By Jeremy Lister
I really enjoy drinking tea. I know that it is a bit unusual for a 10-year-old to like tea, but because I’ll be 11 this month maybe it isn’t quite so unusual.
I think I get the liking for tea from my dad because he has these giant cups of tea many times a day.
The cup is like a litre so it’s good that the water restrictions are over, and he needs to have three tea bags in his cup so it is strong enough.
He even has a giant cup in his office in Stanthorpe and one down at parliament too, so that he can have his tea down there. Everybody laughs at his tea bucket but it suits him.
I like having my tea from a pot made with leaves because I think it tastes better that way. And I also like my tea to be a special occasion when I take plenty of time making it and drinking it in little tea cups and using a tea cosy to keep the tea pot warm.
I like how the tea looks orange when it comes out of the pot and into the cup. My favourite brands are Yorkshire Tea and Dilmah Tea. Dad showed me an old 1980s TV ad for Dilmah Tea on Youtube which had this singer called Kamahl in it which made us laugh.
Dad only gets to drink tea from Bushells tea bags at work and he says that I’m spoilt for getting such nice tea. But I think if he wants to drink so much at once he needs to use the cheap version and not some special tea like mine.
I want to travel to England one day and visit Yorkshire and maybe go to the Yorkshire Tea factory at Harrogate. While I’m there I would like to visit the place in Yorkshire where they filmed an old English comedy show called Open All Hours. It was about a greedy shopkeeper and his nephew who also worked in the shop and it was really funny.
