I don't have it within ten minutes after waking up, I'm cranky. The only thing that suffices in its stead is a bottle of Coke. Yes, you're right, it's the caffeine, I'm not ashamed to admit that addiction either. Tea cures most, if not all, of my headaches.

Tea comes in a million different flavours, and there's even that dreaded de-caf kind, which sorta strikes me as pointless (unless it's used for healing or you're having herbal). It's like drinking non-alcoholic beer, what's the point?

There's a quote, methinks it's from the Rubayat of Omar Khayam:

Could work just as well as: