My wife and I.

Thursday 7th September 2017.

Having been married for a third of a year Janice reminded me that one of the conditions that she agreed to the marriage was that I wouldn't make fun of her in the blog.  How wrong she was to trust me!


Janice offered to drive from the start.  The van has an immobiliser fitted that needs to be disarmed by pressing a button on the key fob.  Janice had forgotten all about it and was unable to get the van started.  Even after I told her to press the large button on the fob she managed to press a different part of the key.  I should say that she has driven the van on several occasions previously!!  She deserves to be teased.

Here is proof that she managed to get the van going!

The first test of the blog is to name the sweet?  No, it isn't Moffat Toffee, that is the shop that it was bought at.  Janice's dad bought us the sweets as a nostalgic sweet from the past.  Janice didn't know what it was.....do you?

Whilst travelling we were reminded that in our last blog we predicted the demise of Sir Bruce Forsyth and it was sad when my prediction came true last month.  What reminded me of it was listening to Neil Sedaka as a guest on the Ken Bruce show and I am now hoping he might be soon to depart too.  I saw him later on the TV One Show but sadly he looked in good health!!  I'm not a very nice person am I! 

Talking of people I'm not keen on, I also felt happy that we were going abroad so I won't have to listen to the Jeremy Vine lunchtime programme for a while.  I'm fed up of his superciliousness as he routinely undermines every aspect of our national organisations.  Today his topic was on the amalgamation of two police forces and managed to include regurgitated stories of policing disasters that had no specific connection to an amalgation.  He will probably continue to overcharge the British tax payer for his annual BBC salary of £700,000 for many years to come!  He justifies his salary by virtue of doing his Eggheads quiz in addition to the radio programme....and what a boring repetitive, slow moving quiz programme that is!  It could be presented by anyone who can read a question from a card.  It certainly isn't his personality that attracts the viewer....he has the impertinence to think that someone else couldn't do a better job for less money.  It's good to have a little rant on the blog again without mentioning David Beckham either.

Anyway, moving on......

We are going as far as St Albans today, to visit Laura, Oli and James for the weekend.  I don't intend to blog again for a day or two.

We managed a little bike ride once we arrived at St Albans.  Only as far as Sainsburys supermarket to get ingredients for a curry for tea.  It was lovely to see Laura and Oli.  Sadly, the weather down here was very similar to our Kendal weather that we have had for the last 6 weeks whilst St Albans has previously been having warmth and sunshine.


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  1. Unknown7 September 2017 at 14:29

    Easy... it's colt's foot rock.
    Normally made by Stockley Sweets of Oswaldtwistle!
    Made using extract of the Colts foot plant which has a horse foot shaped leaf.
    It is famous favourite sweet similar in familiarit to Kendal mint cake.
    .... unless I'm wrong and it's something else.

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    1. Richard8 September 2017 at 01:14

      Well done David. I think you have to be a certain age to remember and maybe from Lancashire? From Oswaldtwistle, what a grand place....where the Bubble Factory is! It is a little known fact that during the Empire period we manufactured bubbles for the world!

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