From the sky, hot tea and full size.

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1. Seeing St Paul's Cathedral and The Millennium Bridge and The Tate Modern from the plane.

2. Wrapping my hands around a mug of real English tea that had been made with a fresh teabag and boiling water.

3. Lying diagonally across my double bed after a week of skimpy single beds.

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  1. UnknownTuesday, October 04, 2005

    Welcome back. Coming home is good compensation for not being away.

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  2. KatieTuesday, October 04, 2005

    I still chuckle thinking about the sign advertising 'Fat Hardy Mums' at a garden centre at the bottom of Vermont!

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  3. JoeinVegasWednesday, October 05, 2005

    2a. real tea made with tea leaves (not in a teabag). (Does anyone in England still do that?)

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  4. UnknownWednesday, October 05, 2005

    I make tea with real tea leaves, but then I live in Tunbridge Wells.

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  5. ClareWednesday, October 05, 2005

    I usually make tea with real tea leaves, but for convenience and speed, nothing beats of teabag. Actually, that beautiful thing started out as a plaint against the American way of stale tea bags
    (apparently filled with sawdust) and served with hot water in a cup. But whining isn't a beautiful thing, so I edited.

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