For decades, their job meant not only memorizing the brew choices of famous managers, but also brewing cuppas for directors and scouts, equipment men and coaches, journalists and photographers.
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With tea bags weighing on average 275g, these figures suggest that Brits are drinking on average eight cups of tea per week, down from 21974 cuppas per week in 240.
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They knew anyone and everyone, their wide smiles and hot cuppas the fuel that kept things ticking, their dressing-downs a stop-in-your-tracks rebuke to any manager who dared cross them or worse, damage one of their kettles.
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In the 1800s, when the English wanted to squeeze out as many cuppas as possible from their colonized tea growers, the Assam tea gardens were put on their own time zone, Bagan time, to conform to their farther east location (apparently, India has jumped in and out of using multiple time zones).
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The Good Cuppa Guide: Where to Have Tea in London, published in 1966, was "blended" by Routh and "milked and sugared" by Glashan. The format and charm (and, in its day, usefulness) are those of the Good Loo Guide. Providers of cuppas are rated with a maximum of five stars.
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At the age of 104, Ivy Bean of Bradford, England was the oldest user of the website."Oldest Tweeter talks cuppas and casserole on Twitter at 104", Daily Telegraph, 15 May 2009 She quickly became more widely known, and several fan pages were made in her honour. At the time of her death, she had 4,962 friends on Facebook and more than 56,000 followers on Twitter. Her death was widely reported in the media and she received tributes from several notable media personalities.
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Animal welfare charities and campaigners, and vegan and vegetarian groups also joined to support the case against the dairy. A Facebook group set up by Viva! calling for a halt to construction attracted over 7,500 members. WSPA (now called WAP) launched a campaign in September 2010 in anticipation of the resubmission of Nocton Dairies' proposal, featuring celebrities including Twiggy, Andrew Sachs, Chrissie Hynde, Jenny Seagrove and a large number of soap stars, and attracted over 25,000 pledges from people around the world that 'factory milk from battery cows' would not be used in their cuppas.
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The patrons of the first coffeehouse in England, The Angel, which opened in Oxford in 1650, and the mass of London coffee houses that flourished over the next three centuries, were far removed from those of modern Britain. Haunts for teenagers in particular, Italian-run espresso bars and their formica-topped tables were a feature of 1950s Soho that provided a backdrop as well as a title for Cliff Richard's 1960 film Expresso Bongo. The first was The Moka in Frith Street, opened by Gina Lollobrigida in 1953. With their "exotic Gaggia coffee machine[s],... Coke, Pepsi, weak frothy coffee and... Suncrush orange fountain[s]"Lyn Perry, "Cabbages and Cuppas", in Adventures in the Mediatheque: Personal Selections of Films , (London: BFI Southbank / University of the Third Age, 2008), pp 26–27.
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In 1958 the magazine Woman's Day devoted two full pages to the sanctuary and the author, Ailsa Craig, portrayed it as a haven saying that "Leo was one of the few men in the world who had managed to translate a youthful idea into a concrete fact" and that "where making money didn't matter, where he could live simply , but graciously, on next to nothing and help people for the sake of helping them, asking no reward but their thanks". She described Pitchi Richi as a drop-in-centre, whether Corbet was home or not, where the makings for cuppas and biscuits were always on hand: following this article Corbet, and the sanctuary, received both national attention and a huge kettle from Ailsa Craig as his old one was not nearly big enough. It is said that Albert Namatjira used to camp on the site. Since the closure of the sanctuary, in the 1970s, the Rickett's sculptures have suffered from theft, vandalism and poor attempts at restoration.
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The Sardinian (Sarde) deck is the most similar in design to those used in Spain, due to the long cultural links of Spain and Sardinia, dating back to before Sardinia became part of Italy. Sardinian cards include tiny index numbers in the top left corners (as do cards in Spain), with the indices following the values on Spanish cards (Knave, Knight and King are marked 10, 11 and 12, as per a 48-card Spanish deck, even though the Sardinian deck only contains the standard Italian set of 40). The Ace of Coins is also the only regional Italian design to actually feature a large golden coin, with space for the tax stamp underneath, as opposed to an open circle in other Italian decks. The names of the suits in the Sardinian language also show Spanish influence - whereas Cuppas, Bastos and Ispadas have the same meaning in Sardinian as in Italian, the suit of Coins is called Oros (meaning "gold", as the suit is called in Spanish) rather than Italian Denari.
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