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Jayne Sercombe	Dear Nicey, I have been pondering what makes up a nice place to sit down (outside of home). The following factors make it for me, I wonder what others think? Wooden chairs and tables- not plastic- yuck. Proper cake selection (with 2+ homemade biscuits) Warm and cosy Friendly and informal staff A choice that includes proper tea and not just smelly stuff (A gamble here, I know) If they serve caffe latte then I beg them not to serve it in a glass cup, regardless of what they may or may not do in Italy. My current favourite meeter of the above criteria is The Boston Tea Party in Bristol. Lovely place. Love Jayne
	Nicey replies: It's got to have enough room to swing a cat. I can't be doing with those places where you don't have enough elbow room to pour your tea. I like a few random or peculiar things scattered around which you can ponder on whilst drinking your tea. Such things as obscure farm/kitchen implements, or pictures of places a very long time ago when they looked different.
Mark Vandersluis Sarah Nelson's Gingerbread Review	Dear Nicey I think you can guess from the tidal wave of disagreement (well this email makes four anyway!) that something was amiss with your review of Sarah Nelson's Gingerbread. The problem was that you were not reviewing the gingerbread under optimum conditions. We (that is myself, my wife and 3 boys aged 5, 10 and 12) would recommend that you try again half way up a Lake District mountain on a cold day. You'll find that the texture has a very satisfying feel to it, and the gingery taste helps to give you some inner warmth as you battle your way further up the mountain against the elements. Sadly, our gingerbread doesn't usually last much beyond halfway up a mountain, as we start eating just outside the shop in Grasmere. The only downside we find is that 12 pieces don't divide well between 5 people. Best Wishes Mark Vandersluis
Gnaff Abernethy Review	Good Evening, This is my first visit to your site - it certainly won't be my last! I was reading the messages about Abernethy biscuits, and recalled an evil practice from my childhood days in the back streets of Glasgow.  An innocent victim was chosen and asked to say, with great slowness and deliberation, "ABERNETHY BISCUITS".  Now, I don't know why it is, but children don't (or didn't) usually argue about the whys and wherefores of such bizarre requests; they just get on with it.  Anyway, when the victim came to a nice, slow 'TH' at the end of Abernethy, with tongue carefully positioned between the teeth, a sharp tap was administered under the chin, bringing the teeth together with unthinkable consequences for the tongue.  Weren't we nice? I don't know why the word 'Abernethy' was chosen; perhaps because it was commonly enough known not to arose suspicion or cause articulatory hesitation. (I have to say that I always thought of them as terminally boring.  I haven't seen them for years and I don't miss them.) I'll just go now and get the kettle on.  I look forward to popping in again. Keep up the good work. Gnaff.
	Nicey replies: You should just go an get a packet of Abernethy biscuits and make your peace with them over a big mug of tea. Perhaps you could capture the moment on video. If we got enough people reconciling themselves with biscuits that they have fallen out with since their childhood it could make quite powerful TV, at the very least Channel 5 would probably show it.
David Taylor	Dear Nicey, Due to assorted Buy One Get One Half Price offers on Fox's Creations and Cadburys selection I seem to have rather overindulged on the biscuit front just recently. I just thought that perhaps I could offer the consequent spare empty biscuit tins to Chris Jagusz in returning for him popping around in his nice little dress to do my ironing? Yours David Taylor
Faye Farman	I had to write in about the work mug thing.  I am a police officer and you would think that a police station is a relatively safe environment for personal mugs to be left lying around and for other people not to steal them, use them and then hide them away for the next time that they want a cuppa. Well, you would be wrong!  It has got to the stage that people are having to lock their mugs away and everbody has brought in mugs with their names on them, I have one slight problem, i can't find a mug with Faye on it.  Therefore I'm resorting to going to one of those places where you paint your own mug and I am making myself a specific work mug! I am funny about mugs at the best of times I can't enjoy a Tea fully if it is in a mug that I find offensive, hopefully having a Faye mug at work (considering that I am the only Faye at the station) will improve things for me. What lengths we go to! Faye Farman P.S What a fantastic site.  Keep up the good work!
	Nicey replies: Faye, I'm sure there are any number of smart and satirical replies to your message, however I will leave that as an exercise for our readers.
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