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big az
(a make of ice cream apparently)
electro freeze
electro freeze has got to be the most fantastic name for an ice cream machine. still going strong it seems
ice-olated
i was quite pleased with that title !
brownie pizza
brownie base, pink icing, sprinkled white chocolate and M&Ms, chocolate fish or pineapple lumps. all good.
sugar
chelsea sugar welcomes all visitors
jelly strawb
sweets are lollies in the land of the kiwi
red lolly green lolly
Comments are still broken, so here's a manual update:
Carolyn says "Shame the green one wasn't yellow"
Dave Funkypancake says "good point. i shall make it my business to find one"
hokey pokey
great serving suggestion. pile your ice cream on top of a load of baked beans
it's a real kiwi favourite
apparently
the gorgeous lolly tree
kiwis call sweets "lollies". makes me laugh everytime
overloaded ice cream cornet
too much ice cream shoved in to too small a cone was always going to be trouble. the proprietor pointed out the crack in the cornet before handing it over. then he saw esther struggling so brought her a little tub to put it in to. but the tub was too small so he then brought a plate and a spoon. that's what happens when you are generous to start with. you have to follow it up with more generosity or the whole thing back fires.
let that be a lesson to al of us.
the ones that no one likes
this sweet container has been at work for weeks. seems no one likes these particular coloured ones (although i note there are a couple of rogue yellow ones left)
'fresh' ice cream
i suspect these have been here a while
dalek dies of cherry bakewell overdose
i love supermarkets. i love the way things are organised together, and the aisles and the sounds and everything.
yesterday i went to asda with esther and kezia, and the girls spotted this dalek in with the cherry bakewells. i could imagine intergalactic invaders getting side tracked by cakes and eventually croaking due to the sugar intake.
Humans have the ability to stretch their bodies (especially their bellies) to accommodate extra cake. evil space aliens don't. if only dr who had considered the power of cherry bakewells
church and ice cream van
ice cream van and a church - there's a fantastic title in this picture somewhere - but i can't think of it !
ice cream and toby's head
i had a business lunch last week and at the end we were brought teeny weeny little ice-creams. nice tough i thought.
all sorts
ian said he went to Camberley and there were all sorts there.
pez
i spotted this pez sweet dispenser in the gutter just as one of the friendly street cleaners was brushing it up. i asked him if i could take a photo of it and he kindly held it up for me.
by right, the street cleaners and i should be enemies as they always steal the good stuff before i get to photo it. but in fact we get on great and always greet each other with hearty shouts of 'morning' as we pass each other in the morning.
except over christmas when they changed the cleaning people and they didn't respond to my shouts.
ice cream with flake
i like the simplicity of this sign. '99' would have been even simpler, but probably more cryptic to those who don't know.
esther's last easter egg
esther made her easter eggs last so long that her last big egg has gone out of date. she decided not to eat it.
but i decided we couldn't throw it away and i ate it instead.
it was this blog post that made me do it !
summer
a classic british summer scene. click for desktop sized goodness
that'll melt if you leave it there
it's a giant ice-cream on someone's roof
advertising smarties
smarties are great. little bits of chocolate, all those colours. the whole missing british blue smarty thing, and the allegedly addictive orange ones which turn you hyperactive.
i liked this marketing ploy which was to remove the colour altogether.
smarties are one of those food which work better the more shove in your mouth. it works for crisps too (especially pringles).
enjoyment = (total number of items shoved in to your mouth) squared.
this formula breaks down slightly before the point of choking. you have been warned.
chips and ice-cream
i took our girls to a cafe at the weekend and we all had a go at scopping up blobs of ice-cream with hot chips.
it tasted quite horrid. so i wouldn't recommend it. unless you like eating horrid things. then you can.
i tried inserting this chip in to esther's 99. unfortunately the heat of the chip cut through the low grade ice-cream like, well, a hot chip through ice-cream, and fell on the table. that doesn't happen with flakes we said to each other.
that day, my daughters and i learnt an important lesson about food. unfortunately i've forgotten it since so i can't pass it on.
