FIRST CUP OF TEA

It doesn't solve the riddle of Monday but it gives you enough clues to crack the case. 🕵️☕

HAIKU

Here's Red Riding Hood,

Surely the least well known of

The Yorkshire Ridings.

FIRST CUP OF TEA

I recall the first time I was 'put in charge of the pot' and my tiny hands carefully spooned the tea into the teapot, giving it an eager stir- I'm like Proust when he dunked that madeleine! ☕

HAIKU

The shrill persistence 

Of the alarm on my phone

Is, oddly, tiresome.

FIRST CUP OF TEA

Goldilocksitis (noun) -  

that brief pause right before you take your first sip - an almost inexplicable movement away from your mouth - as if the liquid may be too hot. 🤔☕

HAIKU

A poet competes

In the 800 meters

But runs out of lines.

FIRST CUP OF TEA

I wish I was an octopus - I could have eight first cups of tea. 🐙☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕

HAIKU

In search of lost time

I stumble upon a scent

Of freshly mown grass.

FIRST CUP OF TEA

Water, an essential part of the cuppa, was formed via hydrogen, produced at the time of the Big Bang, and oxygen, from the heart of an exploding supernova - that concludes today's lesson from the Open Universitea. ☕

HAIKU

Yesterday's footprints, 

Lost rhymes to the tide, we stride

Towards tomorrow.