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[DaisyB]

I got the chai tea and it's delicious!!!

[DaisyB]

Black sparkle - shingles back in mouth so have to avoid almonds😞

[Roseneath]

Chi is lovely, Twinings do a nice one. Boil it up with a good teaspoon of sugar in a pan for 10 minutes, add boiled (full fat best) milk (50milk / 50 water) then boil again. Very comforting.

[CLKD]

Darjeeling is likely to become rare due to problems in that part of India 

Financial Times:


Ethnic unrest in north-east India has forced the closure of Darjeeling's tea plantations at the peak of the harvest season, threatening to push prices for the crop up 20 per cent.

Growers in the Himalayan foothills should be picking the season's “second flush” of Darjeeling tea, a leaf so prized it has previously sold for as much as $1,850 a kilogramme. This harvest provides the bulk of the 8m kilogrammes of tea that Darjeeling sells, mainly to Europe, each year.

But clashes between ethnic Gorkhas and the government that have led to three deaths and the army being deployed on the streets of Darjeeling have halted harvesting since early June.

[peri]

Lady Grey is my favourite, black and weak with no sugar.  In fact I can't drink builders tea anymore.  Also M&S do an Empress Grey. The Cherry Rose green tea sounds nice though walkinthedog, will have to look out for it x

[katsclaws]

I seem to be in the minority here. I drink loose leaf Assam tea, very strong with lots of milk.

[DaisyB]

Black sparkle - shingles back in mouth so have to avoid almonds😞

Oh no DaisyB, how awful for you, that must be so painful.  When did you last have it?

S x

March this year on lip 😬 I've been on a diet high in good fats but realised yesterday a lot of Ingredients are high in L-arginine - pretty sure that's what caused this breakout. Yup scalp face and mouth was thumping with pain but I got my stash of lysine into me and it's easing off. DH and DD telling me off for not taking acyclovir - what can I say 😬 I'm stubborn and much prefer a natural route if I can get away with it. 😉

[CLKD]

Herpes is a sign that the body is stressed, once people are prone to cold sores/shingles it will continue as it remains in the body.  M in L had a fall and within 5 weeks shingles attacked, due to shock  .  If there is a medication to prevent it occurring, maybe take it?  Herpes is 'natural'  .......

Sorry breeze - hadn't read your comment about a Darjeeling shortage  [must try harder]

[Yorkshire Girl]

I used to love builders tea, but since I stopped having milk only drink peppermint tea

[DaisyB]

Herpes is a sign that the body is stressed, once people are prone to cold sores/shingles it will continue as it remains in the body.  M in L had a fall and within 5 weeks shingles attacked, due to shock  .  If there is a medication to prevent it occurring, maybe take it?  Herpes is 'natural'  .......

Sorry breeze - hadn't read your comment about a Darjeeling shortage  [must try harder]

I gave in😇 Chatted to very sensible friend in health store. His rationale was take the meds the dr gave you as well as lysine and concentrate on supporting your liver afterwards -  😬 I get breakouts from either stress or high l-arginine - had to quit diet claire Snowdon Darling has me on as most of the good fats have a poor l-arginine v lysine ratio

[CaroleM]

My worst 'gift' of tea was from a, now late, Aunt.  Loose leaf jasmine.  The loose leaf was no problem, nor would have been the jasmine.  What was a big problem was the fact that the tea might well have been 10 years old, it was so musty.  Didn't dare try it, which was sad.  Still, it was the thought that counted, I think!

[Salad]

My worst 'gift' of tea was from a, now late, Aunt.  Loose leaf jasmine.  The loose leaf was no problem, nor would have been the jasmine.  What was a big problem was the fact that the tea might well have been 10 years old, it was so musty.  Didn't dare try it, which was sad.  Still, it was the thought that counted, I think!

Think you need to start a 'worst gift' thread Brighteyes - reading this made me laugh and remember a gift from a friend for my daughter, a beautiful journal
...then I flicked through the pages and found some pages already written on - not all re gifting works out I guess 

[CLKD]

Old tea can be poured cooled round rose bushes or under camellias 

[Yorkshire Girl]

I used to do that, my mum & her mum gave me that tip CKLD!

[CLKD]

Seems that unless the UK Government pays £B of compensation, tea farms in Kenya are likely to be over-run .......... can't remember the Company name but I will jot it down and avoid paying for their products.  Also be buying other varieties.