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No Tea?!!!!! Oh NO!!!!!

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Oh no indeed, Beth! In last week's grocery delivery a very large bag of teabags was substituted for a much smaller one.... and this week they could supply NO TEA AT ALL!

#Britishpanic 😱

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Mar 6Liked by Rebecca Holden

I need to lose some weight, but baking soda in tea??? Not a chance... 🥴

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Me neither!!!! An entire ounce in a single cup?!!!! I can't imagine what that would cause (well, I CAN, and it's not a pretty image!!!!). 🤣

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Mar 6Liked by Rebecca Holden

Terry’s postbox is an extremely rare example!

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Unique, I'd say! The text on HIS postbox is only legible when viewed with a mirror! 🤣

Will you tell him, Jean, or shall I?! 😉

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Mar 6Liked by Rebecca Holden

That is the one in his letter last week!

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Good spot! 😁

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OUT OF TEA!? OH NO! That’d be like me running out of Lindt chocolate—the kind with chili in it.

I’m going shopping today and can look around in our store here in Maine USA to see if they have your Tetley tea in stock and send you some. ❤️

I liked the golfing in the potholes meme. Too funny.

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Oooooooh, chilli chocolate! I've seen it over here but haven't tried it - you've certainly got my attention, though!

LOL - thank you, but all is not yet lost on the tea front, because I have now come into a stock of teabags. I always buy in bulk (so much cheaper!) but I'm having to make do with the much smaller packs at the moment - and not from my usual source!

Oh, that brilliant boy and his pothole golf - he's a genius. 👨‍🎓

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Wonderful, inventive ways to use a pot hole. Has the city taken notice?

Our mailboxes on street corners always had legs. No child could be deceived into thinking the letters are dropped into a tunnel system.

It’s dreary here too, Rebeccca. But hubby and I have a date at the mall. The Apple Store offers a Vision Pro demo. Not to buy just to experience. Have you seen these? Maybe they can detect potholes otherwise there will be many twisted ankles.

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Thanks, Carissa! I'm intrigued at the thought of Vision Pro - I'm going to check it out online!

Lots of postboxes here these are on legs - actually, a single leg, like a narrow pedestal - but the old-fashioned pillarboxes are big cylinders all the way down to the ground - oh, and there are plenty of postboxes which are kind of plumbed into walls, if that makes sense - so just a fascia in red metal with a slot for the letters, all going 'into' the wall. Those are both much more fun than the more modern ones! I still like to imagine those sorting people under the ground beneath them! 🤣

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Mar 6Liked by Rebecca Holden

"... I am intending to offer my services to the Highways Agency as a pothole detector. It’s a job-share position..." FYI: If Jim loses interest, I will be your back up. It is a job I am totally qualified for. Of course I would have to move into your garden shed while in residence. As far as salt in tea? Why not just throw n a few noodles and call it lunch?

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Actually, Jim's not interested in the position AT ALL, and I daren't suggest it until he stops wincing whenever I drive over a hump, so Sharron, you've got the job!

LOL re salty noodle tea for lunch! I might need to see the rest of the menu before committing myself... 👀

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Mar 8Liked by Rebecca Holden

Very wise decision.

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🤣

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Oh my gosh! I feel I should mail you a box of tea from Australia!

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That's such a kind thought, Prue - thank you for thinking it!!! Never fear, though - I've found a source of teabags to tide me over! 😁

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Mar 8Liked by Rebecca Holden

Baking soda in tea sounds horrible. I'm not even curious enough to try it. Love the pot hole golf idea. Perhaps there could be a charity tournament with all proceeds going to repair the holes. Better yet, perhaps close down the road(s) and use an earth mover to remove all of the road between the potholes, to make a new subterranean level. I love your childhood visualization of the postal workers working below the drop box. Reminded me that I used to think that all the songs I heard on the radio, were live performances at the radio station. I thought that the waiting room must have been huge to hold all of the performers and their instruments as they waited for their turn, as well as all of the people reading their lines in the advertisements. The radio station was the place to be, in my book. 😂 Hope beautiful, sunny, mild spring weather is right around the corner, and best wishes to your Jim for a speedy recovery.

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Oh Mary, I love the thought of all those singers and bands performing live across the airwaves from all those radio studios! That's absolutely gorgeous!

Weather update: today has been beautiful (although really, really cold!) and I've been out in the sunshine. Hurrah!

That baking soda in tea thing - why do I only get spammed with ridiculous suggestions like those? I'd positively welcome *sensible* tea-specific spam, honestly!

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Mar 8Liked by Rebecca Holden

Weather update comment: my Jim commented on the skies above you this morning and exclaimed, "There's no rain above the UK! What will they do?" 😁

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🤣

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Potholes AND a tea shortage?! Maybe you're better off in a space-time continuum where you can somehow avoid both, even if your meeting with Terry gets e-zap-orated in the process! Is there a nearby Tardis you can use? I'm all for it!

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STOP PRESS: my weekly grocery order has just been delivered - it includes a sack of FOUR HUNDRED TEA BAGS!!!!! I'll show you in my next letter to Terry!!!!

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Thank the stars!!

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Right?! I'm so happy - although a little cross that it took the ordering of a MASSIVE bag like that to get the suppliers' attention at last!

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