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Kathryn Hall	Dear Nicey, Your site was recently recommended to me and I must say, it's lovely. I write in regard to the difficult social circumstances I find myself in, namely living in the United States and finding it fiendishly difficult to acquire a decent (never mind nice) cup of tea anywhere. It seems that ever since those chappies in Boston threw a load in the harbour, there has been a (silent) national campaign to dishonour the noble beverage. Examples of such sacrilege are: Serving one a cup of (almost) hot water with a teabag on the side and suggesting that one uses 'non-dairy creamer' to whiten it. I dare not even begin to describe the horror that is 'instant iced tea'. Thankfully, we can console ourselves with our ration of Twinnings / Bewley's / Yorkshire Tea that we brought with us, and have a nice (hot) cup of tea and a sit down at home. There is one exception to all this woe; On a recent trip to lovely Lake Michigan, we had occasion to stop at the 'Bit of Swiss' cafe in South Haven. I must say, It was the nicest cup of tea I have had in this country, made with whole leaf tea in what looked like a home made teabag thingy. It was accompanied by a rather delicious Lemon Tart.  Very pleasant. Yours, Kathryn Hall, Indiana.
Richard Willis	Hello Nicey, I'd like to raise a topic of discussion that i think might elevate the discussion "Up a notch". For many years i had a much higher "Tea Drive" than my colleagues and partners, i found it frustrating and slightly unfulfilling that no one could satiate my tea desires. I recently changed jobs and met a young lad named Joe.  He's a wirey character and i'm sure he's got hollow legs.  We'll often have "tea Showdowns" whereby we challenge each other to drink cup after cup. Crikey we have such a laugh at work!! I must underline that there is no funny business going on between us.  He's married. Do other tea fans have similar "Tea Buddies"? I'd love to hear your funny stories. I'm off to have a nice sit down and a cup of tea, See you later. Richard.
James Fussell	Nicey,   I've just had the nicest cup of tea and sit down ever.  I purchased some new tea bags (a highly risky move I know).  Miles West Country Smugglers tea bags.  They're belting, highly recommended.   Jim.
	Nicey replies: Great news about the tea and sit down Jim. Never heard of the tea, but its nice to think of those smugglers having a quite moment in the day when they are not busy shipping in dodgy booze, fags and drugs for a nice cuppa. Mind you this tea selling they have got involved with will probably be their undoing, as I would think its a simple matter now for Customs an Excise to track them down.
Alan (Fred) Pipes Breakaway Review	Hi Nicey I must admit I do like a nice Breakaway. In your Biscuit of the week review you didn't mention the strange exhortations in bubble writing on the backs of the sachets. Such racy slogans as: taste it!, enjoy it! Mmmm... Chocolate, Delicious (can't remember what the others are cos I've eaten them). What are these for then? Some start with a capital; others are all in lower case. Some with exclamation marks; others without. Very odd, cos you don't actually see them until you've already purchased the packet and opened it! Also, I was wondering about the origin of the tea towel? Was it originally used solely to dry the tea things? Surely they're better for drying glasses... Me, I let things drain -- much more hygenic. Apparently there are more germs on the average tea towel than on a public lavatory seat.
	Nicey replies: Yep I noticed them. I thought it was all a bit, inappropriate and tragic really. If someone chooses to eat a chocolate biscuit then that is a personal matter for them. I wonder how many people have been persuaded to go through with it due to the message on the back. Tea towels, perhaps they were designed specifically to smear a layer of germs on your tea cup. Tea has antiseptic properties and so anybody making it wrong would quickly succumb to terrible tea cup borne diseases, and be effectively removed from polite society. Loo seats were simply too unwieldily for germ smearing and broke too many tea cups in the process.
Tim Hardy (Mrs Cheesman ?)	Oooh Hello there its Mrs Cheeseman here and I thought I'd write to say what a lovely internet computer site you have here.I have been sitting down having tea for many years nows but I'm on my own now after Desmond died in 1974 from measles. In many ways it was a relief as he always insisted on teabags and rarely warmed the pot! I'm a fan of full flavoured looseleaf though not glengettie because its got welsh writing on it which I think is showing off and so I won't be buying that thankyou very much indeed. Anyway why i'm writing is; Whilst down the day centre where I help out on Wednesdays I'd just got a fresh copy of the peoples friend out and a steaming mug of an English blended Assam so I thought I 'd look in the Quality Street tin for a Nice or a malted milk. what I found there turned my stomach. There were a cross between a digestive and a chocolate chip biscuit. I don't know who makes them or who brought them but I thought I would just warn you and your lovely viewers. As it was I fed them all to Potato our Cairn terrier who is called that because he is fat and has no hair Any way lovely to speak to you and all the best Mrs Cheeseman
	Nicey replies: I believe you are referring to Cadbury's Jestives, made for them by the Horizon Biscuit company in Wirral no doubt.
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