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Pauline Wilson |
I recently travelled on Flybe from Norwich to Manchester and was served one of your biscuits with a hot drink.
I wanted to mention to you what a delightful biscuit was served. It made all the difference to the plane delay.
I was ready for a little tasty delight.
Yours faithfully
Pauline Wilson. |
Nicey replies: Pauline,
I'm not sure how you got hold of one of my biscuits as I tend to make them on a Saturday and keep them in a tin, till Sunday when the youngest member of staff plays football. We have a flask of tea and a few at half time. Still glad they cheered you up on the Norwich to Manchester flight.
My travels to and from Norwich in the early 1980s were always via National Express coach, where one was lucky to get a cup of Max Pax instant something. As I recall the main trick with Max Pax beverages was to read the description of the drink 'Tea' or 'Coffee' on the cup as taste, smell and appearance were insufficient evidence to go on. The second import thing was to make sure that all the powered muck in the bottom had been fully mixed with the hottish water, else lumps of it could fall into your mouth as you drank it.
I fear I may have wandered off the point now.
Best
Nicey |
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John |
Dear Mr Nicey
After our recent kitchen refurbishment, we sat down, found the plughole for the kettle and then had a nice cup of tea.
That said, it should come as no surprise that the upheaval resulted in some things becoming displaced i.e. lost.
The most valuable item in our erstwhile kitchen was your building instructions for a fruit cake.
I used to make lots of these for the sheer joy on all the faces of all the lucky scoffers. (One face each, of course)
I wanted to make another to continue in the joyous tradition (re. scoffers)
In desperation (well, feeling a bit miffed), I looked on NCOTAASD to find the instructions again.
BUT
404 Page not found.Oh Dear.
Miffness has turned back to despair !
The thought of unhappy non-scoffers makes my heart very heavy and I was wondering whether you might have some of that traditional English never-kick-a-man-when-he's-down (NKAMWHD), all-pull-together (APT) kindheartedness in you and assure me that I may somehow see again that ground (not teeth)- breaking set of plans for the building of the aforementioned.
Do please let me know that your able to help (re. NKAMWHD and APT))
In earnest
John |
Nicey replies: John,
As you can see I have colossally slack having not updated NCOTAASD for some six years or something. However, this has rightly put me on the spot so I have sorted it out and the cake recipe is once again gracing the internet. To be honest I was in a similar predicament a while back although it was all of my own making. Wifey insisted that we got a new kitchen and not long after it went in I built a NCOTAASD fruit cake in it - the christmas variant of (soak all the fruit in booze for a couple of days and add another spoonful of mixed spice and some nuts (..and wrap the whole lot up in jam/marzipan/royal icing)). I resorted to a back up of the recipe, but was annoyed that I couldn't just go to online. Well now we all can.
Hoorah for you telling me to sort it out.
Best
Nicey
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Chris Arnold |
Dearest Nicest,
I work as a hospital chaplain here in Oakland California, a city which has its problems. I am also a British ex-pat, although I've been living here since I was 8 so I've lost the accent, unfortunately. I'll have you know that very early this morning I was robbed of my wallet by two gun-wielding men. Physically I'm fine. Emotionally I'm a bit wobbly. I'm currently following my mum's advice, which is that I have a nice cup of tea and a sit down. This, naturally, made me think of you.
Now, she said that the rules are that when tea is administered for a crisis, it is properly to be sweetened, even when not normally consumed this way. Is this a protocol with which you are familiar? (I take milk, and PG Tips is my bog-standard brand)
Wishing you a gun-free day,
Chris Arnold
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Nicey replies: Chris,
Yes indeed people in shock get given sweet tea whether they want it or not, that is the British way. Either it will fortify and comfort you, or if you find yourself struggling to drink the unaccustomedly sweetened brew at least its taking your mind off the matter at hand.
Chin up. At least that San Andreas fault thingy across the bay has gone off recently, that could really ruin your day.
Nicey. |
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Chris Bowen |
Hi Nicey,
As Which seem to have got the mince pie survey side of Christmas covered this year will you be doing a group stollen test so that we can make informed purchasing decisions in that market during the forthcoming festive season?
I seem to recall that you have floated the idea in the past...
Cheers
Chris Bowen |
Nicey replies: Chris you're right. I did make a special noise last night next to the stollen's in Tesco. I think this idea might have finally come of age as I have found myself gainfully employed once more which means I have many new work mates on which to road test such large tea time treats and therefore up the cake review bandwidth. |
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Dean Anderson |
Gill Casey's point about the credit crunch is spot on, but it also got me thinking.....wouldn't this make an ideal name for a new biscuit in these troubled times? The Credit Crunch biscuit could be made of cheap and easily accessible food stuffs (I'm thinking oats mainly) and may even encourage a bit of home baking.
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Nicey replies: Those Credit Crunches sound yummy.
Actually I'm starting to feel a bit sorry for BBC News 24 who seem to be unable to talk about anything else and are starting to look like their hearts aren't in it any more. What we need is massive global story about kittens and fluffy ducklings to give them a bit of a break. I think they should have made out that story yesterday of the little boy who got stuck in the Postman Pat kiddies ride outside a supermarket. The fire brigade who had been called in to release the boy who had become jammed between the end of Pat's giant conk and the windscreen treated it as a standard RTA and cut the roof off. When they still couldn't shift him they had saw the end of old Pat's snout. That's proper news. |
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