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Jo	Dear Nicey Just thought I would let you know that the tea money story is alive and well in South London. When I was little my nan used to let me make tea for her and her friends (well she used to let me pour it out of the teapot after she had done all the other bits) She always used to say that I made the best cup of tea in the world which used to make me swell with pride. She used to praise highly the amount of 'money' I could get in each cup of tea. I think this is because the teapot was heavy and I was very small and so used to pour slowly and irregularly causing maximum money! My Nan was the biggest tea and biscuit lover, she used to keep a kettle on the stove on a low heat all day and just turn up the gas a bit when she wanted a cuppa. She always had a well stocked biscuit barrel and used to favour the shortcake type varieties. Sadly my Nan died when I was in my 20's and I inherited her biscuit barrel, which always brings back fond memories sitting in the kitchen with her. Anyway what about 'Happy Faces' like jammie dodger but with cream and a face on them...not sure if they sell them anymore?
	Nicey replies: Yay for your Nan's biscuit barrel. We love stuff like that. Of course my Nan introduced me to Abbey Crunch, but she also insisted on buying Safeway Petit Beurre biscuits which sort of passed me by a bit. BN Happy Faces are still around, check out their modern incarnation as Penguin Splatz, not jam but cream instead.
Tim Porter	Hello Nicey, We are from an exhibition launch company in Kent. Whilst currently launching shows into several markets, it has not escaped our attention that currently no events exist for the more discerning biscuit enthusiast. Would you perhaps consider becoming our media partner and launching BISCEX – the event connecting biscuit manufacturers and suppliers with a whole plethora of middle-aged and elderly biscuit fanatics? Alternatively, if the prospect of being assaulted by millions of irate pensioners at Earls Court exhibition centre doesn’t appeal to you, perhaps you could at least review the classic ’ Morning Coffee’. Unless we are mistaken, this prison ration type biccy of very humble origins, seems to be absent from your, otherwise, extremely comprehensive site. We look forward to hearing from you but just in case, we won’t register BISCEX as an exhibition brand just yet!
	Nicey replies: Tim, That would be splendid but surely you would want to take up most of the NEC like the motorshow. It would be ace to have McVities, Burtons and Foxs et al with huge pavilion stands all with theaters pumping out dry ice and lasers unveiling their latest biscuits and little old ladies wheeling around complementary tea trollies. The BBC of course would devote 3 30 minute programs to it running on consecutive nights. We would of course require an airship with our logo on to cruise around the venue at a height of about 800m. As for the 'morning coffee' that's in a week or two as part of some stuff we will be doing with our local branch of Macmillian Cancer Relief. They asked me what would be a good biscuit to focus on for their nationwide coffee morning appeal. Not too tricky that, except that the lady I was talking to was Canadian and after ten minutes it became apparent she had never heard of them. Every time I mentioned them she thought I was talking about her Coffee Morning gig in some kind of odd syntax.
Nick Manning	Nicey,   The white filled bourbons used in the Civil service have now apparently been replaced!   I have just left a meeting here at the MOD and - without wanting to give away too many top secret biscuit security issues - the white filled 'Bourbons' were replaced with bog standard Finger Creams. Indeed the only redeeming feature of the cling film wrapped plate was the couple of hidden Abbey Crunch!!   This missing speciality biscuit then meant that our important meeting was dominated by speculation that the albino 'Bourbon' had been upgraded to the VIP plate of biscuits! Now, these VIP biscuit open a whole new can of worms in that some of the VIP 'biscuits' are in fact individually wrapped chocolate snacks! Surely not a place for white cream 'Bourbons'.   Your policy on VIP biscuits and white cream filled sandwich biscuits would be appreciated.
	Nicey replies: Yes this all clearly quite confusing. Finger creams and Abbey Crunch together on the same plate points to biscuits being acquired from number of sources, and this perhaps accounts for what may be a temporary cessation in White Cream Bourbon activity. It may merely be a supply chain issue rather than a re-assignment of roles. As for VIP biscuits I shouldn't get to upset I'm sure they are jealous of your Abbey Crunches.
Yak Digestive Review	Bleatings! Lovely to see such a tea-and-biscuit-oriented site. I like to read it whilst actually engaging in sitting down and eating biscuits and drinking tea. It seems proper so to do, somehow. I was wondering what the biscuit preferences of people's hoofed animals might be. My herd are consistently enamoured of the great and glorious McVities Digestive. They will actually turn their noses up if you try and fob them off with inferior own-brand digestives. I have three sheep, two llamas and two pygmy goats, and they consume a packet of Digestives per day between them. In fact I think that Digestive biccies must be very good indeed for sheep, since Flossie, my eldest, has reached the ovine-Queen-Motherly age of 16 having been fed McVities all her life. I did try an experiment to see whether the Jacob's sheep would enjoy Jacob's crackers, but they just sneezed and ran away. Unfortunately they don't seem to like tea. I have offered them tea when they've been having their biscuits, but they don't seem inclined to taste it. Besides, it's hard to find a mug they could hold with their little hoofies. Does anyone else's herd have strong biscuit preferences? Are there any other brands or types of biscuit which confer longevity on sheep? Baa, \ (:-) - Yak / Big picture of sheep
	Nicey replies: Fantastic. Almost too excited to type.. I too have some sheep and biscuit experience, also involving the McVities Digestive, about 15 years ago on a walking holiday in Wales, whilst making tea a top a mountain in the drizzle and mist. Several sheep appeared from the mist surrounding the small tumble down dry stone wall structure we were sheltering in. As the Digestives came out they seized the moment and breached our walled defenses setting about our biscuits. We managed to repel them off using our Orange plastic mugs of freshly made PG, but not before they had very cheekily scoffed several biscuits. Woo. All of that seems to tally with your livestock.
Trudi McVities Milk Chocolate Digestive Review	Dear nicey and thewife, I've just had a really horrible meeting, the client was horrible to me and the biscuits were, once again, all those horrible fancy foreign ones (I like a nice chocolate digestive or Jammie Dodger). Anyway, after a good sit down and a cry in the cab on the way home, I then found your website. Hurrah! I don't feel depressed about my horrible meeting anymore, now I know that there are biscuit fanciers out there and the world is not a horrible place only full of horrible clients and nasty posh biscuits. Thank you for cheering me up so thoroughly. I'm going to have a nice cup of tea and a sit down now and I'll be right as rain. Lovely. xx
	Nicey replies: Hoorah! for you, proper biscuits are the way forward as any truly switched on company knows. Next time take a digital picture of their biscuit plate send it to us and we can all have a good laugh, Yay!
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