Hurray! Hurray! It's National Biscuit Day! Here's to all the biscuits I have ever eaten! The custard creams, the milk chocolate digestives, the hobnobs, the malted milks, the bourbons, the jammy dodgers, the garibaldis, the oreos, the shortbread, the ginger nuts and the rich teas! I guess that Americans would call them "cookies" but to British people cookies are small text files that websites store on your computer or mobile device when you visit them. They help websites remember information about you, like your login details, preferences, and browsing history.
Meantime, over at the neighbourhood nursery school, what was little Margot - aged eighteen months - up to this morning? Making biscuits of course! See the happiness and the concentration below... She's in biscuit heaven!
Big sister Phoebe - aged four - was with us all day so we took her up to "The Three Merry Lads" for lunch. However, she was keen to get out to the children's play area so of course that is where we went. Wheeee!
Later, she had a chocolate biscuit to celebrate National Biscuit Day.
I never realised that biscuits could be such fun.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you and Lord Peregrine could have a fun biscuit-making session together! He could ice the biscuits before scattering some hundreds and thousands on top... just like Margot.
DeleteOf all of the biscuits that you listed, I only recognized oreo and shortbread. I have no idea what all of those other biscuits are and I'm too lazy to look it up. Well, happy biscuit day to your happy family!
ReplyDeleteAnd Happy Cookie Day to you ma'am!
Deleteso much joy in today's post....... i like a dark chocolate digestive....... but i rarely am able to turn a biscuit of any sort down
ReplyDeleteDark chocolate? Yuk! What's wrong with you man?
DeleteThat's the kind of national day I can get behind. If I could only eat cookies for the rest of my life, I would die a happy woman. Of course, if I only ate cookies for the rest of my life, it would probably be considerably shorter. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteBiscuits are naughty but nice!
DeleteI enjoy an Oatmeal Cranberry "biscuit."
ReplyDeleteThat does not sound like a Democrat biscuit to me.
DeleteDelightful little girls! Margot is so proud of her cookie and Phoebe is free and happy to be swinging. I like cookies, I think we all do.
ReplyDeleteThe Cookie Monster likes them more than anybody else.
DeleteYour grands are surely the sweetest little cookies ever. Thanks so much for your tribute to President Obama yesterday.
ReplyDeleteI should have said more about Mr Obama and how different he is from Trump. For example, Barack Obama writes his own books but Trump employs ghost writers.
DeleteLots of fun for everyone!
ReplyDeleteYee-hah!
Deleteand did I ever tell you I like cookies? It looks like you had fun on national biscuit day.
ReplyDeleteYou married a sweet Yorkshire biscuit.
DeleteI saw it was biscuit day but knowing that would confuse my friends who speak American, I chose to ignore it in favor of the French inspired "Coq au Vin" day! Gawd knows what they'd make of that.
ReplyDeleteDoes it mean "cock in a van"? Perhaps in that layby near Ditchling Beacon.
DeleteI completely missed out on Biscuit Day, although I spent a pleasant couple of hours with my Mum and my sister on Mum's balcony where we had coffee and cake (it was a holiday in Germany). Does cake count?
ReplyDeleteLovely pictures of your little girls! I gather that Margot has fully recovered from her recent accident.
Yes - Margot has recovered well and no cake does NOT count as biscuits!
DeleteLovely photos of two very happy children. I enjoy real shortbread made with butter.
ReplyDeleteGood quality shortbread is a delight for the tastebuds.
DeleteI have never heard of National Biscuit Day. And it's the 30th here now, so I missed it.
ReplyDeleteNext year why not stuff yourself with biscuits on May 29th Elsie?
DeleteI love the look of complete concentration on Margot's face and the sheer enjoyment on Phoebe's. You have two beautiful graddaughters.
ReplyDeleteWe know we are fortunate and they are both so characterful too!
DeleteI expect in another generation, both citizens of the UK and Oceania will be using cookies. The battle here for lift over elevator is lost. I wonder if we will lose our ground floors which will become floor 1.
ReplyDeleteIf Trump remains as the US President, Americanisms will surely fade away.
DeleteSomebody once gave me a book all about the history of biscuits and the different types. It was very interesting but I ended up donating it to our food bank charity shop. I happened to be on the till when someone bought it so I was able to recommend it to them. A lot of life's problems can be solved with a nice cup of tea and a biscuit!
ReplyDeleteI think that Trump needs a cup of tea the size of a swimming pool and a few lorry loads of biscuits.
DeleteI once knew someone who had the nickname Biscuit. I don't know why he was christened this name. But he didn't mind being called Biscuit.
ReplyDeleteDid he happen to be a ginger nut?
DeleteWhat a delightful celebration of National Biscuit Day. Ending the day with a chocolate biscuit? Perfect!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing such a warm and joyful slice of life and it made me smile from start to finish.
Thanks for dropping by Asep. I think you are the first Indonesian blogger ever to have left a comment here at Yorkshire Pudding!
Delete'Biscuits', as I'm sure you know, are supposed to be cooked twice (hence the name), but I think the one's I eat are only cooked once. Should I claim compensation?
ReplyDeleteNo - just stop buying your biscuits from Poundland!
DeleteWhat about tarts? Cherry Bakewells.
ReplyDeleteI used to know a lass called Cherry from Bakewell. By the way, she was not a tart. She was a primary school teacher.
DeleteThere is a growing trend in Australia to call biscuits "cookies" but I just can't do it. They're biscuits and will always be.
ReplyDeleteThe little ones are learning the right things!
WE must resist the march of The Trumpists!
DeleteWonderful fun!
ReplyDeleteLife can STILL be that way.
DeleteWhat adorable children your granddaughters are! Look at the concentration on Margot's face! And the glee on Phoebe's.
ReplyDeleteI am afraid that we here in the states will never, ever start to use the word "biscuit" for what we call "cookies." Biscuits so firmly have their own definition. When you were visiting here, did you get any of what we call biscuits?
I enjoyed southern "biscuits" in Mrs Wilkes's Boarding House in Savannah, Georgia. They were part of a fantastic and authentic southern meal.
DeleteThese National Days just pass me by - not a clue! I don't need much encouragement to eat biscuits. The only way to stop is not to buy them or the ingredients for them.
ReplyDeleteMargot had fun - the concentration on her face is a delight to see.
It was only those photos from the nursery school that alerted me to the existence of National Biscuit Day. I wonder if there's a Pigs in Blankets Day?
DeleteAlthough Canada - particularly Atlantic Canada - still resonates with British terms, biscuit is not one of them. Here a biscuit is what you call a scone, and in my mind always will be. Your biscuits are our cookies, and that's that. I'd try to change as a protest against Americanisms, but the U.S. is more than just Trump and his henchmen/henchwomen. There are so many reasonable and good folks living there and I stand with them and hope with them. So I'll keep my definitions, with apologies to European countries where they differ :) P. S. Your granddaughters are lovely, YP!
ReplyDeleteYou two are snuggling up together in the same bed!
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