Cookies & Conversation 

It’s wonderful to see a young man who is so comfortable with himself. You are also very gracious and have the gift of making everyday things special. You are very much in your own element, which some people never find. I am a 70 year old woman who suffers from anxiety and your calm, soothing voice gives me a feeling of serenity, which is why I like to listen to you at night right before I go to sleep. I hope you take this as a compliment, because if most definitely is meant to be one.

I just lost my husband 5 weeks ago. I’m relying on your channel now more than ever. Beautiful and calm. I have always thought of your videos and style as “gentle”. Thank you. 🌸

Such an Enjoyable, Fun, Sweet Video. Can’t wait to see where You will be living. I Love Nicolas Fridays.

The cookies/scones turned out beautifully! Love your carefree attitude. It's what makes you so appealing and believable. Keep us apprised on Instagram on your new flat. Fingers crossed. Have a great weekend! :)

Watching you is so calming, and your voice is very soothing. You help calm my anxiety. Thanks for your videos, Nicholas! ♥

A couple of tips. Dip the base of the glass in a saucer of oil for each cookie and pleeease use a wooden spoon when you mix in your crystal bowl. 😊

You are just such a joy to watch 💜

Dear Nocolas few small tips for backing your cookies 💚 a.When you like to have real cookies out of this mixture and not scones like taste😉you need to use smaller portion of the dough for each cookie. You need to use two spoons one to load a small portion of the dough and slide it on to the tray withe the other spoon. This will give you smaller portions that will turn up as more crispy cookies 🙃 B.when you like to flatten the cookies with a base of a glass ...oile the base of the glass first and that will prevent it from sticking to the fresh dough.💛🧡Best of luck with your new apartment hunting..

You make my days Nicolas! It's like being in a different world when watching your videos. Love from New York! xx

How does this video have five dislikes? Who’s disliking this video and why do we have to share the planet with them?!

Hello Nicolas! Best of greetings from America! Hope all is going well with your move to your new home! Cheers!

I watched your delightful video, listening to your calming voice while I sew. I feel like I have a good friend in my home.

I feel as if I have been on enchanting little soirée in the middle of Friday afternoon !

I’m loving this chill relaxed attitude. Thanks for having us over for a chat.

Aww I’m going to miss this kitchen! Can’t wait to see your new digs. I’m sure you’ll have it looking beautiful in no time! Your skin in glowing - vacations suit you 😉☺️

Yay, cant wait to see your new house. Greetings from south Africa

This Cookies & Conversation with you Nic was enchanting, relaxing and magnificent! You could be gluing shoe leather, digging weeds, or dusting dust bunnies for all i care, it was mesmerizing. I will come along and listen and watch you whatever you’re doing. Looking forward to your candle premiere and ‘still’ hoping you’ll collaborate for a fine porcelains and glass tableware collection! All the best, XO

Happy to hear about your progress on your scented candle 🕯 . It was fun chatting and watching you create the cookies spontaneously without rehearsal, you did a great job. You were so relaxed! It’s important to let your cookies cool completely before adding icing 🧁 because if you don’t you will have a runny effect unless that is what you wanted.You have such a lovely flat, did I miss why you are moving? It’s so much work to pack, you have just redone your bedroom etc.I love your flat. Thank you for sharing and have a great week. 🌈😘🇨🇦

Thank you so much for your weekly videos Nicolas. I very much look forward to sitting down each Saturday with a glass of wine and indulging in your lovely world. It’s so nice to see a proper home cooking video, things don’t always turn out like the picture in the recipe book but the joy of trying is so rewarding. I can’t wait to see your new home and how you make it your own. You should be very proud of your Chanel and your hard work is much appreciated. As a loyal subscriber, I want to wish you well for the move to your new home, such an exciting change for you! Take care, Dean

Hi Nicolas I am enjoying your “scones” all the way from Barbados. Thanks for sharing your time and life with us. Thanks you. Love you.

Nicolas, you are a hoot! The entire time I watched and listened to your video, in the back of my mind I was thinking, how in the world is he going to pull this recipe off. Then voila! perfect. They look so delicious and beautiful. I am so glad you provided a link to the recipe. I look forward to seeing the new home you will be moving to. But you know, I will miss seeing you in your current warm and cozy flat. I have followed you for a year or so and each time I watched your videos I felt a certain comfort in your home. I'm quite sure your new place will be just as lovely as soon as you put your personal touch on it.

Love our “chats” 💕 they feel very intimate and like I just visited with a friend 🤗 Warmest Regards from 🇨🇦

Just lovely as always Nicholas! Thank you for a great chat! Greetings from Australia!

What gorgeous peonies! Thanks for spending the afternoon with me, this was so relaxing to watch! The pistachios and icing look so pretty :) Greetings from New Zealand! Covid life here has been pretty easy going for quite while in my town, but we just got a 3 day lockdown announced for the whole country today, which is pretty annoying, but fingers crossed it goes back to normal soon so we can go back to usual life!

Hi good evening i am so happy for you, that some of your dreams are coming through especially with the new candles.

Each week I see something new. In this video your relaxed, off the cuff chat and baking was a branding success. Passion is key to a brand and you appear to have it Nicholas. All the best!

Every time you say Hi everyone I feel sooooo relaxed. You’re voice is so soothing 😍

I have had a rough time with do much stress. Im Christian and have faith but I'm human. Your channel is so calming for me and gets me more up beat , so thank you very much. I feel you have been on a long journey yourself. May God bless you in every way.

Just playing Mahjongg with some friends each week, I hosted the Nicholas way on Tuesday and everyone was impressed. So much fun!

Thank you for a most enjoyable and friendly visit with you in your kitchen to do the most homespun kitchen activity possible...baking cookies! I'm sure countless others besides me wished to share our side to your conversation about cookie baking, moving house, travel, vacations, and sharing times with friends. ...Enjoy your move. Not many could make such a chore come off with a sense of fun and delight as you might do. Plus, you get to look forward to and imagine decorating your new home...what fun! I am also in the early planning stages of moving eventually and gaining home #3 with plans to sell home #2 where I live now. Home #1 is my original home place which I will keep forever. My photo here on RU-vid is on my 61st birthday. I'm 62 now. I've officially retired but forever living life and making plans. Please know how life just keeps unfolding as we age. Staying in the game is key, and having dreams and schemes and serious plans will secure your lot in life which includes homes, friends, family, recreation, and love. I wish you the best always. You're gifted and blessed and intelligent. ...Enjoy!!!

Thank you for such a fun, unscripted and relaxed cookie making demonstration and conversation.

I know the apartment was overall too small for you, but what a FAB-looking kitchen! I will miss seeing you up against the wall with the framed pictures--so cosy-looking!

Bonjour Nicolas, Always nice to find you here on YT on Friday. This episode, I did enjoy very much : all relax and baking which is always fun, really. Cookies "scones" came out looking so good, the addition of the icing and pistachios made look perfect ! Hope you could enjoy with a nice cup of tea. Thank you for sharing, take care, Nicolas, and we will see you next week.

It’s always soothing to hear your voice. Kinda like therapy that many need still as this pandemic rages on. You are a delightful distraction. So thank you 😊. Btw the peonies are simply devine.

So very glad you had a break last week. Those cookies do look delicious. I will make them next week but right now it's 37C (98F), with high humidity, and even with air conditioning, it's much too hot. So glad the present weather in Edinburgh is nice. I too always leave out an ingredient or add something out of order, if talking, while trying to prepare anything for baking. The very best to you with your move. As always, thank you so very much for your lovely videos. They are indeed always a joy!

Nicolas, your videos are like therapy for me, so soothing and relaxing.

I enjoyed watching you cooking today. You looked so relaxed as you chatted. The cookies/scones turned out so well. Best wishes for finding your new home. From Jeanette in Adelaide, Australia.

Loved just hanging out cooking and chatting…felt like we were absolutely together! In my dream world, we would be wonderful friends and hang out together all the time. We did have a trip planned to come to Scotland to a little town called Dollar, my grandmother was born there. Because of COVID, it has been delayed until 2022 summer/fall. Until then, love from Florida USA… good luck with moving house and finding the perfect flat. ❤️🇺🇸

I love your hair! I imagined I was there with you as a friend. Your actual friends are so lucky they can do this in person. 😁❤️

A wooden spoon is always nice.😀

Hi friend! I love this conversational format! You should do more of these sometimes! ❤️

LOL! “The more icing the better.” I agree 100%! 👍🏼 Thanks for the cookies and conversation! Good luck with the search.

Nicolas, how wonderful and beautiful your cookies came out. You are so right to see how beautiful the pink/green pistachios look on the white icing! So yummy! This will be a must for me! and thank you for the visit and conversation. I'll have two cookies, please! 🍪🍪 love from Colorado/USA

I will miss your kitchen also. It's the most beautiful inviting kitchen I've ever seen!

Hello Nicolas, Love when you talked about the Cotswolds.I worked at Castle Combe Manor House in my 20's, beautiful place and region, I also adore Kent, where my grandmother was living. Take care and good luck with your future home 🏡

Nicolas, I so love your content and your presentational skills. My wife passed away suddenly three years ago and I miss her dearly. Your videos have been such a wonderful tonic for me and you will never know how much you have helped me. Best wishes to you for the future x

So soothing. So peaceful. So pleasant. So kind. So Nicolas!

Love your kitchen, it always looks beautiful!

Hope you are doing well Nicholas. I hope everything is going well with you. Love your videos. So good! Your cookies look great!!

HEY NIC.. I BE RIGHT OVER FOR ONE OF THOSE COOKIES, HAVE THE TEA READY..LOL

Looking very tanned! I am glad you are enjoying the summer rays.

Love chatting vlog instead of how to. It's more intimate especially for a homebody like me 😊

Can't wait to see your new home and how you set it up! Love listening to your wonder soothing voice!

I just found you and your channel and love your humor, authenticity and warm kindness that comes through RU-vid! I wonder how you have the time and motivation to do all that you do!!!

Recently found your channel. Every video I've watched has made me feel welcome. You have a nice way about you that reminds me to take care of myself by doing little things. I love that you didn't exactly follow this cookie recipe. The world won't end. ☺️ Best of luck with your move. And thank you for being so kind and relatable. 😘

Another charming video, so relaxing and welcoming. You really bring back such warm memories of a time when we actually baked our own goods and nattered with a good friend in person. No texting. Just feel-good friendship and sharing our burdens. I so look forward to your videos when time seems to stand still and I enjoy watching you enjoy your life!

Your videos are so wholesome and remind me exactly of my childhood at my grandma's house❤️ I never wanted to forget and your videos always remind me. Thank you❤️ you even remind me.of my cousin who I really miss.

I loved this style of video. It felt like I was right in your kitchen, having a casual conversation while we baked together. It just made me feel so warm inside! Best of luck with your move, can’t wait to see the new place!

I'm super excited for your new place, it will bee fun watching you decorate! You're taste is impeccable! Thank you!

Thanks for the chat 🙂 I think we could all take a page out of your “cool calm and collected “ manner when cooking - and in the end your cookies looked fabulous,! Greetings from South Africa ☀️

Watching you make the cookies gave me a good chuckle 🤣.we hope too spend a month in Spain in October. Thank you for a lovely video. 👍🥰

Nicholas, I’ll bet your cookies taste as good as they look. Love seeing you so relaxed and you should be because you are refreshing and a joy to watch. Have a nice weekend.

You always make me think of a wonderful Grandson or much loved nephew. Just a fine person. Also adore your style and videos.

I really enjoy your energy ,you are so gracious and refined! You inspire me to bake again which I haven't done in 20 years!

Bucket list travel wish: Atlantic crossing to England for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022! Love your videos, Nicolas, and good luck with your move. Cheers from California!

Dearest Nicholas, I loved this episode so much because you seemed so natural & relaxed & happy!!! The scones look delicious & I must find a recipe for them!!! Yum!!! Hope you & yours are doing very well & staying away from Covid & its variants. Love to Miss Sophie. ♥️♥️♥️💐💐💐. And to you!!! Looking forward to your candle release date with enthusiasm & optimism!!! 🥰🥰🥰

Hi Nicolas, here in New South Wales Sydney Australia we are in lockdown has been five weeks so far with another four weeks to come. Very sad not being able to see family and friends. Enjoy your videos ,very entertaining .

Hello Nicolas , nice ta see ya !! Here in the U.S.A. we are now dealing with the Delta Variant !! We have people here that don't want ta get vaccinated , which is crazy in itself !🤗💟🇺🇸 I may have ta try these cookies - Thank you !!!

I love your videos! Please make more where you are just conversing with us because I love to just watch while I’m also doing a few chores. It makes it like I’m with an old friend 😙

I love the way you enjoy everything you do dear Nick!!! Looking forward to seeing your new house! Greetings from México!

Good luck with packing and the move….With your decorating style and appreciation for detail, I know we are in for a real treat when you get settled. Thanks for providing the link to the cookie recipe. They look quite good and will definitely give them a try, especially since the measurements are in the Imperial system and I don’t have to figure out metric conversions.

You have an amazing talent to make someone feel as though you are truly visiting with them one on one! Thank you for your videos!

Whatever you call them scones or cookies definitely going to try them they look scrummy,so nice to hear you chat away to us,super

Everything you do is usually stellar and wonderful and I am sure by the time you iced these cookies they were to. Here is some unsolicited baking info from a professional pastry chef; When you added the butter mixture to the flour it appeared you left a good amount in the bowl, That would make it so there was less butter and sugar (which means more flour) than the recipe calls for and that would make a cookie more like a scone. You probably got the extra dark edges from adding the baking soda; that makes edges spread and brown. They still looked beautiful in the end.

I love your whole aesthetic! I'm from Canada but have visited London 4 times and once the english countryside and I absolutely love it! Seeing you doing things like this, makes me wish I had a part of the UK here, eating cookies, tea etc (I'm the only one obsessed with such simple things) - always love your background, its always so warm and inspiration I'd keep for my future home :)

Nicolas, you look very rested and relaxed , ready for your new chapter. The cookies looked delicious 😋. I can’t wait to see what life brings you in the coming days. Sending lots of luck and good wishes as you continue your amazing journey. Thanks 🙏🏼❤️

My Friday isn’t complete until I watch my Friday @Nicolas Fairford video for the day ❤️

Thank you Nicholas, always so relaxing and fun watching you. Wishing you the best of luck in your hunt for a new home and in your business ventures.

I’m in southern coastal Alabama in the US. It is almost September and we are having a horror show of Covid cases. A lot of hospitals are close to full, especially in the southeastern US. This recipe looks wonderful! My 40 something son loves lemon and doesn’t like crunchy cookies so these look perfect for him. I will leave the nuts off. I have throughly enjoyed your videos! You are a gorgeous young man and I loved watching your skin care routine in an earlier video. It’s great to see a man take good care of himself. I have learned so much from you and enjoyed every minute. I have much more of a “helter skelter” sort of personality and you are very soothing. You also have taught me how I can better arrange my house so as not to be so chaotic. Please don’t stop now. Lol. Best of luck in all your endeavors and I will support you all the way.

Hi Nicolas..enjoyed the bake and chat! The cookies/scones looks scrumptious! So glad that you had some R&R as you appeared to be relaxed and rejuvenated. Notwithstanding, your forever present charming personality! I am very excited for your candle debut and all the marvelous things you are dreaming of!

You are adorable and a lovely person! I think this is my fav vid of yours, so far! I loved the easy-breezy way you prepared the cookies whilst chatting and I really did feel like I was sitting in your kitchen! I might make them myself b/c cookies are one of my fav things, too! Please make more vids like this one!

I love that “at least I’m here to be the mad scientist ….’ These words are comforting to me at the moment when the worst is happening

You make my day when I get to see your new videos 😍 Sending blessings to you from Alabama USA✨

Thank you for sharing those elegant lemon scones. I am making them today Nicolas. I love to hear all the stories about your your life. You are a joy! Please keep making more videos💕🪴

I understand that feeling of not feeling motivated when the sun is out. Unfortunately, I live in San Diego, so I really have to force myself anyway! We do have a beautiful garden. Working outside in the sun is always enjoyable. Great video, thanks Nicolas.

Always lovely meeting up for these talks. I shall certainly miss the ambiance of this home that you have created. I wish you every success with your move and the adventures for the future.

Just charming Nicolas and those cookies look delicious. Thank you for sharing and chatting. Best wishes finding your new apartment!

A fun video! Love your relaxed style. Nicolas you have made me feel like you invited me over. Friends making cookies /scones together! Happily anticipating your candle. Sounds like it’s coming along great. I am hoping to spend time at Carmel, Ca. in October. My family and I always love this artistic quaint little town. Covid hasn’t affected my family as much as others since I live on a farm and go into town once a week for necessities. Restaurants are open now. So we go out to dinner on Saturdays. I know the right place to live will be yours before you know it. It will be fun and exciting to see how you decorate! Have a great weekend! Sending hugs 🤗

I live very near Cheltenham it certainly is a lovely Elegant place to live ..lots of wine bars, shops and enjoyable things to do.Xx

Gosh these are making my mouth water, newcomer here love watching and listening to you helps me to unwind when I go to bed at the end of the day so thank you for that Nicolas, Lainey x

Congratulations on making your candle🌈🤗💖

Nicolas thanks for the simple cooking with engaging chat.In this busy world we all need a nicolas to bring a calmness to our day totally enjoyed .cheers from australia

Such a calm, relaxing & sweet video. I look forward to these on Fridays. The cookies look wonderful! Moving is so stressful, hopefully things will go smoothly for you.

Enjoyed watching you make those cookies.very relaxing video. Here in my country,we are again preparing for another hard lockdown after a surge in covid cases.😢😔

Thank you for having this lovely relaxing chat with us while baking the cookies. They look magnificent. Some cookie recipes do have softer texture and soft like cake, similar to the Madeleine French Cookies. I will be so happy to see your place and all of your decorating plans when you do move. Canada where I am is still in basic lockdown, with some freedoms, but very limited on the numbers in stores, restaurants and all personal services. No travel to UK, which I have been waiting for since my last trip over a year ago, but your government is not allowing Canada to come with out the quarantine in place, yet US and some of Europe are free to do so. Just waiting until our restriction is lifted and off I go to London. I do so love the Cotswolds too and have spent many a day trip from London enjoying that area. Our weather has gone cool from extreme heat, so happy that you have had some decent weather for your to enjoy. Happy to hear also that your candle is coming along. Thank you again for a wonderful cookie recipe and relaxing evening watching to bake. All the best

your flower arrangement is to die for, I will go Tueday and treat myself to some fresh flowers just because of YOU

The flowers are beautiful!! Love your videos....thanks for the cookies and conversation🙂 Greetings from 🇺🇸.

So relaxing and comforting. U r divine. Thank u!

Love the look of your cookies. Love listening to you talk . God bless you Nicolas, I just love you Granny from Texas.

I'm excited to see where you will land next Nicolas. Watching your videos has become my guilty pleasure. and I have you to thank for that.