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Time for a Spot of Tea

I love tea, I'm English, I swear it's something written in to our genes.  I have always loved tea - I don't remember the first time I ever had a cup of tea I just know its something I've drank all my life. I come from a family of tea drinkers and everyone of us takes it slightly differently, even my tea tastes have changed over the years. When I was young I took my tea with whole milk and one sugar.  I don't know why I just always did. I drank tea four times a day, one with Breakfast, one with lunch, one after dinner and then one at supper. Tea was a big part of family life, I remember in the summer sitting in my Grandparents garden with a china plate with a special spot for your tea cup to sit eating cucumber sandwiches made with cucumbers my grandad had grown. I drank tea when I was cold because it was comforting and warming and I drank tea when I was hot because it cooled you down. You drank tea when you were happy and you were comforted by it w