The easy online way to manage group tea and coffee preferences.
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!’
Sad news for those over a certain age. One of the chimps that starred in the famous PG Tips adverts in the 70s and 80s has passed away.
The chimp, aged 34, called Jilloch lived out her final days in Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire.
We have very fond memories of the chimp tea parties ads.
More details in The Telegraph
Extrodinary stuff in The Times. Journalist John-Paul Flintoff (presumably no relation of the cricketer?) claims that he nearly brought a premature end to his marriage by poisoning his wife with herbal tea!
The said lady, Harriet, nearly met her maker by drinking too much comfrey tea which contains traces of pyrrolizidine alkaloids.
We at officecuppa aren’t surprised – we’ve always been pretty suspicious of that new fangled ‘erbal stuff and should stick to a good brown cup o’ char.
How I poisoned my wife The Times (17th May 2010)
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!
Apparently us office workers would like to see the a friendly lady coming round with a tea trolley. (Office staff would welcome the return of the tea trolley, a survey suggests). It’s an old story from August 2007 (must have been a slow news day!) – but we think it still rings true.
I am not old enough to remember the tea lady, but I have to say, in today’s computer dominated workplace I quite fancy seeing a rickety trolley with a steel urn trundling past at 11am and 4pm. Wouldn’t you?
That fine libreral tabloid The Daily Express reports (19/09/2009) that a study by reserchers at a Dutch univeristy shows that regular tea drinking may reduce the risk of Diabetes by a wopping 42%. So get brewing!
