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It's Friday!
And I may have committed shopping in Booths. There may be cheese, olives and crusty bread in my kitchen. Not saying there is, mind, merely that there might be. There might also be a brace of chocolate bunnies in there too, but that's a whole other story.
Booths was exciting today – I mean, Booths always is of course :o) full of good things and smelling sweetly of fresh-baked ginger snaps and hyacinths - but today, especially so due to an outbreak of sweet old ladies. Really nice, genteel, blue-rinsed creatures of the old-school in tweed skirts and angora cardis, brooches and little hats and sensible shoes with tassels – briskly pushing their mini-carts filled with brandy snaps and teacake and proper butter and Lancashire cheese, conversing with each other, getting lost and confused and blocking all the aisles.It’s been a long time since I’ve seen quite so many well-to-do elderly females in one location together. Most amusing and quite made my day.
And musing on what one might call such a grouping? A confusion of old lovelies? A perm of biddies? A conundrum of old dears…?
In other news. Curry's have also been passed through and it seems I suddenly posses a new laptop. A Compaq CQ60; 1.6g HD, 4g memory, a speedy little number described by its makers as 'trendy' which is delightfully scampish of them. It lacks the cinematic quality sound (and adorable volume control) and the slender, Nimble-Girl lightness of dearly-beloved old Toshy but is undoubtedly a bright shiny creature of enormous speed, power and potency. I’m sure I’ll get used to it eventually ::sigh::
And I’ve ordered unusual tea from here and been to Bygone Times to buy beeswax and talk to Carpentry Man about some shelves and Chorley Market for cheese and the little crunchy dog-wotsits we choose to call dog toffee. I'm so not a shopping person so it's good to get it all out of the way.
::clears throat, adopts pose, Frankie Howerd voice:: For yea! Lo and verilee! Tis FRIDAY! my lovelies.
Squee and the universe squees with you. ::two fingers up, but not like that::
Booths was exciting today – I mean, Booths always is of course :o) full of good things and smelling sweetly of fresh-baked ginger snaps and hyacinths - but today, especially so due to an outbreak of sweet old ladies. Really nice, genteel, blue-rinsed creatures of the old-school in tweed skirts and angora cardis, brooches and little hats and sensible shoes with tassels – briskly pushing their mini-carts filled with brandy snaps and teacake and proper butter and Lancashire cheese, conversing with each other, getting lost and confused and blocking all the aisles.It’s been a long time since I’ve seen quite so many well-to-do elderly females in one location together. Most amusing and quite made my day.
And musing on what one might call such a grouping? A confusion of old lovelies? A perm of biddies? A conundrum of old dears…?
In other news. Curry's have also been passed through and it seems I suddenly posses a new laptop. A Compaq CQ60; 1.6g HD, 4g memory, a speedy little number described by its makers as 'trendy' which is delightfully scampish of them. It lacks the cinematic quality sound (and adorable volume control) and the slender, Nimble-Girl lightness of dearly-beloved old Toshy but is undoubtedly a bright shiny creature of enormous speed, power and potency. I’m sure I’ll get used to it eventually ::sigh::
And I’ve ordered unusual tea from here and been to Bygone Times to buy beeswax and talk to Carpentry Man about some shelves and Chorley Market for cheese and the little crunchy dog-wotsits we choose to call dog toffee. I'm so not a shopping person so it's good to get it all out of the way.
::clears throat, adopts pose, Frankie Howerd voice:: For yea! Lo and verilee! Tis FRIDAY! my lovelies.
Squee and the universe squees with you. ::two fingers up, but not like that::
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Well you're very welcome!
I'll put the kettle on, shall I?
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Oh! I love flocks of little old ladies in full spate; it makes me think all's right with the world after all ::iz easily fooled::
Your shopping sounds lush and expansive (and OMG 'trendy'?! I didn't know we were allowed to be trendy any more). The tea web site is wonderful - I had no idea there was so much of the stuff.
Have a wonderful weekend honeybun. ::snogs::
whee!
Old Ladies are, indeed, da bomb - and so many of them! Simply thrilling.
Srzly, and I quote; "Compaq have developed an easy to use and trendy laptop suitable for all your daily activities." Hmmm. I think not you silly, Chinese darlings. If you had any idea what activities went on in my day you would not make such rash and sweepig statements.
Snogs you back to the power of several hundred! Oh my. It's half past 4 already, is it late enough yet to say sod it and accept no work will be done today?
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It's half past 4 already, is it late enough yet to say sod it and accept no work will be done today?
Hell yes!
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Oh and re the tea site - it's frighteningly expensive for the most part. He has some teas that are like, £50 a quarter! mental.A bit of Russian caravan and some rose congou is about as fast as I run in the tea stakes.