!! also they had toffee milk bars, which my younger sister and i were completely obsessed with when we were little, we spent every cent we had on them. our mother didn't like us eating sugar because her family has a lot of diabetes but our aunt in london sent us these embroidered cheesecloth tops with puffed sleeves so we'd wear them down to the shop and buy toffee milk bars and smuggle them into the house in our sleeves and then we'd eat them in bed later that night. we had an obsession with midnight feasts that we got from reading books about girls at english boarding schools, in the books someone would always get sick from overeating but we had cast iron stomachs.
― estela, Friday, 29 July 2011 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
we used to smuggle packets of raro to school - we'd tear off a corner and lick our fingers and dip it in and it eat straight!!
also: I LOVE TOFFEE MILKS!!!!
― smoove operator, Friday, 29 July 2011 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i had a suspicion you might, based upon empirical observations i had previously made about you and jotted down in a notebook.
i was amazed to see them, i thought they were an olden days thing.
do you like pixie caramels? they had those as well.
― estela, Friday, 29 July 2011 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
omg YES pixie caramels are even better than toffee milks! i haven't had one in years and years.
― smoove operator, Friday, 29 July 2011 05:09 (thirteen years ago) link
pxy caramels
― estela, Friday, 29 July 2011 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm now looking forward with great relish to eating the one i will get for you.
― estela, Friday, 29 July 2011 05:21 (thirteen years ago) link
one of each, please.
― lxy, Friday, 29 July 2011 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
raro is like kool-ade which they used to sell in big packets with sugar added. i once got in trouble for having a bag on grape kool-ade in my coat pocket, for snacking on in just the way ruby described.
i think they only sell kool-ade without the sugar now. poor children of today.
― lxy, Friday, 29 July 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
is it likehttp://jewishsinglemaltwhiskysociety.com/%3Ftag%3Dfun-dip
― tehresa, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
oopshttp://newscoma.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/290px-Fundip.jpg
― tehresa, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.shopenzed.com/img/?syscmd=picoverlay&picID=102060&text=&col=cc0000&angle=15&size=11&font=Verdana&flags=4&quality=90&loc=361&spacing=0&resizeTo=250
― smoove operator, Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
with vitamin C!!
― smoove operator, Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
;_;
― superb mario brothers (step hen faps), Monday, 1 August 2011 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Children of today can buy sugared Koolaid in giant plastic jars!
My enterprising young capitalist of a son got in trouble in 2nd grade for selling his classmates hits of Lucas. A nickel a shake.
― jaq, Monday, 1 August 2011 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
OMGLOLLLLL!
― lxy, Monday, 1 August 2011 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 stories like that make life worth living.
― estela, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
it's raining.
― tehresa, Saturday, 6 August 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
it is snowing.
― estela, Monday, 15 August 2011 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
(in new zealand where I am.)
― estela, Monday, 15 August 2011 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I am shivering.
― estela, Monday, 15 August 2011 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link
it is snowing again.the electricity has gone off, I don't know how long it will stay off for.my parents are asleep and don't know. i hope it's back on before they waken. my sister and I are sitting in front of the fire and she is half-asleep but pretending to be awake, resulting in gibberish. our rooms are too cold to go and sleep in. but this very minute is delightful, such stillness, the fire, the snow on the mountains that you can see in the bright darkness, and also I can hear a train. there is a baby lamb in the next door paddock, I hope it's keeping warm with its mother, it was gambolling around this morning with a thrilled look on its face so the snow last night can't have bothered it much, the dear foolish little thing.
― estela, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 11:34 (thirteen years ago) link
every single status update on facebook from my nz friends has been about snow - for several days!
― smoove operator, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
"it's snowing down south"
( ^_^ )
― lxy, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I see londonI see franceI see the sandbox's underpants
― estela, Thursday, 18 August 2011 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link
that lamb is ridiculously cute, you should see it, we die of joy every time we drive past it. it's pretty pleased about things.
― estela, Thursday, 18 August 2011 11:27 (thirteen years ago) link
"your slip is showing"
( *o* )
pix plz
― lxy, Thursday, 18 August 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
JAFFAS: IN TRANSIT
― smoove operator, Sunday, 21 August 2011 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
!!!!
― lxy, Monday, 22 August 2011 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I needed this today and so happy I could find it again:
things i would post to lxy & jergins' board if i could
― jaq, Saturday, 27 August 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
it's raining
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 27 August 2011 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
yes but is it hurricaning?
― lxy, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
it hurricaned somewhat. it was pretty windy but not as bad as they said it would be (as usual). i didn't lose power but like 800k other people did!
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 28 August 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
so glad i did not return home to any domestic outrages :)
― tehresa, Monday, 29 August 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i am on an island
― lxy, Sunday, 4 September 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
this was in weather.com's twitter feed http://twitter.com/#!/apppppel/status/110805155120812032
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 5 September 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
this on an island talk is always quite mysterious to me, i wonder which island, how many islands are there, how did you get there, is it foggy, have you got some emergency milk duds, etc.
― estela, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 01:14 (thirteen years ago) link
― tehresa, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i love jergins's blog posts about being on the ocean! he should write a book, he is a good writer
― spite n ease (harbl), Thursday, 15 September 2011 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
;
i'm having a lxy drink and making chili
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 22 October 2011 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
harblous that's marvelous <3
― lxy, Sunday, 23 October 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
sitting here drinking coffee
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
i keep wanting to come to the sandbox and be the only one posting and wait 2 days for a one-word reply in tru sandbox style
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 2 December 2011 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
sitting here drinking wine
things will never be the same
― smoove operator, Friday, 2 December 2011 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
i think you are right, my dear sister.
― estela, Friday, 2 December 2011 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
that's the way it is
― max max max max, Friday, 2 December 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
the first half of this thread is full of terrible, amazing lolz
― smoove operator, Friday, 2 December 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
i think that was a really weird time for me. O_o
― tehresa, Friday, 2 December 2011 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
but i think things will be the same soon enough.