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Maryann McBreen	Dear Nicey and Wifey I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy receiving your newsletter and also the website. I am an American ('Murrkin) who was fortunate enough to live in England when I was a child. I have many fond memories of the lovely teas and cakes and biscuits....>sigh< if only we could get biscuits like that here! I actually read the reviews, and drool over the pictures, lol.....then I get all hungry and go and eat some not-nearly-so-nice hard old crumbly cookies or something...it's just not the same. And don't get me started on the subject of sit-downs! It's as if the notion of a sit-down with a nice hot cuppa is totally alien!! Anyway, your site reminds me of many happy childhood teas. I had a notion, I noticed you had polled the site to see how many folks make their own bscuits...it would be really cool if people shared their favorite recipes for biscuits! And cakes too, of course, and all tea-ish comestibles, for that matter. I for one would very much enjoy trying out such recipes, and perhaps feel even closer to that long-ago childhood when things were so much less complicated. Just a thought...perhaps it might find favor with you. I am looking forward to reading your book, and look forward to the next newsletter with positive pleasure. Keep up the good work! Maryann McBreen
	Nicey replies: Maryann, The internet is so full of recipe sites that we don't think it would be adding much if we got involved. Also the truth is that whilst homemade biscuits are lovely and all of that, they are nothing like our mass produced ones, which is as it should be. So even if you were to get hold of a recipe you would have a very hard time making a McVities anything, let alone a feat of biscuitry like a Wagonwheel.
Elizabeth Chow Lincoln Review	Hello Nicey, While my husband and I were shopping for fathers day presents in David Jones (a fairly upmarket department store here in Australia) we saw and bought a packet of "strawberry biscuits". They were in a cardboard packet with a big picture of strawberries on it, but no picture of the biscuits. The ingredients listed strawberry flavour, and the packet said there were four biscuits in the pack. This sounded like rather luxury level biscuits to us, and we were eager to try them. When we opened them, though, we found four (not five) Lincoln biscuits. As far as I know these aren't regularly available here in Aus, but I recognised them from your site which I'd been browsing the day before. Like you say in your review, the most exciting thing about them is the pattern of dots on the top. So what I'm wondering is, are Lincoln biscuits normally strawberry flavoured? Is strawberry flavour one of the standard Lincoln ingredients? Not that it was very noticeable in ours. Anyway, thanks for a very enjoyable website. Cheers, Liz
	Nicey replies: Liz, Whoa, these biscuits are bringing me down. First off, four is a miserably small number isn't it? Typically that's seen as the amount for a small individiually wrapped serving (sorry to use a dodgy transatlantic term), as exemplified by the Oreo or even our own Penguin MIni Splatz. However, there is usually a bunch of said servings in the box not just four biscuits in total. As for the strawberries I think there are some mixed metaphors going on here. Strawberry shortcake is a sandwich of shortcake (sort of as it's an American recipe) with fresh strawberries and cream. Fair enough. Lincoln biscuits are a shortcake biscuit, a fairly dull and unassuming one at that. They wouldn't even dream of getting a cream filling let alone fraternising with Strawberries. As for these biscuits only tasting slightly of strawberry despite there being pictures of them on the box, well that's enough to make your blood boil. I await the emails telling me about Lincoln creams, now I've said that I'm sure there was such a thing.
Kathryn Golding Bourbon Review	Dear Nicey, As I wandered around Asda the other week and having successfully chosen a number of packets of "traditional" biscuits, I was walking down the freezer aisle, when my eyes were drawn to one of the ice cream cabinets.  I was in shock.  There amongst the Fabs and Cornettos and Calypo's was what I first thought was a packet of biscuits.  "How could anyone be so cruel?, I thought. "Imagine putting a packet of Bourbon Creams into the freezer cabinet.  Is nothing sacred?".  When I opened the freezer door to rescue the biscuits from their peculiar resting place, I found them to be "ICE CREAM Bourbons".  There was also a packet of "ICE CREAM CUSTARD CREAMS".  After the initial shock, I pondered my predicament.  Should I buy these tasty morsels just to try them, or would they spoil my enjoyment of their original parent biscuits.  After much deliberation, I placed the Ice Cream Bourbons into my trolley and proceeded to the checkout.  Once home and all the shopping was put away, I decided to try the Ice Cream Bourbon.  It is larger than a traditional Bourbon, about two and a half times the size in fact, with a chocolate ice cream filling.  Whilst the overall effect was quite pleasant, my nearest and dearest hit the nail on the head when he complained that the biscuit was a bit soft.  In short I would say that the Ice Cream/Biscuit combination is not the best way to eat a Bourbon.  Give me traditional Bourbons any day. Kathy
	Nicey replies: Oh dear its all so undignified like getting your granny up to sing rap numbers.
Monkey	dear nicey, congratulations on the book. i do hope you play yourself in the film. when the book come out, are there any plans in the works for making "autographed copies" available? i am sure that many primates would be thrilled to have the opportunity to purchase a signed copy, possibly with a few biscuit crumbs and a tea stain for those special few. if you plan to come to texas as part of an extensive book tour, do drop by. i've always got the kettle ready! enthusiastically yours! monkey
	Nicey replies: Hello Monkey, Yes apparently they are planning to lock me in the warehouse for a day or two signing them so they can be sold under a different ISBN or something. If I'm ever in Texas I'll be sure to pop over to you for a cuppa, especially if its cycling distance. Wifey has already decided that she is playing herself in the film, and I'm going to be played by Bradd Pitt. I wonder if he has the range to play a bloke who likes fig rolls washed down with a couple mugs of tea.
Fiona Taylor	Dear Nicey and the Wife, Just recently stumbled across your inspirational website (where have I been for the last 3 years?) I have a long affiliation with tea - originally being from Yorkshire it has been a staple part of my diet since I were knee-high to a grasshopper! I also briefly worked at Twinings tea shop in London (no PG Tips there though) Although the subject of dunking is covered in magnificent depth on your site, I can find absolutely no refernce to the actual biscuits named "Dunkers" (I have no idea if they are still in production and can't remember which company manufactured them) They were almond-shaped, roughly 10cm long and and 5cm at their widest mid-point. Obviously some research types decided that these are the ideal dunking dimensions and indeed, they fitted neatly into one's mug. They also managed to retain an unsurpassable amount of tea without crumbling. I vaguely remember a rather dodgy TV ad for them involving a car with steamed up windows... However, their fundamental flaw was that they tasted minging. The dominating flavour was malt - in fact it was basically Horlicks disguised as a biscuit and who in their right mind would pollute their cuppa with a hefty teaspoon of Horlicks? I'm sure even the custard cream-in-port lady dunker would have difficulty in stomaching aforementioned. However, on the subject of bizarre dunking, the strangest by far - and not altogether unpleasant - that I have sampled is cheese. Let me explain - as there are extenuating circumstances. It was many years ago before my tastebuds developed the refinement they now posess. I was on an aeroplane, so not a particularly nice sit down and also an environment not wholly familiar with the nuances of tea preparation. In fact, let's face it, aeroplane tea is absolutely diabolical (Although not quite as appalling as that which I encountered on a GNER train last summer - in First Class no less!). Anyhow, we encountered a spot of turbulence during which I was unfortunate enough to drop a piece of cheese in my cuppa. Now I forget why, but instead of quickly retrieving said solid dairy mass, I let it lie. Then, (once again, inexplicably - although in my defence I was very young) I continued to sup my beverage. And then - yes, you guessed it folks - I ate the cheese (I was quite a piggy-jack porker of a kid). And you know what - it was surprisingly palatable. Can I blame altitude sickness? Yours dunkingly, Fiona
	Nicey replies: Fiona, First congratulations on getting the dunking, cheese and airplane icons altogether, well done. Yes, those Dunkers have been mentioned to me once before, I never had them and as you elude to it doesn't appear that they are sorely missed. As for melting cheese in your tea, that is something that you have obviously come to terms with, and if by sharing it with the world it helps you work through it then we are glad to help. As we are now officially in book plugging mode, I would like to point out that I discuss trains and planes in our sitdown section.
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