Gotta love 'em. Only British TV presenters it seems have grace, poise and unrelenting courteous manners somehow simply engrained in their entire telly psyche.
Where else in the world would a studio based TV news presenter, throwing to an on-location correspondent covering a story (drought!) in pouring rain, tell the correspondent to go a have a cup of tea?
It's unqualified British. And its great.
On Sky News (DStv 402) Kay Burley was talking this afternoon to the Sky News correspondent Becky Johnson near Sheffield who was standing in pouring rain.
And at the end of the exchange came the classic Britishness of it all which even hard news will never temper. "Well, you get inside in the dry," said Kay Burley, and swiftly added: "Have a nice cup of tea."
Whatever you cover, whatever the weather; if there's still time for some tea it means there's still hope for civilisation.
