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Steve Norris	Hi Nicey and Wifey, Long time drinker/muncher/dunker, first time typer. Just thought I'd send this tremendous picture of the 'Welcome Tray' I received when visiting the Isle of Arran in 2005. Can't remember the name of the B&B where I experienced my tray of glittering delights, but I know it was up a steep road in the Whiting Bay area. Two nights B&B for £46, with everyone's granny as the proprietor, producing her own home made tea and biscuits, cake daily. How I long for a return visit to the wild, inhospitable landscape again soon. With all hearty wishes, Steve Norris (no, not that one...)
	Nicey replies: Steve, That's really terrific, almost good enough to take your mind off the clouds of blood sucking midges.
Pete Thickett	Hi, Just stumbled across your website, and its very interesting! I though i should ask you a question thats been nagging at me for a while. We are a team of 12 students at Aston University in Birmingham, and we are designing, building and racing a single seater racing car against other universities next summer. What is the ideal amount of sugars we should have in our tea, and what biscuit should we use to dunk to get the most out of our team? Thank you very much Pete Thickett Formula Student Team Manager Aston University
	Nicey replies: Yes very prudent of you to touch base with us. Ideally you should have either 2 sugars or none. Our ISP Mr Borrill has the most annoying amount of sugar in the entire world, a third of a teaspoon, for which he has a special teeny-weany teaspoon at home. He says he can drink it without now, but really it's plain that he would still prefer a tiny little bit of sugar in it. If you are going to be awkward and have sugar at least make it worth while. As for biscuits this is a good opportunity to do some team building. As engineers you can discuss the dunking merits of one biscuit over another through which you'll learn to respect and value the input and opinions of the other team members. You'll also quickly spot the clueless ones and assign them tasks accordingly. Given that there are 12 of you, you'll need to choose wisely avoiding things that come in packs of ten unless you want to buy 6 packs and everybody have 5 of them. Mind you given that you are students you may be over-reaching yourselves financially to go beyond entry level biscuits. As a student I ate lots of Ginger Nuts, Digestives, Malted Milks and Fruit Shortcakes all excellent Dunkers and whilst I never built a racing car I did manage to loose all of my third year Molecular Biology project results which led to me being advised to try a career in computing instead.
Nancy Bea Miller	Hi Nicey and Wifey; Thought you might get a smile from this photo I posted today on my blog Of course, I rarely drink from tea cups. It is mugs all the way around this house. All the best, Nancy Bea Miller
	Nicey replies: Wow Nancy, That's utterly superb, you've got quite a Margrite thing going on there, I'm half expecting a train to pop along in a moment.
Lynn Eaton	Hello, I've not visited your site before, but have recently spent a few happy hours reading the book and having a giggle to myself. Just thought your correspondent, Gareth Williams, might like to know that when my young sister started school the first thing she had to do when she came home was eat half a packet of pink wafers dipped into luke warm, milky tea. Of course, most of them ended up in a slush at the bottom of the cup which our long-suffering mother then had to dispose of. Luckily we lived on my grandparents pig farm at the time! This was in 1963. Cheers, Lynn
	Nicey replies: Thanks Lynn, Pink Wafers sighted a year before my birth, and close to pigs, which somehow lends your account extra weight.
Gareth Williams	Dear Nicey (and Wifey, of course), I don’t know if you can help, but I have a query about Pink Wafers. While I’m in no disagreement that they are indeed the spawn of Satan, I’m writing a short story, part of which is set around the 1960’s, and they’re exactly the sort of maiden-auntish biscuit I need for a spot of description. However, my problem comes in that I don’t know when the aforementioned wafers of doom were introduced. It’s probably a bit stupid of me to set part of the story in the 60’s when I wasn’t born until two decades afterwards, but most things (clothing, cars, music &c) I either know, or can find out. However, since nobody likes pink wafers, no-one appears to have taken sufficient notice of them to be able to tell me when they were first introduced… Any ideas? Ta Gareth Williams
	Nicey replies: Not sure exactly but wafers (and pink (carminic acid) for that matter) in general are old school biscuit technology so you'll be fine with them in the 1960s.
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