Storm in a (PANTONE®) teacup

Despite the Met Office issuing a heatwave warning this week, we still got in this morning, put the kettle on and somewhat stubbornly made ourselves a nice, boiling hot cup of tea.

Thing is, it got us thinking about the slightly strange theory that most grandmas seem to have about a hot cup of tea cooling you down. Can this really be true? Does it depend on the type of tea you're drinking? Or maybe it's something that only happened in the olden days.

Maybe a hot cup of tea cools you down because, comparatively, you're much colder than it!?

Please also note the first appearance of our much admired PANTONE® mugs. More of them later.