Trailblazer Finds Tobacco No Longer His Cup Of Tea

George Barel has switched from a crop that causes cancer to one said to fight it, reports Darren Gray.

Miracle Of Olive Leaf Extract

FORGET echinacea, spirulina, grapeseed extract, vitamin C, and goji berries - the new alternative health superstar is the olive leaf.

Leaf It To Me

Julie Griffiths has been obsessed with tea much of her life. She credits time in the UK with introducing her to "proper" tea, a concept that was extended when she learnt to create herbal blends while living at an ashram in country Victoria. Several visits to India, where chai is virtually the national drink, added impetus.

High 5

Simon Thomsen is in the mood for a spot of afternoon tea.

Around The Blend

It's cofee, tea and chocolate time at the rocks during the Aroma festival. Rachel Olding reports.

Turn A New Leaf

Careful planning meets the challenge of this fund-raiser's annual tea party, writes Leesha McKenny.

Experienced Pies Roll Young Roos

THERE was no need to consult the local tea leaf reader before venturing to predict the outcome of yesterday's match between Collingwood and the Kangaroos at the MCG.

Nice Pot, Luv

Ah, the calming, curative powers of the crisped tea leaf. A restful moment, a single word ("makeusacuppaluv"), a fetching pot to contemplate, and heaven materialises - Voila - here on earth. By Holly Evans.

Tony The Tea-leaf Has Been A Very Busy Boy

LET me know if you see Tony.

Stirring The `tea Leaf' Will Steal The Show During Next Season's Clashes

What chance someone yells out, ``watch your mouthguards, boys" when the player at the centre of allegations about money stolen on the ``Klepta-roo" tour becomes entangled in a pile of wrestling bodies on a football field next season.

Psychics Predict A Racy Event

PSYCHICS, tea leaf readers, Tarot card and palm readers and some who base their predictions on the vibrations from a person's jewellery, will be at Warilla Bowling and Recreation Club on Melbourne Cup Day.

Love At First Wipe

I learned how to clean by being "allowed" to polish the silver and by my mother's show-ring inspection of our horse tack. Only the devil would ride with dry reins and a dirty saddle. At boarding school, migrant women laundered, cleaned and cooked for us, alongside a sub-species of the reigning religious order, "lay sisters", whose tea-leaf-rubbed linoleum corridors and sumptuously polished stairs were a monument to their art. They had sweet natural faces and wore robes of rougher materia

Two For Tea

Sip on some peace and quiet amid the frantic city. The Tea Centre THE GLASS HOUSE, 146 PITT STREET MALL, CITY. TEL: 9223 9909.

I See A Dark Stranger No, Not Johnny Depp, But The Tea Leaves Suggest It Soon Will Be

I See a Dark Stranger (1945) 1.35am (Weds), ABC: Viewers contemplating this late-night entertainment might do well to avoid disturbing tea-leaf patterns and opt for a herbal bag instead one offering an infusion of cinnamon, pot-strength blarney and diluted Guinness. Twinings Ballykissangel-Styl

The Unluckiest Crim

True to form, a notorious Sydney tea leaf is caught, Panama and all, and must live with the shame. CAUGHT on a phone tap moaning to his wife that he didn't know anyone ``unluckier than me", Norm Beves's breathtaking ineptitude in matters criminal was played out before the Police Royal Commi

Tea Terms

1. Tea leaf grades: the final stage in the tea process is the grading of the leaf, which is done according to size. Generally, the finer the grade the finer the quality. 2. Single estate vs blends: teas are either sourced from one garden only (single estate) or blended with teas from other garden