Here's another one for the tea lovers:

One of my relatives (one I never met; my mother told me this) used to have a saying:

"If the water not boiling be, filling the teapot spoils the tea."

I don't remember if it was my great-aunt, or my great-grandmother (my grandmother's mother, whom my mother described as "full-blood Irish, down to the red hair") who said that.

I'm sure it's one of those "old sayings" that lots of people know, but I had never heard it before.

I like that saying and often think of it when making tea. And I keep thinking I should sit down and draw up a little "sampler" sort of thing to embroider with that saying and perhaps a couple of teapots on it.