Office Cuppa Blog

At the ripe old age of 100, Fuaja Singh is the world’s oldest marathon runner. He has completed seven marathons since the age of 89.  He has revealed the key to conquering his daily 10-mile training regime is eating plenty of ginger curry and drinking copious amounts of tea.

Well we always knew that tea was more than just a drink!

Source: Press Association

Oasis song-writer and Machester City fan, Noel Gallagher, has offered some sage advice on tea making. The plebs newspaper The Sun reported that Noel can drink 20 cups a day, likes Yorkshire tea and compares the ideal colour of a cuppa to toffee.

Occasionally, something so anti-human and so horribly businessy comes across my screen that it just makes us cringe with irritation. A water dispensing company have conducted a survey that finds the average worker now spends too long making tea and this creates a massive business inefficiency. Shockingly (and surprisingly) the said worker doesn’t just make his own cup, but has the audacity to make one for his colleagues too, meaning his evil capitalist bosses can’t make even more money to spend on champers.

Too quote the artice in Fresh Thinking Business

“That’s a staggering 188 days and 21 hours spent idling by the kettle over a working lifetime.”

Idling! Who is idling – making a cuppa is an essential part of office culture. It’s why we go to work for godsake. Do these numpties not realise the quantitative benefits of sipping a cuppa at work? It builds teams, it’s a healthy break and above all it wins world wars.

We await some more ’survey’ findings to find out how much time we all ‘waste’ brushing teeth, chewing fruit and wiping our bottoms, all of which have a major impact on business efficiency.

Perhaps they could have picked on something that actual bothers the average wage slave, such as, like ‘How long does my Windows computer really take to switch on!’

Consumer champion organisation Which, has been out and about checking out the prices of our favourite drink in takeaways and other suspect establishments. Read the rest of this entry »

Just spotted.

Designer Dominic Skinner has come up with a rather ingeniuos mug that enables drinkers to store their digestive biscuit in a neat ledge below the brew.

The patented drinking vessel is ideal if you like a couple of biscuits with your tea or coffee. Apparently, the slot of the Dunk cup should always face away from you when drinking so that the biscuits in the slot move towards the back of the mug rather than onto your lap.

The Dunk Mug

Available from Mocha

The Guardian newspaper recently extolled the virtues of making tea for your work collegues. In the article “If you only do one thing this week … make tea for your colleagues” the writer pointed out what we at OfficeCuppa already know;

“Once you have made your colleagues tea they will of course owe you a cuppa. It’s an investment, and the returns can be brilliant. Next time you are stuck at your desk, bogged down in work and parched, one of your colleagues may just come over and return the favour.“

Tea is the backbone of the British workplace. The article also pointed out some of the health benefits of tea drinking.

However, the journo was concerned that, “Making a round of tea may also be the only way to make sure you get a perfect brew.” Obviously she had not heard of OfficeCuppa – the brewlist funtion solves that problem eh!