Dear Claire,
Can it be a year since you left already? I hope Canada is treating you well and that your Barry’s tea supplies are holding up.
While the news reports hereabouts are generally doomy and gloomy, at least they aren’t a kind of World War Two bad, in which case we’d be looking for you to send your tea back to us!
The Da – your Granda – who, as a young army cadet, was responsible for doling out rations during WW2, tells me that the tea allowance was 3/28th of an ounce per person per day – which I reckon is about a teabag’s worth. With rations like that, you’d be hanging out for the emigrant relations to do the needful and send tea home (like Grannie, who, according to this custom’s declaration, was sent 10lb of tea in 1942 by a cousin who had emigrated to New York).
Declaration for 10lb of tea, sent in 1942 to my Dad's mother from her cousin in New York
Whaddya Sayin’?