melaware - a plea from the heart

[JSW]

We use Astonish Tea/Coffee stain remover (purchased from Amazon)but other places probably sell it as well, it's brilliant. You put half a teaspoon in a cup fill with hot water and let it cool completely - stain gone!

 

[teddybear]

When I wor a lad working on the building sites. We used mash up in a big enamel jug. Aboutility once a month only had to add hot water to get a drink,the jug did the rest

 

[Cleve]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I do have my emergency mug with me and I suspect another day or two and I will be using that. Bleach frightens me, I think my first and only wife might have been trying to poison me with the stuff, very happily into my 24th year of being divorced now. The tea never tasted right!

I am using Tesco's own brand tea bags "Scotts extra strong tea" which I find very pleasant (I have brought 10 boxes of 80, plus the one in use with me, I hope I will not run out! ) I need my cup(s) of tea in the morning.

I was introduced to this drink by the wife replacement who ticked all the boxes but one. I thought the only reason she bought it was because her son is called Scott and this is Captain Scott's Blend. When I said this it was not received well but despite all that I liked it and it is my preferred brew (after some years now). Sadly the wife replacement had a serious defect which could not be remedied and reluctantly I had to give up flogging a dead horse (can you hear the violins, adagio in G ...), such a shame, she had great promise, aghhhhhhh.

The next thing is to get a wine glass, my abscynth over the last few days having run out of plonk has been cured, an interesting number from Lidl today a rosé called Gris with a pink flamingo on the label, but no good out of a Sainsburys plastic cup!

Thanks everyone, just off to write another gripping episode of Helen the Hymer.

Clive

Ps as I type this I have a French nature programme on France 2 but they keep using the same music as the new BBC Sherlock with Arthur cummenbach, very confusing. I look up expecting to see Holmes or Watson - may be Una Stubss and it was a grenouille!

I'm gone

 

[SpeedyDux]

Make sure the bleach you use is very very diluted. I bleached mine and it caused them to craze...

I now have a metal cup that is double skinned like a thermos flask to keep the drink warm

We also use those double skinned stainless steel mugs for our tea and coffee in the van. From ASDA in their camping goods section.

Very light and a bargain price too. A real find.

 

[Chris]

Here you go - no washing up and about 0.07p per cup.

Use twice for additional savings

https://www.thirstycups.com/product/disposable-12oz-black-ripple-wall-paper-coffee-cups

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[CWH]

Here you go - no washing up and about 0.07p per cup.

Use twice for additional savings

https://www.thirstycups.com/product/disposable-12oz-black-ripple-wall-paper-coffee-cups

Sorry to be a killjoy but... they're disposable, not recyclable - more plastic to pollute the planet

 

[Chris]

There you go - even cheaper and green

 

[CWH]

There you go - even cheaper and green

Sorry Chris, still plastic! Recyclable true, but so many people don't, just chuck them into general waste for landfill. That's why Starbucks, Caffe Nero, Pret a Manger and Costa now ask you to bring your own 'real' mug. (Starbucks even give you a 25p discount.) (Well, and it saves them money too...)

 

[movan]

Sorry Chris, still plastic! Recyclable true, but so many people don't, just chuck them into general waste for landfill. That's why Starbucks, Caffe Nero, Pret a Manger and Costa now ask you to bring your own 'real' mug. (Starbucks even give you a 25p discount.) (Well, and it saves them money too...)

Didn't know that.

 

[Gromett]

There you go - even cheaper and green

How about recycle yourself and make a manly man's drinking receptacle.

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[CWH]

How about recycle yourself and make a manly man's drinking receptacle.

Superb!!!!!

 

[Shrimp]

We use bone China mugs and they get stained, I only worry about the stain when it gets too bad then I use a small amount of 'Oxy clean'-the stuff you use for getting stains out of clothes-and hot water, leave to soak.
Probably too late now but don't ever use a scourer of any sort in mugs, onece the surface is scratched you can't keep them clean!

 

[Cleve]

We use bone China mugs and they get stained, I only worry about the stain when it gets too bad then I use a small amount of 'Oxy clean'-the stuff you use for getting stains out of clothes-and hot water, leave to soak.
Probably too late now but don't ever use a scourer of any sort in mugs, onece the surface is scratched you can't keep them clean!

Bugger, that's it then. Back to the bone china!