Rain falls down on fields. It drains off,passing septic tanks and slurry pits,into streams. Some of it will reach an algae reservour and then be `treated` with copious amounts of chlorine (yes, they still use this shit in Ireland). After a while it finds it`s way through miles of concrete,copper and(yoiks) lead piping before it reaches our tap. TEA grows in China and Ceylon . It`s picked and stored in vast warehouses before being shipped on a two week journey to the U.K. or ireland. IT is further ripened in warehouses before being packed and stored. It then makes it`s way to ths shops where it can lie on shelves for days or weeks before being purchased. Four years ago I bought the missus a stainless steel electric kettle and matching teapot(when she was in her stainlees steel period)(and guess what she used for tampons-Brillo pads)(couldn`t let that one pass). So the missus takes her four year old kettle ,boils the much-travelled water , adds the now dated tea into her four year old teapot,stirs it and then , and only then has the audacity to tell me she`s made a fresh pot of tea!!!! Me thinks not
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