Anyone use loose leaf tea?

[Jonny69]

Last weekend it was like a reality nightmare - I'd run out of teabags!!! This week there was no chance of that happening, I got swmbo to buy some teabags and milk.

Crawled out of my pit this morning, eyes half shut, mouth dry, head all fuzzy and made for the kettle. Filled the kettle, got it boiling, opened the new box of teabags only to find LOOSE TEA!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!1

All is not lost. I live is a fully furnished flat, fully furnished by a little old lady so apart from all the doilies and flowery crockery that we keep stashed out of view in the mysterious cupboard of ming we actually have a tea strainer. I was saved. And actually it's not a bad cuppa, apart form the extra tea scum floating on the top that teabags must filter out.

So does anyone else use loose leaf tea and why? I would say a teabag makes a slightly superior more convenient cup of tea, but I will see this bogof (typical isn't it ) box of loose tea through.