Tea! Aaaah - now that's a conversation worth having. Loose leaf tea today does not taste the same as those wonderful CWA afternoon teas or the tea sipped in the shed during shearing time. I lived in New York a few years ago and found a Russian goods shop in my suburb. The tea was as I remembered from childhood - and the leaves were like large parsley - real tea leaves!!!! And it goes without saying, now that I'm a city girl, that I can only drink tea using fine bone china - my G/mother's Royal Albert. I now buy tea leaves from Indian grocers.