Tea, My Valentine?

Photograph by Lummmy

Plenty of people express their love for tea every day. ‘I need a cup of tea.’ We mutter this sentence so often, it should soon be classed as an a term in itself:

I-need-a-cup-of-tea ~ adj. looking for a solution or needing to calm down.

We each have very personal preferences when it comes to tea. Some like it black. Some like it sickly sweet. Some like it sloopy (a bottle of milk and the entire sugar bowl). Some like it perfect (a dash of milk and half a teaspoon of sugar).

But how ever you take your tea, there’s no denying what that cup does for you. It makes you happy. It lowers stress levels. It satisfies your longing. Essenteally (couldn’t help myself), your relationship with tea is one to be cherished.

So, since Valentine’s Day is nearly here, I offer you three ways to express your love for tea:

1. Make it prettea. Drinking tea out of a beauteaful teacup makes your tea taste even better. If you’re lucky enough to have decent china, you should be using it. And not just when you have Important People over. If, like me, you’re still waiting to be able to put a dozen lovely tea sets on your wedding registry, pick the most delightful mug you can find. Your tea deserves to be dressed up a little.
2. Whether you like your tea loose, or you’ve got it in the bag, be snootea and get qualitea. I’ll save the full rant for another post, but I will say that Five Roses is the teenager of teas. Love may be blind, but it’s never tasteless (well ... maybe sometimes).  Anyway, get yourself some decent tea that’s worthy of your love. I recommend Dilmah. 
3. Finally, find a real, live person to be your Valenteane and send him/her a senteamental tea-card.

After all, isn’t that what Valentine’s Day is all about?