The Petitions Committee (the group of MPs who oversee the petitions system) met today and agreed to schedule a debate on Monday 14 January 2019 on the following group of petitions expressing different views on leaving the European Union:
The Committee has decided to have a single debate on these petitions because it wanted to ensure they were debated as soon as possible, so they would be less likely to be overtaken by events. The Committee has included some smaller petitions because they are very similar to those with 100,000 signatures.
For well over a hour today, after PMQ, the House of Commons argued amongst themselves about a relatively trivial parliamentary point of order concerning the Speaker. It’s as if they had no mind at all to address the pressing issues of Brexit.
Tom,
I work & live in Paris & Burgundy if you live near Auxerre, Avallon, Clamecy or in the North of The Movan etc I can bring you some PG Tips tea from Paris. I think we pay +/- 7 ou 8€ for 300 bags from Indian or Paki shops in Paris.
You almost got it right, but I use the pot heating water to pre heat the mug after it’s done it’s job on the pot (particularly in winter). Bone China, yes, preferably with a flared rim edged in gold. Milk in first or after, makes no difference. Easier to judge if in after.
Don’t keep coffee beans in the fridge or freezer, just in a container that can expel air and gases the beans create (the bags they come in that have a one way valve are fine). Grind beans as you make coffee. Grinding a large amount for storage is verboten. Beans are best between about 5 days after roasting and you can notice deterioration start at about 3 weeks post roast. At 4-6 weeks you struggle to get decent crema.
Not had a cup of tea for 25 years but make the wife one several times a day, normally get the consistency right but she soon tells me if I don’t, bothers me no end.
I am impressed, and a little humbled by the knowledge of many of you & have learned a thing or two.
Myself, I use a small company who supply a nice blend of tea, loose leaf of course, been using them for 20 years.
Happy tea drinking
Toad
Milk.
No small problem.
One can take the tea but not the milk.
In fact I have asked myself, not a few times, can you actually make a good cup of tea east of Dover?
Once you cross the water & head south you hit “lactose intolerance” which of course is on the increase.
Lower demand - lower quality or old
Solution - take your own cow.
Toad
Which is why, for those of you who toot their horn at me, shake their fists and generally act rather “French” is why behind my Defender I tow “Maisy the cow” in the trailer.
Toad
I don’t drink booze, so tea & coffee is as close as I can get to being a wine snob/bore.
