h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

... is responsible for two of my favourite songs - 'Caffiene' by Faith No More and 'Caffiene Bomb' by the Wildhearts. Anyhoo...

I usually start work an hour before my wife on weekdays, so she wakes up almost every day with a nice hot cup of tea (and occasionally breakfast) beside her bed. If we get a day off together, it's her job to make the tea, so I get tea in bed. Many of our friends think it's unfair that she has to make the tea every time we have a lie-in together. I don't think they appreciate the value of a cup of tea in bed before work.

I drink tea and coffee in equal measure. I prefer tea, and tea makes me a friendly and approachable chap. Coffee makes me a grumpy manager. The link is by no means causal - I drink coffee far more at work - but I never invite people round for coffee. I tell them to pop round for a cup of tea. In fact, thinking about it, I *never* offer people coffee and am often surprised when they ask for it.

I don't drink filter coffee because it's usually dreadful. Given the choice, I'd start every day with a Spanish carajillo - a hot brandy with a shot of espresso in it. Nothing like it to get the day off to a fglier. I drank at least one every morning in the first cafe we found open when we walked across Spain. I'm less picky about tea and hate both cheap and expensive ersions - if it hasn't been advertised with either a chimp or cartoon northerner, forget it.

I've drunk tea and coffee all over the world. I'd take carajillo first, then attaya from The Gambia (can I plug the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTnNLfbF1L8 ? Ta.) and then probably a nice glass of Moroccan green tea stuffed with mint and vanilla.