Is this what addiction feels like? Or what do you need to start your day?

Get up at 7.00 so can have two cups of coffee before GC wake and want sorting. Cannot cope without caffeine. Definately addicted.

Am definitely in the coffee brigade. No one will get any sense out of me until I've made myself a small strong coffee (in my little battered pot). I sit quietly in the corner slowly 'coming to'. Later in the morning I often have a second one but that's my limit and never after 2 o'clock.

My dearest friend is the most kind, calm gentle person I know,I am stitching a gift for her - 'hand over the coffee and no one gets hurt' she has to have her caffeine fix

I can't stand the smell of coffee before 11 am!

Have to have a fix of tea before I become semi-human. (semi)

Tea is like a blood transfusion to me first thing in the morning. After that I'm fit for anything

Yes Merlot and preferably served in bed

Its tea first for me too then a shower.

It's tea for me too! And, we take it in turns to make it and bring it up to bed, so really I should say tea on alternate days!

80% of the time I'm lucky husband brings me a cup of coffee in bed at around 7 to 7.30. Sometimes he refuses to stir, usually this is if he's had an onerous day of golf the day before, then I bloody well have to make it Then I have a shower and the whole body lotion thing etc. The shower is very essential as far as I'm concerned. Then I go downstairs and I make us another coffee from the coffee pod machine, which I am deeply in love with. I need these first two coffees to get me going, so yes it's an addiction.

We have a beans to coffee machine, life would be empty without it

I adore coffee and can't stand tea! It's always a problem if I stay with family ,cos I have to wait politely until I'm offered it! Nice to stay in b and b or
hotel with a kettle in the room.

Tea for me too, in bed, then coffee for elevenses

Definitely in the tea brigade. Cannot function properly without a large mug to start the day!

I love my pod thing too, but did you know that they are apparently turning out to be environmentally disastrous? All those little pods are one use and can't be recycled, so straight to landfill. My conscience is bothering me and I think I might return to my old filter machine.

I would struggle without tea. A few years ago I tried going wheat and dairy free, couldn't stand tea without milk or with milk substitutes [yuk emoticon], so I went without. I think tea and proper bread were the two most difficult things to do without. I only lasted 3 months .

I would find it very hard to live without tea too (the ordinary kind). I don't like it strong and I don't take sugar, so I don't think it's doing me much harm but would hate to start my day without at least two mugs! (I don't drink coffee)

It's a mug of tea followed before too long by a mug of proper coffee.
When I was involved in training folks on working with people dependent on drugs and/or alcohol we always began by encouraging the attendees to examine their own dependencies. Those early morning cups of tea and coffee hit the spot with the majority

No coffee for me in the morning, only drink it in the evening after a meal.Must have a large mug of tea, Twinings, with a spoonful of honey as soon as I get up, followed by a very light breakfast and another cup of tea.Then , like others, am ready for the day, and yes,it is an addiction.