A Nice Cup of Tea

Is it just us Brits that believe a nice cup of tea cures all ills? My poor husband is a little under the weather at the moment so I made him a nice cup of tea. He will be back to normal in a couple of days but in the meantime I will be on tea duty (which is normally his job). I can go all day on one drink which is not healthy but Les is a real teapot and drinks tea all day. Our obsession with tea is interesting because it is so much a part of our culture yet other countries drink and make tea differently to us. Of all the other places I have visited we seem to be the only nation to make it with boiling water. Everywhere else it’s always just hot and of course it never brews properly. And why is it a 'nice cup of tea' – who would make a horrible cup of tea out of choice – oh yes all those others ones I have had in ……