Thursday, January 04, 2007

New Year - of the brown bear

I read through my old blogposts this evening and am delighted to report that finally the tatty old green dressing gown of 2005/06 is no more. Santa brought me a new one this year...and slippers too...although the fact they match is pure coincidence.
Now I can lounge around a nice new fluffy brown gown and brown furry slippers...like a huge brown bear. Of course there is no actual fur in any of my furry things, they are good old fashioned acrylic based synthetics...sounds wonderful eh?

Synthetics are just about everywhere...even in tins of treacle pud. The proof really was in the pudding because my mother gave me a tin of microwaveable pud - she has no microwave because, as she will tell anyone who cares to listen, she has nowhere to put one . Anyway we compared the ingredients of this mystery brand pud with that of a well known (household name associated with Beanz) brand...and we were horrified to find that the no brand one contained all manner of synthetic and chemical delights - most of which were totally unpronounceable (by anyone without a degree is biohazardry). We took some comfort that the weel known brand does actually contain recogniseable ingredients of the kind one might expect to find in a treacle pud...even if they were diluted by the presence of chemical stabilisers.

Whilst mother and I discussed our findings with a combination of interest and horror, hubby simply asked if we'd got any custard?

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