Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down
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Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down is a website which mainly discusses tea and biscuits; with content including news and reviews of biscuit brands. It is owned and maintained by Stuart Payne and his wife, who reside in Cambridge, England. They are best known under their pseudonyms "Nicey" and "Wifey".
The website takes a humorous look at quintessentially British topics. The most common topics are tea, biscuits, cake, sit downs, and a running joke about the Wagon Wheels brand name biscuit.
As his website increased in popularity, Nicey found himself a media darling, attracting interviews and much publicity. The website has been featured on the BBC website and their weekly technology TV programme Click[1][2] , The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian newspapers, as well as the Richard and Judy chatshow.[3] Payne is regarded as a sought-after biscuit critic[4] and biscuit manufacturers from across the globe deliver him free samples in hope of a good review.[4]
In September 2006, the British Library proposed that Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down should be archived along with other socially significant websites.[5]
[edit] Book
As a spinoff from the website, the couple have written a book on the subject of tea and biscuits. Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down (ISBN 0-316-72917-5) was published on October 21, 2004 by Time-Warner Books.
[edit] References
- ^ Review of Nice Cup of Tea and sit Down web site. BBC. Retrieved on February 23, 2007.
- ^ BBC Click Video. BBC.
- ^ An interview with Nicey. b3ta. Retrieved on October 14, 2006.
- ^ a b Web biscuit buff turns top critic (2003-06-12).
- ^ Ledwith, Sara (2006-10-15). Crumbs! Web site gives archivists food for thought. Reuters. Retrieved on February 6, 2007.
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