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Most, if not all, of my customers over the last fifty-odd years are more familiar with Imperial measurements.[/quote]
Yes, I have found that too. Yet you go to the grocery store, the pharmacy, and the doctor’s office and they all use metric (SI). A little tale. I had my usual annual check up. The nurse weighed me in kg of course then she decided that I needed to that to be in stones and pounds… 
I tend to use metric all the time but sometimes I lapse into the vernacular, however I have learned not to make the mistake of telling my kids to, “…move it a couple of inches toward me.” as it could result in movement of anything from a centimetre to a couple of feet.
Whilst I like metric threads for making things more simple, I do miss the closer threading of BA and BSF if only for tighter fixing without thread stripping. The increased coarseness of metric threading does not allow increased torque for a good tight holding.
This is true when Mr M’s 98 year auntie died she had in her flat a brand new frame aid -she had never used it . We tried to return it to the NHS and they didn’t want it even though we were happy to take it in . They said they had no one to clean it ( it was just as new ) so we took it to a charity shop who were happy to have it .
And yet they have notices up all over the place asking for such equipment to be returned. No wonder they are going bankrupt!
I have recently phoned-in and had a bed entry/exit assistance frame collected by my local West Sussex NHS equipment people. It was both easy and quick coz it was collected the same week by a very happy chap who was a pleasure to deal with.
I wasn’t aware that tea was so fragile as to need that much packing. I’ll be especially careful from now on. 
It’s not the tea that needs protecting its all that plastic that teabag fans love to ingest that needs protecting. You just can’t get the same quantity of plastic with loose leaf tea.
I suppose you could take the tea out of the teabag? Its fiddly, but do-able. And have a tea strainer to hand 
I only buy loose leaf tea, you can’t make a decent cup of tea with a tea bag (I have a theory that the smaller volume of water cools too quickly). Using plastic to seal teabags is just an additional reason not to use them.
There is a teapot available for every occasion though I tend t use a stainless steel one for everyday use for just me (and strainer of course)
I agree 
I prefer loose leaf tea, but its very limited in flavours…for example fruit tea only comes in teabags as far as I know.
Me too.
I don’t mind, though.
Marge always likes boxes for packing up things to send off to people, and she’s not alone:
our two cats love boxes!
My first wife liked all these strange “teas” but she made her own (heaven help anyone who dared to pull a dandelion out of the lawn). Personally I prefer plain old black tea but occasionally I will make green tea or Chai and my son is constantly giving me these exotic (expensive) black teas (loose) - I haven’t the heart to tell him I am not that fond of them
Oooh I love green tea, and also chai. Fresh mint tea (with actual leaves) is delicious, as is pine tea.
I’m loving the look of the Spiced Mince Pie one you have there…I’m going to check for that one tomorrow, either in supermarkets or amazon! 
Amazon is your friend, Pixie!
Thanks Tabby…sadly its out of stock!!! 
I’ll look and see if there is any other options though
T2 is a tea supply shop here, I think it started in Melbourne but I vaguely remember that it was bought by a multinational so it might be world wide now. Even Wollongong has a T2 shop.
I found one near me! It opens Monday again, so I guess I’ll be heading into the city for tea 
Although…I could also order some online where its on SALE!
I spent a few years in Taiwan. We had green tea every day. All good. But we are drifting off the topic about waste.
I’m probably a pedant about this. We had the outlaws here for a couple of weeks I spent quite a bit of time sorting out their rubbish, flattening it, and puting it into the right bins.
