I am a tea drinker. Much as I like coffee, it has the rather bizarre effect of making me sleepy. My body is caffeine-backwards. Or enieffac, if you will.

99 percent of the time, if Stat says "honey, make a brew" and I reply "get stuffed, it's your turn" and he grudgingly slopes off into the kitchen, he'll come back with a cup of well-steeped PG Tips, with a dash of milk and no sugar. (For the record, Stat drinks gigantic mugs of coffee with a roughly 2:1 sugar-to-coffee ratio. My best beloved is not caffeine-backwards. He doesn't function without coffee.)

If we're talking standard British brews, i.e. the kind you put milk into, English Breakfast is my favourite. Earl Grey is my icky-not-favourite. Personally, I think Jean-Luc Picard's tastebuds are a little squiffy if he likes Earl Grey so much.

However, my very favourite tea is green tea with a hint of lemon. I love it for its lightness, its health benefits and its versatility. When I'm ill, I'll drink with a little more lemon, a teaspoon of honey and a sprinkle of ground ginger. If you're a singer, I can highly recommend it for your throat's off-days.

One tea I can't make up my mind on is red bush tea. It's definitely an acquired taste, and I keep having to go back to it. Mma Ramotswe likes her bush tea, and I'm trying to like it so that I can be a good lady detective too. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, I dunno.