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Keith O'Kane Tregroes Toffee Waffles Review	Dear Nicey and the Wife, I read the e-mail from Ian the other day in which he waxed lyrical about the Stroop Waffles he can get now that he lives in Holland. I am fortunate enough to be able to buy these in our local independent food co-operative in Northampton, although an expanding waistline forced me to stop buying them. Unfortunately (for my waistline at least), the local coffee shop where I work started selling the Tregroes waffles yesterday and I had to have some with my coffee this morning just to initiate the other team members into the art of warming them on top of a beverage to soften the caramel prior to consumption. This was very well received and I may have to introduce them to the Tim Tam slam next week as this is also a new concept for them.
	Nicey replies: Keith, You know it was a very similar set of circumstances, that is the initiation of colleagues into various biscuits that led to the setting up of NCOTAASD all those years ago. I'm sure your altruistic virtues will be shining bright too as you clear the supermarket shelves of educational biscuits.
Steve Blyton	Yes, clear memories of Duchess biscuits - but not oval, they were round with a serious serrated edge. Made by Scribbans Kemp near Grimsby - they were a staple `luxury` biscuit of my granny in the 60`s Steve
	Nicey replies: Thanks Steve, this is all new to me.
Mark Hamlett	Hello Nicey, Futher to a previous rant about the tea from our machine at work, in which I complained of it smelling like mushroom soup, I can confirm that it has improved considerably, to the point that it is now my beverage of choice. Thank goodness for that! It’s still not as good as a proper cup of tea, but it’s close enough that you suspect that a tea-leaf may have been involved in it’s creation, rather than a fungus.
	Nicey replies: Mark, Thanks for the heads up on that.
VP	Hi, Thought you might like to have a look at something I spotted at the Ideal Home Show last week. Love both your blog and the book! Best Wishes, VP
	Nicey replies: Sigh.. another one of those lovely designer chappies has come to the aid of all us hapless tea drinkers and dunkers with some woeful bit of tat that is supposed to turn our lives around. Doesn't it ever cross these peoples minds that if you like to dunk biscuits in your tea then you might have actually become semi proficient at it and not require some basket device in your cup. Besides which its your tea, its not some kiddies paddling pool filled with plastic toys. Honestly there is only one thing worse that the designers who can't see over the brim of their own tea cup for inspiration, and thats the web-designers wishing for somebody else to make them a cup of tea cause they are too busy / bone idle to make it themselves. Not so busy that they can't while away a few days/weeks knocking out some web page thingy that is going to choose somebody next to them to go and make it. Recently Cravendale Milk got in touch to say they were working on a super secret tea related web application, and were we interested. I said yes but I hope its not one of those 'Who's turn is it to make the tea?' sort of things as they had been done to death. They went quiet for two months.. then came back to us saying, yes it was indeed a 'Who's turn is it to make the tea sort of thing' and it was all but ready to go. If they had asked we could have given them our painfully distilled wisdom about why these things are a all a bit useless and given the amount languishing out there un-used a really sure fire way of paying some web-designer to a load of cash to re-invent a particularly un-necessary wheel. Well here it is. Their innovation is that it doesn't let you send the 'make the tea' message again for another 2 minutes after you have just sent it. I just thought of two ways round that just this second. As always it chooses people at random, rather than in order, and it's completely unaware of people's days off, holidays etc. As I said they only had to ask.
Joan Ward Lincoln Review	Hello Nicey and Wifey, Just read your book and it was brilliant.  My husband was relieved I had finished it though as I kept reading bits out to him which didn`t go down too well if he was watching  any cricket To name all biscuits would have been too much for you to do I agree but I seem to   remember a biscuit called \" Duchess\" they were oval shaped with a criss cross pattern on top and the name on? Some of my friends think I  am mistaken, hoping you may have heard of them?    Thanks  J Ward
	Nicey replies: Hello Joan, Well those are two very distinctive features yo mention. From time to time people mention a shortcake style biscuit with a raised pattern of square ridges on and I recall these too. However these were round, very much like a retooled Lincoln. Perhaps some of our readers recall your biscuit.
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