I have a special Christmassy drink time, usually not tea though. When I get home in the morning, while cooking breakfast, I will have a big glass of my eggnog or my sparkling grape juice ,and sip it while I cook. Only in December. And only then, never any other time of day. Don't know why......

Does that count? Not tea time, Nog time!

I don't have it just in the afternoon. I drink it whenever I want it. Right now having a cup of Japanese Blendy stick cafe au lait with whipped cream on top.

I have two cups of tea a day. Always English Breakfast. Usually around 11:00 and then some time in the afternoon, 2:00.

We do have an afternoon "drink ritual". This fall and winter it's been a nice hot mug of chai tea. In the warmer months it's an ice cold beer on the patio.

We have afternoon tea. The French call it goûter. I make pots and pots all day long anyway. In the late afternoon, around five, we have tea together with some simple cake or pastries as a rule. Afternoon tea is a breakfast type with sugar and a drop of milk for me.

In Germanic countries, it's kaffee und kuchen in the afternoon. That works for me too. A nice slice of cake with a cup of coffee is lovely too.

I too usually have a cup of tea in the afteroon, but lately, when I can, I get a hot chocolate at Starbucks and add a slug of Baileys Irish Creme when I get home. I'm not sure if it's the isolation that's warrenting this, but I still am enjoying something hot in the afternoon.

Not until evening when I pour a glass of wine! One cup of decaf in the morning and never tea unless I'm sick and want some herbal tea for cold symptoms.

The sad thing about a French gouter is that it's fed to children, but not considered necessary for adults. No one does teatime like Brits though. So many good things both seasonal and regional. I've lost the habit since being here for so long.

But, when with a pal at teatime, I love a cuppa.

a small group of us coffee at 10am and 3 pm

five or six of us space out across 5 tables. we mask going in, space ourselves while we drink and solve the world's problems, and then mask and leave. about 7 months we could not do that ...

I probably join others about twice a year for afternoon tea.

At home, I may make a cup of rooibos in the afternoon, but it is just something to drink as I go about chores, surfing the net, or whatever.

I don't usually have hot tea in the afternoon, just in the morning. I am not a coffee drinker, I don't care for it at all. I I were to have anything, it would be iced tea.

Sue

A group of us at my work have developed our after lunch ritual of walking over to the Tom Hortons for coffee. Lately I have been ordering the London Fog, which is a vanilla flavoured tea latte made with Earl Grey tea.

I’ve been making that at home a lot lately, with vanilla extract and hot milk rather than foamed. I’ve always loved Earl Grey tea but this just kicks it up a notch.

My husband makes English tea every evening, for both of us. I like mine with a little bit of sugar, he likes cream & sugar.

I've never developed an afternoon ritual, I just snack whenever I feel like it. Rarely do I have a hot drink after the morning pots of coffee are consumed. Sounds like a pleasant habit, though.

Three p.m. is Teatime Matinee here. DH and I share a pot of tea and cookies while streaming a movie or TV series for an hour. (Don't call here between three and four!)

Not a morning or afternoon thing but for years my husband and I would have a cup of coffee and a sweet about 8 in the evening. Neither of us was bothered by the caffeine and those days when I did not have that cup I had problems sleeping.

Islay, while my children are too old to gouter, the ritual has remained, especially with all of them doing uni from home these many months. It's a nice punctuation mark in the day.

I normally only drink coffee in the morning. But I was given a pound of chocolate coffee and a pound of white chocolate coffee. They don't seem like breakfast, but do work nicely for mid afternoon. Maybe with a drop of amaretto or bailey's.

For those who observe late afternoon tea time, when do you have dinner? If I had coffee and cake around 5:00, that would be it for the day. Or is this after your meal?

Tea and cookies, or cake if there's cake, every day at four. Brewed in a pot. Usually Darjeeling or Russian Caravan.

I don't have a routine or ritual BUT often ( and more often lately) I either make myself a nice cup of decaf coffee and add some milk. In the summer, I would do iced coffee and my new treat is to add this yummy chocolate caramel truffle yummy (sugar free ) syrup. I do think having a nice break late afternoon is a very worthwhile ritual.

Every morning, I have 2 cups of coffee with some milk, and then if I want more I switch to decaf.

I rarely drink tea.

If at home DH and I will have a cup of tea about 4 pm usually with a sweet biscuit/ cookie or a slice of bread, butter and jam. There’s a song remember in Sound of Music which has “T ... a drink with jam and bread”

Last week my 2 eldest grandkids joined me at the riverhouse. It turns out they are both tea drinkers. I enjoy fussing over them and filled the stoneware tea pots with boiling water to brew tea for each of them. While attending Zoom school, they enjoyed their hot tea.

I enjoy fussing over them

You have taken the time to make beautiful afternoons, and beautiful memories.

Spouse has taken to snacking in mid-afternoon. This is not always a bad thing, since he's diabetic (low 120's in the a.m.). If he keeps it in moderation it doesn't adversely affect his evening readings (<110 in p.m.).

He has noticed it makes a difference if he eats more of his carbs in the a.m. (better early morning pre-meal readings), versus the higher evening readings if he eats too much carbs in mid-afternoon.

I make him mocha coffees as a treat when his readings have been extra-low.

Don't drink coffee and rarely drink hot tea. Hot drinks make me thirsty. I am a year round iced tea drinker (plain, unsweetened) and Diet Dr. Pepper is my caffeine boost.

Our days are fluid and we rarely have dinner on a schedule so I can't imagine having a tea time. I eat when I am hungry. I drink when I am thirsty.