One Christmas, when I was squatting in the East End, I went to a Crisis homeless centre in Whitechapel, where I met a tea lady who started to give me the gospel.

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And so would the Rare Tea Lady.

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But one day she came onto the veranda, where he was having tea with a lady friend and innocently playing rummy.

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La Barra Bar serves cocktails such as Lady Boca (gin and tonic infused with Andean herbal tea) and traditional match foods like pizza de cancha (a pizza with tomato sauce and oregano) and choripan (an Argentine sausage sandwich).

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C. by Lady Hsi-Ling-Shi, wife of the Emperor Huang Ti, while she was having tea in her garden under a mulberry tree.

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He had tea with Queen Elizabeth II and dinner with Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni, the President and First Lady of France.

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