OK, the teabag is peppermint and nettle, I guess someone has to drink the stuff - I get fed up with just peppermint, so I buy odd varieties to make them taste a bit different. Average day, one large fresh orange juice, two mugs of coffee, two mugs mint tea, two mugs fruit tea, two beers, one whisky. Today I found a Fentiman's Organic Ginger Beer in the pantry after doing a couple of hours gardening in the sun (24C, felt like midsummer, shirt off, getting the sunburn I avoided in Mexico last month!). Strange stuff but thirsty at the time. Could have been quite old. I often find things in the pantry which are at least 10 years old, and today I planted a load of seeds from 2002 packets. Shirley would not let me throw away two expensive restaurant-catering chicken things a bit ago, frozen for at least ten years. They'll be fine.
And this mug is probably 25 years old - chipped, stained (you can't see) and of course I do not use it, but just for Yildiz, I gave it a wash and used it tonight:
Dr Harout can rest assured I was not about to soak the 'ramish' duduk reed in hot tea. I gave one of the Yerevan market duduks to my friend Jack (regularly hikes through Turkey in search of folk music, plays Turkish G clarinet and cumbus) on Friday, he asked for a glass of water from the pub so the reed could have a drink. Sure enough, he got the right sounds out of it. The M-UG will be used with plain water to give the reed a short soak before trying it again!
David
