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| Alison Debenham |
Hi Nicey etc etc
My younger daughter found this site, which may be of interest to you - a little pricey for the first order, but I'm sure you're worth it, or it could be a very special present - sounds like a fun idea!
www.blendsforfriends.com
Best wishes to all
Alison |
| Nicey replies: Yes bet it costs an arm and a leg, always suspicious when there isn't a sniff of a price anywhere. He would be best off just ripping open some bags of PG Tips for us and bunging them in one of his fancy little tins, then writing some stuff on the side about how we only really like PG Tips.
As sophisticated as ever
Nicey |
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Alison Linton
Tregroes Toffee Waffles Review |
hello...firstly congratulations on the wonderfulness of ur informative website, it was cleared up many i dilemma for me i.e. the problem of the jaffa cake... and it is so true, sometimes you must just pause and think of cakes....
however i do have one biscuit related query which it would be fabulous if you could give me some guidance on...
i am currently living in germany and have, to drink with my specially imported british tea, bought some things called....ALL BUTTER BELGIUM WAFFLES....now...they come in a box but, being called waffles, could these be classed as a biscuits?? i wait with breath that is bated for your reply....
many thanks for your help with this matter
ali |
| Nicey replies: Alison,
Given that you are having to subsist on whatever you can lay your hands on in continental europe to go with your tea it in natural that you should seek to broaden your approach to what can usefully be classed as biscuits. We reviewed a UK built version of the Belgian Waffle as one of our biscuits of the week, so perhaps this is enough of a sanctioning for your purposes.
Actually we have just got back from Wales where they are made and where surrounded by them when we visited Caerphilly Castle (they were in the gift shop not up in the battlements). |
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| Mike Amberry |
Hello Nicey,
You must have seen it already, but just in case you haven't there's a new advert out where a team of bakers build a replica Skoda out of cake. It's a work of genius and, of course, it's **already on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwswkJZEdS4**
Might be worth a mention on the site?
Wassail,
MIKE. |
| Nicey replies: Yes we enjoyed it too, I liked the bonnet, engine, lights and the most of the rest of it. For a moment I had to remind myself that this was not one of my fanciful daydreams but really was on the the telly. |
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Andy Nix
Bakers Tennis Biscuits Review |
Hi Nicey & The Wife,
I stumbled onto your website and was delightfully, well, delighted! It was so refreshingly... I'm struggling to find the right words, but suffice to say that it inspired me to take set up a tea and biscuits photo. I envisioned a stormy day with wind and waves and clouds and someone calmly enjoying a nice cup of tea and a sit down in all the chaos... and discovered it's a lot harder than I thought! But I'm actually quite happy with the results, and my friend Sally is still my friend.
I send out a sort-of-weekly pic of the week email, and this is this week's email - thanks for the inspiration and a wonderfully nutty website!
Andy
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| Nicey replies: Andy,
Very dramatic tea drinking indeed, and great light. I shall assume Tennis Biscuits if I may.
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Rupert Pool
Yorkshire Tea Review |
Dear Nicey and Wifey
I felt I must write in response to your review of the Yorkshire Tea biscuits. I certainly agree with your description of the flavour and texture of the biscuit, the hints of nutmeg were subtle yet distinct and I thought there was a slightly tart tannin flavour that could have been a result of the tea infusion, however it is its shape that I found to be the most exciting element. It wasn't until the second biscuit in the pack that I realised the unique shape allowed the user to perform three successive dunks without entering a broken edge into the tea, thus reducing to a minimum the risk of bottom sludge. Genius.
Best regards,
Rupert |
| Nicey replies: The YMOS are also mildly thrilled that as you mangle up the biscuit you reliably get the word 'hire' from the top right sticky out bit. |
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