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todayiamadaisy) wrote2015-11-09 03:03 pm
todayiamadaisy) wrote2015-11-09 03:03 pm
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The Dare-Devil Duke
Hello, f-list. Where do we stand on people who bring their own tea-bags on social visits? Not for health or religious or other reasonable reasons. I mean taste. You just really like Lipton's Earl Grey (or whatever), so you take them everywhere, just in case the person you're visiting only has Bushell's Blue Label (or whatever).
One of my mother's cousins came to visit today, driving through town on her way to somewhere else. She (the cousin) had her own peppermint tea-bags. "Oh, we've got peppermint," said my mother, but her cousin said no, she only liked this particular brand, which she has only ever found in one shop in Brisbane (where she lives), so she had to go there and buy a big stock of them to take on her driving trip. Which you would think would be as irritating for her as it was for me, but apparently not.
(After she left, I said the tea-bag thing was a bit precious, and my mother reminded me that during John's illness/funeral a couple of months ago, we had several visits from his son and daughter-in-law, who were so fussy that they refused all hot drinks that weren't made (a) in their own house or (b) by professionals. So yes, that really is precious.)
In other news, I have the 48,159th most common surname in the world, shared with fewer than 10,000 other people, with a full quarter of them living in a tiny corner of Scotland. You can find out the same sort of thrilling information about your own surname here. (I had fun typing in surnames to work out the most common one, which isn't Singh as I always believed. So if it's not Indian, I thought, it must be Chinese, and, indeed, I got it on my third attempt. There are 76.5 million people surnamed Wang in the world, 74.7 million of them in China. That makes the Daisies look a bit lonely, doesn't it?)
One of my mother's cousins came to visit today, driving through town on her way to somewhere else. She (the cousin) had her own peppermint tea-bags. "Oh, we've got peppermint," said my mother, but her cousin said no, she only liked this particular brand, which she has only ever found in one shop in Brisbane (where she lives), so she had to go there and buy a big stock of them to take on her driving trip. Which you would think would be as irritating for her as it was for me, but apparently not.
(After she left, I said the tea-bag thing was a bit precious, and my mother reminded me that during John's illness/funeral a couple of months ago, we had several visits from his son and daughter-in-law, who were so fussy that they refused all hot drinks that weren't made (a) in their own house or (b) by professionals. So yes, that really is precious.)
In other news, I have the 48,159th most common surname in the world, shared with fewer than 10,000 other people, with a full quarter of them living in a tiny corner of Scotland. You can find out the same sort of thrilling information about your own surname here. (I had fun typing in surnames to work out the most common one, which isn't Singh as I always believed. So if it's not Indian, I thought, it must be Chinese, and, indeed, I got it on my third attempt. There are 76.5 million people surnamed Wang in the world, 74.7 million of them in China. That makes the Daisies look a bit lonely, doesn't it?)