Bad Housewarming Gift

A respected couple in our community has built an enormously fancy house in the lot across the street from us. It's simply gorgeous. We have found out that the husband is a vice-president at one of the local universities. On Wednesday when we got our mail, we found that the post woman had placed their Sears card bill in our mailbox. So I thought it would be a great idea to send a housewarming gift from us when we took it over to their house. I have an abundance of loose tea leaves. I purchased the peppermint leaf, alfalfa, nettle, and raspberry leaf for a tea recipe where you throw it all together and brew a nice cuppa. After I mixed the dry leaves together so the wife could brew a "spot of tea" whenever she wanted, I placed them in a bag to be delivered, I looked at G and said, "we can't send this gift. Look at it. What does it look like to you?" I believe this gift would have left an erroneous impression of who we are. Fortunately I also have an abundance of Korean chili powder and sent over a jar of that instead.

Here is a one minute video from the UK about three things that are of interest to our family; hot tea (because Mama drinks it every night), stop motion film (look at the reflection in the teapot as the cup appears), and Wallace and Gromit. Gromit's nose turns red when the cup changes temperature. We like the song.