But England's task at the start of the first day was to bat until at least tea time on the second.
Placate between-meal hunger pangs with snacks at the pool bar, or an array of coffee, tea and pastries at daily afternoon tea time.
By tea time they were Muppets who "sit on their lazy arses" - or so the Welsh party leader Andrew RT Davies colourfully put it.
The chief electoral officer was challenged by some politicians angry that by tea-time no results had emerged from the count which began at 0900 BST.
And with a six-year gap since becoming champions in England, Arsenal looked in no mood to take anybody lightly at the start of Saturday's tea-time clash and were celebrating the opening goal on just four minutes.
Joy at last week's 2-1 victory over Chelsea was dampened by dismay over the tea-time kick-off and the pre-match news that midfielder Marouane Fellaini requires an operation on his injured ankle and will be out for six months.
There are over 30 Assam and Chinese varieties (as well as a wide range of herbal teas), and tea production follows the time-honoured system of hand plucking the bushes.
Jenkins, 32, from Neath, tweeted about Lady Thatcher shortly after her death recalling the time they had tea.
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"It would be a shame if Republicans abandoned productive negotiations due to pressure from the tea party, as they have time and again, " Reid said.
Then he gave a formal speech the next morning and, fueled this time by highly caffeinated tea, I again took notes, just to be sure.
"It would be a shame if Republicans abandoned productive negotiations due to pressure from the tea party, as they have time and again, " Reid said this week.
But Afridi switched Asif to the Pavilion End for the first time three overs before tea and with the last ball of the session the bowler took his first wicket.
Across the hall from the time warp of a tea room is the buzzing Hix at the Albemarle, owned by Mark Hix, the popular London chef that seems to be everywhere.
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Guy, an easy-going 34-year old, gave us precisely 30 minutes of his time over a cup of tea.
However it does annoy me that when people stand around talking or spend a lot time making a cup of tea, they don't have to clock out.
The time spent trying to read the tea leaves, he hoped, would be better spent discussing the issues.
There was even time for one more wicket before tea, when McCullum was caught in the slips off Nel.
Time will soon tell whether the Tea Party infused Congress will succeed legislatively and politically with an agenda of deficit and spending reductions.
"What we're seeing is the outgrowth of the divide we've seen coming in the Republican Party for quite some time, " said Virginia Beach tea party activist Karen Miner Hurd.
During that time he created a concentrated caramel tea latte formula that included very expensive teas from Darjeeling, India, and burnt-caramel sauce from a gourmet chocolate company in San Francisco.
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Most companies approach the prospect of a dialogue with remuneration governance professionals as if they were about to waste precious time with an eccentric grandmother having afternoon tea.
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This time, too, thanks to the tea-party movement, plenty of the Republican freshmen in the new House will once again be conservative ideologues, relishing another chance to gum up the administration of an activist Democratic president.
In those states, says Hurd, Outback would have had a tougher time firing the waitress who wore the Tea Party bracelet if she could make a case that her political views were the reason for her dismissal.
Palin has lent political star power and considerable time helping to spread the message of Tea Party movement, which includes smaller government, lower taxes, deflating a bloated federal deficit and urging lawmakers toward more faithful adherence to the Constitution.
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