cup of tea

The tasks included determining the logical order of two statements, or answering questions involving physical reasoning, such as how to separate an egg white from a yolk or how to make a cup of tea.

He has a similar aw-shucks, genial manner — easy to laugh and quick to offer a cup of tea — that belies the strange hive of imagery buzzing inside his head.

When I ask if a cup of tea could be an alternative, a look combining disappointment, disapproval and pity comes over her face.

Another woman, Dawn Lewis, said: "It's not my cup of tea but I can't see it being offensive personally, it's art."

Two half-drunk cups of tea, and a plate of bread and butter and crisps were found in the living-room - fuelling speculation that someone else had visited the house that evening.