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.

“We were all given cups of tea with milk. Nobody had ever had tea with milk. We all poured it out,” she said.