I have faxed you the caramel wafers and snowballs that just sit around and some Fisherman's Friends for the cough.

Oh, he's adorable!

I got this 😬

I have mental picture of you scribbling feverishly (probably with a quill) on a dirty piece of parchment by the light of a guttering candle.

Take it easy, I hope you're feeling better soon.

Re. ROTLA, when Marion's character is introduced she says (approx.), 'I was a child, you knew it was wrong!' I think IJ was her dad's intern. So, he was not a child. And why does everyone in that film seem to have spare white gowns lying around?

B&M!!! Popped in to see if they had some inexpensive plants (they did but they were sooooo underwater they were dying), as was walking through the biccy section I thought to check their Tunnocks selection. They only feckin' well had caramel logs!!!

In other news, I've decided the best way to eat teacakes is to unwrap the bottom. Bite off and eat the biscuit. Then stuff the fluff and chocolate in your gob.

Currently watching Raiders of the Lost Ark, did Indiana Jones have a relationship with Marion when she was a child?

I've discovered why they're called Tunnocks. Well, two possible reasons actually.

Either because one puts on a ton in weight, or because one ends up looking like a little tun or barrel.

I've just tried on a couple of dresses I need to wear in a week or so's time and it's no Tunnocks for the foreseeable. And no, I can't afford new dresses.

It is a far, far better thing that I do...

I have run out of all Tunnock’s goodness, so had to resort to a Nutella sandwich. But I’m straight off to the Sainsbury’s order, to add all the Tunnock’s products I can find.

I was just stopped in Asda and asked if I knew <points to shopping list written by his caree judging by his uniform and the elderly handwriting> and it was Tunnocks wafers! Yes sir, they have excellent taste, let me show you the way to the glorious caramel wafers. They are delicious, you should try them. Of all the people in Asda to ask he asked me and I didn't even have any in my basket at that point and we were over near the bread. Of course I put two packs in my basket to demonstrate I meant what I said about being delicious. I need to go and eat one five now to round off the day.

It took at least a dozen. Well, no more than two dozen. Probably. I'm taking things very carefully. Any teacake that ends up on the floor will stay there until DH or DD recovers it.

I'm sorry to hear about your Tunnocks problem. But think of the joy at some point in the coming weeks when you open a random cupboard and discover a container full of Tunnocks.

Every day is pride day these days. I couldn't bear to click on the Manchester pride stories on the Manchester Evening News. Poor journalism at the best of times but I dread to think what their version of "photos that sum up manchester pride" is. Autocorrect tried to change Manchester to man heater. That's a first. Man heater pride has a certain ring to it though. It's all about the men that's for sure. I was relieved to visit London in August and see all the pride with all the extra bits added flags had been replaced by cubes of art. It's not a rainbow it's a trans and fetish bow.

I decided to have a caramel wafer yesterday to test my willpower. I has 2 in the end and could have easily eaten 3 but I resisted.

Dd is back at school next week and I'm hoping she does take Under The Duvet Of Darkness with her. They have a whole alphabet soup section in the school library so I hope there'd be no issues.

Loads of good news. I haven't taken any codeine for 24 hours so I'm good to go back to work next week. More importantly, I have mastered cutting a teacake into four without cracking the chocolate dome or causing the base to crumble. I will be able to enjoy eating a quartered teacake with an afternoon cup of tea when I'm back at work. I just have to explain why I have a small, sharp kitchen knife in my bag.

Oh, <casts wary eye at MN> trending? What's he been up to?

I think it's a sacrifice that the organisers of Pride make to give the train unions bounteous opportunities to go on strike.

Ah, you've been busy. I engineered a short weekend away so the kids couldn't go to Manchester Pride, we've just travelled back through part of Yorkshire. We passed so many, two, Booth's supermarkets. I bet they've got all the Tunnocks. I couldn't think of an excuse to stop and go in one.

I did get my paws on some Abernethy biscuits. That I bought because I remembered them from another thread. Just tried one, nice, like if a rich tea and a digestive had a baby.

Apropos of nothing, typical Manchester weather today.

Yes you are, old fashioned cunty kind! 😁

Day 4 of detox.
NS what now?? Nooooo. Well. I suppose she has to have some good points. I liked her during covid. She was swift and decisive and didn't flop about all apologetic and ineffectual like Boris. But then everything else I'm aware of about her just ruined my pet emotion if her.

Ds and I thoroughly enjoyed the vacuum chamber thank you.

We've had home made flapjacks and gingerbread today on our day out. We spent yesterday baking gingerbread, flapjacks, bread, pizza and garlic bread. We used costa to use the toilet only. If I'd been acosta'd on the way out I'd have told them that they are welcome to my bladder contents but not my custom due to their transbow coffee cups and that despicable mastectomy glorifying image they proudly broadcast. Has that been removed or are they standing by it?

Can we just pretend we didn’t hear that? And is it wrong to cast a witchy spell that all her wafers be soft?