proper English tea

Question for UK folks: what's a brand of decent quality supermarket tea bags? Something that a person¹ who is a bit of a tea obsessive (the water must be boiling! really properly boiling!) but has a strong aversion to tea snobbery might buy?





¹Such as, er, James May.

fic: "Seventeen Days a Year"

Title: Seventeen Days a Year
Fandom: Top Gear RPF
Pairing: James/Richard (with background James/Sarah and Richard/Mindy)
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None needed
Word count: 2027
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. It's based on the public personas of real people, but the words and events are all made up.
Summary: A calendar of weekends together.
Notes: Huge thanks to the fabulous halotolerant for beta reading and Britpicking. This story was inspired by this November 2010 interview in which James mentions that he and Richard go shopping together once a year.


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favorite pairings meme

I gakked this from executrix--it's her improved version of the OTP meme that's going around. It's improved by asking about favorites rather than OTPs, and by separating m/m and f/f instead of using the pseudo-generic category "slash."

Here's how it goes: you name a fandom that I've written in or posted about, and I'll tell you

My M/M FP:
My F/F FP:
My Het FP:
FP I actually believe in based on canon:
My original FP:
My crack FP:
My guilty pleasure FP:
My anti-FP

All of my fandoms are eligible for this meme except Buffy the Vampire Slayer, due South, and Blake's 7. In the case of those three, I feel like I talked everyone's ear off about my favorite pairings at the time and don't need to do it again.