The stuff from before on NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown ...

Christmas is coming

Yes, and no doubt the goose is getting fat. Our Turkey for example has left its paddock for Chelmsford we were informed on Saturday by the nice man at the farm where it was raised. However at this time of year our biscuit thoughts inexorably turn to at least one burning issue. What is the precise composition of the Crawford's Rover selection this year?

The Rover selection is the biscuit barometer of the nation, reflecting our most basic biscuit aspirations. Over the years we have seen the overdue departure of the Pink Wafer, reflecting the fact that practically nobody likes them. In recent times we've been perplexed by the appearance of the 'White Bourbon' or 'Dark Vanilla Cream Finger' to give it its technical name. The Rover selection will in the new year revert back to its normal duties as catering biscuits, appearing at one day conferences, seminars and the occasional two day intensive workshop for heads of departments.

This year the line up is as follows, Milk and Plain Chocolate Sweetmeal Digestive, Shortcake, Custard Cream, Bourbon, White Bourbon, Jam Ring, Coconut Ring, Hazelnuts and oat chock cream, Treacle Cream.

Lovely Tea-shirts

Hoorah, we have finally got our lovely new tea-shirts for sale at the NCOTAASD webstore, along with our mugs. We couldn't think of anyone better to show you just how much a NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown shirt can enhance your tea drinking than our good friends Mr and Mrs T. We gave them a couple of steaming mugs of tea some Jammie Dodgers and look how much fun they had. The mens shirts are available in Navy and Burnt Orange whilst the ladies can choose from Skinny Pink and Baby blue. The same picture only bigger Close up of the biscuits

Mr and Mrs T are enjoying their tea, thanks to NCOTAASD shirts and mugs, and a decent plate of biscuits

It's Sensible Kettle Month

The noisiest kettle I've ever known. OK its full of limescale, I'll give you that, but its always been loud

Kettles, we can't live with out them, unless we boil water up in a saucepan, or have one of those boiler things like Wifey has at work. Anyhow, there are a lot of kettles out there, some sensible, some silly, and we want to hear about them. It may be that you have been using the same one for the last twenty years trouble free. Perhaps you have one of those daft round ones that has the handle too near the spout so it scalds you with steam every time you pour from it. Then again you might have one that like the one here that makes such a din when boiling that its difficult to be in the same room as it. Maybe, like our friend Val, yours boils on top of your gas cooker and it's got a whistle. As is the custom for anything like this we like to kick it off three quarters of the way through the month before. So if you are boiling mad with your kettle, have gotten all steamed up over something, or have lost sight of your little red level indicator then drop us a line. If we get some emails I might even make a new icon to go with it. Your kettle feedback