A nice cup of tea and a biscuit? - (Dec/09/2007 )
Well having just caught up on the frantic foruming that seems to have gone on this weekend and last week. I need a nice cup of tea (with milk of course) and biscuit. And just to lighten the tone in the chit chat area I have a question...
Assuming its black tea you drink or even coffee- milk or no milk? or maybe milk powder (not the one for western blotting though_ 
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Which biscuit do you prefer with this (or maybe its cake)?
Myself being a brit I love custard creams with my tea- good for dunking, whilst I stare out the window watching the snow fall and think of how to waste a couple more hours before going to cell culture for 2-3hours today.
Trying to lighten the tone
Lost in the Lab 
irish breakfast tea, with whole milk (yumm)...
biscuits... well, i like the venetians (they're a delicate fruity biscuit with icing on top)... or lebkuchen (german x-mas cookies... yummmmm).
V
Strong coffee (capuccino usually) and, if I can get it, a sfogliatelle (Italian pastry containing baked ricotta). If it's going to be a biscuit, then shortbread is always near the top of the list, especially if there aren't any chocolate biscuits left!
The cafe at my institute (the mighty Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in sunny Sydney: did you know we're in summer? No snow here, just warm weather and the beach!!!!) must have it in for me right now. Not only did they have brulee tart, they also put out a few Portugese tarts!
English breakfast tea (white with one), or a flat white coffee from cafe down the road (the coffee supplied here is TERRIBLE!!!)
Mondays is morning tea day where a different person brings in bikkies or cake that they have made themselves- today was ginger bread xmas cookies!! mmmmmmm (so far I have managed to dodge having to make anything myself!!!!)
Also sunny and warm here in Perth....looking out the window at the blue sky and wondering if the boss will notice if I disappear for a few hours down to Cottosloe beach......my pasty white winter skin is in need of some sunshine!!
Ah Summer in Australia how nice it must be! Bust my stereotype- but do you Aussies really have Christmas dinner on the beach (as in BBQ)? This is first year outside the UK and I'll be having a Japanese pizza hut christmas lunch in my lab as I'm at work.
how nice it would be to go off to the beach for some swimming and sun, if I tried it where I am I think I'd freeze to death before I removed my sock from my thermal boots- so the only sun I'll get is where I pluck up enough courage to learn how to ski.
Meanwhile you've made me jealous with all your delicious cakes and biccy's.
Regretfully returning to my custard cream and my Tetleys (with fresh milk for once)
Well I don't know if this fits with the aussie stereotype, but here is my xmas day:
Wake up, drag sister out of bed (actually its usually her dragging me out of bed!!).
Get into our bathers and head down to the beach (stay at parents on xmas so only walking distance to the beach!!! which is brilliant).
Swim for half hour or so then head back up for a bbq breakfast courtesy of Dad (8am sharp, just don't be late or your breakfast will be cold- bbq sausages and bacon wait for no man!!!)
Head to boyfriends parents house for an English style roast xmas lunch (much to my dismay!! but his parents are british and you can't fight tradition- I'm just not so sure about a roast lunch on a 35-40C day!!!)
Then after that maybe a swim in the pool and the oldies fall asleep on the couch with the air conditioning full ball (never mind global warming!!!)
Anyways, its always a fantastic day
When i was on the Gold Coast, x-mas was eating prawns and tomato salad, fighting off flies, and beach walks in the afternoon (was far too hot during the day).
now in brisvegas, i'm planning on going to the fake beach for most of the day!
V
So its almost right about the beach part anyway- I guess those in Alice Springs must just amble in the desert or stay indoors!
I think full-on Christmas dinner in 40C is a bit much, I would go witht he prawns and salad.
My UK Christmas day was-
Get up and make tea for everyone to get them out of bed. Maybe a bacon sandwich whilst opening the pressies and then cooking christmas lunch with my Mum with the aid of sherry's- big lunch.... loaf on the sofa eating the choccies and then an evening walk with the dog - usually in the frost or snow (I'm from Scotland orginally) and then back to loafing on the sofa with a glass of something.
This year- get up, have some breakfast- don the reindeer antlers and head to work, make sure my viruses are doing what they should- order in pizza hut lunch, finish off work asap- trek through the snow to friends house for egg nog, turkey and fake fire DVD's.
A strong, black filter coffee with a chocolate Hob Nob.
Lovely.
Those McVities chocolate digestives with the layer of caramel are bloody nice too...too bloody nice. They're evil.
Lost in the Lab
Came back from some holiday shopping across the border to find the frantic foruming put to an end..the injustice of it all...I didn't have time to grovel, nor display my ability to apologise in several languages nor increase my "countable" posts and then to top it all-no group hugs... Vetticus..you can't deprive me of all this 
well, it's supposed to be the season for peace and goodwill to all men.To go back on track:
It would be black coffee (like how Juan Valdez likes his
) on busy days but on lazy days, it's mocca or french vanilla-flavored. And to go with it- french or danish pastries..esp those with fruit jams or chocolate toppings or fillings...yummy on the tummy...Lost....thanks for the diversion....
casandra