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Take to the Lakes for tea

Lovely view

If you've ever visited the lake district then you'll know that drinking in all that wonderful scenery can soon leave you wanting to drink in a pot of tea or two. Some freshly baked biscuits and a nice slice of cake wouldn't go amiss either or maybe some home made scones and jam. Well now some enterprising ladies in Cumbria have launched the Cumbria tea trail, a collective of rural tea shops that covers the county. Not only will you find maps on their website to help you plan a trip around lakeland, but also details of local walks so you can choose to work up a healthy appetite or walk off a big plate of goodies. And if you can't make it to Cumbria there are even a few recipes on the site including the famous Grasmere Gingerbread.

McVities Crumb Test Dummy

How many of us have lost sleep at night worrying about how exactly biscuit manufacturers ensure an consistant average number of crumbs from their biscuits? Well now we can sleep soundly in the knowledge that the boffins at McVities have come up with the world's first Crumb Test Dummy. The mechcanical muncher was developed to help perfect McVities new Milk Chocolate Orange Digestive, and has helped to reveal that a stagering 127.8 tonnes of biscuit crumbs are shed annually from Digestive based biscuits alone. More..

It's all so obvious really

75 Years of PG Tips

	It's no secret that our favourite cuppa is PG Tips. We do try other teas from time to time because we think it will broaden our minds, but it's always a bit of a relief when the interlopers bags run out and we get back on the PG again. So we were very excited to hear that they have launched a new PG Moments Website as part of the 75 Anniversary celebrations.
Apart from all the useful tea information and the chance to try some decaf bags for free (you might!), the site features a fantastic interactive timeline tracing some PG Tips milestones. The real bonuses are the PG Tips TV adverts which you can play right in timeline. Wind it back to the 1950s to see all the classics such as 'Mr Shifter' and 'Tour De France', or on to the present day T-Birds ads.