There should be warnings.

[slemslempike]

After some lean days of cakelessness, there were sweets today, and so I took some of the shinily wrapped treats back to my desk. They are not labelled. This is how I came to be eating a banana flavoured toffee, unable to spit it out for reasons of office ettiquette and the malign adhesiveness of the confectionary. I can't go back and get another one to take the flavour away because I can't remember which colour of wrapper hides the death-taste. You'll have to imagine that I've inserted the appropriate tag.

I like this, which is from a list of Edinburgh tips by Simon Munnery in The List:

"If you see a queue, join it. If you don't see a queue, start one. After all, history has proven time and again that groups of people in lines are never wrong."

Last night I saw Kristin Hersh, which was simply beautiful. She's doing a spoken word sort of autobiography thing, interspersed with bits of her songs. It was sweet and funny and really quite gruesome in places. Her husband (I think?) came out at the start and told us that it was okay to clap songs if we wanted, but we didn't have to, and okay to laugh if we found it funny. So we did.

Comments

[lsugaralmond.livejournal.com]

Hello! When are you moving back to Lancaster? I ask because I just sent your wedding invite to your address there. But I can send another one to your Edinburgh address if you want!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I am moving back in abou two weeks, so that's okay! I will reply as soon as I get back.

[jekesta]

I LOVE BANANA TOFFEE. IT IS LIKE TOFFEE GOLD AND THERE ARE NEVER ENOUGH AND I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU WASTED ONE ON YOUR BROKEN TASTEBUDS. THAT IS ALL.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Urgh. That's disgusting. YOU're disgusting for liking it.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Pople are suggesting queuing as an olympic sport Britain could win. I like the idea of a queue as an event in itself.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I think that the ex-Communist countries would sweep the board and we'd have to find something even more specific.

[whatsagirlgotta.livejournal.com]

Ooh Kristin Hersh I remember seeing her ages ago in Manchester.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

She was absolutely fantastic, and I'm so glad I went.

[whatsagirlgotta.livejournal.com]

Oh good.

[carmine-rose.livejournal.com]

Urgh. The number of times I've been tricked by banoffee, that unholy duo of flavours. Keep banana out of my toffee-flavoured things!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I know! Normally I am quite aware and notice banana trying to sneak into things, but I just saw lovely toffee and let my guard down.