The stuff from before on NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown ...

Mug, lovely mug

To celebrate our new book we've had some moderately exclusive mugs made. They look like the cover of the book. I say 'moderately' because our publishers are going to sending out a bunch of them to media types and celebrities. Still if you would like to get one for yourself, then our new UK webstore has just opened for business, which means you can spend good old pounds there. If you do live out side the UK we can still ship abroad. Our webstore is hosted and fulfilled by the very lovely Toughshed. When I went to see them and we had big mugs of tea and Rich Tea biscuits and a long natter about how the old foil and paper Penguin wrappers used to be better than the ones you get today.

We put some tea in and some biscuits next to it so you can see how it works

Organic excess

Organic chocolate is becoming increasingly popular not least due to the efforts of Green & Black's who really kicked the whole thing off. I've also known people who really should be eating less of the stuff, justify their next bar by getting an organic one. "Well it must be good for me, it's organic!". Hmmmm.

When they got in touch to let us know they were launching a range of biscuits, we got our chocolate heads on and dived in.

Irish Tea Tour 04

We've just got back from our Irish tea tour most of which we spent in lovely County Mayo. The landlady of NCOTAASD's field HQ enquired what it was we did for a living. Good question. I told her that this year I was mostly writing a book about tea and biscuits. Being Irish she looked pleased. However, her mood quickly changed when she asked if we use proper tea and I replied that we had acquired some nice Nambarrie tea bags for our tour. Barely containing her disgust and pity she said "I couldn't drink tea made with tea bags, it would have to be loose tea", she then beat a hasty retreat.

We also tracked down the elusive and hard to find ToffePop, which seems freely available in most shops in Ireland, so expect a review of that very soon.

A traditional Irish scene: The holy mountain of Croagh Patrick, some tea, Kimberley, Mikados and Coconut creams Fullsize image