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 Jenny, 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 Daily 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] Payne's views were sought by the BBC on the launch of the leading American Oreo cookie into the UK^[5].

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.^[6]

[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

1. ^ Review of Nice Cup of Tea and sit Down web site. BBC. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
2. ^ BBC Click Video. BBC.
3. ^ An interview with Nicey. b3ta. Retrieved on 2006-10-14.
4. ^ ^{a b} Web biscuit buff turns top critic (2003-06-12).
5. ^ BBC News Magazine Can Oreo win over British biscuit lovers?, 2 May 2008
6. ^ Ledwith, Sara (2006-10-15). Crumbs! Web site gives archivists food for thought. Reuters. Retrieved on 2007-02-06.

[edit] External links

• NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown.com