Your ViewsKeep your e-mails pouring in, it's good to know that there are lots of you out there with views and opinions. To help you work out what is what, are now little icons to help you see biscuit related themes. And now you can see at a glance which are the most contested subjects via this graph (requires Flash 6.0 plugin). Please keep your mails coming in to nicey@nicecupofteaandasitdown.com | If you like, you can use this search thingy to find stuff that matches with any of the icons you pick, or use the fantastic free text search, Yay! | Your e-Mails |
Clare Hall
Asda Fruit Shrewsbury with Lemon Drizzle Review |
Dear Nicey,
My colleague has just given me positive proof that fruit Shrewsbury biscuits are available on GWR. I have the crumpled packaging, containing a few crumbs, of his favourite dunking-in-coffee early morning biscuit left from his journey into London from Swindon. Does the daily biscuit make the journey worthwhile?
Best wishes,
Clare Hall |
Nicey replies: Right. It must be me mixing up GNR and GWR.
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Kristin |
Dear Nicey and Wifey
I've enjoyed reading all the emails that people have written about their kettles. However, with my environmentalists' banner flying, could I remind everyone that when you fill your kettle, you can save electricity and thus CO2 emissions by only filling it with as much water as you are actually going to use. It's amazing how many people fill up the whole thing for just one or two cups. It may sound like a small thing, but think how much water is needlessly boiled in the UK alone every day. It's rather the same principle as actually turning off your telly instead of leaving it on standby, as the government has lately been urging us to do. After all we have a long way to go to meet the reductions that Tony agreed to in the Kyoto Agreement.
Yours sincerely,
A former co-ordinator of Chichester Friends of the Earth
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Nicey replies: Well said. |
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Alison Copeland |
Dear Nicey
I had a jug kettle for donkeys' years that worked just fine, and was loyal and true. Then suddenly one day the little red ball got stuck and refused to tell me how much water was in the kettle. Nothing would budge it (believe me, I tried many things). Reluctantly, I had to buy a new one, a cordless jug kettle, but it's not the same. Maybe in about ten years' time I will love it as much as the other one.
Love, Alison |
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Steve and Hilary |
Well, we were using our trusty kettle for nearly 25 years before it expired. We married in 1977 and were given a Russell Hobbs kettle as a pressie. Our kettle moved with us from Surbiton to Cardiff to our present home, near Chepstow. Occasionally, when I had nothing better to do, I would have a look at the element to see how it was fairing. Much to my surprise, there was no limescale build up. Any way, the years went by and, apart from occasionally boiling it dry, the kettle performed well. We really didn't give the kettle much thought (well you wouldn't would you?) until we started planning the celebrations for our silver wedding. It then occurred to us that within a few months our kettle was going to celebrate its own 25th anniversary! Anxious that it should join us in our celebrations, I then became over fussy about its welfare, checking the element on a regular basis and looking for leaks. Was that a build up of limecale to the weld by the spout? Was this the first sign of a leak? Sadly, it was, and the leak got bigger and bigger, until we could no longer use the kettle. It expired just a few weeks before our anniversary. RIP trusty old kettle. Truly amazing that the element should last so long.
We now have a Kenwood. It is flimsy compared to the previous kettle and I don't see it lasting to our golden wedding.
Steve & Hilary
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Nicey replies: What a lovely tale of a distinguished old Russell Hobbs. I'm sure its that good Welsh water that contributed to your kettles splendid service record. I don't need to tell you that Wales specialises in water, acting as a large welsh shaped rain gathering device. Of course much of the rain was originally intended for keeping Ireland in its permanently wet state but at the last minute scooted round the bottom of Cork and headed up the Bristol channel towards the lucky Welsh. |
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Andreas Kissel
Lidl's Choco Softies Review |
hi there,
In addition to your biscuit review about "mini dickmanns" and your plea for more information about "super dickmanns" i'm happy to help.
Please sit down and hold your breath for a bit because i'd like to present to you the: "super dickmanns - dicker meter" (meaning "big metre").
hopefully someone will get them on a plane for you soon.
best regards from germany - not only the country of schnitzel and beer, but also "super dickmanns".
yours
andreas kissel
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Nicey replies: Andreas,
The whole German nation should be very proud indeed of what they have achieved here, please pass on Wifey and I's warmest regards to them. |
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