Time for Tea

[Katharine]

.... now have two cups of Twinings Green Tea a day for health reasons. Apparently green tea helps to slow the advancement of cataracts.

That's interesting. I quite like green tea but have got out of the habit of drinking it.

I think perhaps I'll restart as there is a history of cataracts in my family, so if there's any possibility of lessening my chances of getting them, I'll try it.

[Courtenay]

Unfortunately I don't like the taste of green tea, however healthful it may be, so I'll stick to my Twinings Lady Grey. Or peppermint. Or lemon and ginger... the Twinings version of which is more like lemon and gingeAAAHHHHH, as it has quite a kick if you make it fairly strong.

I fairly recently discovered (after only 8 or so years of living in this area!!) a lovely tea room by the river in the next village to ours, Eynsford, about a mile away — half an hour's walk. Of course it's been closed during the current and previous lockdowns, but the owners are now running a caravan behind the shop with takeaway tea and coffee and snacks, open over the weekends at least, so I'm still visiting that when I can. I was planning to walk over there this afternoon but got held back by an unexpected situation at work and it was getting dark by the time I was free again... oh well, another time!