I suspect the coffee industry has got the tea industry by the cojones and is ever so slowly beginning to squeeze some fear into it; and because I suspect this was enough excuse for me to nod my head oh-so knowingly when the latest Nigella Lawson ads hit our shores for a particularly well-known British tea brand. Will the ample-bosomed and cashmere-garbed temptress draw us away from our coffee addictions?

No chance, I thought.

Then, in the bath the other night, Riley held up a little bath toy cup and said, ever so sweetly, “T is for Twinings.”

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