It was the aides who were whole-heartedly on my side, and teased me that they saw wedding bells in my tea leaves.
No wonder the tea in my cup never got cold.
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In my case that means printer paper, green tea and cat food.
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"I've been serving the clearest glass of tea I've handed out in my 12 years of business, " says Jim Hunt, owner of the Fiddler's Resort, a local hotel and restaurant.
The book sprang from images I'd actually seen: a man named Vishnu dying on the steps of my parents' apartment building in Mumbai, a cup of tea someone had left lying untouched next to his body.
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However, it was a chat with Dennis Skinner in the tea room that led to me change the organisation of my day.
" I remember once waking up from a dream in which my mother, dead now for thirty-three years, was sipping tea at my kitchen table, reading a newspaper on the back of which there was the headline "Wrong Man, Right Name, Convicted in Murder Trial.
"When I got a call from Lex to invite me in the back door he said he didn't think it was my cup of tea - which was a strange comment, " added Jefferies.
Back in my day, we sat, we discussed the weather and the news, we had tea, we asked about families, we talked about that handsome Mr. Brokaw.
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All of my family is OK. We are sitting in the living room, some are drinking tea, some are drinking milk, waiting for Dad to come back.
When the mayor announced his proposal to ban sugar-sweetened drinks in portions over 16 ounces from New York City restaurants, many of my friends assumed Honest Tea would welcome the news as a public initiative to complement Honest Tea's long-standing commitment to marketing lower-calorie drinks.
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