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Frances Jones Malted Milk Review	Dear Nicey, Re Malted Milk biscuits. I can remain in the closet no longer: I have been sporadically entertained by your website for many months following increasing pressure from my husband. May I introduce myself? Tea addict, cow addict and - wait for it - alp horn addict. Yes, really, those 14ft long wooden horns that you get in Switzerland. I printed off your best Malted Milk picture some time ago and it's stuck on my notice board 14 inches from my right elbow as I write. The comment about Swiss army involvement has forced me to reveal myself: Swiss cows do come in lots of colours, the most famous being those gorgeous coffee-coloured ones, but there are also quite a lot that are Malted Milk biscuit coloured too. I was playing my alp horn to them last week. The alphorn was used to call the cows in the alps. They really do come and listen. You can see that happening if you look on my website. Swiss cows have gorgeous eyes, though these don't show up so well on the biscuits, unfortunately. Frances
	Nicey replies: Oh no, yet another of those "calling cows with your Alpine horn" themed emails.
Maisie	Dear Nicey, Hope that you are well. I got married recently and for our wedding breakfast instead of the usual champagne and three course we went for cakes, scones, with and without fruit, jam and clotted cream, cakes, jam sandwiches, cakes, salmon sandwiches, cakes, wedding cake, cakes and as much tea as our guests could consume. Hoorah! It was a hit with all. However, imagine my horror when I saw my newly wedded husband loading his scone with cream and then jam! Well it was nearly the divorce courts right then. Apparently his whole family do it! Cream, being like butter. But I say, butter is like butter. Butter, jam, cream, it is the natural order of things. We decided to have a look on your delightful site to see if you have the answer. We couldn't find anything obvious but I dare say that this debate has raged in the past and as you were so helpful regarding the oat cake, cake or biscuit problem (you informed us it was actually a cracker) we wondered if you could help us here. Yours, tea drinkingly, Maisie
	Nicey replies: Actually that was the very first poll we ran on the site and it came down as 72% jam then cream 28% cream then jam. So your old man is not alone just out numbered three to one.
David Hammond-Williams	Dear N&W I must protest in the strongest possible terms about your outrageous slur on the quality of the music at the Pontardawe Inernational Musidc Festival (see reply to our lovely Kate's extremely informative email). Our music is like...well...like the best biscuit you can imagine and slips down a treat with a nice cup of tea, as the attached photograph clearly shows (albeit in silhouette). It is true, I confess, that some (undoubtedly errant) festivalites chose beer as their musical accompaniment. But others among us know what goes best with the cream of Celtic chords (a suitable title for a new biscuit, methinks). I must tell you also, as a participant in our Kate's revealing survey that I did NOT go for the pinkie wafer...my credibility remains intact. Yours David Hammond-Williams Organiser
	Nicey replies: Yep sorry about that I really meant that I didn't know what your music was like but at least the tea and biscuits sounded good. However I've just checked out your excellent website and it sounds like this year you have been going from strength to strength. Wifey says we must go next year (she's said it twice now!).
Isobel Stevenson	Dear N & W, In reply to Kate's e-mail about the Pontardawe Festival, I would just like to mention, that the “Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down” zone was an absolutely fantastic idea! As a member of the backstage crew; this area was much appreciated by all who frequented it. Despite not being a stage hand this year, I still tried to get there when the mayhem abated and I had some time to my self. I was however disappointed that there were no chocolate malted milk biscuits. Maybe this is something you can sort out next year? The rich tea being the last biscuit to go has surprised me though, as I ate as may as I could! (It may have had something to do with the fact that I hadn't eaten properly for three days!) Hope the NCOTAASD zone makes a second appearance next year! Isobel Stevenson - Craft Market Director of Gwyl Pontardawe Festival
	Nicey replies: Chocolate malted milk biscuits are terrific aren't they. Sorry did you want Kate to sort that out for next year or me?
Kate Strudwick	Hello N & W, You may be interested to hear of a controlled experiment conducted last weekend at the Pontardawe International Music Festival. Over the period of the Festival an area of the Artists Reception tent was a dedicated “Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down” zone. This proved to be a runaway success, proving that the music business isn’t all about sex and drugs and rock ‘n roll. Anyway, imagine our amazement when the pinkie wafers were a clear first-choice favourite with a large proportion of our control group – even when included in a yummie selection containing fig rolls, jaffa cakes, jammie dodgers and other quality confectionery. As this is clearly an unexpected result, could it be that our control group of musicians, arty-farties and Festival crew was a flawed sample for this sort of specialised test? Last to go were the finger Rich Tea – despite being the most dunkable on offer. What do you make of this? Kate
	Nicey replies: Well my first impressions are that the Pontardawe music festival is certainly a highlight in the tea and sit down calendar if not the music one. Sue Northcott mailed us to say that she knocked up a highly successful batch of Rice Krispie Cakes (Buns if your Irish) especially for the event. As for Pink Wafers you are right to point out this unusual tendency. Perhaps it was a peer pressure thing with the most respected artist picking them first and causing a small and localised fad.
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