to stick a Farrow and Ball colour chart in the kitchen to help DH make my cups of tea properly?

[ConFuschias]

Now ladies, I do enjoy a nice cup of tea. And as we know there is nothing nicer than having a cup of tea made for you - except for when it is made wrong. Bleurgh!

The colour I like my tea (Earl Grey with just a dash of milk) is akin to F&B Cord.

But when DH makes it he drowns it in milk, and it comes to me looking like a F&B House White. (gnats piss emoticon)

I tried to explain to him how to do it properly, with less milk, but he just ended up stewing it and adding so little milk it looked like F&B Dauphin.

o, as my instructions aren't working, I thought I'd stick the F&B colour chart in the kitchen, with Cord clearly circled. But would that be unreasonable?

[Guimauve]

Oh, that is so true! You want to gulp it down but 'tis too hot and has to be left!

[Turniphead1]

I am so impressed with the true essence of Mumsnet middle-classness with this. A Farrow and Ball tea chart. Brilliant! You should email them with this great idea - mugs (a la Pantone colour chart ones) but with "Earl Grey should be Cord" emblazoned on it. Brilliant!

I would of course recommend the use of the (expensive) handpainted F&B paint chart NOT the inferior printed one, where the colours are not quite right.

[starwhores]

THat mug is one my to buy for christams list.

[6feetundertheGroundhogs]

LOL ConFuscias! Farrow and Ball? Earl Grey Tea? YABU... that's so posh, you ought to get your Butler to make it instead! he'd get it right!

JOKE!

Think you could be onto a good idea about the F&B/Earl Grey Mug... but aren't you supposed to drink Earl Grey black???

[minxpinx]

This made me laugh as we had paint charts up in our kitchen at work with peoples names by the colour they liked their tea! I thought that we were the only mad people doing that
yanbu

[TrillianSlasher]

Earl Grey is nice if you make it strong with milk...

I ignore your rules on how I must drink my tea.

[Merrylegs]

I prefer my Earl Grey more Savage Ground, but the past couple of mornings DH has been turning it out Wimborne White. Honest to God, it is Undrinkable.

[Pikelit]

Disregarding the fact that this is the pisstake of the day (and jolly good too!) I'm afraid that we have no time for Farrow & Ball colour charts round here. I once caught dp making free in the kitchen with Laura Ashley and her duck-egg blue but soon sorted him out and put him on the righteous path to Pantone.

[Pikelit]

PS. But just the thought of a refreshing brew is sending me downstairs for a cup of 4635C

[ConFuschias]

Trillian - you are my kind of tea drinker!

Merryleggs - Wimborne White . That is worse than my DH makes it.

I could drink mine Savage Ground colour though.

To show how tolerant I am, I think I will give the following directions to DH:

Preference: Cord
Acceptable: Savage Ground, String, Matchstick, Fawn, Buff

I still fear though that the best I am going to get from him is Cream

[PfftTheMagicDragon]

I'm really not at all impressed with this idea that just because someone makes you something, you have to be grateful. Just because my DH deigns to make me a cuppa does not mean I have to be so pathetically grateful that I should drink it even if it tastes like shit

[ConFuschias]

I agree Pfft. I have more self-worth than that.

It's like if each Christmas DH repeatedly bought me a perfume that I didn't like. And I kept telling him I would like different ones. Well after a few years of keeping getting the same unwanted present, you would get annoyed, and more directive, wouldn't you?

'Tis no different with the tea.

[vacaloca]

If someone asked me to describe MN for them, I would just show them this OP - poncey, middle-class, moany, witty and very funny.

[ConFuschias]

yep, that just about sums me up vacaloca

[skybluewinking]

Peely-wally: I love this description,but until now have only ever heard my mum use it. I thought it was a 1940s South African thing, will now work it into every conversation I can!

[ConFuschias]

I thought it was a Scottish phrase. Interesting that it's used in Sth Africa too.

[Merrylegs]

ConFuschias, I have just made myself a cup of Archive, and TBH it is Not Bad. Sensing we are probably in the same 'mug', colour palette wise, may I suggest you add it to your list of acceptability. Or do you think too much choice is a Bad Thing? Will it only confuse?

[ConFuschias]

I will take your recommendation and add Archive to the acceptable list Merrylegs.

I think that giving him more colours within the acceptable range should make the task a little less challenging for him!

[babyicebean]

We used to use a map of the UK for making tea,

Boss liked his Glasgow or Edinburgh which was almost no milk

I was about Leeds - less strong but still strong

The PA liked hers about Birmingham

And so on till you got to a rep who liked his on the Isle of Wight - you made the tea and opened the tea bag box so the milk could see a tea bag I think he would have drunk warm milk.

The further north you were depended on how strong - it was to do with the amount of daylight hours.It was a very odd place to work.

[ConFuschias]

I'm liking that you had a system babyicebean, but it's not very visual - and would confuse the hell out of my DH!

[EdgarAllenPoo]

i like my tea in 'milk chocolate' - possibly i could put a cadburys bar in the kitchen for DH to match it...

there's a flaw in that plan, but I just can't work out what it is.

loving your work OP.

[PixiNanny]

Haha, I was going to link you to the 'MyCuppa' mugs too, I'm getting a coffee one for my partner at Christmas

[Bettymum]

skyblue I think peely-wally is Scottish too, it's a great word.
Just enjoying a mug of Pantone 16-1327. Mmm perfect.

[PfftTheMagicDragon]

Thing is, I'm not even that fussy. As long as it doesn't look like a brick wall or dishwater I don't really mind how it looks. So it's not like I have exacting standards....

[fanjolina]

brilliant thread! I like normal tea, not poncey Earl Grey - Farrow & Ball Sand colour will do me nicely