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Mike Armitage	Hi Nicey, Wifey and team. I just would like to mention that if I buy my Twinings Earl Grey tea bags from Tesco or Sainsbury any any other supermarket, the boxes are filled with standard round tea bags. However, if I am in the Watford area, I can go to Costco and buy a triple pack of tea bags in 100's. These tea bags come in fancy boxes with different tear-open strips and they have string and tags on them. I find them more covenient to use when taking tea on the deck at the lorry park because I can leave the bag in a little longer and then just flip it over the wall into a skip when the tea reaches the required strength. Mike Armitage at the lorry park in West Drayton.
	Nicey replies: Mike, Thanks for that, there's a lot of information in there, not least that your lorry is connected to interweb.
David Blaxill	Morning Nicey. Nick Scovell has really started something - this idea could run and run. I can even see it making up one of those 100 best type programmes, to be introduced, of course, by yourself and wifey. My nomination would be Tea With Mussolini, which has hundreds of tea scenes. And are we allowed to nominate anything from TV? The scene in Porterhouse Blue where Lionel Zipser confesses his lust for Mrs Biggs to the Chaplain over tea (using a megaphone because of chaplain's deafness) is one of the funniest things I have seen. You may even have to create a new page on the website! Regards David
	Nicey replies: Good call on Tea with Mussolini. Not sure about a new page but I feel a new icon may be imminent, I'm sure custard would be glad of the company.
Jamie Hargreaves Lu Mikado Review	Hey Mr Nicey, Just a note to say that for those of you intrigued by the Pocky, there is no need to visit the Far East or indeed get Japanese friends to bring them over with them. At the weekend I spotted some in a local Chinese supermarket in Bristol. Only noticed them becasue I recognised their name from recently having read NCOTAASD. Jolly little things they are too, especially stirred/dunked in a cup of vending machine chocolate. My girlfriend was also very pleased that she could hold the pencil like biscuit without getting chocolate on her fingers. Mind you 'chocolate' is an ambiguous term when it comes to these little treats. Its certainly not Bournville. I've just found a website on the side of my box of Pocky's. It's a funny looking, typically cutesy Eastern style, Flash website. It has tinkly music, so I had to turn it off as that sort of thing is not allowed in our office. Do you know, we aren't even allowed to use kettles? I think they don't trust us not to burn ourselves. Mind you, when I was a bit tipsy in a hotel once, I did manage to pour still bubbling water from a kettle over my hand. It really hurt and I had massive juicy blisters for a week, which as I was a waiter at the time was not very pleasant for the customers. But the flex on the kettle was unexpectedly short. Is that standard for hotels in your experience? Jamie
	Nicey replies: Indeed many oriental type grocery stores sell them. It looks like yours were built by the Thai arm of Glico, the Japanese company behind Pocky. What did impress me the most were the ads for a product called Collon. Mmmm. Indeed they do look like little sections from the lower bowel. The Collon page on the Thai site is particularly off putting as it has small heaps of something next to the pieces of 'Collon'. I wonder why they haven't caught on here yet? Oh yes Hotel kettles are their own entire sub species, a bit like those strange little Hobbit people they've been digging up in Indonesia only the're kettles.
Nick Scovell	Hallo... Just wanted to drop you a line to say how much I am enjoying your book. I am reading it at two hour intervals at work, accompanied by you only know too well what! I have also had an idea that may go well on your website and wondered what you might think of it. Having recently enjoyed the film Vera Drake (thought it is very harrowing, so enjoy might not be the best word), and despite its serious intent, it is so glorious in its Britishness and period feel. Tea features heavily in Vera Drake and it got me thinking about other great tea moments in films. It struck me how interesting and amusing it might be for people to suggest a 'Top Ten Tea Films.' Like the interrupted farewell over tea in Brief Encounter (with sugar served in the spoon), or Tom Courtenay's wonderful rendering of 'I like a nice cup of tea in the morning...' in The Dresser. Not to mention Wallace and Gromit and their huge brown teapots! What do you think? Nick Scovell (Shortbread/Milk Chocolate Digestive top choice at present)
	Nicey replies: Hello Nick, Oh yes, that's a good plan. I think my favourite has to be Donald Pleasence in the Great Escape offering James Garner (I think) a cup of tea and complaining that he had been reusing the same tea leafs about ten times now.
Sue Lowrie Ringtons Ginger Snap Review	Hello My 85 year old mum buys huge quantities of a caramel wafer, similar to Tunnocks', from Ringtons. Frankly, I find them inferior, being less chewy and sometimes rather dry. However, if I start to buy the Tunnocks ones, I will be in the unenviable dilemma of refusing my mums kind offer of yet another packet of 'those biscuits you like, pet'. And I don't want to overload the biscuit barrel. Does anyone else find the lookie-likie Ringtons version not as nice? And do others have a generous biscuit-giver in the family? sincerely, Suex
	Nicey replies: Yes a dilemma indeed. Presumably your Mum takes advantage of Rington's home delivery service. Perhaps the way forward is to suggest that you might want to give some of their other stuff a go to see what its like, could be a win win situation if you find a new favourite. Lots of people rave about their Gingernuts for instance.
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