Chateau Gizzy - The Commune finally opens at the University of Milton North

[DumSpiroSpero]

Well, it's about time.

Now all we need are furnishings and decorations...

Flipping Allan, spoiling the view...

I must admit, Massive, I rather prefer Lady D's close up.

Mr S has the boys round for cards so the smell of kebabs and chips is wafting through the house and all I can find to nibble is a bloody sherbet dip left over from Halloween.

The first two Spiro? Oh my yes! The third? Meh, not so much.

A sherbet dip? Bliss!

Won't they give you a chip, Spiro?

I am not going to go into detail about why i like that pic, though it isn't particularly rood. Believe it or not

It's not bad actually Maud - it's a spooky dip with three different flavoured dips, although I usually go for the traditional lemon sherbet & boiled sweet type lolly.

I am now craving a proper sherbet dip. With lolly.

Small - I quite agree. Shrink-wrapping is not a good look for the Christmas turkey or anything else.

Don't they do the licorice stick straw with them now, Spiro?

LadyD's close-up is tres gentil but this time it's Vaisey spoiling the view.

Oh, go on Massive - tell us...

You're thinking of a sherbet fountain, Massive.

That's sherbet fountains and they have now replaced the liquorice straw with a plastic one - Philistines.

I'm on one of these (Miss Spiro's sherbet of choice

My preference is the more traditional sherbet dipdab

Plastic straws? What is the world coming to?

Spooky synchronicity once again! There are no sweets in the house.

::chews carpet::

Those Spoky dips are the ones I love - but what were they called originally (ie. not the Halloween version?) The dipping stick is goooooorgeous in those ones.

Anyway, stop talking about sweets. #diet

No sweets here either. I have just had to resort to a rice cake.

Plastic straws are v.wrong!

I have to admit the synchronicity going on here of late is really quite something...

::yanks Maud away from the carpet::

There's enough worn patches in hay Aubusson without you chewing any more in it, young lady.

Mmmm, Sherbet Dip Dab - I love the instant sugar hit you get from those.

Yes Twigs the dipstick is much nicer than the regular one which is presumably why I ate it first without thinking and had to 'chug' the remaining sherbet

They were Double Dips I think.

A rice cake?

I am sure rice cakes could actually be sued under the trade descriptions act as they are the least cake-like substance on the planet. AND they don't go hard when they are stale, which is, of course, the ultimate test of what actually constitutes a cake.

Put some jam on the next one - at least then you get a small sugar hit and it will taste of something too.

But then, I did have a Lamington tonight.

#possiblythebestcakeofalltime

Double dips indeed.

What's a Lamington?

Marmite rice cakes with hummous...yum!

I am really more of a savoury than sweet-toothed person (although the sherbet and last night's Matchmakers might beg to differ).