parcelboy2 said:
A Mr whippy 99 ice cream (soft serve ice-cream with a Cadburys flake in it )
just
the one flake??? (you'll never grow up to be a big girl :smile1
we used to get screwballs of the iced-cream man. calm down, it's not what
you think (he wasn't a politician :biggrin
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you get a bubbly at the bottom (i said 'calm down'!
), no melted iced-cream running down your forearm, a spoon to eat it with, no iced-cream falling off the cone as you walk/run/skip/jump and you get to stamp on the upturned carton :smile:
more recently, i have what i call 'hedgehogs', which is just an oyster,
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but with 7 or more flakes.....and loads of raspberry sauce ('blood': cos it was attacked by
The Mods:
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messy as hell to eat, but that's modkill for you.
but really, rose-tinted spectacled nostalgia aside, and i know it may be hard for some to grasp, but weather-watching/waiting is what typifies summer for me (and probably for most Britons).
everything depends upon the weather and it's the first thing you check in the morning and the last thing at night. last summer was 'great' as we had a long spell of 'summery' weather in which to get jobs done, have fun, etc.
this year, it's mostly been,
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or on the verge of. The Met Office has been calling it
changeable, but they really mean
unpredictable and this, of course, puts the kybosh on planning work and fun. apparently, they've had nice summer, down south.
and when it does turn
proper summery, it'll do it in an instant, jumping ten degrees or more and leaving everybody puffing and panting and seeking shade, amidst the frantic efforts to
make hay while the sun shines.
so, yeah, the weather.