In the mornings, I’m currently drinking Chai, made by dunking a teabag in a mug. perlmonger is far more pernickity, and mixes his own blends in an ad hoc sort of way, and brews the resulting beverage in a Bodum tea pot.

I went down just now to fetch our second cups. I filled the kettle, put the tea bag in my mug. Then thought “that’s odd – the kettle’s boiling, and my mug is full of tea and a teabag”. Perhaps I made it with cold water – no, water was hot.

I transpired that I had poured tea from Pete’s pot into my mug on top of the chai teabag, giving me a truly revolting mix of chai and jasmine.

It bodes …