1) I was trying to think of songs that praised the virtue of tea or that were written while under the influence of tea. Unsurprisingly there are not that many. I could only think of two.
Afternoon Tea by The Kinks is about a man that drinks tea at a cafe with someone called 'Donna'. One day when Donna walks away, he wonders why she didn't stay to drink her tea.
Blur also mention sugary tea in Chemical World.
It seems to be more of a british thing. Amercian bands are too angst ridden to be singing about tea.
2) I remember now the big selling point for Tetley tea was that each bag had two-thousand perforations. This was to let the flavour flood out. I don't know how many perforations other teabags had but presumably it was less than two thousand. The Tetley tea-folk - they were all male weren't they? Where were the women?
3)A few years ago I read a book called The Manuscript found in Saragosso by Jan Potocki. It was a very strangely structured book with lots of stories within stories within stories. (Jan Potocki killed himself by removing the handle from a silver sugar bowl, fashioning it into a bullet and then shooting himself with it).
Lots of academicly minded people have studied this book and have tried to work out what the bloody hell Potocki was trying to say because the book is written like he's attempting to get some kind of important point across. The trouble is that it's so weird that no-one has worked out what it is. One of the theories was that he was telling us all to convert to Islam.
Anyway, with all that in mind, is Lucifer really just a huge metaphor relating to tea? In the future will Lucifer be more focused on tea and less on the first of the fallen.
In fact is all this business with the devil just setting the stage so Mike Carey can write about tea?
4) My shopping bill, this morning came to £6.66. "
