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The Coziness Of The Long Distance Supper - the story Alan Sillitoe wrote when he stopped being an Angry Young Man. ☕

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If I was still in the Cubs I could guarantee you two things - firstly, I'd have my Tea Drinker's badge, and secondly I'd be the only 6ft2, grey-haired Cub in the UK! ☕

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My own sparkler, my own banger - 365 days a year. ☕🎆🎇

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How did I reach my teabags as a child?

On my PG Tiptoes. ☕

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I'm headed up North

where tea tastes much better

but why, I don't know, 🤔 

it's not that it's wetter. ☕

TRUE PARTNERS IN RHYME

Liberace - Fibonacci 

Brian Lara - Kate O'Mara 

Peter Cook told Barry Took

Paul Weller's a tall fella

Wayne Rooney - all the Moonies

Rusty Lee and Kiki Dee

Houdini - Mussolini

The Dalai Llama - Sir Keir Starmer

Michael Jackson - Toni Braxton

Robert Plant's a supplicant 

Martin Clunes is farting tunes

Foo Fighters - Sue Ryder's

Doris Speed in Harris Tweed

Vincent Van Gogh - Tony Han Cock

New York is True North

Mick Jagger - Merle Haggard

Eddie Wareing - steady bearing

Billie Eilish fights the Irish.

Celebrity indemnity

Pay no attention

To this invention.

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Cognition's nutrition. ☕

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Lady Macbeth never could get this tea-making malarkey completely right and thought she could merely command the liquid into the cup- "Out, out damned pot, out I say!" 🫖☕

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Where every day is Thirstday. ☕

TO SPEND OR NOT TO SPEND

I'm not sure where or when I'm gonna spend my extra hour

I'm not sure if I have the right to exercise such power

For Time is a museum and we're all briefly curators

But let's be honest most of all we're just procrastinators.