If grandma doesn’t “get” your art, here’s your chance to subversively shove it in her face. The Twinings Australian Afternoon Tea is the UK tea company’s first ever Aussie blend.

While some of us are rather partial to our Irish Breakfast or Russian Caravan, you must agree it’s high time we Antipodeans get our own billy on the boil, so Twinings have asked celebrities to formulate a true blue blend and they want to put some fair dinkum cobber’s work on the packaging.  The Twinings Australian Afternoon Tea Challenge is offering $3,500 prize money to the creative legend who submits the winning design.

More than that, they will throw in an extra $1,500 for the designer’s chosen school or college, so that you have the opportunity to give back to the community.

Entry details are on the Twining Design site www.twiningsdesign.com.au and the competition closes May 20^th 2011.

While you’re rushing to that excitement, we’re going to have to sit down and have a calming brew.