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July 21, 2019

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Dex said...: Are you sure that shop isn't something from fiction? Because it looks and sounds too magical to be real!

That perfectly describes what I meant when I said 'greasy' chips. And you have to ask why I think everything you do is the best :D I have heard of triple fried chips, but only as some kind of mythical, unobtainable food... what would be your ideal chip?

Something quite large arrived today from Amazon!; 20 August 2021 at 18:57
Louise Boyd said...: My brain is very special.
I was about to ask what was in the quite large box.
...
But I already know what's in the quite large box and it took me far too long to realise that.
As in, I'd already wrote most of this message before the idiot grey matter woke up from hibernation 0_0
Sigh.
Oh, to be a brainiac!
Hopefully you'll like what's in the box, though. I really hope. I'd love it and apparently I'm the greatest human on earth according to you, so... yeah, my hopes are feeling pretty good :D

I think I'm harbouring a vampire insect, Dex.
I've got so many bites it feels like my skin is vibrating +_+
I'm in fresh hell. And I can. stop. scratching!
The fam have threatened to tape my hands inside oven mittens 0_0

My perfect chip is your perfect chip. But I have penchant for curly fries and those flat, round, ridged fries that you get sometimes.
The best chips I've ever had were at a restaurant in York called Betty's. It was our restaurant of choice whenever we visited and chips were high on the agenda. They also make a mean sundae.
Oh! And a place called Bruar. It's about an hour away and has the best food. And entire sweetshop inside it with coconut ice and fudge and a jellybean factory if you're into that kinda thing - I am not, jellybeans are waxy legumes of evil.
This conversation is really not helping the state of my hunger =/; 20 August 2021 at 22:57
Dex said...: My skin feels itchy just reading that! Is there anything, like a lotion, you can put on your skin to help calm it down? Does have lots of insect bites at least mean that you've had warm weather and been able to sit in your garden? That's definitely one of things I definitely do not miss about going on holiday abroad, all he mosquito bites. My legs were always covered in white blotches from the calamine lotion :)

Your family holidays in York sound really nice, like the kind of holiday I would enjoy. It looks very pretty in the photos with Harry Potter type lanes. I can scarcely remember any memorable places I've been to eat! I used to quite like eating outside at the resorts in Philippines but I don't think that was because of the food, although it was fun to order something that sizzled as they brought it over :) Actually, the one restaurant experience I remember was at our hotel in Thailand when my sibling, who likes spicy food, went too far and ordered a soup that was so ridiculously hot that it turned his ears red :)

No, I'm not really a jellybean person either, especially all the weird flavours. And I've never heard of coconut ice!

I'm glad it was you who sent it because I'd already claimed it from my dad who shares the same name :) I just know I'll love whatever it is. I can't even tell you how often I've worn the DOTD sweatshirt in the last 12 months :D; 21 August 2021 at 20:32
Louise Boyd said...: Oh no. There's a very strong chance I'm going to torture you from now until the end of eternity by calling you Junior *-*
I'm sorry, it's gonna happen, unless you can find a way to shut me up.
Do you accept the challenge... Junior? :D

(On that note, though, would it make it easier if I sent any gifts to you with your middle name in the address?
aka. David (insert first letter of middle name, here) Eva?
If you've already told me your middle name and I've forgotten it, don't take that personally, my memory's just a bucket with no base =/ You're lucky I remember any of your name, to be honest)

What exactly was sizzling in this meal? I like things that sizzle? But no spicy sizzling. That soup your brother order would not only have turned my ears red, but possibly even my brain.
A normal person would have entered that restaurant and a crimson demon would've left in its stead 0_0

There's no lotion known to man that can stop my itchiness. I've tried everything. The bugs in Scotland are obviously in league with the devil and have a taste for pasty Celtic blood -_-
I spent most of last night with my hands down my pyjamas (overshare but it's the truth!) scratching my legs like they were covered in fire ants. Not fun.
I'm hoping they've had their fill, though. I know the human body can replenish bloody within two days but christ, I'm not a fucking blood bank 0_0

It makes me so happy you've been wearing your sweatshirt. I'm always worried about sending gifts. It's so stressful. Will you like it? Did I make a mistake not keeping it myself? :) Have I bought it already? Did I really buy this for me but convinced myself you'd like it too?
See. Super stressful. And you're so much better at it than me! Damn you >_< But not really because look at all my swaaaaaag :D

Ps. HOW CAN YOU NOT HAVE HEARD OF COCONUT ICE?! Although, do you hate coconut? I can't remember. I know you hate raisins... Hmm. My memory's really failing me today =/; 21 August 2021 at 23:32
Dex said...: Nooooooo! Why did I share this information with you?! :D Every time you call me Junior, I'll reply with 'I prefer Indiana' :)

I'm guessing I have shared my middle name with you before because it's 'Charles' and there's no way I would have kept that to myself given the delightful monster who has taken over your house :)

I actually can't remember what the sizzling food was, only that it wasn't as good as it sounded :) I would basically order something because I heard it being brought over to someone else's table and was suddenly consumed with food envy, and then when it stopped sizzling, I lost interest :) It actually bothers me that I can't remember the kinds of food I've had in restaurants while on holiday, probably because I didn't really enjoy anything... I was a really fussy eater when I was small so maybe that has something to do with it. In Philippines, I do remember going to the food court in the mall quite a lot and also that there was a fast food chain called Jollibee.

I don't know, maybe Coconut Ice never made it to Shetland - there are so many things we never got up here :) Or I'm just completely unaware of something really common that has been around me for years, which is always a strong possibility :) I don't really have strong feelings on coconut although it isn't something I would usually choose to have - Bounties would definitely be pretty far down on my list of preferred chocolate bars.

Is it okay to say that I'm glad you worry about sending gifts, because I feel the same way :); 22 August 2021 at 19:58
Louise Boyd said...: Oh fuck, I knew it was Charles! My brain's so stupid. You'd think I'd remember that because yeah, the creature that lives in my house but also my grandpa was called Charles (Charlie, usually), and my middle name is Charlotte, named for him.
Ugh,
Okay, David C. Eva, that's how I'll address your presents from now on so your Senior doesn't accidentally end up with a life supply of sugar by accident :)
Sound good... Junior? :D

So, Jollibee's like the KFC of the Philippines? Why does it not surprise me you'd like that instead of authentic cuisine? :)
I want one of their chocolate sundaes. There's coconut on it! Therefore its destination is my belly 0_0

Bounties would definitely be pretty far down on my list of preferred chocolate bars.

I'd say you wounded my soul with this because Bounties are outSTANDING but it just means there are more in the world for me :D

Y'know what sucks? I ate a Lion Bar yesterday and it so didn't hold up to my memory of them as a kid.
Did they always sorta taste of nothing except sweet or did Nestle get worse? =/
I think I'll stick with Picnics and Boosts. Lions can suck it (except in animal for because they're precious bitey angels and must be protected at all costs *-*); 22 August 2021 at 22:59
Dex said...: I love that you went to Jollibee's website to view their menu :) I can never work out if I missed out, growing up somewhere with no fast food franchises?

I haven't had a Lion Bar in years. I can barely remember what the inside is like, just that the outside was all lumpy :) I may have to buy one tomorrow just to see if my disappointment is the same as yours because I used to hold them in pretty high esteem. I particularly associate them with the vending machines at the swimming pool because one time, a friend's parent was picking up me, my brother and friend after a swimming lesson, and they bought their own child a Lion Bar from the vending machine while I got nothing. So Lion Bars have always equaled food envy. I still occasionally think about it... That gives you some insight into my disturbed mind :)

I would never want to hurt your soul, even if it meant you got to eat all your favourite chocolates :) You know what chocolate bar I really love - Milky Way Crispy Rolls, because I'm a weirdo :) I very rarely manage to find them in the shops anymore though. Do they even count as a chocolate bar?

Your brain is not stupid! I'll blame my parents for not being able to come up with an original name for me. I mean, did they even think what it would be like when I grew up in the terms of the post situation, phone calls etc. Although they would probably had hoped I had moved out by now... but David C Eva will be fine, especially since I wouldn't put it past my dad to steal sugar meant for me :)

Also, don't call me Junior :D; 23 August 2021 at 20:29
Louise Boyd said...: Okay, okay, I'll save it for special occasions :)

...a friend's parent was picking up me, my brother and friend after a swimming lesson, and they bought their own child a Lion Bar from the vending machine while I got nothing.

I find this SHOCKING. My parents would never do this. What kind of monster was picking you up?!

Vending machines at the swimming pool were the best.
Our local swimming pool and gym was attached to the high school, so whenever we had PE we'd hit the machines afterwards and rebel against the calories the teachers made us sweat out.
I always got Milky Bar Choos. The only white chocolate I'll eat from that brand, and the discontinued them years ago :(
I would totally buy Milky Way Crispy Rolls, though. Anything wafery is amazing, especially if it's stuffed 0_0

I think we're about to get a McDonald's or something in Blair and I'm not looking forward to it.
Fast Food chains suck. You'll be satisfied for about a minute and then craving toast. Pointless. And they always make so much litter. What is it about fast food and being a jerk to the environment?
Just put your stuff in the bin, you monsters!
...
I'd totally smash some fries and chocolate milkshake right now, though. I'd say a burger, too, but nobody wants to see me projectile vomit from overconsumption :)

Ps. Report back on the Lion Bar. I think they really fucked them up but I need confirmation.; 23 August 2021 at 23:22
Dex said...: You're the one person I would let call me anything :) Besides, I'll probably be glad of someone calling me Junior once I hit 35!

I'm going to Co-op tonight so I'll see if I can pick up a Lion Bar. In fact, I'm sure that parent bought a Lion Bar for himself as well! You don't need to tell me that your parents would never do that because I know they are the best :)

Milky Bar Choos, another chocolate bar I never got around to trying... Did you have a tuck shop at your school? We had a sort of pop up one in high school - at break time, all these crisps and sweets would be set up on the stage in the main hall. In primary school, I think they just brought through a couple of boxes of Space Raiders :)

I hadn't even thought about the litter! I'm now so glad that we've never had a fast food chain - the people of Shetland really do not need any more encouragement to drop their rubbish everywhere :(

I'm sure you could handle a burger, fries and milkshake without splattering a wall with your insides :) Do you ever make milkshakes at home?

Also, another box arrived today, which I have claimed :); 24 August 2021 at 18:38
Louise Boyd said...: You Boxtroll :D

Sarah makes epic milkshakes. It's not even anything special, just Neapolitan ice cream and milk, plus whatever you wanna dump inside. She's got the magic touch, though.
I'd probably just not bother with the blender and pour milk on top of a tub of ice cream and see what happens =/
I'm quite lazy when it comes to food.

We always had tuck shops in school. We used to vie for the chance to work behind it in primary school because you'd get out of class early and could come late after break time.
Ridiculous, now I think about it. Children are idiots *-*
And in high school there was a little open windowed room in the middle of the base of the New building (we had two buildings, the Old building and the New building. Creative lot, Blair High) that we'd stuff 4 students in and make them sell us food.
I never got anything, though. At that point I was firmly not eating in front of people. A biscuit at most but not lunch. I hate eating in front of people =/ Makes me feel like a caged animal at the zoo 0_0
See, I've always been mental :)
And a total hypocrite but only for animals. I like watching Charlie eat. He makes the best crunchy nom noises ^-^; 25 August 2021 at 00:16
Dex said...: I wish I could hear Charlie making nom noises :)

I would totally consume one of your lazy milkshakes :) I am always incredibly jealous of people in your family having the magic touch with so many things! What kinds of foodstuffs would you put in a milkshake? Or is it a case of the simpler the better?

We had an old building and a new building in high school too - they were joined together though so it was all just called the same thing :) When I was there, the old part was where they taught English, and the new building was split into 3 blocks: A block, B block & C block - see, we were creative too :) The 3 blocks were all kind of layered and connected and had 3 levels so in one stairwell you could access blocks B & C, while the other you could access blocks A & B. A3 was the highest floor, while C1 was the basement floor where only the unluckiest students had classes :) Although I remember I had to walk up to A3 every morning for registration. Then there were a couple of add ons - the more modern D Block (which was the open plan Science department), and the Music Department... ugh, I'm so boring :)

You're not mental, I totally get not wanting to eat in front of people. I really did not like eating lunch in front of people at work which is probably why I lived for a couple of years on items from the vending machine in reception :); 25 August 2021 at 18:55
Louise Boyd said...: Vending machines are what kept me alive in university 0_0
Orange Lucozade and whatever breakfast bar I fancied that day.

I think all high schools sound pretty much the same. The layout. The ridiculous schedule. The shitty teachers.
There's no escaping that educational hell.
The only places I enjoyed being in at school was the art department and the library.
Everywhere else was either boring or stressful.
If only I'd had a Fungus to raid the vending machines and be anti-social with :)
I don't know if you'd have been all that fond of me in school, though. I went through a bit of a dickhead phase in 6th year =/

The list of things I would put in a milkshake:

Pretzels.
Chocolate chips.
Cookies.
Smarties.
Yoghurt covered raisins/banana chips/Brazil nuts
Buenos (whole ones, sections, I'm not fussy)
KitKats
Popping candy
Sliced up Snickers bars
Chocolate coffee beans
And many, many, many more things
And possibly all at the same time *-*; 25 August 2021 at 23:20
Dex said...: Don't worry, I'm still going through a dickhead phase :) I was very boring in high school though. Did the bare minimum to fit in and not stand out, didn't make many friends or enemies, preferred doing things on my own more and more as I went through it. Pretty forgettable really. Not the sort of person you'd want to hang around with :)

I just had my birthday tea because my parents are going to Sandness tomorrow so I'll only see them in the morning before I go to work. When I say birthday tea, I mean that they had to give me whatever they thought I would like because I will forever refuse to tell people what I want :) So we had steak, mushrooms, asparagus and chips. And that will be all the family birthdaying I'll be doing... Really looking forward to having the house to myself on Saturday though because my sibling will be out working too :)

Okay, chocolate coffee beans, what are these and where can I get them?! Are they beans that you use to make chocolate coffee, or do you just eat the beans like chocolate? I must know! :); 26 August 2021 at 19:21
Louise Boyd said...: You just needed a me in high school, clearly.
Stupid geography spoiling our adolescence!
You missed out on my emo phase, Dex. The full Avril Lavigne. Sweepy fringe, Emily Strange t shirts, wristbands for no fucking reason, and, I don't know why, but pink and black vans that were a size too big.
...
I walked around in boats, ffs =/
Kids and the strangest creatures.
Speaking of, have you had any birthday wishes from Freya the Fairy Queen?

I'm so jealous you're getting a quiet birthdayyyy >_< Mine's going to be the usual affair of having to be upbeat and chatty to everyone when all I want to do is read in the sunshine -_-

Chocolate coffee beans are either coffee flavoured chocolate in the shape of coffee beans, or coffee beans dipped in chocolate.
I'm a flavoured bean kinda girl. The real stuff taste too much like coffee :)
You can get them on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chocolate-Coffee-Cupcake-Cake-Sprinkles/dp/B08HDCSYSL/ref=sr_1_12?adgrpid=76418132348&dchild=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw95yJBhAgEiwAmRrutJj6a78t6f7oeFbIKIrOph4KkhDZ8dS4xcgZCSNMh1AFERbJ7hkI5BoC68YQAvD_BwE&hvadid=338427634288&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=1007350&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=6983064883621540622&hvtargid=kwd-392094204205&hydadcr=22515_1808026&keywords=coffee%2Bflavoured%2Bchocolate%2Bbeans&qid=1630012080&refinements=p_76%3A419158031&rnid=419157031&rps=1&sr=8-12&th=1

Verrrrrry good on top of Tiramisu.

Only 6 hours until I'm officially another year older.
Gross.
Happy Birthday for tomorrow, Dexterous! Or today, or whenever you read this!; 26 August 2021 at 22:11
Dex said...: Happy birthday, Lilliputty! I hope today isn't too stressful and you get some time to yourself. It could be worse, you could be a whole year older like me :) I wish I wasn't working today but I will hold off opening my presents until I get home. My birthdays are always very boring but you make them special :) Also, I'm slightly obsessed now with getting hold of some of these chocolate coffee beans!

Freya's mum did try getting her to sing happy birthday (can't say I'm the biggest fan of forcing kids to sing). Fortunately, she completely refused and started singing the alphabet song instead to show off how much she knows :)

Ps. I bet you totally pulled off the emo look :); 27 August 2021 at 07:39
Dex said...: Maggot! What are you trying to do to me?! Do you know how difficult it was for me to put the lid back on that jar of mini rainbow belts and stop myself from consuming every single one?! Even now, in another room, I can hear them calling me. This may be a problem! The best problem ever :D

Seriously though, a waffle maker! Thank you so much, I've wanted one for so long. I know I'm not the easier person to buy for but no one will ever know me better than you do. I can't wait to try it this weekend! I'm already planning all the things I want to put on them. I can see a future where 90% of my meals are waffle based :)

I hope you're having the best day. Even though being alone is okay, I just know I'm going to be super jealous of all the things your family will have prepared for you.; 27 August 2021 at 19:22
Louise Boyd said...: I have NO WORDS!
That is both the cutest and weirdest thing I have EVER seen.
I love it 0_0
And I can't believe you got me a first edition Wyrd Sisters.
That's the dreammmmmm! It's so pretty!
Everything's so pretty!
And I got a waffle iron, too! Ahaha we can make waffles together >_<

Ps. Did I mention Freya's the greatest creature alive?

Pps. Happy Birthday, Fungus :); 28 August 2021 at 00:38
Dex said...: I think Freya dislikes speaking to people on video call as much as I do :)

'we can make waffles together' - I don't think I've ever been sadder about being so far away from you :) My mum has promised that we will try out the waffle maker tomorrow when they are back from Sandness.

I was worried that you would think the box was too weird a present. I just had to hope you liked weird, pretty things :)

I didn't have a completely uneventful day - I got takeaway pizza for lunch with my friend Kerry from work and she had also secretly bought me a cake which I have been living on this weekend :); 28 August 2021 at 18:29
Louise Boyd said...: Friends who feed you are good, gooooood friends.
I'm glad you had a Kerry on the day of our birth :)
What flavour of cake, though?
Em made me raspberry and pistachio tiramisu. So damn good, I felt horribly ill after eating it. The mark of a truly superior birthday dessert *-*

What flavour of waffle first?
Regular? Choc chip? Blueberry?
Regular's probably the safest option for the first one.
We're gonna try making potato waffles in mine at some point. Which is bright pink, by the way. I'm going through a pink phase at the moment 0_0; 28 August 2021 at 22:31
Dex said...: It was just a simple sponge cake with jam and icing. It was no raspberry and pistachio tiramisu(!) but it could have been the worst birthday cake in the world and I still would have been happy :)

Okay, we have to talk about the waffle press. It's perfect! Even though all these thoughts were going through my head about everything that could go wrong, I used it on my own to make plain breakfast waffles :) I'm not sure what I was expecting, that all the mixture would drip out of the sides, or it would stick and be impossible to remove, end up burning, being difficult to clean... but none of those things happened. It even looked like a proper waffle :) I was surprised at how much it rose since I just used my normal pancake mixture (although I made it slightly thicker than usual - to be honest, I don't think I needed to). After I got over my lack of confidence, it was all so easy, came out with no effort, and if I hadn't put slightly too much oil on the plates at the beginning it would have needed next to no cleaning at all!

That's the long way of saying thank you so much :D

A pink phase? Apart from the waffle press, anything else I should be aware of you having in this colour?; 29 August 2021 at 15:03
Louise Boyd said...: Yaaaay! I'm so glad.
I kinda panic bought it, even though I'd had it in mind for you for a while, but my brain was totally unsure whether you'd open it up and just think what the fuck was she thinking? =/
Luckily, my brain's an idiot :)
I haven't tried mine yet. It'll probably take me forever to. Procrastination is my forte, after all.
Here's hoping it'll work just as well as your clearly magical waffle maker :)

Any flavours next on the agenda?
My brain's stuck on maple syrup or biscoff waffles 0_0
...
OR COMBINE THE TWO!
:O

Well, it's not pink but I did get a lilac ukulele for my birthday. It's so tiny and perfect.
I'm going to learn all the tv anthems I love: Stranger Things, Buffy, Cowboy Bebop (this one may be impossible), The Office, Adventure Time!
It's gonna be epic and tunefully unsound :D; 29 August 2021 at 23:13
Dex said...: That sounds like a perfect present for you! I'm sure you will master all of those anthems :)

Mayple syrup and biscoff waffles - you're a madman! :D I just know you're going to come up with so many imaginative ideas that I'm going to be kicking myself for not thinking of them first :)

Did you end up watching anything on our birthday?; 30 August 2021 at 17:47
Louise Boyd said...: So much faith and yet so wrong. I'm more likely to make basic waffles and drown them in golden syrup every time =/
You underestimate my laziness, Dexterous.
Hmm, waffles with biscoff spread into the little waffle pockets and THEN doused in syrup.
That's the plan. I wanna do that!

I watched Guns Akimbo with the fam. So good.
I like a bit of violence on my birthday ^-^
Did you watch anything?
Ooh, and how do you feel about the promo shots for the live action Cowboy Bebop?; 31 August 2021 at 01:08
Dex said...: I started re-watching season 3 of The X-Files on Friday night if that counts :S It's actually pathetic how long it's been since I watched anything released recently or even fairly recently. I don't know where you find the energy to keep discovering new things. I wonder if this is a sign of my middle age, only watching things that give me some misplaced sense of nostalgia :)

On that note, you won't be surprised to hear that I haven't been keeping up with Cowboy Bebop developments at all! I try not to get too precious about re-making old shows, probably because I know there's a 95% chance I'll never get around to watching it :) It was difficult to tell from the photos but I saw neon. Do you think they will go for a Blade Runner look?

This will sound contrived but I really hope that being 34 is the best year for you and that you get some of those things that you really want in your life, and I don't just mean syrup soaked waffles :) Because you're my favourite person.; 31 August 2021 at 19:29
Louise Boyd said...: Ugh, saying nice things to me. How dare you!
:)

I think they'll absolutely go down the Blade Runner route but I think I might work? I dunno. The anime's so bloody perfect, I don't think they'll manage to make something to lives up to it but I'm hoping it's enjoyable at least.
I just got really excited when I saw Ein, though.
But can you imagine a live action Edward? Holy fuck, that's kids gonna be drugs the entire time 0_0; 1 September 2021 at 01:34
Dex said...: I think 10 year old me would have made a good Edward. Always lying around and looking for food :)

I've eaten more than half of the jar of mini rainbow belts! I only stopped because it was getting slightly more difficult to get my hand in the jar to reach them :) They are actually so much better than actual rainbow belts because they aren't so fizzy and have a slight bubblegum taste. All of which makes them highly addictive. I suppose I should say thank you even though they will likely end up destroying me :); 1 September 2021 at 18:57
Louise Boyd said...: "Here lies Dexterous "Fungus" Epistolean.
He ate a full rainbow.
And it destroyed him."

Way more dramatic than mine:

"Here lies Lillyputty.
She hiccupped.
A lot."; 2 September 2021 at 01:09
Dex said...: Or crushed under a pile of books, possibly self inflicted :)

I have a very bizarre question for you. Given all the books, tv shows, films etc. that you get through, do you ever find it difficult to find the time to go back and re-read or re-watch something. I mean, reading an old book, does it feel like time lost that could be used reading something new?

Fuck, that's possibly the most poorly phrased question ever. I swear I know what I'm trying to ask :); 2 September 2021 at 19:06
Louise Boyd said...: reading an old book, does it feel like time lost that could be used reading something new?

*eternal screaming*

YES!
Tv and movies are easier because I watch it when I'm internet-ing or doing something productive that needs background noise but books?
Can't remember the last time I re-read anything simply because there's so many other things to be read.
I hate it +_+
I'm just about to finish my favourite series (equal with another, they're cool with sharing the title, it's fine) and I really want to go back and do it all over but I know won't 0_0 Because I'm a fucking shark and I can only move forwards >_< AND I HATE SHARKS!; 2 September 2021 at 23:09
Dex said...: I must be the opposite of a shark :) I am very jealous of that desire to keep moving forward and discover new things. I think I just get overwhelmed with the amount of stuff out there. Your brain must cope with that feeling much better than I do. Maybe in a few years you'll be able to go back and re-read some of your favourites and it'll be like reading them again for the first :)

Is 'Throne of Glass' one of the series?; 3 September 2021 at 19:20
Louise Boyd said...: Nope! Right author, wrong series. It's the Court of Thorns and Roses series that's my favourite.
I've started TOG but I wasn't feeling it, and even though I know it gets way better further into the books, I've been too busy with other stories! >_<
...
I want to be an amorphous blob that reads books all day, Dex 0_0 Why can't that be my reality? Who've I gotta make a deal with?! I'll sell my soul for literature, I don't need it! *-*

It's silly. You wish you were more of a shark, and I wish I was at least part tortoise (I just feel like they'd re-read stuff. Don't ask me why).
Grass. Greener. You know the saying.
I'm putting my need for new stuff down to my rabid need for stimuli and the consequences of when I get bored =/
You don't want a bored Lilliputty, it's real huffy <_<

Ps. I put my Wyrd Sisters on my special editions shelf today :) It's all happy and nestled between The Shepherd's Crown and Cloudstreet.
You might not know but that's a super cosy place to be.

Pps. Tell me there's been more waffles made!; 4 September 2021 at 01:19
Dex said...: I'm definitely a tortoise :D And I really should know your favourite series :S If it makes any difference, I'd probably prefer if you didn't turn into an amorphous book reading blob. I'd miss my friend. Although I still do want you to spend your days reading books because I know how happy that makes you :)

It actually scares me to think of you in an environment deprived of books!

I'm really glad you told me that. I think being on that shelf is the happiest place for a book to be :) Are your shelves super organised by genre, author...? You must have so many books now that I'm guessing it's impossible for it to be that way :)

I did have some more waffles with syrup and they were so good!; 4 September 2021 at 19:22
Louise Boyd said...: What kind of syrup... ?

When Em and I redid my room a few years ago, we organised all my books alphabetically with subsections for hardbacks, special editions, graphic novels and mass market paperbacks.
...
And then I bought more books and the system went to hell! 0_0
I do, however, know where everything resides, so it makes perfect sense to me.
Anyone else would be screwed =/
I'm about to buy more books with the amazon voucher my uncle sent me. And I have zero room for them.
Will that stop me?
...
:)

Are you still slowly becoming a Trekkie?
Will you insist I call you Captain Dexterous at some point while you give out space directives?; 4 September 2021 at 23:31
Dex said...: Just standard Lyle's Golden Syrup :)

I imagine your room being a maze of books from your door to your bed, which is also made of books :) How do you decide on what books to buy? I'm guessing there are particular authors and series that you are pretty sure you'll enjoy. But the experience of walking through an actual bookshop, reading the backs of books, and making an educated guess on which ones you will like, is it easy to do that online? I sound like such an old person right now :)

Very slowly becoming a Trekkie. Captain Picard is so awesome :); 5 September 2021 at 20:57
Dex said...: Did I ever tell you that my dad catalogues his classical music collection? He does have tens of thousands of recordings so it's a pretty big job... yeah, we really are a very boring family :)

Also, Charlie on the roof :D; 6 September 2021 at 21:17
Louise Boyd said...: Picard will always be my captain of choice, and not just because Patrick Stewart's an adorable human.
Are you gonna watch Discovery? Em and mum watched it and really liked it. Wouldn't shut up about it, actually :)

JUST is not a word that comes before Lyle's Golden Syrup, Dexterous Epistolean!
It's practically the nectar of the gods!
Foolish child.

Book shopping on the internet is a more focused act for me. I usually know what I'm going for, or I'll look through my various saved lists of books I want and go from there. It's easy, and very rarely surprising.
Bookshop shopping is all about the happy accidents. An interesting title catches your eye, a nicely designed cover. It's all about expecting the unexpected, and I love that feeling.
It can be laborious, though. I can spend hours just working my through the alphabet in the fiction section and only stop when I'm physically dragged away. It's like fucking Narnia 0_0
Plus, in-shop book buying usually comes with some kind of icy, chocolatey drink. Also a plus.
BUT. I can't shop in my pyjamas in Waterstones =/
They both have their benefits and downfall, it would seem.

Classical music is one of those things I very much appreciate, wish I could play on the piano, but rarely listen to.
I think solely because of the cast quantity of it. I don't know where to start 0_0; 6 September 2021 at 23:20
Dex said...: It is definitely my pancake topping of choice :)

I used to like the iced coffees :) I'm sure you'll go back again one day. I wish you could do something like hire a bookshop for a day so that they would close their doors and you could browse quietly. Or maybe a night, when they would normally be closed anyway. A small group of friends could have a night long book party (basically splitting up, looking for books, and occasionally meeting up for chocolatey drinks).

I'm really glad your mum and Emily love Discovery. It does look like it might be a little too dark for me. You know how little I can cope with :) The thing I'm loving about TNG is that it's such a happy, optimistic universe, the kind it would be nice to live in :)

It's actually embarrassing how little I know about classical music considering how much I've been around it :S; 7 September 2021 at 20:25
Louise Boyd said...: I'm the same with my Dad's Jazz collection.
He spent the entire 90s devouring it, so I basically grew up listening to Bill Nelson, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker et al., and I can reel the names off when I need to and recognise at least some of it but for the most part?
Total dunce =/
But Jazz isn't really my thing. Too cerebral. If I wanna think about my music, I'll listen to something heartbreaking and moody. That's more my speed.

Do I have to take friends to this magical book night?
Can I take Charlie instead and see what happens?
Other than him making a nest in the hidden satanic rituals section, that is.
My boy knows whose side he's on.

Wait. You only watch happy shows? Exclusively?!
Oh man, you'd hate watching tv with me 0_0; 7 September 2021 at 22:28
Dex said...: Well, you know that I'll always think you have the best taste in music :)

I was secretly hoping that I would be one of the friends invited to magical book night, even though I would probably just sit in the cafe with a reference book and iced caramel coffee while you went exploring :) I think I would be too scared to explore if I knew there was a chance that I would come across Charlie lurking in one of the darkest corners amongst the most obscure, forbidden books - I think that would be the end of me :)

I would watch anything with you :) But on my own, just for the moment, I can only really cope with comforting or nostalgic shows :S; 8 September 2021 at 20:46
Louise Boyd said...: Oh, I thought it was just kinda obvious you'd be coming along!
You could keep me fed and hydrated whilst I dodge Charlie like he's a tiny Minotaur in a Labyrinth, and slowly bury myself in books.
You'd be like a pixelated heart from Mario.

I get the whole nostalgic, comforting tv thing. I do it too, even if the shows aren't necessarily un-stressful.
Right now I'm rewatching Outlander for the forty billionth time, the new season of Shameless US (which is practically like re-watching at this point), and one new thing, Shadow and Bone which is an adaptation of two book series I love, so I pretty much know what's going to happen anyway.
Zero stress there.
But I dunno, I'm getting itchy for something new, and I'm zeroing in on Annie Murphy's new show, Kevin Can Go F**k Himself.
I'll watch anything with Alexis Rose in it. Anything.; 8 September 2021 at 22:45
Dex said...: That may be the nicest thing anyone has ever used to describe me :) I'm just imagining the two of us being hunted around a darkened bookshop maze by Charlie... terrifying :)

I think we all need a little more Alexis Rose in our lives :) Also, you sent me 'Shadow and Bone' one year as a present and I read it from cover to cover so for once I actually have a little knowledge of a fantasy series - it's a good feeling :)

You were saying earlier that there are 2 x fantasy book series which are your equal favourites. I meant to ask you what was the equal of the 'Court of Thorns and Roses' series?; 9 September 2021 at 19:49
Louise Boyd said...: That is indeed my equal favourite series.
The cushion you got me with the Night Court's insignia - from the book - lives at the end of my bed and keeps my feet warm without intending to because at some point during every sing bloody night I smoosh them under it like some sort of heat seeking missile *-*
I love it.

That's the series that really, really got me back into Fantasy. I'd been reading all the classics (Jane Eyre, Steppenwolf, North and South, Gormenghast etc.) and loving them but then along came this book about the Fae and it changed fucking everything.
I inhaled it. Every single second - not being hyperbolic - was spent devouring every word and then searching out more like it.
I haven't stopped since and I've come close to the same feeling with a few series but never anything like ACoTaR, or the Kate Daniels series.
They're so special, I doubt I'll find anything to rival them. But lucky enough, unlike the classics authors, these ones are still alive and writing stories :)
Ilona Andrews already have about four other series on the go. It's magical :)

I remember sending Shadow and Bone! I never remember the things I've sent you!
I'm surprised you read it, though, and not because you don't read much but because I forced it on you >_<
Did you like it?
It's not the best of her work. That'd be the Six of Crows duology which is a spinoff to the S&B series. It's quite fucking excellent and heisty.
I love a good heist :); 10 September 2021 at 00:05
Dex said...: I love that you still have so many books to look forward to :D When was it you first read A Court of Thorns and Roses?

You didn't force Shadow & Bone on me, I read it because I wanted to, and I enjoyed it - I will never love books as much as you do (no one could) but I can live with that :) Besides, it was was piece of cake compared to the first two books in the Gormenghast trilogy :) I don't feel like you ever try to force anything on me and all the books and dvds you have sent me are kept in a special place in my bedroom to be enjoyed in the future when my brain is ready to cope with all the awesomeness contained in them :)

However, your reading of my general mentality is quite correct - I will actively avoid doing something if I feel someone is forcing me into it. But if I like the person, I will eventually relent and wish I'd done it sooner - it's a lot of fun being my friend :S

Knowing the Night Court cushion keeps your feet warm at night makes me very happy :D; 10 September 2021 at 20:28
Louise Boyd said...: According to Goodreads, I read ACoTaR in September 2017.
The second book in October 2017.
And the third also in October 2017.
My familiar basically didn't see my face for an entire month, except, if I'm remembering correctly, when they dumped so Halloween sweets in my lap to see if I was still alive.
:D
I wish I could relive it. If there was a way to wipe the content of a book from your mind but not the emotions you have for it, so you could experience it all over again, I'd do it in a fucking heartbeat.
Someone should invent that.
I'm not going to volunteer because I'd probably end up wiping everybody's brains back to factory settings =/

The bossy, dictator part of brain is mildly disappointed I didn't bully you into reading S&B and Gormenghast.
She's a little shithead 0_0

What is it about someone saying read, listen, eat, watch this and it automatically activating my defensive, petulant child brain?
Why can't we just enjoy things when people tell us to, Dex?!
What's wronggggg with us?

Dex, my fingers hurt so bad and I can't strum for shit. Why are ukulele's the instrument of evil?!
And why am I not wonderful at it straight away? <_<

↑ The reason why I suck at learning things. Primordial impatience.; 10 September 2021 at 22:20
Louise Boyd said...: My familiar?
Okay, apparently I'm referring to my family as a witch's pet, now.
...
I like it.; 10 September 2021 at 22:21
Dex said...: I have a feeling that in person, you could probably bully me into reading/watching anything! But since I like you, I would secretly never really mind :) Also, it is comforting to know that even in the depths of your fantasy reading, you will always respond to Halloween sweets dumped in your lap :)

Family/Familiar... I like it too :) I was going to say that if you were a witch, Charlie could be your familiar although I have a feeling... I mean, this is Charlie we are talking about :D

I also do not feel like I would use the memory wipe sensibly :) I don't know what it is about being so defensive about people recommending things - maybe we feel like we should know what we like, or we want to find things for ourselves, or even just not disappoint someone by not liking what they like... we make our lives so complicated :)

'The reason why I suck at learning things. Primordial impatience.' - I feel that so much :) What song/theme are you trying to learn?; 11 September 2021 at 19:34
Louise Boyd said...: So far I've only mastered the title song from Adventure Time, but I kinda knew it already because Em taught me it when she got her ukulele.
I haven't tried any others yet because I'm like a puppy on Youtube who sees on tutorial, plays it for a bit, makes an interesting noise of it, gets distracted by another tutorial and moves onto the next awkward sounding tune.
The half-assed achievements so far have been:

Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Such Great Heights, Iron & Wine version (because it's slower and hello, chord changes are fucking hard, especially when you have the hands of a child =/ )
Can't Help Falling in Love, Elvis (controversially, I kinda like Elvis)

Clichéd as fuck choices but meh, I'm a simple creature.
I've been trying to actually learn some technique, though. Fingerpicking, how to strum properly (NOT GOING WELL!), proper finger placement.
I'm terrible at most of it but it's fuuuuuun.
I forgot how much fun playing something was, even if I sound like a dying stegosaurus when I do it :)

I think it's the disappointment thing that stops me immediately doing what someone tells me to do. What if I don't like it and then there's the awkwardness 0_0
I'd rather eventually find it myself and experience it that way, so if I do like it, it can be a happy share-time kinda thing. Not a corralled, hostage situation kinda thing =/
I have perhaps overthought this...

Sarah made cookies! I repeat. SARAH MADE BROWNED BUTTER, CHOCOLATE CHUNK MOTHERFUCKING COOKIES.
...
They're delicious *-* and you should be immensely spiteful that I have them and you don't
...
:D

What foodstuff dropped in your lap would wake you from a media-incurred coma?
Pixie sticks?
Cripsy Rolls?
Rainbow belts?
Pancakes?
WAFFLES?!; 11 September 2021 at 23:58
Dex said...: To be honest, I don't think you need any help finding stuff to enjoy :)

BROWNED BUTTER, CHOCOLATE CHUNK MOTHERFUCKING COOKIES - damn you, my belly just growled reading that! I just know I'm going to resent every foodstuff I put in my mouth for the next week for not being those cookies - it's a good thing I like you so much :)

Hmm, I think I would stop anything I was doing for a plate of pancakes. Although I am starting to master the art of waffling - okay, by that I just mean that I'm eating a lot of them :) But I'm such a sucker for so many foodstuffs, that it really doesn't take much coaxing to get me to eat :S

I don't believe for a second that you sound as bad as you think :) And at least you're finding learning fun. That's the main thing and the surefire way to getting better at it!; 12 September 2021 at 13:36
Louise Boyd said...: I still haven't made any waffles yet.
Haven't even taken it out of the box =/
I'm the worst procrastinator in the universe.
Or should that be best?

Is there any foodstuff you'd reject?
I'm guessing it's going to be some form of vegetable... am I right?; 12 September 2021 at 21:51
Dex said...: You don't need waffles when you have a Sarah to make you cookies :)

I think I've told you about the raisins. Other foodstuffs... not the biggest fan of celery, onions (I used to really hate them as a kid but I'm much better now, and I do like onion rings), salad cream... so you were kind of right about the vegetables although I'm not as bad as you think :) At school it was mince and tatties that I dreaded the most, and I've always had a strong aversion to even being around people who eat egg sandwiches.

I tend to dislike products and brands and how the food is prepared more than specific foodstuffs if that makes sense. So I'll like something if it's one way but hate it if it's another... I'm about as articulate as a lorry :S; 13 September 2021 at 19:05
Louise Boyd said...: I've always had a strong aversion to even being around people who eat egg sandwiches.

Same 0_0
I can't even continue this conversation about it, I find it that gross.
Raisins, though?
Can't agree with you, there. There like a daily staple for me.
I was that kid that wanted the little red box of Sun-maid in there lunch box.
...
Not instead of a biscuit. I wasn't that kid. Christ, I'll never be that kid +_+

Would you turn down oatmeal raisin cookies, then?
Or just pick out the offending fruit?
They're next on my list for cookie flavours.

I tend to dislike products and brands and how the food is prepared more than specific foodstuffs if that makes sense. So I'll like something if it's one way but hate it if it's another... I'm about as articulate as a lorry :S

I'm gonna need an example 'cause I just don't get it, my friend.

I feel so Halloweeny and it's only mid-September 0_0; 13 September 2021 at 23:01
Dex said...: Reading back over it, I have absolutely no idea what I was trying to say, only that I'll eat almost anything so long as it isn't disgusting :D

Actually, now that I think about it, oatmeal raisin cookies might be a good example of what I was trying to say because I don't really like raisins but if they were made by someone who could bake, like one of your sisters, I wouldn't hesitate in eating them, raisins and all :)

I remember Sun-maid raisin boxes, but I can't comment on the contents of someone else's lunch box, sitting there with my Nutella sandwiches :) Did you have a biscuit of choice - Penguins, Clubs, Gold Bars...?

It is only 6 weeks until Halloween - hopefully the shops have started selling the themed sweets :); 14 September 2021 at 19:21
Louise Boyd said...: Any spooky-shaped Reese's Pieces is the best Halloween candy.
I don't know why but they just are.
I know I should probably be more loyal to a Scottish sweet, seeing as Samhain is one of the origins of the bastardised American holiday but nothing we make tastes as good >_<
And I don't want to slaughter a chicken to paint our door with its blood!
...
Celtic holiday rituals are nuts 0_0
I'll take smooshed up, chocolate covered peanuts, thank you very much.

You had Nutella sandwiches for lunch at school?
You lucky bastard!
I couldn't even convince my mum to give me jam sandwiches!
Ugh.
And a KitKat, Penguin, or Club (any flavour) were usually the biscuits we got. I didn't understand the greatness of Penguins back then and now I don't understand the fuss over Clubs.
Tastebuds are bizarre; how are they changing?!

You know what, I actually understand the whole if I trust the person's baking abilities I'll totally eat something I wouldn't otherwise thing.
I do it too.
Shortbread? Hate the stuff, except for Em's or Sarah's.
Cheesecake? No fucking way, unless it's Em's baked one (or the amazing unbaked Nutella she makes for birthday's sometimes. I thinks he nicked it off Nigella).
Ask me to eat bought versions of those and you'll get a stern glaring at :); 14 September 2021 at 23:13
Dex said...: Unbaked Nutella cheesecake! Okay, that is something I need to look up! I would eat all the of the foodstuffs made by your sisters, no hesitation. Do they ever make millionaire's shortbread?

We were such a boring biscuit family - bourbons and rich teas. I used to think it was Christmas if I got a biscuit covered in chocolate :) Was there a biscuit that was a bit like a Club but it had caramel inside or am I making that up? I know they are the world's most boring biscuit but rich teas are still a staple of our household. I know you hate this but I used to like dipping them in my tea (it is the only biscuit I would ever do that with). I could easily go through half a packet until the tea was so far down the cup that it was actually impossible to dip another one in without breaking it. I think that was my comfort food when sad... haven't done it in a while though :)

I'd never tried Reese's Pieces until I met you :) Also, I had to look up Samhain as I had no idea what it was. I have to look up so many things when talking to you :); 15 September 2021 at 19:03
Louise Boyd said...: If it helps, I only know this weird shit because I hear other people saying it, get intrigued or outright confused, and have to google it.
I'm not naturally interesting =/
Also, wtf did we do before Google?
Who did I ask to answer all my weird questions?!

Uh, never talk down to rich tea and Bourbon biscuits, my friend. They're the stuff of the gods, and a totally appropriate choice for tea and sad times.
They're probably the only biscuit I would consider dipping!
Have you ever made a Nutella sandwich with them? Two biscuits and an obscene amount of nutty goodness spread inside?
So good.
But don't do it with Biscoff spread. Too much. Far too much.

If you can either make or find someone to make you Nutella Cheesecake, do it, it's fucking amazing.
Here's the recipe:

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/nutella-cheesecake

You could totally make that. I could totally make it! But I secretly believe I'd be an awesome baker, I just don't have enough fucks to do it 0_0
*is the worst*

Was there a biscuit that was a bit like a Club but it had caramel inside or am I making that up?

Are you think of Trio?

https://youtu.be/REuTGVftxSQ

Because I LOVED Trios.
But I had one a while back and they didn't taste as good :(

Do you remember these Chewits adverts?

https://youtu.be/bg92hFmIDuc

I'm going to sound ten thousand years old right not but... our kids adverts were better.
And Blackcurrent Chewits are the only flavour there is.
And the fizzy apple ones but they discontinued them years ago :(
...
I might need a bushel of nostalgic sweets/biscuits now =/; 16 September 2021 at 00:10
Dex said...: Well, I'm glad you pass on some of the weird shit you learn to me :D

You always make me feel better about my boring life :) I can't believe it has never crossed my mind to make a biscuit sandwich with Nutella - this is why I need you in my life :) I remember kids making digestive sandwiches with butter in the middle but I never wanted one because I had an aversion to butter when I growing up (another reason I hated soup and sandwiches day at primary school). It's weird, buttered toast used to be something I had all the time when I came home from school but for some reason I just really went off it for a long time (I'm okay now). I had to substitute the butter on toast with Nutella :)

I can see myself falling into a nostalgic advert hole on Youtube :) I do remember that Chewits advert or one that was very similar - definitely the dinosaur being given the packet of Chewits to stop it from rampaging :) And I'd completely forgotten about Trios! You remember all the good things. I have a vague recollection of that advert but my mind could just be playing tricks on me. I don't think that was the chocolate biscuit I was thinking of - in my head, it was one undivided bar (similar to a Breakaway) and the caramel was more liquidy but there is a good chance I've just made it all up :)

Were the fizzy apply Chewits different from the sour apple flavour?

Thank you for the recipe! But you are an awesome baker - didn't you used to make bread all the time?; 16 September 2021 at 20:20
Louise Boyd said...: Wait.
A butter digestive sandwich?
...
Ew.
0_0

I hate the taste butter when it hasn't melted. I don't know why. The only way I stand it is if you slather it in Marmite.
French stick, butter and marmite was the post-school snack of choice if we had a French stick in the house.
If not, it was a buttered pitta.
Or really, whatever I could get my hangry kid paws on =/

Hmm. A biscuit like a Breakaway but with liquidy caramel in the centre. Hmm.
Did Rocky's have a caramel inside?
I honestly can't think of another.
Mysterioussssss.
Makes me want a Stroopwafel or six.
Or just a Caramel Wafer. The King of wafer-based biscuits. Sorry KitKat, you got nothing on Tunnocks.

Fizzy Apple Chewits had a something in them to make them fizzy. Not popping candy. More like the stuff that makes Refreshers (the discs, not the bar) fizz in your mouth?
They were amazing and the sour apple ones are okay but they don't fizz :(
I love anything that fizzes.

I used to make bread but I was always getting in the way in the kitchen so I stopped =/
I'll start again at some point, but for now I'm just gorging on whatever bread the rentals bring home.
Tesco actually make damn fine bread. Their White Stonebaked Boule is my favourite right now, because you absolutely needed that information!

I would at some point like to conquer Hokkaido Milk Bread but it's got many rises and I'm so lazy when it comes to multiple bread risings.
I only get up once a day, why does it need to get up multiple times?!
Yeast, such a fussy beast.
...
This whole conversation is making me very hungry.
Especially for Nutella toast.
How dare you remind me how amazing that is >_<; 16 September 2021 at 22:54
Dex said...: I think normal Rocky's were just biscuit but you could get a caramel version. You have such a better memory than me :)

We never have Marmite in the house but I don't mind it at all. I remember I always used to have toast, butter and Marmite for breakfast when we went to stay with our relatives for Christmas. This is going to sound like a very strange question but when your family have dinner together, do you tend to have all the food laid out in the centre of the table, and then people just help themselves? Because we never do that at home, but it was always how our relatives served food. At home, the person cooking just plates up the food in the kitchen and brings it to the table - I was wondering if that was strange. I'm such a weirdo, I know :)

In addition to Marmite, we never had Caramel Wafers in the house either! But I always used to get them when I visited one of my best friends who lived just up the road when I was in primary school. Caramel Wafers, Penguins and Wagon Wheels :)

Of course it matters telling me what bread is your current favourite! How else will I know to make a note of it so I can look in Tesco next time I'm there? :) I am jealous of your skills though - I know next to nothing about baking. If you ever do get around to making Hokkaido Milk Bread, please tell me if it is as ridiculously fluffy as it looks in the pictures :)

I did think they still sold the sour apple Chewits. I don't remember the fizzy apple flavour at all! Maybe one of the things that never made it up to Shetland - we seemed to miss out on a lot of things.

You could have some Nutella and toast this weekend :); 17 September 2021 at 20:53
Louise Boyd said...: Fuck it!
I totally made a plan last night that today I'd put Nutella on at least one section of my toast (toast is all I eat lunch; toast and fruit and tea - I can't be bothered being more creative =/ ) and I entirely forgot like the moron that I am.
And I'll probably forget tomorrow as well.
Hrumph!

Coincidentally, my dad bought me two packets of Wagon Wheels as part of my post-birthday treat < it's as spoiled as it sounds but I do try and stop him +_+
They never put enough jam in. What's the point of a jammy biscuit if it's either a really thin layer or all of it pools in one corner?
Madness!
I want so much jam it's spilling out the sides like syrupy blood 0_0
Mmmmmmsyrupyblood.

I can't imagine not having Marmite in the house. It's practically a staple for us. I've even made Marmite bread and it was fucking amazing.
It basically self-Marmited itself when you spread butter on it.
Fuck, I should make that again some time.
And the Hokkaido Milk Bread, so I can't rub it's fluffiness in your face :)
...
I say these mean things to you but secretly I'm trying to figure out how fresh it would stay on the journey to Lerwick...

We're a food all on the table kinda family.
I'd hate someone else serving me. I have special areas for where certain food types go, and what if I get too much of something I don't like? Or even worse, not enough of something I do like! :O
Nah, I'll take the disaster zone table with everything taking up space for my dinner preference.
But if someone handed me a plate of food, I'd be just as grateful because food.
I love being fed *-*
As evidenced by ALL the chocolate chunk cookies being gone :(
At least I have my unbirthday Wagon Wheels *dramatic sigh*

Got any Rainbow Belts left, you monster?
Fact: I've never had one. Rainbow food is suspicious <_<; 17 September 2021 at 23:53
Dex said...: I do still have some Rainbow Belts left. There's still about one fifth of the jar left. So I'm not a complete monster, only an 80% monster :) And they are so much better than the normal rainbow belts you get from the supermarket which I tend not to buy very often because I don't like getting sugar everywhere :)

You mean, despite all your tauntings of desserts and baked products, you would secretly be happy to share some of these things with me? I sometimes think you like me, just a little bit :)

Toast and fruit and tea sounds like a good lunch to me. Do you normally have jam on your toast? I'd forgotten you could get jam Wagon Wheels, I just remembered the marshmallow. Jam is another one of those things that I avoided when I was a kid but have grown up to like. Ugh, I was such a picky kid, must have been a nightmare to feed :S

It's nice that you dad gets you post birthday presents, especially if it's syrupy blood, you sugar vampire :); 18 September 2021 at 15:20
Louise Boyd said...: Captain Candyclaws and Count Sugula.
That'd be our a supernatural detective cartoon.
We'd be the most sugared up duo in the history of animation!

The very idea of not liking jam is unnatural to me.
Does not compute.
I'd happily eat the stuff out of the jar with a spoon - and I do :)
But no, no jam for lunch. Butter or butter and marmite if it's sourdough. For some reason I don't enjoy sourdough without marmite *shrug*
I forgot the Nutella again today. And I remembered I was gonna do it about an hour before I ate.
...
Why can't I remember to do excellent things, Dex? WHY?! 0_0

I don't think I woke up today. My eyes might be open but I'm still asleep, I swear it.
But will I go to sleep before 6am? HAH. Vampire don't sleep before dawn +_+; 18 September 2021 at 22:58
Dex said...: Do you think we would actually solve anything? I don't know how I manage to be all sugared up and still exceptionally lazy both at the same time :S

Do you still eat spoonfuls of Peanut Butter and Biscoff spread? I did that for a while with the Biscoff after you introduced me to it :) At least Nutella and toast is something that if you forget, there's always tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that... :) I don't know if I've ever had sourdough bread! Does it taste very different from other bread? I sometimes think I haven't lived :)

I'm off work this week so I could stay up until 6am too :) Except I'm the kind of person whose brain crumbles throughout the day, so I start off fairly bright and get worse and worse. By 2pm I'm practically a zombie. Obviously, I'd be a terrible vampire. I'd just have to be the person to guard your crypt during the day :); 19 September 2021 at 20:09
Louise Boyd said...: I'd just have to be the person to guard your crypt during the day :)

That... is a tremendous act of friendship, mister.
I accept!
But we'd have to organise a little "conscious at the same time" crossover so we could have our daily talk about all the biscuits of yours I ate while you were asleep :)

Sourdough is basically a fermented bread.
To make it you have to a sourdough starter, which is essentially a yeast that you keep alive instead of drying it out.
It gives the dough a kind of, well, sour taste and a crust that has a sort crusty skin? That sounded disgusting but it's really nice.
I'm quite fussy about the ones I like, though. Usually the least sour ones are my favourite.
The ones from Tesco's bakery are nice but it all depends on what you want from a slice of bread/toast.
What's your toast preference, Dexterous?
I know how you like your chips, let's do toast!
Mine?
If it's white bread: golden, crunchy but not dried out, butter (+marmite/jam/marmalade/nutella/peanut butter etc.)
Wholemeal: under toasted, buttered (mood dependent: marmalade, jam)
Grainy: a little burnt, buttered
The only carbohydrate I like burnt is a crumpet :)
...
I probably have more preferences but that'll do for now.
Your turn; shoot!

Ps. Of course we wouldn't solve any crimes! Not unless it was a case of where's the Haribo?!.; 19 September 2021 at 23:55
Dex said...: Where's the Haribo? Half the time, it would be in our bellies. Case solved. We'd make better detectives than I thought :)

Of course we could have some crossover awake time so long as I wasn't cutting into your reading. And I know you would always leave me a few biscuits. Or draw me a smiley face in the crumbs :)

I love that you're fussy about things like bread, and I like to know all your preferences :) I'm ashamed to say this but we hardly ever have toast at home. We don't even have a proper toaster! Even when I was growing up, we were never a toast family. For breakfast, we've always been cereal people. And not even exciting cereal! Cornflakes, Shredded Wheat etc. These days, I don't even have that. My morning breakfast routine only involves having a large cup of tea in between washing and getting ready to go to work. We do have coffee at weekends.

But when I do have toast - white, golden but not too golden (so it is gold in the centre, but whiter towards the edges), and also thinly cut (although thick cut is fine). Really, I just like butter on my toast, so it needs to be hot enough to melt the butter (I had relatives who used to live on lukewarm toast). I know this is incredibly unhealthy of me but I really don't like brown bread. I mean, I can eat it and I don't mind, but I don't think I would ever choose it over white in any situation.

I'm guessing sourdough bread is quite difficult to make? Or does it take a lot of time to prepare the dough?; 20 September 2021 at 19:03
Louise Boyd said...: We're the opposite. Toast people, not cereal people.
I'm both. And all kinds of cereal. "Healthy" - Cornflakes and Weetabix lie, all cereal is bad for you, it's why it's delicious :) , chocolatey, fruity, dessert cereal - Krave, cookie cereals etc., granola, all of it.
Cereal's the best!
But we never have it in the house :(
Toast makes up for it, though.
I could live on it. Bread in general, actually.
I genuinely think bread is magic,
Flour, water, salt, yeast. That's it. That's what makes this magnificent substance. Tell me that's not sorcery 0_0

Oh, I'd totally draw a smiley face in the leftover crumbs.
Like some biscuit thieving villain's calling card.
All the biscuits would fear me.
The dreaded Biscuit Eater.
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Whilst writing that, my mind kept tumbling, here:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/34/85/58/348558ebf495e09d7039f1ced6114d4c.gif

:D

Sourdough isn't difficult to make, not at all. You just need a viable starter. The rest is literally just making bread.
Em had a starter for a while but she thought it had died and threw it away. Turns out it turning black is actually fine =/
Yeast is crazy. I love it.

I've made faux-sourdough before. You just use yoghurt =/ So easy and with there being bread shortages in the UK, looks like I might be making some soon!

Ps. Who the fuck cares if not liking brown bread is "unhealthy". Food's for living, not being a fucking rabbit - no offence to rabbits, I love them.
Eat all the white bread you wish, Dexterous Epistolean, and do it with gusto! :); 20 September 2021 at 23:54
Dex said...: You totally would have eaten the gumdrop buttons :) Do you want to know something shocking? I've never seen Shrek!

Even talking about starters, I feel quite lost. Still, I love hearing you talk about bread :) Is the starter what you need to make initially so that the bread rises? And then when you are ready to bake, you add more flour, water and salt to make the dough? So for the faux-sourdough, the yoghurt is part of the starter? I must sound so thick :S

I wonder what my equivalent of bread would be? Pancakes probably :S If I was on my own, I'd be like Kiki, except that she was only living on pancakes because she had no money. I would do it out of choice :) I guess the thing with bread is that there are so many different varieties you can make. Pancakes must seem very boring in comparison.

Thanks Lilliputty. As you can probably tell, I don't really worry too much about liking unhealthy things :) I'm just not very creative so I would usually end up eating the same thing all the time, or food that requires very little effort to prepare. I don't know how people find the time and energy for cooking!

Do you remember a cereal that was shaped like little chocolate shells? I'm not sure if they were a UK cereal or if it is something I had on holiday but I'm sure they existed.; 21 September 2021 at 20:06
Louise Boyd said...: I'm trying to be less shocked when someone tells me they haven't seen/heard/eaten/licked something but holy crap, how is it even possible you haven't seen Shrek?!
It was everywhere for a while and they reel it out ever Christmas!
Plus, it's kind of amazing.
Oh wow, I just realised you totally wouldn't understand if parfait was mentioned and I said "Everybody love parfait!".
YOU WOULDN'T KNOW! +_+

Is the starter what you need to make initially so that the bread rises? And then when you are ready to bake, you add more flour, water and salt to make the dough? So for the faux-sourdough, the yoghurt is part of the starter? I must sound so thick :S

That... is actually exactly it.
The sourdough acts as something called a poolish or levain, biga, tangzhong, mother - it has many names - and it creates a little yeast baby to give the dough a little extra boost in rise and flavour. And yes, yoghurt takes it place when you're in a rush because it's already cultured.
Kind of amazing.
And I never do it :D
Too much waiting around.
My favourite bread to make it Pot Bread.
Flour, water and salt mixed in a bowl, covered and left overnight, punched down once the next day to release the air from the dough, let it sit for a little while, chuck in a 200+ degree celsius pot and bake.
It's crusty and awesome and takes zero effort other than being mildly terrified by the heat coming off the pot =/
Worth it, though!

Uh, never speak ill of pancakes, Dexterous Epistolean. They're a gift from the gods. They are carbohydrates, after all.
And just like bread, they're a receptacle for some amazing things: Jam. Nutella. Various biscuit spreads. Custard and fruit. Maple syrup. Golden syrup. Melted chocolate. Ice cream. AND SO ON!
Pancakes are fucking amazing 0_0

I totally remember a cereal that was little chocolate shells but I can't for the life of me remember the brand.
And all google's giving me is Choco Shells... and that doesn't feel right for some reason.
Hmm.
I think this is needs further investigation.

Do you know Golden Nuggets?
I love them. But I hate looking at them =/
They look savoury and I don't like it but they taste fucking amazing.
And now I want some.
Some days I really wish I was a witch and could snap my fingers (fun fact: I can't snap my fingers, it's annoying as all hell) and just sort my cravings out then and there.
None of this pining malarky.
Hrumph.; 22 September 2021 at 02:36
Dex said...: I remember when we went to visit our relatives in West Kirby, we would drive all the way from the boat in Aberdeen (which took about 8-9 hours, leave Aberdeen about 7.30am and arriving about 4pm), and we would always stop at Little Chef for breakfast so I could order a plate of pancakes with syrup :) It suddenly feels very strange thinking about that. We made that trip dozens of times over the years and I know I'll probably never do it again... meh, I got car sick half the time anyway :)

I wonder how many of your references I have missed over the years or had to look up. You do make a lot of them, probably because you've seen everything :) I don't know how I haven't seen Shrek. I've never even seen bits of it, or know any quotes or scenes! I sometimes think I must have been in a coma or asylum for parts of the 2000s given the number of really famous pop culture references I don't recognise from that era. Either that or I'm just really oblivious to what is going on around me. That is the more likely explanation :)

For some reason, I thought Shrek was a Pixar film. I was going to list all the other Pixar films I hadn't seen so you could totally judge me :) In fact, it's way shorter to list the ones I have seen: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles. And that's it. Judge away :)

I haven't had Golden Nuggets in ages! I don't think we had them at home very often. They were another foodstuff that I associate with other people's houses, like going to a friend's house for a sleepover and having Golden Nuggets in the morning :) I ate cereal a lot at university. Really with the little money I had, I should have been living on massive boxes of Corn Flakes but, like the idiot I am, I usually went for the Crunch Nut Clusters :)

The only other thing I could find was something by Kellogg's called Chocos. I'm not sure that sounds quite right either.

Bread making could sound so fucking magical when you talk about it! You are right to secretly believe you would be an awesome baker, because you are! What would you have with Pot Bread?; 22 September 2021 at 08:43
Louise Boyd said...: Pot Bread is a solely buttery situation.
Well, at least with the one i make.
Sesame Pot Bread with a slathering of sesame oil on the top. It tastes fucking amazing and destroying that flavour with something more dominant would be a crime against gluten.
There was another bread I used to make, Chia See Bread. It was the closest the texture of Hokkaido Milk Bread I could get without making Hokkaido Milk Bread.
You know in adverts where they pull two loaves of bread apart and it's fluffy, and doughy, and kinda pornographic?
Chia Seed Bread does that 0_0

Hmm. I won't judge your Pixar watches because honestly, those are outstanding choices. Especially The Incredibles. I've really gotta watch the sequel while we still have Disney+.
And Coco, and The Last Dragon, and various other things.
But all I really wanna watch right now is Hocus Pocus on repeat =/
Halloween has officially entered my system.

Little Chefffffff. I think all kids born in the 80s have food memories there.
I don't remember pancakes, but I do remember there always Drumstick lollipops. I was feral for those things.
Now? Meh.

Don't feel bad for not being a walking meme, my friend. I have no personality other than the culty references I hold in my brain 0_0 I may as well be a gif.; 23 September 2021 at 02:15
Dex said...: Not too long until Halloween :) Are you planning anything for it?! I really wish I'd watch Hocus Pocus when I was a kid. I feel like I missed out!

You're no walking meme :) The 2000s were a very strange time for me. So many things just seemed to pass me by :) You've probably noticed this(!) but I've always been the kind of person with very narrow interests/hobbies in that I tend to focus on a few things for a while and do them to death. Also, I have an unusually high capacity for boredom :) So I can re-watch films dozens of times, watch only a handful of series, focus on a genre of music...

You mean that pornagraphic bread pulling fluffiness happens in real life?! Okay, 'Sesame Pot Bread with a slathering of sesame oil on the top' sounds so fucking delicious! I went through life for an embarrassingly long time before realising the merits of putting bread and oil together! :)

Do you miss family holidays? Little Chef was always our breakfast stop and we would usually stop at this place called Tebay for lunch. Don't know why I thought it was important to tell you that :); 23 September 2021 at 08:23
Louise Boyd said...: Uh, Halloween plans are rewatching the Fear Street movies and hopefully eating the Halloween cookies I've made.
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Which really means I'll watch the movies and eat whatever available sugar there is in the house *-*

Do I miss family holidays? Ahahahaha. No +_+
I love my family but I could really do with getting a few hundred miles away from them and enjoying a holiday in peace.
Everyone's driving me fucking crazy >_<
If I had a Sandness to run away to, I'd do it every weekend...
Just me, some books, and a vat of cereal. Perfect.
I guess I do kinda miss the idea of a family holiday and me still being a kid. Everything seemed much less stressful as a kid =/

Y'know, your focused interest in things is so not uncommon. It's why you get super-nerds with crazy levels of knowledge about one certain thing. Or not very much knowledge but absolutely devotion to it.
I'm watching Lego Masters Australia with Em and mum in the kitchen while we're tidying or cooking, and it's just so lovely. First of all, Lego. But better than that, nerds having a whole show devoted to the "childish" thing that brings them joy.
It's awesome. And I like it when they do the smash test.
I was a smash test when I was a kid. Known to all as The Lego Bomb. Em, Sarah and mum would build and I would go Godzilla on it :)

I got this in my email today:

Japanes Chocolate Milk Bread

Is the internet trying to tell me something?; 24 September 2021 at 01:37
Dex said...: You're going to make Halloween cookies?! What kinds of shapes, design, flavours etc. will you go for?

Yeah, I feel the same way about family holidays. I get some nostalgic feels but I clearly remember reaching a point when I considered a holiday being left on my own. Travelling is stressful but I've never been away on holiday by myself so I don't know if I would like that any better. I suppose I would have to book everything and find things to do, places to eat... sounds like a lot of work! And worry about all the things that could go wrong! I've always liked the idea of a city holiday, exploring all the side streets and hidden places. Total isolation would be good too though :) I should totally have gone to Sandness this week :S

Was the Lego Bombing accidental or deliberate? :) Would it surprise you to learn I was a Pirate Lego kid? Actually, more specifically, a Navy Lego kid. Actually, even more specifically, a Blue Imperial Soldiers Lego kid. I was very confused when they changed them from Blue to Red. Definitely one of the cool kids :S

Lilliputty! It says chocolate and pillowy! And sparkling sugar crust! You should make it! Or your sisters should make it! Or I should make it! Someone should make it!; 24 September 2021 at 08:29
Louise Boyd said...: Lilliputty! It says chocolate and pillowy! And sparkling sugar crust! You should make it! Or your sisters should make it! Or I should make it! Someone should make it!

The ONLY reaction there is to Chocolate bread.
If it didn't take 6 hours, I'd totally make it. But SIX HOURS?! Hahahanope! :D

That is the most specific Lego preference I have ever heard.
Like... not just preference of what you like to build. Noooooo, you've got a whole sub-genre of Lego for your building fun-times!
How very extra of you :)

The Lego Bomb title came about because yes, I deliberately watched my siblings build things, bided my time, and then smashed them down with my chubby toddler legs.
And I'd still do it 0_0
Lilliputty, smash...

For Halloween, I wanna make these cinnamon blondies Sarah made a few weeks back but ice them with derpy ghoul faces.
Or make marshmallow cobwebs!
Or make little Hocus Pocus spell books outta them!
I dunno!
I got ideas! And no energy to follow them through >_<
What I really want is some motherfucking cereal after all that grain talk we did.; 25 September 2021 at 02:18
Dex said...: Oh, I didn't look at the cooking time for the chocolate bread! I share your reaction! :D

You're a monster :D Did you have a Lego preference, or did you and your sisters just build (or rather, they build and you destroy) whatever you felt like building? I bet it was the second one because you guys are so creative! I think my choice of Lego sub-genre was very much based on whatever set I was given first - I was very impressionable! I can't imagine being that kind of Lego person these days :) I did find a blog after talking the other day that was a history of the different Pirate/Navy sets that were released in the 80s/90s so that was fun(!) to go through and remember which ones I had. Another very productive day :)

I suppose I should encourage you not to make those Halloween cinnamon blondies so I'm not seething with jealousy on the day :) But it's such a good idea that I really want you to! Is it quite difficult in your house to find the kitchen time to bake? It seems like your sisters are always baking - can it become quite overcrowded in the kitchen?

When it comes to cereal, are you a less or more milk kind of person?; 25 September 2021 at 09:57
Louise Boyd said...: I'm the sorta person who over-milks their cereal and then is like Oh no! I need more cereal to soak up all this milk! and proceeds to get "trapped" in a cycle of too much milk, too little cereal.
It's the best 0_0
But I'm also the kind of person who'd happily just eat it out of the box like an animal =/
ALSO! I really want a special cereal bowl. It feels really necessary right not for some reason.

If I'm remembering correctly, lego towns were the build of choice. Lots of them. So many they spanned two rooms.
A tiny village just for little old Lego Bomb me :)

There's never any space for me to bake bread. But I get up stupidly late, so it's my own damn fault, and I don't want to bake after dinner.
I'm sleepy again by then -_-
My country for healthy dose of energy that doesn't require some sort of recreational drug *-*

Did your Pirate/Navy Lego ships have captains? Admirals? Swarthy, drunken leches? A parrot, at the very least?; 26 September 2021 at 03:06
Dex said...: In this imaginary world where we live close by and visit each other often, I will always make sure to have several large boxes of your favourite cereals in the house :) A special cereal bowl? Do you mean one of those really deep bowls that can fit half the contents of a cereal box in one sitting? :)

I bet you roared when destroying those Lego villages :) I want to say that Pirate/Navy Lego ships had all those things. I remember treasure at least. And a crocodile, I think :)

I have no energy either. I have about a 2 hour window in the morning after I've washed and gotten my morning routine out of the way where I feel slightly alive, and then I go into zombie mode for the rest of the day.

I bought some bread & butter pudding and rice pudding from the supermarket last night. Those crappy ones in little pots that you heat up in the microwave. I'm sure I went in there for a proper reason but I forgot what it was :); 26 September 2021 at 10:10
Louise Boyd said...: I used to love the lego crocodile 0_0
He always had a place in the village and it was never for nefarious purposes. He was a good crocodile. He never tried to eat Mr. Pig.
...
I liked the lego animals way more than the lego peoples =/
I'm pretty sure we had a raccoon or something. I like him. He had a hat.

Can't say I'm a fan of bread & butter pudding or rice pudding but I love dessert you can put in the microwave.
Chocolate pudding? Yes, please.
Eve's pudding? Oh, okay.
Jam pudding? FUCK YEAH.
This is why I've never learned to make mug cake. It's too dangerous 0_0

Ps. Just a special cereal bowl. Could be the size of a teacup or a trifle bowl. Could be fancy, could be childish, could be plain. It just has to feel like my special cereal bowl.
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You know I'm not normal.; 27 September 2021 at 01:37
Dex said...: You know I'll eat anything that has the word pudding at the end! I'm not normal either :)

Do you have any kind of special bowls, plates, cutlery etc.? I'm pretty certain you have told me what you drink your tea out of but my memory is a sieve. I'm sure it was special though :)

Some people eat their cereal out of mugs. How do you feel about that? In high school, they used to serve breakfast and we would fill up clear plastic cups with cereal. I haven't thought about that in ages!

Oh, I thought of something really important I've been meaning to ask you. You know concentrated juice that you need to dilute - do other people call it mixy-up juice. We were having this conversation at work a while ago, how whenever we say mixy-up juice to anyone not from here, we get treated like weirdos :)

Your Lego village sounds like it was a nice place to live, apart from the risk of being stomped on :); 27 September 2021 at 07:45
Louise Boyd said...: Mixy-up juice?
I think that's what we call squash.
Because we Scots are simple folk. We squash the fruits, we make undrinkable drink, we add water, we name it THE SQUASH.
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I loved squash when I was little but we didn't have it often because the rentals deemed it too sugary.
...
Parents are such assholes <_<

OH! I love eating cereals out of mugs. And ice cream. And soup. And just about anything you can put in there to be honest. I ate my birthday Tiramisu out of a mug. It made it infinitely better 0_0
I like having the handle, y'see. Especially when it's something cold. Stops my paws from freezing off.
Ughhhh now I want cereal in a bowl and there is none >_<

Weirdest thing you've eaten out of a mug?

I have many special mugs. My cauldron mug. My chibi face mug. My giant Cornishware mug. My raindrop mug.
My mugs are legion and I want more *-*
There's just something inexplicably comforting about a mug.; 28 September 2021 at 02:29
Dex said...: Mmm, birthday Tiramisu. Nom :) Weirdest thing I've ever eaten out of a mug? I've probably never eaten anything weird out of a mug :( Normally just soups and hot drinks and cereal. Although I have a vague recollection of sipping something that turned out to be cooking oil! I've never had dessert in a mug and now I want to make my life all about eating desserts out of mugs :)

Mixy-up juice does sound like something a 5 year old would call it :) I used to like orange squash but hated Ribena! At mealtimes though, it was all about Del Monte orange juice :) Did you have a SodaStream? We did but didn't get much use out of it. It was one of those things that initially we used all the time and then promptly forgot it ever existed. It was the same with homemade ice lollies. I definitely went through phases :)

I'm so jealous of all your mugs! Does each one have a special purpose or is it just a case of which one you feel like using today?; 28 September 2021 at 07:52
Louise Boyd said...: Okay, weird, your experience with SodaStream is exactly my family's experience with SodaStream.
It always seemed like such a good idea but then you'd get the syrup's to make coke or Fanta or whatever and they be fucking terrible, so you'd ignore them from then on.
The fizzy water was never that fizzy, and generally it was kinda useless =/
Same with homemade lollies!
What is it about orange juice when frozen tasting out of date? What is that?!
Y'know what taste awesome? Blended frozen strawberries.
My mum used to pour it into ice cube trays so we could have little ice bites during the summer when it was blazing hot and we were done running through the sprinkler like little maniacs.
I swear, I'm not imaging it, Summer's used to be better 0_0

Question, did you ever have marshmallows dipped in chocolate and topped with a Smartie? And if you did, what did you call them?

I think... you need to microwave one of your puddings and plop it into a mug. Maybe add something awesome like custard or ice cream.
Or make a waffle and break it up in a mug with ice cream and sauce!
Or just buy some cereal and eat it with ice cream!
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Or just put the ice cream in the mug 0_0
I don't know why I made that so complicated.
...
I do, I know, I want ice cream and everything else I just mentioned *-*

Mug choice is all about the feel of the day.
Moody? Cauldron.
Spooky? Cauldron.
Content? Chibi.
Comfort? Cornishware.
It's alllll about the feels.
You gotta get a special mug, Dex. It's super satisfying.

Ps. Drinking orange juice might actually destroy my oesophagus. Heartburn's the worst 0_0; 29 September 2021 at 02:37
Dex said...: It was much easier to just buy Fizzy drinks and ice lollies from the shop, and they tasted better too :) Okay, you're going to have to describe blended frozen strawberries to me in detail because in my head, they are little strawberry flavoured ice cubes but that's probably not right at all. Sorry for being so dumb :) Do you think we will ever have summers like those again?

Do you remember mini milks? Also, there was an ice lolly/cream shaped like a mini milk, except it was chocolate ice cream covered in a red shell with popping candy - they were amazing! At least, they were amazing. These days, my reaction would likely be 'meh' :) I never thought about the frozen orange juice - I wonder if Calypsos would taste weird to me these days?

Marshmallows with chocolate and smarties. Do you mean top hats? I don't think I actually called them top hats when I was stuffing my face full of them at parties as a kid, they were just marshmallows with chocolate and smarties :) But I think they were supposed to be called top hats. If we ever have a joint birthday party, please can we have top hats?

Lilliputty, I've eaten all the pudding! I sometimes wish we had a proper ice cream parlour up here. Although it would be ridiculous since our summers last about a week :) I think the only proper ice cream place I've ever been to was in Swansea - I went once to visit my cousin who used to live there (Freya's mum). I think it was about 2009 and all I remember is enjoying the ice cream :)

I can picture a moody you drinking out of a cauldron mug :); 29 September 2021 at 07:52
Louise Boyd said...: Uhhhh, you blend strawberries like a smoothie and pour the liquid into an ice cube tray? Freeze. And then devour?
I don't know!
It's nothing fancy. Just squished up frozen fruit and it tastes amazing =/
So do frozen grapes, by the way.
I did that a few summers ago; put a load of them on skewers and froze them. They're kind hard to chew on when you've got sensitive teeth but totally worth it.
Frozen, blended bananas are pretty good too. When my skin was seriously bad, I was trying to avoid dairy so I'd mane Nice Cream. Blended bananas with anything you want. Although, I do not recommend chocolate powder, it does not work =/

MINI MILKSSSSSS Fuck yeah. Which colour was your favourite?
And what is this mini milk-esque, Feast-like treat you speak of?! I've never heard of it and I am mad!
Calypos still taste awesome. Don't fret.
What about Fabs? Can anything be bad when there are sprinkles?

Okay, so Top Hats are universally known as such (the universe being wherever you and I are situated at any given time), that's good to know.
And I didn't know they were called that either, when I was stuffing them down my throat at birthday parties. They were just mallowy goodness with a side of chocolate crunch.
Kid's birthday party good is amazing. Grown up food's the worst >_<

My mum was born in Wales, Cardiff, to be specific but they left when she was little so she hasn't got the accent. Shame. If she had, i would've forced her to say ambulance about ten thousand times until she murdered me 0_0
A weird dream, I realise.
Does your mum have an accent? Your dad?

I can picture a moody you drinking out of a cauldron mug :)

That's my default setting. Of course you can picture it :D; 30 September 2021 at 01:54
Dex said...: Have you ever had frozen chocolate mini rolls? The packaging pretty much demands that you 'try them frozen!' but I have never gotten around to it. Kinda curious though :) I'm sure you have told me this before but do you have a favourite fruit? Is it raspberries?

Did eating 'Nice Cream' and avoiding dairy help your skin? My skin still isn't what it was prior to that horrible outbreak (I don't think it ever will be) but it is a lot better (and I have been following your advice and not washing me face in the shower). Still not a big fan of mirrors though - so glad I have an excuse to wear a mask when out :)

Talking a kids birthday party foods, what are you feelings on sausage rolls? Also, do you remember that all the parties seemed to have cocktail sticks with a tiny sausage, cube of cheese and either pineapple or a grape? Those always seemed weird to me :)

I used to love Fabs :) Mini Milks flavours were strawberry, chocolate and vanilla weren't they? I actually want to say vanilla although that really doesn't sound like me :) It's not like Cornettos where I will go for mint every single time :)

I don't notice my mum's accent at all but other people have told me they can hear it. I do find it funny when she uses Shetland dialect words though :) I think I've only been to Wales a couple of times - visiting my cousin and one other time when we went to a castle. My dad's family lived in West Kirby which is very near Wales (you can actually see it across the water, although it takes a while to drive there). Also, we have the most Welsh person ever at work :); 30 September 2021 at 07:51
Dex said...: I never told you the big news. I got a new phone. I went for a Google Pixel 4a. It may shock you to learn that I'm not a phone person but thought it was time to get a new one. Also, trying to get my shit together online with all my random accounts floating about :); 1 October 2021 at 07:51
Louise Boyd said...: Email and number updated. Be warned, I probably won't send you stupid memes but there's always a chance...

Wait, wait, waaiiiiitttt a second.
Frozen chocolate mini rolls?! Where does it say that on the box?! I've never taken the time to read anything on there; I always considered it wasted time when I could be taking a mini roll on a one way ticket ride to my stomach =/
I've gotta try this, now. But we only ever have mini rolls at Christmas >_<
Must make a mental note to put at least ONE mini roll in the freezer in a few months. Don't let me forget!

My favourite fruit is like a movable feast - it changes all the time.
Currently it's nectarines and bananas; especially underripe bananas. If they're kinda green, pretty firm, and taste a little sharp, that's my ideal bananananananana ← so hard to stop.
Raspberries are pretty high on the list but finding a decent batch is nigh on impossible >_<
I feel like your favourite fruit is... cumquat! Am I right?
Oh, and Nice Cream had no noticeable effect on my skin. Nothing, food-wise, seemed to. Giving up sugar for so long was so fucking hard and totally not worth it, and so fucking expensive. How does anyone go vegan or gluten-free etc.? I'd go broke =/
What really helped my skin was gentleness and time. It could probably be better if I found those elusive holy grail products but alas, they elude me still.
I'm glad yours is cleared up, at least a bit. It's always satisfying to get some payoff from the work you're putting in.

Oooooh Mint Cornetto? Unexpected choice. I'm a Classic girl, something about the nuts *insert necessary dirty joke*, but really, any flavour is welcome. Although, why did they have to put white chocolate on the strawberry ones? It's not right! Bring back the extra chocolate like on the Classic and Mint!
At least they didn't fuck with the chocolate tip *insert unavoidable dirty joke*, though. That would be actual blasphemy.
How do you eat them? You're not one those monstrous people who eats most of the ice cream, then eats the tip *dirty, dirty dirty joke*, and sorta danger eats the rest of the ice cream?
I don't understand those people =/
It's like the weirdos - Sarah - who eat the biscuit and mallow of a Tunnock's Teacake before the chocolate.
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I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT, THE MONSTER 0_0

Oh Jesus, Wales and its castles. That was our entire holiday there. And going to Snowdonia to visit the slate quarry. It was pretty cool; watching someone split slate is kind of amazing. I got a magnet! It's still on the fridge.
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British holidays are so basic :)

Ps. Totally couldn't reply yesterday due to a wicked optical migraine that lasted about 4 hours and resulted in vomit =/
First time I've tossed any cookies due to a migraine. A new experience I'd like to never repeat! 0_0
Not the first time I've been hunched over a basin in bed, though. I was such a pukey child that my family named me Spewy Louis <_<
Such kind spawn I belong to.
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They totally are; Sarah emptied my barf bucket at 7am. That's good sistering.
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I don't why I just told you about my barf bucket +_+

Pps. Sausage rolls are the best but I'm fussy about them - shocking. I prefer them hot and the pastry kind of undercooked. It might not be acceptable on the Great British Bake Off but I like a soggy bottom *shrug*. Oh, and the cocktail ones are probably the best but I'll never reject it's grown up brethren.
Have you ever had a Gregg's sausage roll? They're fucking amazing. I have this distinct memory of Em and I going to Broughty Ferry to put in a Christmas display in the practice my dad and his partner have there, and I was deeeeeep into my depression, didn't want to be there, feeling horribly self-conscious and yuck.
Em left me in the car after we were done to go do something. The something was to get me a Gregg's sausage roll :); 1 October 2021 at 23:50
Dex said...: I am the worst person in the world to be relied upon to remind anyone of anything... but I really will try :)

I don't think I can ever look at a Cornetto tip the same way again! :) What?! So some people eat the top and bottom of the Cornetto and then the middle part?! All I can think is that it has the potential to be very, very messy! I'm very much a top to bottom kind of person (I thought everyone was with ice cream - you've completely blown my mind). The chocolate tip must be consumed last as it is the best part :) And I can't even get my head around Sarah's method of consumption for Tunnock's Teacakes! Is that even physically possible?! Is she left with a hollowed out chocolate shell?! So many exclamation points :)

I was never the biggest fan of nuts(!) when I was a kid so I think that's what steered me towards mint. These days, it would be a very clear second ahead of the strawberry. I'm assuming there are other flavours of Cornettos now that I'm completely unaware of...

Emily is obviously such a nice human being! We don't have a Greggs in Shetland so the only time I ever went there was when I lived in Edinburgh. Even then, I only remember going a handful of times and I never had the sausage roll :( I think they had something called a steak slice. So I would have one of those, followed by a vanilla slice. A fine combination :) A definitely agree that hot sausage roll > cold sausage roll. Not sure about the pastry. I fucking love pastry any which way :D Whenever I have something like a savoury pie, eating the filling seems like such a chore - I'm just waiting to devour the pastry. I also love when you have the crispy pastry on top and the more soggy pastry below. Such a weirdo :)

In my head, Wales=castles :) I have a tiny little magnet at work that I use to pick up paper clips. Even when I don't need them, I just like picking them up. Or holding it further away and then moving closer and closer to see when the paper clip starts to move. Again, such a weirdo :)

You never need to apologise for not replying. Daily, weekly, monthly, just so long as you're okay :) I thought maybe you were pre-occupied with finalising your monthly. You must have broken some kind of record - I opened it up, went to make a cup of tea, came back and it was still loading :D I am such an awful friend though. My first reaction to your migraine was 'what, she had cookies...' :S; 2 October 2021 at 09:18
Dex said...: Oh, favourite fruit. Mango and raspberries. Also cloudberries, which I've only had in Scandinavia. Mainly because I think the name is cool :)

I didn't even know cumquat was a fruit! I always amaze people with my lack of knowledge :); 2 October 2021 at 09:25
Louise Boyd said...: Steak Bake! It was called a Steak Bake!
And it was delicious 0_0
But you seriously missed out on the sausage rolls. Next time you're in the vicinity, get three.
And a vanilla slice because that sounds goooood.
I love dessert. Why isn't dessert just available all the time?
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I clearly know it's available all the time BUT not in a magical, click your fingers/wiggle your nose kinda way.
If you could have any dessert right this second, what would it be?

Wait, hold on, is the paperclip chasing magnet a castle? Or Wales? A mini Wales? I'm confused and this feels important o_O

Ahaha, it really took that long to load? It was all that Gideon the Ninth fanart :)
I think, actually, inputting all that code was what sparked the optical migraine =/
I need to dial back on my obsessions >_<
Those cookies, though?
All the chocolate chonks? Chonk, chonk, chonk.
So good.

My first reaction to your migraine was 'what, she had cookies...' :S

Don't worry, I'd have the exact same response :D

Anyone randomly baked you anything lately?
I love that people randomly feed you. Like a hamster :)
Do you get more before winter so you hibernate well?; 3 October 2021 at 02:37
Dex said...: Hmm, right this second... lemon meringue pie, or baked alaska, or banoffee pie, or... I'll stop! What about you?

Steak Bake! I knew steak slice didn't sound quite right! My belly is grumbling at the thought of all this pastry. Maybe Tesco or Co-op bakery has some sausage rolls... Chocolate Chonk? Is a chonk a chunk but bigger? :)

Sadly, my work magnet is just a normal magnet, not a magical Welsh castle magnet :( Obviously, when I jump from Wales straight to talking about picking up paper clips with a magnet, I expect you to be able to follow my bizarre train of thought :)

The problem is that there is still an office ban on people bring in baked goods and sharing them so this has cut off a lot of my supply! I hear it's going to be lifted soon though, just in time for the winter pre-hibernation period :) Someone did buy me some very sour apple flavoured sweets! And very sour is an understatement! I almost died the first time :)

Please don't dial back on your obsessions! The loading time is always totally worth it :); 3 October 2021 at 10:54
Dex said...: Hmm, today is supposed to be sunny. I won't hold my breath.; 4 October 2021 at 07:38
Dex said...: My research tonight. What other chocolate crispy rolls can I buy as an alternative to Milky Way cripsy rolls since they seem so difficult to find... this is why I get nowhere in life :); 5 October 2021 at 19:00
Dex said...: I'm going to the supermarket tonight to buy some pudding. That is literally the only reason I'm going :); 6 October 2021 at 19:53
Louise Boyd said...: And what flavour did you get?
And will you be putting them in a mug?
Don't leave me hanging!
Also, did you find a crispy roll alternative?
I feel like there definitely should be one; even if it's just those chocolate cigar things?

Wafer Rolls

Actually, those look really fucking good *adds to basket*

Dyed my hair purple, yesterday. I love it 0_0
Purple's kind of an exaggeration, though. It's more a plum colour but whatever, I haven't had purple hair since I was 17. Why did I wait so lonnnnng? >_<; 7 October 2021 at 01:32
Dex said...: I just went for those little bread & butter pudding and rice pudding pots again. They may be kinda crappy but it only takes a minute inside the microwave before they can be inside me :) I was also going to look for those chocolate coffee beans and chocolate wafer rolls but whenever I go to the supermarket I start to panic and want to leave there as soon as possible - that's why half the time I end up coming out with only desserts :)

Those wafer rolls look better than anything I found! Also, I see you can get vanilla and dark chocolate flavours! You know what I really want right now even though it's not even 8am - an ice cream sandwich. Do you ever have ice cream sandwiches?

I bet the purple/plum really suits you! Did you dye it yourself? Is it something you've wanted to do for a while or was it a spur of the moment type deal? I've only dyed my hair once in my early 20s. My cousin did it for me and really it was only a red tinge. I thought it looked okay but the effort of doing it again was beyond me :); 7 October 2021 at 07:45
Louise Boyd said...: I did indeed dye it myself!
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Which is why it's patchy as fuck +_+
I really should have used two tubes of the dye but meh, it didn't matter in the end because I think left all the purple in the sink this morning 0_0
Now it's kind of... purple-y reddish brown?
Not as cool as before but still a nice change. I was just so bored of my hair colour >_<
I mean, I dye my hair all the time but hardly ever a bright colour. If I had the guts, I'd bleach it and dye it properly but bleach is fucking terrifying. I'd consider letting a professional do it but not me. Never me. The patch queen o_O

Y'know what would be nice? If the supermarket could empty as soon as I got there - preferably by the people disappearing instantly, not flocking out the doors - and I could take my time, mosey along, look at all the things that aren't on my list that I want in my stomach. Y'know, instead the stressed out experience it normally is. Which I'm guessing is the exact same experience you have.
People, why must they be everywhere? And why must they look at what's in my basket without permission?!

Ice cream sandwiches are a gift from whatever deity's up or down there fucking with us but they're impossible to eat when you have sensitive teeth 0_0
I have to put them in a bowl and eat them that way and it totally defeats the pointttttttt >_<
I could go one, though; I haven't had one in years.
What I really want is a sundae. A massive one, with various flavours of ice cream, all the sauces, something carby (waffles, wafers, biscuits, cookies etc.), and all the toppings.
Yeah, I want that. I want baddddd.; 8 October 2021 at 00:31
Dex said...: Agreed, bleach is scary! I didn't know you dye your hair all the time. What colours do you normally go for?

Why can't supermarkets, bookshops etc. be open at times exclusively for us? :) I always use the self-service at the supermarket which is okay until someone uses the one directly opposite so you can't help seeing what the other person has bought - them with all their proper adult shopping, me with 3x packets of strawberry pencils :)

You know what we could really do with? A food replicator from Star Trek TNG - just program what you want and have it replicated instantly :); 8 October 2021 at 07:59
Louise Boyd said...: I get bored and frustrated with my hair really easily (yet I never change it drastically), like tonight, I just decided to chop a couple of inches off. ... Just because.
So, every couple of months I dye it a different shade of brown. So fucking boring and it never comes out the right colour but meh, it gets real shiny afterwards.
I actually like the colour this one has faded out to and the lighter parts of my hair and still quite noticeable purple; like Lumpy Space Princess coloured highlights *-*
I'm absolutely doing it again, but maybe with a better dye. I've never seen the colour drain from my hair so fast before 0_0
It was like this scene in Scott Pilgrim:

https://youtu.be/8tEh6SRwNrQ?t=48

Oh god, I hate self-service machines, but only because every single time I use one, it freaks out and breaks on me and some helper person has to come and save the day -_-
So embrassing.
But still a better option that the human checkout. Awkward bag filling is not my idea of a good time!
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You're not really a chocolate person, are you?
You're definitely a gummy person.
Practically a human-sized gummy bear :)

You know what we could really do with? A food replicator from Star Trek TNG - just program what you want and have it replicated instantly :)

Why must you tease me with things that haunt my dreams >_<
I could have all the cereal all the time!
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x_x; 9 October 2021 at 00:09
Dex said...: Have you managed to get your hands on any cereal yet?

You know me so well :) I just find chocolate a little bit boring sometimes. Is that a terrible thing to say? And chocolate bars aren't really my thing. I like it well enough though - hot chocolate, chocolate mousse, chocolate croissants, a moist slice of chocolate cake... okay, you've got me in the mood :)

I hate it when the self-service doesn't work! And the red light goes off to alert someone to come and help you. Especially when it takes a while for them to notice and you're left standing there for what seems like an eternity. There really isn't an ideal shopping experience :)

I'd almost certainly be very jealous of your hair! How long does it normally take you to dye it?; 9 October 2021 at 13:49
Louise Boyd said...: Oh, don't be jealous of my hair, it's the absolute worst. Fine but somehow unmanageable, frizzes out no matter what product I put in it, and I've been cutting it myself for so long that it kinda looks the hair of a primary schooler =/
If you hold it up to the light right now, though, it looks like Ribena :D

I'd say it takes be anywhere between an hour/hour and half to dye, wash, and dry it.
Not too long for a change in hair scenery.
Why? You wanna go purple too? Or maybe green? I'd lovvvveeee to go green. A nice wicked witch of the west emerald green. Yup, yup, yup.

a moist slice of chocolate cake

Simulatenously the worst and best thing you've ever said.
And now I want cake.
Either this amazing chocolate traybake my parents used to get or Em's Bruce Bogtrotter cake.
I don't care if there's a more amazing chocolate cake out there, I want either of these 0_0

Ps. No cereal. I'd feel guilty asking the rentals to get it for me and it's too expensive on Amazon >_< Damn my fear of the outside. Damn it to cereal begetting hell!; 10 October 2021 at 00:09
Dex said...: I like the sound of Ribena hair :) Colour my hair? I'd be happy with it just not looking so flat all the time! And even though I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that Captain Picard is one of the greatest people of all time, I still include me having hair as some kind of achievement :) Always worried that it's going to disappear!

I'd love to see you with green hair :)

Ugh, I hate asking my parents to buy me anything from the shops as well. I just hope they come back with good stuff. Like the other day, my mum came back from Tesco with fresh Berliner Doughnuts :) It doesn't sound a patch on Emily's Bruce Bogtrotter cake though! Wasn't there also some kind of Italian dessert/cake that one of your dad's patients used to make? I want to say it was some kind of coffee based dessert...; 10 October 2021 at 09:57
Dex said...: Did I tell you I was going on leave again? After tomorrow. For a week and a half :S; 11 October 2021 at 18:36
Louise Boyd said...: You're honestly the only person I know (which is few, to be fair) that's panicked by time off.
I mean, I get it, but on the other hand... ARE YOU OUT YOUR MIND?!
A week and a half to loaf around, eat junk, maybe find a cat to pet, and then loaf some more!
One trip to the supermarket, and you're golden.
You wouldn't even have to get out of bedddddddddd 0_0

Do you mean the Amaretto Cake?
Yeah, I think that about that cake a lot... *-*
I've tried finding duplicate recipes for it but I think it's one of these cakes that gets passed down the generations and never talked about by anyone else. Like my gran's Gateaux Diane. Which is not a thing. But she makes it like... once every 20 years, and won't hand over the recipe >_<
Why are the older generations so weird and secretive about their recipes?!
Do you have any of this nonsense in your family? Because both my grandmothers do it and it's just... it can't just be them? Surely?

No more purple hair :(
I'm gonna dye it again just for the two day high of it! For Halloween! So I can be purple and spooky!; 12 October 2021 at 03:16
Dex said...: More purple hair. Do it! :) Any other costume plans for Halloween?

I'll be honest, my family just aren't bakers, probably dating back for generations :) I barely remember my grandmother in the Philippines and my other grandmother seemed only too willing to let my mum take over the kitchen when we visited. And my mum couldn't follow a recipe to save herself, let alone write one down - she usually manages to wing it though :) And it's not just baking, really any kind of cooking. We are a very odd family, I don't know how we have managed to survive this long :)

So we would never be cool enough to have awesome things like secret recipes to pass down! Do you or your sisters have your own recipe book where you write things down?

I'm not really that bothered about taking leave, and this is leave I was ordered to take so didn't really have much choice :) I just worry about my friend Kerry - she's hardly taken any leave either and looks completely shattered most of the time, and because we do the same job, it means she'll probably have to pick up even more now I'm off. She's only getting away with it because she's promised to take off the whole of November but we'll see... I have no idea why I'm telling you all this :); 12 October 2021 at 19:24
Louise Boyd said...: I DELETED MY MESSAGE BY ACCIDENT AND IT WAS A GOOD ONEEEEEEE!

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!

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Dex said...: Oh, Maggot. Don't worry about it. You send me so many good messages :)

It's raining here today so debating what to stay in bed and watch. When the rain stops, I will definitely need to make that supermarket trip for junk food :); 13 October 2021 at 08:44
Louise Boyd said...: YOU BOUGHT ME A GIANT BOX OF CEREAL, YOU LUNATIC!

:D

Best friend ever.
And I'm gonna sink that sucker in... hmm, I give it a week if I show any restraint :)
Or I get the glass mixing bowl that's bigger than my head and put myself into a cereal coma.
Yeah, I like the sound of that.
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Too nice to me, Fungus. Way too nice.

Did you make it to the supermarket? And what junk did you return with? Did you also partake in a giant box of sugary goodness? Or was it pudding time again?
Do you get faddy with food? Eat the same thing for days/weeks/months on end?
I do. For basically a year I only ate porridge for lunch. Even in the summer when it was stupid hot. I didn't even bother making it in a pot, just made a homemade version of those quick pots you get in the shops? So, it wasn't even that good but i couldn't stop =/
Now it's toast.
Went through a grapes phase.
Digestives.
Couldn't go a day without a spoonful of peanut butter for a while. I called it medicine :)

I gotta go eat a mug of cereal now. Bye :) :) :) :); 14 October 2021 at 00:39
Dex said...: I didn't realise it was a giant box :)

No, I didn't make it to the supermarket yesterday :( Except in special circumstances (as in knowing exactly what I want, so I can go in and get out quickly), I only ever go very early in the morning or very late at night so there are fewer people and I can carefully go through each aisle to select my junk food :) I am very much a 'what do I feel like eating at this exact moment' kind of person so I hardly ever go in with a clear idea of what to buy - I hate those kind of people when I'm shopping because they get in my way, but I'm a hypocrite because I am that kind of person! So unreasonable :) And the thing is, I usually end up coming out with the same foods anyway!

Anyway, it was raining yesterday morning and I had to go to film quiz last night. Totally ruined my plans :) I suppose I could have taken the car in the morning but I always feel rushed to get home before getting caught in the morning traffic. Life seems way more difficult in my own head :) So yesterday I was living on what was in the house - kits kats, leibniz biscuits and smoky bacon crisps. My mother did bring home some cake last night! Just as well because it's raining again :S

When I'm on my own, I definitely get faddy with food. You know how much I like routine, probably because I don't have to think too much if I'm doing the same things :) Like when my parents were isolating in Sandness, I pretty much lived on the same 3 or 4 meals. Either a big batch of macaroni and cheese (which should have lasted me a week but I always managed to consume in about 2 days), a frozen pizza for when I was feeling very lazy, or some pancakes. Just because :)

I remember you telling me about the spoonfuls of peanut butter :) I used to like having porridge for breakfast too. Obviously, I could never be bothered to make it for myself but I was always glad when it appeared in front of me :) These days I usually just make do with a cup of tea in the morning. I'm usually not quite so faddy with snack foods (watch me come out of the supermarket tonight with more strawberry pencils) but I'm quite terrible for buying things just because they are new. Basically 'look at that shiny packaging, I must have it' :); 14 October 2021 at 08:32
Dex said...: I ended up buying apple pie, pizza, chocolate pretzels, Doritos and, of course, strawberry pencils :); 15 October 2021 at 17:10
Dex said...: Did a you last night and stayed up until about 5am :); 16 October 2021 at 14:18
Louise Boyd said...: Why would you do such a thing?! Don't break your circadian rhythms! You don't want to turn into the living dead like me, Fungus. It's terrible 0_0
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Why'd you stay up so late? Start a nostalgia marathon and couldn't quit?

I ended up buying apple pie, pizza, chocolate pretzels, Doritos and, of course, strawberry pencils :)

Meal of champions. Especially jealous of the chocolate pretzels.
There are soft pretzels and Nutella in the house but meh, not the same >_>
Em was showing me this Pinterest list of quintessential 90s toys/sweets/tv and it was like an acid trip of nostalgia, but they had Astros on the list. Do you remember those or have them at all on your tiny island? Like M&m's but filled with biscuit instead?
There wasn't a box that could hide from me in that era. I could sniff 'em out and devour them in one gulp.
They gotta stop discontinuing all the good food, hrumph.

Ps. Are you still quizzing digitally and is it still paralysingly awkward? :); 17 October 2021 at 02:58
Dex said...: I know! It's a good thing I still have a week of holidays to reset my body clock :) It wasn't completely my own fault. Kerry kept texting me because she was drinking wine and watching the Halloween films - H20, Halloween 6 and Resurrection (all the good ones!). I did give her the Halloween 6 dvd so I do accept some responsibility!

Wait, do you put Nutella on the soft pretzels?! Also, where do you get soft pretzels? Are they a supermarket thing and I just haven't noticed? Because I would definitely trade you my junk food :)

I don't remember Astros at all! We missed out on so many things up here! What kind of 90s toys did you grow up with?; 17 October 2021 at 20:08
Louise Boyd said...: Okay, Kerry already sounded pretty cool, now I declare her awesome; when she sees the latest Halloween movie, you gotta tell me what she thinks.
I feel like her reviews (wined up or sober) would be intense and hilarious.
No one who stays up 'til 5am watching Michael Myers murder final girls whilst drinking adult juice is gonna not have a wild opinion about that persistent fucker.

Uhhhhh I'm pretty sure you can get soft pretzels in the Tesco bakery. But maybe Lerwick doesn't believe in salty, puffy, twisty bread?
I suggest you check, and if they're not there, either force the bakers to make them or buy a box of breadsticks, a pot of Nutella and get dipping.
So good 0_0
Oh, but if they do have soft pretzels, put them in the toaster to warm them up and then add the Nutella.
It's... there are no words, only faintly porrnographic nomnomnom noises.
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I lied, they're obscene 0_0

90's toys? Screwball Scramble, Etch-a-Sketch (of course), this weird ankle ball thing? Skip ball? This thing!

https://youtu.be/WjqfFwmNLV8

Uhhhh, my brain is not working +_+; 17 October 2021 at 22:32
Dex said...: You're awesome. Just so you know :)

I've only seen the first Halloween and H20 (for some reason, we were sent a free VHS copy). The original currently sits at no.3 on my list of favourite John Carpenter films, obviously behind The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China which alternate top spot :)

I remember Screwball Scramble, although I had no idea that's what it was called! But googling the image brought back all the memories. Also, skip ball looks kinda cool :) I suddenly remembered I went through an actual skipping rope phase where I was obsessed! Anytime I was bored and the weather was okay, I would go out into the garden for skip... such a loser :)

Ugh, I ate too much this weekend. No parents and junk food was not a good combination! Might wait a couple of days before I hunt for the soft pretzels :)

I forgot to say in my last message that the film quiz is back in Mareel. I do prefer that to doing it remotely, although I find any kind of social interaction, remote or in person, still to be paralysingly awkward. I'm secretly hoping people forget I exist :); 18 October 2021 at 07:59
Dex said...: It's so grey here, Lilliputty. Sooooo grey.

Sorry if this posts twice :); 19 October 2021 at 19:57
Louise Boyd said...: Fuck the Halloween movies, Big Trouble's where it's at!
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But that might be my eternal Kurt Russell crush talking. Ever since Overboard, I've been a goner.
Same goes for Goldie Hawn.
Now there's a goddamn power couple.

When. Will. It. Stop. Raining?!
I miss the sunshineeeeeee. I'm going to get rickets and waste awayyyyyy.
But my dramatic disposition will live on :)

Skipping rope doesn't make you a loser! Boxers skip rope and it's terrifying 0_0
What I want to know is: why is skipping rope so easy when you're a kid and the most painful thing on the fucking planet when you're an adult?
I don't get it. Are children more buoyant? o_O

Watched the second IT movie last night and I still don't get it.
It was better but why is everyone scared of Pennywise? He's just a big mouth =/
And this is coming from someone who hates clowns. Is actively scared of clowns.
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HAS THE HORROR GENRE BROKEN ME AND I NO LONGER FEEL FEAR? x_x; 20 October 2021 at 02:19
Dex said...: You're right, skipping rope seemed like the easiest thing in the world but I would probably find it impossible now! I really want to try so I can find out :)

You can never be too dramatic about the weather :) I really thing the grey skies, constant rain and lack of sun is starting to affect my mood. Unless I'm always like this :) Holy fuck, I actually see blue skies while I'm typing this!

I haven't even seen the original 90s It! Or Overboard for that matter! I feel like I say that a lot :S One of these days, you can kidnap me, take me to a secluded house, and make me watch all these movies! Are there any films that genuinely scare you?

Talking of secluded houses, in order to increase my chances of escape to the country, I've learned to drive our second car (which I've always avoided, since I think it's too fancy). That's about the only thing I've achieved this last week. How do people actually enjoy doing things with their time off?! I wish I could just hang out with you :)

I'll tell you what's scarier than horror films. Going out for a meal with people! Which I have to do in about an hour and a half. Ugh.; 20 October 2021 at 15:53
Louise Boyd said...: One of these days, you can kidnap me, take me to a secluded house, and make me watch all these movies!

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So you want to me to Misery you?
Woah, that's pretty hardcore but I reckon I'm bossy enough to pull a Kathy Bates :)
I promise not to hobble you, though.
Brownie's honour��

Is your second car different? Manual instead of automatic? Or vice versa?
Or is this just a weird driving thing I don't get because I drive with my two legs? 0_0
I've witnessed this weirdness, my sisters do it whenever the rentals change automabiles.
There's quite a lot of swearing.

Films that genuinely scare me? Jaws, Switchblade Romance, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Candyman, or at least it did when I was a kid =/ I'm too chicken to find out and make sure, BUT I do wanna see Jordan Peele's remake!
You?

Okay, hit me with it, how traumatised are you from socialising? And was the food at least worth it? Was there dessert?! There had to be dessert otherwise you were scarred for nothing! *-*

Ps. If you skip rope and don't tell me you whipped yourself in the face at least once, I'm gonna be so disappointed :); 21 October 2021 at 02:11
Dex said...: 'So you want me to Misery you?'. I wouldn't put it quite like that but yes, I do. Very much :) You probably wouldn't hobble me so that I could still bring you snacks? :)

I used to find the original Black Christmas very scary, especially the eye looking through the crack in the door and the sound the killer made when chasing the final girl! But really, watching any slasher film alone in the house at night is enough to make me jumpy when making my way back to the bedroom :)

I'm sure both your sisters are very good drivers, way better than me :) Both cars are automatic so really I didn't have much of an excuse for not learning sooner. It's difficult to explain but it's not the kind of car I would find comfortable driving around town. I'll just use it to drive to Sandness :)

Socialising wasn't too bad. It was just a couple of people from film quiz so they know how crap I am at talking :) Also, I was the only one who had dessert! Some kind of lemon tart :); 21 October 2021 at 19:32
Louise Boyd said...: Some kind of lemon tart :)

Hah! I love that you order the thing, at the thing, and still aren't entirely sure what it was.
Ridiculous :)
And I'm not even jealous because lemon desserts, bar lemon sorbet and lemon drizzle cake, are not my thing!
Now, if it'd been chocolate tart or raspberry tart or cappuccino tart, I'd've had to find a way to punish you through the internet :D

The mystery of this car is getting more intriguing by the minute!
Tell the truth, Dex, you're driving a monster truck through the streets of Lerwick, aren't you?
Now THAT makes me jealous.

I... have never seen Black Christmas!
I'm guessing you're referring to the 1970s one, not the remake from a couple years back?
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Just watched the trailer, and that shit looks badass and hilarious.
Horror from the 70s is always funny, I don't know why.
I laughed my ass off watching Suspiria the first time =/
I'm broken.; 21 October 2021 at 23:39
Dex said...: I'm a ridiculous person :) I would love some lemon drizzle cake or cappuccino tart right now. I know it's just after 7am but it's fruit and coffee so should be accepted as breakfast :) I've never even had a cappuccino tart but I just know it is something I would love. Coffee desserts all the way :)

The thought of me driving a monster truck through the streets of Lerwick is hilarious and terrifying - I can barely manoeuvre a normal sized car! It's actually a rather fancy BMW convertible so I probably don't need to explain why someone like me would feel quite uncomfortable being seen in it :) Also, discovered this morning that I had no idea how to spell manoeuvre :)

Yes, the original Black Christmas. I haven't seen the remake. I've only seen the original once but, at the time, it seemed like enough :)

If you're broken, then I'm broken too :); 22 October 2021 at 07:30
Louise Boyd said...: Manoeuvre is a bonkers word.
Who needs that many vowels concurrently?!
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That also happens to be why I love it; the English language is so insane and it makes no bloody sense but fuck me, it's ridiculously beautiful.
It stilly blows my mind that there's 26 words in the alphabet, approximately 171,146 words in the English language currently, and INIFINITE combinations but only a percentage of people alive can string them together to create something so beautiful/silly/heartbreaking/grotesque/horny/brutal that I can barely fucking stand it.
HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?! 0_0

I think driving a monster truck is the only way you'd get me to drive.
I want to be a tiny person in a giant automobile driving down the road to Tesco to pick of a Snickers, I just do =/
Plus, if the zombie apocalypse arrived, I'd could just squish them all with my giant wheels.
You'd get me petrol, right?
And snacks?
:)

It's finally happened... I've lost a book in my room 0_0
Normally I know where everything is, or the alphabetising I did in the beginning helps me out, but this time?
Not a fucking clue.
And I know I own the book, I know it's in here somewhere, the question is... where the bloody hell has it magicked itself off to?!
Have I accidentally created a magic library?
Ohhhhh I always wanted to be a little bit occult >_<; 22 October 2021 at 22:43
Dex said...: You think about things in the best ways :) And you're completely right! How can a few special people create worlds in our imaginations by just stringing together a few words? Madness!

I would try to get you petrol for your monster truck :) I'm terrible at getting petrol though! Parking near enough so the the nozzle reaches the hole (I'm sure you could have made that sound much dirtier).

I've always said your bedroom was magical! Roughly how many books do you have in there? I'm sure I've asked before but assuming it has gone up since then :); 23 October 2021 at 18:37
Louise Boyd said...: I've actually been fairly restrained lately! It's killing me 0_0
I'd feel guilty for loving buying book so much if I didn't love reading them just as much, if not more.
And I really do love buying them, it's a pure endorphin high. And people just keep writing them, y'know?
An endless supply of stories to seek out and slowly bury myself in :)
And I don't know how many I have so far. An overwhelming amount? Or just the right amount :)
A lot, let's go with a lot, and slowly increasing *-*

Parking near enough so the the nozzle reaches the hole (I'm sure you could have made that sound much dirtier).

I cackled so hard I frightened Charlie :D

How's the time off going? Bored out of your skull yet?; 23 October 2021 at 23:26
Dex said...: You can never have too many books :) I wish I loved something as much as you love reading! Then I wouldn't have been so bored with my time off :) I'm actually really glad to be going back to work tomorrow! I don't even particularly like my job but being at home really doesn't suit my temperament. Except when I'm completely alone, then it's the best time ever! Ugh, I'm the worst kind of human :S

I do think about moving out on my own but it's seems like such a stupid thing to do in Shetland with it being such a small place and property being really expensive. I mean, is it worth still paying off a mortgage at 70 to live 2 streets away. Admittedly, the answer might be yes :)

It seems like ages since I asked about Charlie! Is he still a massive attention seeker? :); 24 October 2021 at 20:02
Dex said...: My mum brought home some Berliner doughnuts again. Fancy name for jam doughnuts with icing sugar but I don't care :); 25 October 2021 at 20:14
Dex said...: The best thing about Halloween - buying all the sweets on the pretense that they are for the children that might come trick or treating, knowing full well that there's a 99% chance that no one will turn up and you will get to keep them all to yourself :); 26 October 2021 at 18:37
Louise Boyd said...: 99% chance?
We purposely turn the lights off to ward off the little sugar-seeking goblins so I, my family's own sugar-seeking goblin, can gobble it all up :); 26 October 2021 at 23:32
Dex said...: I really should cut down. I blame my upbringing. Why was I allowed to eat bowls of powdered Tang and Ovaltine while on holiday as a kid? It can't have been good for me.

You'll need to tell me what you consume in the spooky darkness. I usually turn the lights off as well. Especially if I'm on my own. My mum knows how to deal with the goblins :); 27 October 2021 at 21:29
Louise Boyd said...: I had to look up powdered Tang.
Jesus fuck, did you just eat the powder?! No liquid added?
You might the most monstery of all monsters o_O

The chances are, I'm gonna eat multiple bows of Golden Nuggets :); 27 October 2021 at 22:18
Dex said...: No liquid. Don't you judge me :) This was Philippines in the 90s. It was difficult to find sweets. I had to make do with whatever I could lay my hands on.

Okay, I'm a monster :)

Another thing I remember about the food over there is that the bread was always quite sweet. I never thought to look up what it was called but apparently it is Pandesal, which basically means salt bread even though it tastes sweet. Confusing :); 28 October 2021 at 19:18
Louise Boyd said...: Oh, I'm gonna judge you!
A bowl of sherbet, I could understand, but powdered drink?
I think you're no long just Captain Candyclaws, you've been promoted to Consigliere Candyclaws 0_0
I really don't know how you haven't turned into an actual gummy bear yet; it's pretty mind-blowing.

Pandesal look like Scottish morning rolls but better?
Chewier, not the dry husks us highland folk are forced to eat -_-
...
And they're sweet because there's sugar in the recipe you dummy :)

I've been wanting to make Hawaiian Sweet Bread Rolls for yearrrrrrrrrs.
Something about pineapple juice and buttermilk in a roll sounds so fucking good *-*; 28 October 2021 at 21:17
Dex said...: 'And they're sweet because there's sugar in the recipe you dummy :)'

Well, that'll explain it :)

I'll tell you a secret. I like being judged by you :) Also, I'll never remember how to spell Consigliere!

Pineapple juice in a roll sounds very weird. You should totally do it! What other weird things can you use to make bread?

Today it felt like I was walking home inside a cloud. I was soaked! But I have the house to myself tonight and I just remembered I have Tunnock's Tea Cakes!; 29 October 2021 at 18:36
Louise Boyd said...: Yeah, let's stick to Captain for no; we'll work up to Consigliere. OHHHH I did it with autocorrect!
Internet five me!

I'll tell you a secret. I like being judged by you :)

Hah, that's a weird kink you got there, mister. But if that's what you want, my judgey skills are at your service.
I can't judge you for your biscuit choice, though, because Tunnack's Tea Cakes are straight up the best marshmallow treat on the planet.
And I. am. jealous!

I guess your rain was like our rain. I woke up at 2pm and it was so dark, I thought it was still the early am 0_0
How soaked you get?
Drowned rat or soggy puppy?
Fun fact: Charlie sparkles when he gets rained on. He looks like a moving constellation.
Thus why I call him Sparkle Butt when he returns from stalking hapless creatures in the downpour.; 30 October 2021 at 03:14
Dex said...: I'm always internet fiving you. Silently, in my head :)

My mum bought the Tea Cakes for Halloween, in case anyone came along the house. I don't know who buys Tea Cakes for Halloween but she said the sweet selection in the shops was almost non existent. However, I came home yesterday evening and there are now a couple of Swizzels variety packs in the dining room so assuming I can claim the Tea Cakes. I just had one for breakfast... Obviously, I will be claiming the Swizzels after Sunday as well :)

I would say soggy puppy. The water wasn't dripping from my hood while I was walking which is usually my qualifying factor for drowned rat status :) And it did get much worse. At about 11pm it was that mix of really heavy rain and wind, where it seems to be violently lashing the ground. You live in Scotland too so you probably know what I mean :)

Sparkle Butt :D I'm surprised he goes out in the rain! When I think of Charlie, I assume that he regards his own comfort as paramount :); 30 October 2021 at 09:48
Louise Boyd said...: Oh, he does, but he also considers himself a fluffy Heathcliff, brooding on the "moors".
Seriously, I just catch him sometimes sitting proudly, staring into the void like the emo brat he is.
Being an emo brat myself, I recognise the stance :)

I think your mum buying Teacakes for trick or treaters is just the best thing.
I would SO visit your house just for those goodies.
Who wants a mini mars bar when you can have a dome of mallowy goodness?!
Soooo you sent this message at almost 10am... how many teacakes are left, Dexterous? <_<

I'm always internet fiving you. Silently, in my head :)

^-^
Me too, bud, me too.

Who hasn't done 80% of their Monthlies two day before it's release?
*violently throws all limbs in the air*
...
WHY AM I LIKE THIS?! 0_0; 30 October 2021 at 18:49
Dex said...: Happy Halloween, Lilliputty!

Charlie is magnificent! Would it surprise you to know that I never went through an emo stage? I often wish I had.

There are no Teacakes left, Maggot. None. Only shame.

Don't be too hard on yourself! You put more effort into your monthlies than I've put into anything since... well, ever. And it's always totally worth it!

Ugh, sunset today is 16:11.; 31 October 2021 at 09:16
Louise Boyd said...: Happy Halloween! Just :D

Don't feel shame for eating all the teacakes.
Feel shame if you ate all the swizzles candy as well 0_0
Or don't because fuck shame! Eat all the things! It's Halloween!
I'm extending Halloween 'til tomorrow because fuck it, one day's not enough.
And I didn't get to watch all the spooky things I wanted, just Hocus Pocus, Fear Street 1994, and Beetlejuice.
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THAT'S NOT ENOUGH >_<

Even if you didn't go through an outward emo stage, I'm sure you were just as hormonally challenged as the rest of us at 16+
Or were you a weirdly chipper teenager?
I can't imagine it *-*; 31 October 2021 at 23:55
Dex said...: I can assure you, I was never chipper :)

Yeah, I felt no shame but it felt like the right thing to say. Or it would have if it had been to anyone but you. You're the swizzle stick to my sherbet :D I know you made it with 5 minutes to spare but let's pretend we've just started our Halloween holiday. So you can watch all the films and I can eat all the sweets!

I knew you would manage to post your monthly today :); 1 November 2021 at 18:49
Louise Boyd said...: I think the only reason I managed it was because I'm getting less articulate and just post pictures and shout about how pretty they are underneath 0_0
They are real pretty, though.

Halloween should totally be a full week; one day just isn't enough.
Did you luck out on any post-Halloween sweets in Tesco?
Does that happen? Or is that more an Easter thing?
I don't know these things, people just bring me the chocolate >_<; 1 November 2021 at 22:19
Dex said...: I'll need at least a week to finish all the sweets in the house! I'm assuming half price seasonal chocolate is a post Halloween and Easter thing although I haven't been for a look. I've still got Haribo and Swizzles and more Teacakes to get through. She even bought those party ring biscuits for some reason, the kind that used to be at every party in the 90s. I have no idea how many children my mum thought would be turning up! A few did - friends of my mum and some of the neighbour children. Not enough for me to resent them stealing my sugar supplies :) What kinds of sweets did you get brought? Also, did you dress up, dye your hair?; 2 November 2021 at 18:43
Louise Boyd said...: Party Rings are the most confusing biscuit and I lovvvvvve them.
They don't even have any defining taste. As if someone was told what a biscuit should taste like and they tried to recreate it without any baking talent.
...
YET, SO FUCKING GOOD *-*
I feel like that's half everybody's childhood food experiences, though. You're obsessed with all these seemingly amazing tastes and then you hit your 30s and it's like WTF, what was wrong with my tastebuds =/
But a few things always make it through. For me, Party Rings are one of those things :)

Totally forgot to dye me hair. Wore my skeleton jumper as per usual. Failed miserably to do anything spooky because I had my head buried in my Monthlies, desperately trying to finish x_x
I even forgot to turn my pumpkin lights on >_<
And I watched a cute movie last night. A CUTE ONE.
Fucking hell, I'm gonna lose my spooky membership.
Please tell me you did better than me?

Y'know those mini Love Hearts packets you get in party packs? Do you eat those in one go or one Love Heart at a time?
I do it in one go, just did in fact, and suddenly felt like a monster 0_0
Gobbled up all the love like a rabid cupid =/; 2 November 2021 at 22:14
Dex said...: I'm sure it's because our palettes have become more sophisticated... typed as I chew on another mini refresher bar :S I'm definitely going to shove a whole packet of Love Hearts in my mouth tonight just to prove to myself that I can do it :) I probably would eat them one at a time but I don't want you to think less of me! Fizzers (those small sweets a bit like Love Hearts but tiny and with no writing) would definitely be consumed as one.

If we ever have a joint birthday party, there will definitely be Party Rings :) Speaking of retro biscuits, do you remember those pink wafer biscuits that used to be everywhere? I didn't really like them but they do make me feel slightly nostalgic.

I didn't really do much better. Hid in my room while my mum entertained the children. I did try to watch some horror though. My attention span is terrible these days though :S A cute movie?! Can you tell me what it was? I promise I won't judge :) I'm very jealous you have pumpkin lights!; 3 November 2021 at 20:17
Louise Boyd said...: I LOVED pink wafers. They tasted kinda weird and old, and definitely didn't have any discernible flavour but I was batshit for them.
Too bad they suck now :(

There is this Australian biscuit I'm desperate to try. It's called an Iced VoVo. Coconut, jam, fondant. Yes, yes, and yes.
Coconut jam is the best combination. If Tunnocks Snowballs had jam inside them, they'd be a superior biscuit.
...
Although, they're not really a biscuit, are they?
What is a Snowball? o_O

The cute movie in question was called The Map of Tiny Perfect Things.
It was a take on the temporal anomaly trope and it was so fucking good and got a massive endorphin high from it.
I love when that happens 0_0; 3 November 2021 at 23:04
Dex said...: Lilliputty... I've never had a Snowball... please don't hit me! I know they are covered in coconut but I have no idea what's inside. It's not that I dislike coconut, it's just never my first choice in anything. I'm assuming we can no longer be friends :S

We had this Australian lady at work who brought in these biscuits called Tim Tams. They were sort of a better version of a Penguin.

That does sound like a very cute movie! I haven't felt that way about a film in so long. I'm probably dead inside :)

Ps. I promise I will buy a pack of Snowballs next time I'm in the supermarket :); 4 November 2021 at 19:36
Louise Boyd said...: YOU'VE NEVER HAD A SNOWBALL?!
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It's fine, they're kinda weird anyway :)
Just mallow, chocolate and coconut, and the only thing you can do with it is smash it inside your mouth before it dissolves in your hand =/
Teacakes are better.

I need to shout again but for real this time:

YOU'VE HAD TIM TAMS?! SON OF A BARNACLE! >_<
I'm so jealous. Australia have so many cool foodstuffs. Carmellos. Cherry Ripes. Lamingtons.
I want all the Australian things, but Tim Tams maybe most of all.
Why are they superior, though? People always say that and never explain why *-*; 5 November 2021 at 03:01
Dex said...: Snowballs sound weird :)

I've had Tim Tams :) If it's any consolation, it was once and a long time ago, probably about 5 years now! I honestly don't know if they really were better than Penguins but other people were saying it and I tend to just agree with the person I'm standing next to so I can avoid having to come up with an original thought :) I have a feeling they were more chocolatey. The thing I am reading at the moment says it's because the biscuit in a Tim Tam is chocolate flavoured while in a Penguin it is not. Maybe that explains it...

What are weekends like in your house? When the parents are here, weekends are coffee and cooked breakfasts, and then spending the rest of the day in my room trying not to be bothered by whatever activity is going on in the house. Or I go to the office where it is quieter :); 5 November 2021 at 18:42
Louise Boyd said...: So, a Tim Tam's like a Bourbon/Penguin hybrid?
Fuck... that sounds amazing *-*
Like chocolate covered Oreos, which everyone hates but I love *shrug*
I'm going to spend the next twenty minutes tracking down Tim Tams that don't cost £8 a box. Fucking Amazon and their exorbitant prices -_-

Your weekends sound bloody blissful.
There's never any respite in my house, weekend or not.
There's always some drama happening, or some form of DIY, or someone's in a fucking mood.
I hate it 0_0
And I'd hide in my room with a pile of toast and a vat of tea but they'd just come looking for me >_<
Why can't my bloodline be normal?! 0_0; 5 November 2021 at 22:17
Dex said...: They really are not. Like last night, a friend of my mum was over at the house until 11pm cutting her hair and talking! I think I'm only ever happy these days when I'm completely alone. That's why I'm in the office right now, on my own, enjoying the silence :) I should probably go home soon though. I'm hungry :)

Do you never get any time to have the whole house to yourself? I don't really. Only very occasionally when my parents are in Sandness and my sibling is working the weekends (which he does very rarely).

Good luck on the Tim Tam hunt :); 6 November 2021 at 17:40
Louise Boyd said...: Chatty ladies give me anxiety 0_0
And when they're in your house, there's no escape. You can't even leave your room because they'll sense it, like hellhounds, sniffing you out to embroil you in conversations *cough*inquisitions*cough* you really don't want to have.
They're monsters +_+
Luckily my parents are antisocial as humanly possible. We just annoy each other :)

I never get the house alone. Not for very long, at least.
The stupid thing, though? When it happens I kinda freak out =/
Every odd noise, imagined or not, makes me 90% sure I'm about to get crazy murdered by a maniacal clown. Or worse.
Having an overactive, doom-fixated imagination is very stressful 0_0

Did you leave the office and scavenge for food?
Does Kerry not keep you fed like a squirrel? Stashing treats away to ward off the impending hangriness?
I would; I bet you're terrifying with low blood sugar 0_0

I don't know what to watch. I'm in a terribly fucking mood when it comes to tv/movies at the moment and nothing feels right/makes me anxious/is too stupid to continue with.
Tell me what to dooooo, Dex; I can't survive without visual sustenance >_<; 6 November 2021 at 22:59
Dex said...: I think I have a reputation among my family's friends of being a miserable, grumpy bastard to be avoided at all costs. I mean, they're right. I don't even try to hide it anymore :)

I left the office right after I messaged you. And was fed as soon as I got home :) Kerry's actually on leave at the moment, for the first time in ages. Says she's just going to switch off, watch tv and get drunk. She's the same age as us but lives alone so I'm very jealous that she gets to enjoy a whole week to herself without people bothering her! Besides, she'd probably kill me if she knew I was working at the weekend. Terrible fact about her though - she doesn't like sugar!

I love having the house to myself, except I end up having loud conversations with myself like a crazy person :)

You know I'm the worst person to ask for recommendations on what to watch! Do you want to know what I watched the other day - the 1970s tv movie Salem's Lot :S It was pretty dated but still, 3 hours of creepy small town America, which is what I like :); 7 November 2021 at 10:34
Louise Boyd said...: Creepy small town America is *chef's kiss*.
And I love Salem's Lot. The book. It's the only Spielberg I've actually enjoyed.
I've got the 90s tv adap of it with Rob Lowe on dvd. Never got around to watching it, though.
I think because I know it'll be terrible and I'm not quite ready to be let down that way.
You should totally watch Midnight Mass (Netflix); it's heavily influenced by Salem's Lot, and it's really fucking good.
And Squid Games! (also Netflix) I didn't really get the hype because well, I've seen Battle Royale but Em loved it, and so did the rest of the planet, so... you try and tell me if I'm being weird.

Wait, wait, wait... she doesn't like sugar? Not just she avoids it because it's "bad" for you, she actually doesn't like the taste?
That's the saddest thing I've ever head 0_0
She doesn't even get the thrill of eating a whole tub of ice cream in one sitting in her flat without the judgement of family x_x
WHAT DOES SHE EAT, FUNGUS? WHAT DOES SHE EAT?!
...
:)

You being grumpy just... I can't compute it. I always thought you were the sweater boy in this friendship and I was the absolute nightmare.
You're turning everything I know upside down *-*; 7 November 2021 at 23:45
Dex said...: I always thought I would like a holiday of driving through various creepy small towns in America. Would you come with me?

Squid Games has been so hyped that even I'm aware of its existence :) I think as survivors of the Asia Extreme DVD era of the 2000s, we've probably seen it all before :)

She just doesn't like the taste :S She claims that she has occasionally bought a packet of chocolate buttons or something similar but I've never seen any evidence. She likes wine and black coffee and baked beans and cheap, plastic cheese - you wouldn't believe that we're friends :)

Well, I won't pretend that I never thought you were grumpy either... :D Did you manage to find something to watch?; 8 November 2021 at 19:37
Louise Boyd said...: Of course I'd come with you, but you'd have to accept that we'd stop at every diner for breakfast food; I need to pee a lot but I also need to drink a lot so we'd have to stop some more. ... maybe for more breakfast food.
Oh, and I'd constantly be on the look out for a Sasquatch and other folklore creatures native to America. Like, obsessively so.
Think you can handle that?

Cheap, plastic cheese.
...
That's... really disturbing. Are you sure she's not a monster wearing a human suit? *-*

I have yet to find something to watch but I did watch The Green Knight with the fam tonight for Sarah's birthday, and I fucking loved it, so I feel slightly less grumbly.
Tomorrow's another story.
I think I might do the unthinkable, though.
...
Watch one the series I have on... DVD :O
Since streaming became a thing, I've turned into the quintissential lazy person when it comes to my viewing habits =/
I have to get out of bed to put dvds on, and, well, no, I'd rather not :); 9 November 2021 at 01:11
Dex said...: Large blocks of cheap, plastic cheese... and she's actually the fussiest eater!

It's you. Even if you decided to steal my pancakes at all the breakfast diners we stopped at, I would find a way to handle it :) Could we also load up on ridiculous junk food at remote gas stations as well?

I'm glad you watched something you enjoyed. I know how much you love your fantasy :) Did you get any cake since it was you sister's birthday?

Lilliputty, I've bought things on prime that I already have on dvd because I've been too lazy to put them on...; 9 November 2021 at 19:23
Louise Boyd said...: Dexterous... you haven't! Really? That's despicable! 0_0
Tell me they were at least worthy of pointlessly buying?

I would leave you one pancake, you'd need your energy to drive us everywhere. I'm just the wingman :)
WE COULD GET THOSE PINK SNOWBALLS I SEE AT GAS STATIONS IN THE MOVIES! AND DING DONGS! AND MOUNTAIN DEW! AND ALL THE REESE'S PIECES!
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I'm very excited about this creepy road trip and it's showing through my stomach :)
Speaking of: Em made a basic chocolate cake with confetti sprinkles. White sponge, chocolate frosting. Fucking delicious!
Sometimes the simply stuff is the best stuff. I've gotta remember that the next time I want something ridiculous on my birthday =/
Although, I have got chocolate trifle on the brain.
I don't like traditional trifle because whipped cream's gross, custard should never be yellow, and bananas don't belong anywhere near the two.
But a chocolate trifle?
Chocolate mouse.
Crème pâtissière.
Chewy meringue on top.
Lady fingers or Swiss roll.
Chocolate curls.
MORE THINGS.
I want to eat that.
I mean, look at this:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/boozy-brownie-trifle

And this:

https://www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/family/chocolate-trifle/

And thisssss:

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chocolate-recipes/epic-chocolate-trifle/

I'm actually salivating +_+; 10 November 2021 at 01:59
Dex said...: I don't know how I could have been that lazy. I'm sure they were at least on offer :)

'Sometimes the simply stuff is the best stuff.' Totally agree although you already had me at 'Em made...' :)

Ugh, you really know how to push my buttons. You make chocolate trifle sound so fucking good. The last one - serves 40. I think that's where we exchange knowing glances at each other and say 'yeah, right' :)

All those things! I can't stop imagining this creepy road trip now :)

Feel sorry for me, Lilliputty. I have to go to the film quiz tonight and it's dark and windy and I'm so very tired.; 10 November 2021 at 18:39
Louise Boyd said...: Feel sorry for me, Lilliputty. I have to go to the film quiz tonight and it's dark and windy and I'm so very tired.

I may have cackled a little. Just a little. I'm an evil person :)
Did you win?
What do you drink at film quiz night? Gotta know, don't know why.

Sarah got all these baking books for her birthday and she keeps showing me things. My head might explode if she doesn't make something out of them because the teasing is killing me!
You can't show me cake and expect me to not expect cake. It's just cruel 0_0; 11 November 2021 at 01:47
Dex said...: I'm surprised you don't attack the pictures :) I always imagine your kitchen as being some kind of dessert test laboratory!

We never win :) I used to drink hot chocolates but I can't bring myself to stand in a queue these days! So I just had some cherry cola tic tacs yesterday :S If you were on our team, what would you drink?

When you are reading into the early morning, is there a certain time that you always stop, or do you keep reading until you can barely keep your eyes open? Such a random question, I know :); 11 November 2021 at 19:00
Louise Boyd said...: I've never had a cherry cola tic tac.
Feel like I haven't lived 0_0
If I was on your team, and could also be arsed to stand in line (highly doubtful), then... uh... maybe... Orange Lucozade? Because I'm classy as fuck.
If they made White Russians, I'd have one, sans the vodka, but I've been burnt too many times by pubs and bars giving me the where the fuck did this idiot come from? look before.
I'm practically post traumatic over it =/

I read to a natural stop which is both around the same time as usual each night/morning and when I'm practically falling asleep.
It's been sooner than normal, only about an hour of reading for the past few days. So tireddddd :(
I just had an unexpected nap, as well =/ I feel fucking terrible. Why do people do this?!; 11 November 2021 at 22:35
Dex said...: Someone found the cherry tic tacs in their handbag and gave them to me because they didn't like them. I'm classy as fuck too :)

I think I've had a White Russian at Mareel before, when they used to have cocktail nights. I almost never drink alcohol but I think I'd like to have a cocktail and film night one of these days. Obviously, you're invited :)

Well, I think a White Russian without vodka sounds nice! Like an alcohol iced coffee. That would definitely be included in the cocktail/film night! Does anyone ever make any interesting alcohol based drinks in your house?

An unexpected nap! Did you just fall asleep without meaning to? I hope you've at least been having good proper sleeps too!; 12 November 2021 at 18:01
Louise Boyd said...: I'm sleeping fine! Weird as fuck hours as per usual but no sleepless nights or anything.
I think it's just a stress reaction, and going from a coldish house to a warm bed.
Passing out's the body's natural defence mechanism.
I don't like it =/
I've never liked naps; I always feel terrible after them. People who power nap are an absolute mystery to me 0_0

Y'know what's better than a White Russian?
Ice cream and Kahlúa. Hot chocolate and Kahlúa. Iced coffee and Kahlúa.
Basically anything dairy based with coffee liqueur is outstanding.
I bet you could even get away with making boozy cereal.
Wheetos and Kahlúa! I wanna do that!; 12 November 2021 at 23:15
Dex said...: I hate having naps too. Only if I have headache, which I get at work sometimes. I blame the stuffy air, or staring at a screen all day, or both. I'm fine in the mornings but by the middle of the afternoon, I start to feel it. It's usually better if I have the fan on and remove some layers, but then I feel too cold. My body is very difficult :) And I don't really nap, just lie down in the dark.

I've never had Kahlúa. I never think of you as someone who drinks much alcohol - it's nice to know there's a kind you like and somehow coffee liqueur seems right :) Also, it is coffee, so maybe it's okay to have with breakfast... Speaking of coffee and ice cream, have you ever had Affogato. I haven't but it's one of those things which I would like to try.

I've been watching a video of Freya dancing like a zombie to Thriller!; 13 November 2021 at 15:21
Louise Boyd said...: You tell me these things to torture me, don't you?
Does she try and do the full body shudder thing?
Also, your cousin sounds like she's teaching her all the most important things in life :)

I've tried a little Affogato but it was NOT for me. Too much coffee for me. But Sarah loves it.
I'll just take my coffee flavoured ice cream and coffee liqueur, and leave the hardcore caffeine addicts to it 0_0
Oh, what about coffee trifle?!
I want that...

Dex, I feel like you need to take more breaks when you're at work 0_0 Just mini ones to rest your eyes.
Too much screen time's evil on the eyes, all that blue light, some people wear special glasses or get screen coverings to cope with it =/
Ah, the joys of being alive in the technology era :)

Ps. Sarah bought mini yule logs. Should I put one in the freezer, or will it not work the same a mini Swiss roll?; 14 November 2021 at 00:25
Dex said...: I know, I'm terrible at taking breaks at work. I really need to start making an effort though.

Hmm, as much as I want you to try it, I'm going to say that I don't think you should freeze one of the mini yule logs. I haven't even tried it with a mini roll yet but something tells me that it won't work the same for a yule log. I'm basing this on the internet not coming up with anything for frozen Cadbury mini yule log rather than my scientific knowledge on temperatures and chocolate :)

Chocolate coffee trifle. Lilliputty, you just broke my brain! We have to make this! One of my earliest food memories is Gino Ginelli coffee flavoured ice cream. I absolutely loved it but it disappeared from the stores when I was still very young so we had to move onto the fudge flavour which was also pretty good.

I think she looked more like a frog than a zombie, although she did keep saying 'this is what zombies do' :D; 14 November 2021 at 16:53
Louise Boyd said...: Oh my god, Gino Ginelli coffee ice cream was fucking amazing and I'm still bitter they stopped making it.
It had little fudge things mixed through, didn't it?
Fuck, how could they cancel it? It was so goooooood. No coffee ice cream has ever compared 0_0
I need a Biscoff Viennetta to make up for this crime against dairy - I only just discovered this was a thing and I'm very excited about it.
Also, you can get Viennetta on a stick! Wtf!

I love your niece. She is the greatest creature to frog-zombie-walk the planet. How is she even real? *-*
She's gonna be so freaking cool when she grows up, I can just feel it!
Are you getting her something for Christmas? And will you see her cute little face at all?

Okay, I won't put the Yule log in the fridge. Or I might. I'm really tempted! What if the buttercream stuff kinda turns into ice cream?!
...
That's not a thing, is it?; 15 November 2021 at 01:10
Dex said...: Viennetta on a stick looks ridiculous! Besides, I like carefully peeling away the layers with my spoon like an archaeologist going through a fossil slate. Biscoff Viennetta on the other hand... well, that's just demanding to be demolished by the two of us! :)

'What if the buttercream stuff kinda turns into ice cream?!' - then you have officially won at life :)

I thought I was the only one who remembered the coffee ice cream! I want to high five you so much right now! :D Yes, now that you say it, I'm sure there was something solid and fudge-like running through, probably what made it so amazing!

I really want them to bring Freya up for Christmas, as much as I've ever wanted anything. They did talk about it but I'm not that hopeful as I think they probably have other family obligations. I'll definitely get her something even if I don't see her, but I want to see her being a little monster tearing into wrapping paper :); 15 November 2021 at 18:53
Louise Boyd said...: If you don't get a Freya visit, you should demand your cousin film the little heathen queen opening her present.
That way you get to keep the monstrous behaviour forever :)

I want to high five you so much right now!

I had the exact same feeling!
I'd've been sure I'd imagined Gino Ginelli if my sisters didn't remember it, too. It felt like it couldn't be real because no one else but us remembered it, but here you are, my favourite humanoid and you remember it, too! >_<
Destiny, my friend! We were destined to be buds!

I just checked Tesco's website and they don't have Biscoff Viennetta :( I'm eternally sad.
But they do have Biscoff Ice Cream Cups, and I think I need one of those.
Why is ice cream so good in a little cup with a little spoon?; 16 November 2021 at 00:00
Dex said...: We remember the important things! :D

Maybe little ice cream cups are so good because you know all the ice cream inside belongs to you and no one else :) I bet Tesco in Lerwick doesn't have Biscoff Ice Cream Cups. We never get the fancy things. I'll be so jealous if you find them but do it anyway Maggot, do it for both of us :)

Big question. Soft ice cream or firm ice cream?

Freya does love being a monster :) I suppose it would be weird if they spent Christmas with us. We might actually have to make an effort to have a proper Christmas rather than the half-arsed celebration we usually manage to scrape together :)

Does your family put up a lot of decorations at home?; 16 November 2021 at 18:52
Louise Boyd said...: Soft ice cream. But not 99er soft, unless it's a 99er.
Although, I'm usually too impatient to wait for the ice cream to get soft before I'm hacking away at the tub with hangry murder in my eyes 0_0
You?

Our house is a riot of fairy lights and sparkles this time of year. I'm actually surprised my mum hasn't sneakily been hanging anything up yet. I give her another week :)
I love the way the house looks during Christmas, it's extra cosy and I just prefer soft light to hard light.
Also, there always seems to be more chocolate in the house and I like that. I like that a lot :) :) :)
I'm guessing what with your lackadaisical approach to the season, decorations aren't a big deal in the Eva household?; 17 November 2021 at 02:41
Dex said...: Hmm, probably firm ice cream, except when it comes to getting it out of the tub :) I think I've told you this before but in primary school, with dessert they sometimes used to service us this thick, hot chocolate sauce, almost a chocolate soup. It was very weird, I've never had anything like it anywhere else. And they would pour it over your dessert like it was a soup so it practically filled the bowl! Anyway, I used to have it with my ice cream :S

They actually used to have some pretty good desserts at school - cheesecake, doughnuts, mini eclairs... it was almost worth getting school dinners :) But the two main foodstuffs I hated as a kid was butter and onions and they seemed to be in everything! I hated soup & sandwiches day, and mince & tatties day. Even baked tattie day, they would put butter inside without asking. Admittedly, most people would like butter inside a baked tattie (even I would these days) but I was not a normal kid :)

I think I would like to spend Christmas in a house which looked like yours, and I bet Freya would love it too :) No, decorations aren't a big deal in our house - you know us so well :) I think we had a tree and some lights last year...; 17 November 2021 at 18:21
Dex said...: Mr Freeze ice pops. Another thing I haven't thought about in ages :); 18 November 2021 at 19:01
Louise Boyd said...: What flavour, though? Or should I say, colour?
I'm a blur raspberry or cola kinda girl. All the dirtbag flavours for me ^-^

Yeah, Freya probably would love our twinkly house at Christmas. Particularly the bedroom hallway. Me and Em spend a good hour stringing icicle lights along and boughed across it, and then add sparkly snowflakes for good twinkly measure. It's my favourite part of the house and if I was small enough, Freya-sized, I'd want someone to lift me and let me touch all the lights and sparkles.
...
Why much I be too short most of the time but for that I'm too freaking tall? >_<
Life is so cruelllll.

Maybe this year you should instigate a fairy light rule. One set in each room. Or just smother your bedroom in them and short the fusebox 0_0

Wait, you got proper dessert at school? Where did you goooo, baby Oxford?!
Fuck! My school was so shit 0_0
I want a bowl of chocolate soup :( Even though it sounds kinda gross but I still waaaannnttttt itttttt!
Do you think if I just melt a whole heap of Cadbury's it'll be the same? o_O
...
Now I want Angel's delight. Did you ever have that?
OH! Or Cadbury's chocolate mousse. Love that stuff.
Can you tell I'm hormonal as fuck and desire sustenance? :D

Baked potatoes are not something I enjoy. The insides are okay (and yes, you need butter, you weirdo! :) ) but the outsides are just so mehhhh.
Give me roasties or mash or little cubey parmentiers.
Or Em's potato scones. Gift from the gods, I tell you.

Okay, I'm rewatching Cowboy Bebop and I've just realised that I'm incapable of skipping the titles. I physically cannot do it. I need to sing along at the start and then do this super dorky sit-dance thing until it's over.
Is this sorcery?; 19 November 2021 at 00:40
Dex said...: We should send Freya to your house for Christmas. Then you could hold her up to touch the fairy lights :)

I'm sure I always went for the blue Mr Freeze. Is that the raspberry? I didn't even know they had flavours. My preference was based entirely on colour :)

I'm quite certain I would find the chocolate soup disgusting these days :) I can't even think what I would have it with. I've never actually tried melting a Cadbury bar. Do it and tell me what happens! I do love melted chocolate when baking. I bet there's always chocolate being melted in your house!

Our primary school was most certainly not baby Oxford! :) I think it was just the standard menu in all schools in Shetland. My first job was in one of the small primary schools and they were still serving the same meals. And that was about 12 years after I left!

I've only had Angel's delight a few times. It was one of those things that we never had at home. Although I really wish we did!

'Can you tell I'm hormonal as fuck and desire sustenance? :D' - I don't know what it says about us but getting this excited by desserts just seems normal behaviour to me :)

I really need to see the super dorky Cowboy Bebep sit-dance! :D; 19 November 2021 at 18:58
Louise Boyd said...: You shall never see my super dorky Cowboy Bebop sit-dance!
It's too embarrassing.
There are stupid hand gestures and everything >_<

Blue was indeed raspberry!
You gotta love that logic: strawberry's already taken red, so let's not panic and instead make raspberry the colour of no food in existence.
Genius. And delicious. Taste of raspberry? Uhhhh not on your fucking life :)
Did you get Slush Puppies in Lerwick?
We did, in the Spar, which was a ten minute walk from the primary school, so when we were finally set free in primary seven to have lunch in town, getting a blue Slushy was high priority.
I loved those things 0_0

I'm not allowed to melt chocolate -_-
ONE incident of microwaving it (the lazy girls' bain-marie) and burning my whole hand by holding the bottom of the jug (whyyyyyyyyy was I such a stupid child?) and you're banned from chocolate melting duties for life +_+
So unfair.
I do get to attack the bowl with a spoon, though, and I'm not half as feral with melted chocolate as I am with buttercream.
The chocolate frosting Em made for Sarah's cake had to be protected from my grabby hands and hangry eyes.
Not joking. Literally had to be put out of my reach.
Like this Hyperbole and a Half comic:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/10/god-of-cake.html

I'm a monster 0_0; 20 November 2021 at 00:54
Dex said...: So what you're saying is you now want me to refer to you as the god of cake. I can just imagine the drama that goes on in your house when there is buttercream floating around! :D

I remember I once thought it a good idea to heat up a croissant in the microwave. Burnt it to a cinder. You could even smell the burning from the garden :)

I doubt I would have even guessed that blue was supposed to be raspberry flavour :) We definitely had slushies but I don't ever remember calling them Slush Puppies. We probably had some lower quality off-brand version :) We would get them at the pool cafe in the Clickimin Leisure Centre. I have a feeling you can still get them there. The closest we ever came to a fast food place was when the pool first opened and they used to sell burgers and fries. They even wrapped the burgers in paper (blue for normal, red for cheese - I don't know why I remember that). I actually loved them and I never even liked going to McDonalds or places like that when we went south. Birthday parties during the last few years of primary school were always Clickimin pool followed by burgers, fries and ice cream floats :)

We never got to go into town until we reached high school! Admittedly, the primary school I went to was pretty far. Lerwick is kind of weird in that the town centre isn't really a centre at all. The centre is by the harbour and it gets more residential the further you move inland. So I live about a half hour walk from the centre of town. But Sound Primary where I went is pretty close by, only about 5 minutes - probably 10 minutes when dawdling as a kid :) The only place outside the school we were allowed to go at lunch time was the bakery across the road - I think children used to call it the bread bin, although it was mainly used to purchase pic'n'mix :); 20 November 2021 at 09:55
Louise Boyd said...: You put... a croissant... in... the MICROWAVE?! 0_0
There are French people cursing your soul right at this very moment Dexterous Epistolean, calling you the Great Besmircher of Pastry.
Dear god... you monster...

Living in small towns always sounds so fucking weird compared to cities.
We have a similar sort of set up in Blair but the town centre really is the centre of town and everything spreads out from there but the high school is five minutes from me, twenty minutes from town (walking) and the primary school is five minutes from town.
So, when we got to high school, going downtown for lunch wasn't really a thing =/
By the time we got there we'd have to drag ourselves back and really, what teenager has the energy for that shit?
Primary seven, though? Oh boy, that was pure freedom and a year of unsupervised access to pick'n'mix (thinking about it now, after Covid, I'm never touching it again 0_0 ) and chips and slush puppies and so onnnnnn.
We never had access to burgers though. Lucky, because I'm a damn pernickety bitch when it comes to meat in a bun.
Why are they always putting onions in there? RAW onions? Why would anyone befoul a burger with the devil's root vegetable? Bleurgh.
Give me pickles, dammit! All the pickles >_<

Why was your primary called Sound? Was it named after somewhere/something? Is it a mystery?!

There's been a virus circling the house and I think it finally got me. I don't feel rightttttt *-*

Ps. The Bread Bin is a fucking excellent name for a bakery. If I ever had a bread-based whatever, I'd call it that.
Or some sort of pun.
Sarah drinks an IPA called the Yeasty Boys and I crack up every time she has it :D; 21 November 2021 at 00:08
Dex said...: The croissant thing was a one time deal! :D Talking of pastry, I know you don't like eclairs but when I went shopping yesterday, I purchased strawberry and cream eclairs, and sticky toffee eclairs. I'm a sucker for anything dessert related that has 'brand new' labelled on it :)

Completely uninteresting - Sound is just the name of the area of town where the school is :) So the beach is called Sands of Sound, and the petrol station/shop is called Sound Service Station. Although it was always known as The Garage Shop when I was growing up and was our main source of sweets and ice cream :) Kids never call things by their proper name! Even the town centre was always just referred to as The Street.

Primary 7 you sounds like first year high school me :) It was pretty much the opposite in that the high school was really near the town centre but far from home. The new high school is only 5 minutes away though so I doubt the teens go to the street anymore. I think they mainly head for Tesco or Co-op (the high school is situated in the middle).

I think you maybe would have liked the burgers we had up here. There were no onions (which I think was one of the main reasons I liked them, and didn't like the burgers from proper fast food chains) and they did have pickles! I think they used a kind of thousand island dressing for the sauce. Or you could just get a plain burger without the salad if you wanted. I would probably still go there if they still sold them :) I think it's just standard cafe fare these days.

Yeasty Boys. Excellent :D I know absolutely nothing about beer! Is an IPA one of the more bitter kinds?; 21 November 2021 at 10:09
Louise Boyd said...: That whole message made me fucking ravenous 0_0
And I do like Eclairs, just not the conventional kind with whipped cream inside. With those I just want to peel off the weird chocolate and throw the rest away =/
But other kinds? I'll unhinge my jaw and wolf that doughy goodness down in one gulp *-*
For a while my dad kept bringing back coffee eclairs and salted caramel eclairs.
SO fucking good and I'm not even a salted caramel fan.
The coffee ones had the elusive chocolate coffee beans on them, as well.
...
This is making the hunger worse. I can feel my stomach trying to eat itself 0_0

I think IPAs are lighter in flavour, actually. I've only had a sip here and there when she's had one. Grapefruit was my favourite but I'm real fussy about beer.
It's actually one of the few alcohols I enjoy but it's gotta be ice cold and ridiculously weak. Like Sol. And I will put lime cordial in it, like a absolute monster.
Have I made an Irn Bru/Sol cocktail? Yes, I have. Did I enjoy the fuck out of it? *vigorous nodding*
I like my alcohol like I like my coffee: distinctly lacking in alcohol taste :); 21 November 2021 at 23:08
Dex said...: Coffee eclairs! Are those really a thing?! From what magical place did your dad keep returning home from?!

I'm not sure if you would have liked these eclairs because they did have whipped cream inside them. Although the whipped cream was flavoured so I'm not sure if that makes a difference. Made by The Delicious Dessert Company. They had shiny new packaging :) I took the last one with me to work for my lunch. This is what happens when I'm left on my own :)

I'm definitely with you on the alcohol is better the less it tastes of alcohol. That's why I like weird, fancy cocktails which are more dessert than drink :) Confession - I've never ever finished a bottle of beer! Not even close :S I love the idea of an ice cold beer and how it looks when it is poured but it's always just too bitter for me, no matter how weak it's supposed to be. I would let you make me an Irn Bru/Sol cocktail though :); 22 November 2021 at 18:30
Louise Boyd said...: Flavoured whipped cream is actually fine, great in fact. It's the metallic flavour of unflavoured whipped cream that bugs me and I think I'm the only one who tastes it =/
It's the same when milk gets frothed for coffee, it tastes like blood to me 0_0
But stick some vanilla or whatever flavouring in it and I'll scoop it down no bother.
I would still prefer crème pâtissière or custard or mousse, etc. and luckily, all those things taste really fucking good in choux pastry :D
I'm so hankering for something with chocolate mousse. Even if it's just the mildly crappy Cadbury's chocolate mousse pots that I secretly love.
I should never be allowed to shop for myself. I'd be as bad, maybe even worse than you *-*

Isn't it weird that we have the same birthday and we're both in that tiny percentage of people that don't like the taste of alcohol :)
Destined to be buds!; 22 November 2021 at 22:51
Dex said...: Hmm, I wonder what our joint birthday party would be like...

I think you're the first person I've ever heard describe whipped cream like that but somehow I kinda get it :) Also, why do you make me look up things like crème pâtissière?!

I think most people secretly love Cadbury's chocolate mousse :) There's a slightly fancier Tesco version I sometimes get (although I swear they've changed something so it's not so good anymore). It also comes in butterscotch and strawberry :)

I never did find a Lion Bar to try. For some reason, the supermarkets up here only seem to stock the white chocolate version and as I'm not the biggest fan of white chocolate (not that I dislike it, it's chocolate ffs), I didn't think it would be a fair trial.

What's your views on yoghurt? Favourite kinds?; 23 November 2021 at 18:51
Dex said...: I got some mini rolls! I'm going to put one in the freezer :); 24 November 2021 at 18:33
Louise Boyd said...: Tell me how it goes! I'm super invested 0_0

My views on yoghurt are delicious, yum, and gimme.
I like basically all flavours, even the dirtbag ones like fudge, but my favourite is always going to be raspberry.
Preferably the one made with grains in it, but I can't remember the brand, so I'll probably never have it again *sob*
I do like they're selling yoghurt granola pots now. Granola? Goooood. Yoghurt? Goooood. Mix the two? Gooooooooooood.
Jesus, why can't there be some food fairy whose sole job it is to fulfil whatever annoying craving I have at any moment? I'd sign a fairy document for that. Soul be damned! x_x

Don't buy a Lion Bar! They're not good anymore! For some reason they've taken all the caramel out and now it's like eating the ghost of a Lion Bar =/
What kind of monster scales back on caramel?
Get a Bueno Hippo instead. Nothing like eating anthropomorphised food :); 24 November 2021 at 23:01
Dex said...: Frozen Cadbury's mini rolls. Actually okay :) Slightly firmer and it's like there's a little bit of ice cream running through. A wouldn't say they were any better than a normal room temp mini roll but something different. If you have a multi pack, definitely throw a couple in the freezer just to try them :)

When you describe fudge as a dirtbag yogurt flavour, I feel like I know exactly what you mean :D Also, yogurt granola pots actually sound really nice, even to a sugar monster like me!

I remember you saying how disappointed you were the last time you had a Lion Bar. I used to always regard them as one of the fancier chocolate bars, probably because they were always one of the highest priced when you went to a vending machine. Maybe I'll leave them in the past :)

I need a Bueno Hippo right now!; 25 November 2021 at 18:39
Louise Boyd said...: I'm kinda disappointed but ultimately not surprised?
I think if mini rolls were moister, they'd be more interesting when frozen.
I think.
I dunno. I probably just want more buttercream 0_0
What else should we put in the freezer?
A Boost, perhaps?

Bueno Hippo! Bueno Hippo!
Nothing bad ever came from being hippo-shaped.
Did you know they're doing mint Malteser Reindeer this year?
My head exploded when I found out *-*
I'm a fussy bitch when it comes to mint chocolate, though. Aero's the only one that's every truly pleased me :); 26 November 2021 at 02:28
Dex said...: I think you're right! The frozen mini roll would have been so much better with more buttercream. We need to find a way of injecting more into the centre. Also, I wonder if a Boost would go rock solid? We really should start conducting tests on these things :)

I don't know why I've never bought a Bueno Hippo. It's probably the sort of thing our supermarkets won't stock! I might need to console myself with an Aero. Mint or normal is fine :) Do you remember Mintolas? They were shaped like Munchies but dark with mint cream inside. I think After Eight make pretty much the same thing now (or it probably is the same thing but with a different name).

I can't imagine Malteser with mint! You'll need to tell me what it's like. I always find it weird how fancy Malteser seems depending on the packaging. A normal packet just seems like everyday chocolate, put it in a box or make it into a different shape and it seems more special somehow :); 26 November 2021 at 19:20
Louise Boyd said...: I don't remember Mintolas but I do remember Mint Munchies, and that After Eight Munchies just don't seem as good =/
Am I crazy or did Mint Munchies have biscuit at the bottom?
I swear they did and to me, that's an infinitely better treat.
Like have more fondanty Viscount in Munchie form 0_0
Yum.

It's so windy here, we keep having blackouts x_x
Last one was about an hour and a half. I only just got back on the internet to send this message =/
Stupid wind!
Hopefully that's the last of it, though. I wanna watch my stories >_<
I do realise I could watch a dvd on my laptop but then I'd have to dig out my external cd drive and choose and a dvd and waahhhhhhh too much for my lazy Millennial brain.
Wish our power supply luck?
Also, I realised, when I'm not entertained by at least two things, I get really hungry.
Boredom does strange things to me 0_0

Ps. A Boost would totally go solid and... I'm kinda intrigued to see if that's good or not. What if it's like eating a Feast ice lolly where the inside is sold and bizarre but really good?
Can't you imagine?!; 26 November 2021 at 22:52
Dex said...: Good luck! An hour and a half is really long! Did you read by candlelight?
It's pretty windy here as well but haven't had any blackouts... yet. I hope we don't. Lack of internet puts me in a right mood :) I actually have a portable dvd player which I sometimes use since I don't have a tv in my room. I don't even think it's mine. Pretty sure it was a present for another family member which I borrowed and never gave back! Bizarrely, we seem to get more blackouts in summer. Which is annoying as it's light so I can't tell if's a proper power cut or if it's only us. Life is so complicated :)

In my mind, Mintolas/Mint Munchies didn't have a biscuit base, but you would think if they were called Munchies, then they should have had one. But I'm frequently wrong about these things :)

Well, I don't have much of an imagination :) I'm so glad you said that about Feasts! The centre was weird, wasn't it?! Like you say, in a good way, but still weird :)

I'm actually typing this message at work, just in case I do get home and there is a power cut :) It's probably terrible that I feel okay about going into work at the weekends as it's much quieter than being at home! I did buy myself some noise cancelling ear buds last week so they might help :); 27 November 2021 at 16:01
Louise Boyd said...: The weather seems to have calmed down but it did fell a couple branches from our trees and they knocked over into the path alongside our house =/
Trumpet Kid's dad came knocking this morning to tell us and he, the rentals and Em spent the morning chopping up the escapees while I was unconscious and entirely unaware 0_0
I swear, once I'm down, I could sleep through an apocalypse.
But if there's noise while I'm trying to get to sleep? Nah, no way; I need total creepy silence.

Noise cancelling anything is a fucking godsend.
Is the noise really that bad at home? Or are you just absurdly sensitive like me?
Orrrrrr option number three, an antisocial monster :)
I'm all three.

Ps. I have a Boost. I'm really tempted to put it in the freezer =/; 27 November 2021 at 22:53
Louise Boyd said...: Pps. I HAVE TENNIS ELBOW.
COME VISIT AND CHOP MY ARM OFF, WILL YOU? 0_0; 27 November 2021 at 22:54
Dex said...: I have a feeling that a frozen Boost could be a dangerous weapon :)

It's probably hypersensitivity and antisocial monsterishness :) People could be a little quieter though!

I really hope Emily was dressed like a lumberjack while chopping trees :) There's almost no wind here today. Really cold though. It even snowed and the snow hasn't disappeared instantly like it normally does.

You know what feeling I hate? When you have something on the next day that you're worrying about and you know you should be getting a good night's sleep to prepare for it, so obviously your brain isn't allowing that to happen!

What have you been doing to get tennis elbow?!; 28 November 2021 at 10:06
Louise Boyd said...: Existing...? o____O
I don't know! I have very weak hands and arms, very prone to RSI, it was bound to happen sometime!
It aches like a motherfucker, though.
Like it's permanently set in dull cramp mode and I can't. shut. it. off x_x

Everyone seems to have had snow that's settled. We had a few measly flakes that melted as soon as they hit the ground.
So unfair!
Although, it's probably for the best; my family turn into panicky idiots when it snows.
I get why, it's perfectly understandable but they totally ruin the vibe! I just wanna look outside and be warm while the snow cries icy tears without being stressed outttt :(
You shoulda seen the idiots during the blackout. I just let them panic it out while I ate my way through a giant bag of popcorn :)

What terrible thing is going to befall you tomorrow, dear Dexterous?
It doesn't even matter, it means speaking to people, doesn't it?
Instant stress.
And yes, I do exactly the same thing. Sleep is not something I get to experience when I have something to do.
Christmas night? No fucking way.
Have to get up earlier than usual? Brain takes the opportunity to remember every detail of my life I'd like to forget in High Def.
It's the worst.
Why are our bodies like this?
Is this just an anxious people thing?; 29 November 2021 at 00:18
Dex said...: You know if I didn't live way up here I would cut off your arm and replace it with a robot one. There would be so many weird gizmos included :)

Well, the snow has disappeared already. I think if I lived alone and had nowhere to go, watching a heavy snow day from the comfort of my living room would make me very happy :) In reality, snow means that my parents won't go to Sandness and leave me alone for the weekend. Still, it looks very pretty :)

I don't think my family get particularly panicky but they are very dramatic in lots of other ways! And I don't deal very well with drama :S I think my bad moods are directly related to how noisy it is in the house :)

Actually today was okay. And I did manage to sleep :) I had a very boring dream that I woke up and checked the time. It was 12.30am and I was so happy that I would get 6 more hours sleep. But then I remembered that in real life I'd already woken up to check the time and it was 3.30am. So I realised I must be dreaming and that woke me up. And when I checked the time, it was 6am :(

For some reason, I never think about the awful things in my past and they don't keep me awake. There must be something wrong with me that I've managed to block them out! It's not like I couldn't remember them if I tried, but I just don't ever think about them. I do quite often think about things I wish I'd done but most of my thoughts are so stupid when I'm trying to fall asleep, or I'm just trying to imagine a nice, quiet life :); 29 November 2021 at 19:52
Louise Boyd said...: Actually today was okay. And I did manage to sleep :) I had a very boring dream that I woke up and checked the time. It was 12.30am and I was so happy that I would get 6 more hours sleep. But then I remembered that in real life I'd already woken up to check the time and it was 3.30am. So I realised I must be dreaming and that woke me up. And when I checked the time, it was 6am :(

I don't use this word very often but... dude.
That's the worst!
I think you deserve an extra long sleep at the weekend to make up for the trauma of it all.
*will find any reason to sleep more than the average bear*

You know if I didn't live way up here I would cut off your arm and replace it with a robot one. There would be so many weird gizmos included :)

THAT'S SO NICEEEEEE!
Do it 0_0
I want a robot arm. These stupid human arms are such a hindrance and I can't shoot laser beams out of them. What's the point of all this bone and sinewwww if it can't do tricks?!
I can't even click my fucking fingers x_x; 29 November 2021 at 23:35
Dex said...: It was traumatic. Especially since my alarm clock is set for 6.20am :) I do get up later on weekends and don't usually set an alarm. I don't really like getting up in the dark so if I don't have to be at work, I'll wait until it's a bit lighter outside before thinking about getting out of bed. I think last weekend I was out of bed around 9am. I also usually get coffee and cooked breakfast given to me at the weekends :)

One of the things I really can't do is stay in bed when I know there's activity going on around the house, which is probably the only reason I don't stay in bed all day. Because that is what I would do if I lived on my own :)

I can't click my fingers either. At least, not properly. I can occasionally get a disappointing sound out of them :); 30 November 2021 at 18:46
Louise Boyd said...: Me too. The most I can get is a dull click. More like a thud, to be honest.
It's very upsetting :(
I could never be in a gangster musical or be a clickety witch >_<

I used to love dark mornings before school - back when I could get up at 7:30am without sounding like I'm genuinely dying of the plague.
There was something weird and wonderful about being awake when the world's asleep.
I've always been a bit crepuscular ^-^
And I wouldn't get out of bed for a cooked breakfast. Nuh uh. Heartburn on a plate.
I'll wait for lunch and eat a giant bowl of Cheerios, thank you :)

I just realised it's 25 days 'til Christmas.
...
FUCK.
If you get a cursed Furby in the post, don't panic, I'm just testing a theory...; 30 November 2021 at 22:52
Dex said...: A cursed Furby? Are you trying to give me a Gremlins Christmas? :) I'm really struggling for present ideas this year. Really struggling!

But you're still always awake when the world's asleep! :) Time of day seems to mean nothing to me when it comes to food. I'll eat anytime and not feel the least bit bad about it :)

Also, crepuscular is an excellent word. Obviously I had to look it up first as I don't know anything :); 1 December 2021 at 19:25
Louise Boyd said...: You're struggling?!
Hah! You know nothing, mister. Every year I curse the day you were born!
...
Not really but damn, you're hard to buy for. If I could load you up with sugar as gifts then I'd do it in a heartbeat 0_0
I don't want to be responsible for your inevitable devolution into a malevolent god of candy, though =/
I can't do that to society.
Think of all the villagers you'd turn into Jelly Babies *-*; 1 December 2021 at 21:46
Dex said...: Send me sugar. You sent me rainbow belts last year and no one was hurt. I think. I'll admit I was in a sugar induced haze for a few days so anything could have happened! :)

I won't say don't buy me anything as I know that makes you want to smash me across the face with a phone book :) But even one thing you think I should read or watch would make me ridiculously happy. Or some sugar :); 2 December 2021 at 19:04

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