Grrr. The last place I want to be is out of bed, setting up the work laptop again...
Never mind, eh? It's a short week for me, as I have booked Thursday and Friday off - just for the sake of it. It also happens to be the birthday of one of our fave 50s sexpots (and former Mrs Xavier Cugat), Miss Abbe Lane, who is 88 years old today. Who better to provide a wake-up call this Tacky Music Monday? - even if her costume changes in this performance do remind one of opening a tin of Quality Street (it's always the gold caramels that are left till last!)...
Lovely.
Have a good, week, dear reader.
It looked to me like she started as a coconut eclair, then mixed in some orange cremes, fudges, & noisette triangles, then finished with that horrid stick-your-teeth-together toffee penny.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the colour code for coconut eclair! I always hate those. And toffees in general, as they tend to pull my crowns off. Jx
DeleteCoconut eclairs are the first ones I go for. Not because they're especially nice, it's just that they're the least repellant...
DeleteI remember them being nicer - I used to love the "Cracknel". Do they still have that, I wonder? Jx
DeleteI don't recall seeing a cracknel in years, Jon! I don't like them myself, but they used to be one of the last to go in the boxes that hung around work in Christmases past.
DeleteI shall have to investigate sources of standalone cracknel, then...
DeleteOne of the Big Stores did a Christmas window with Quality Street theme.Harvey Nic, perhaps. Oh, wait...it would be before your time. Anyway, some shop window was all tricked out like the picture on the tin.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a fab idea - we never had such grandeur in South Wales when I was growing up... Jx
DeleteA window into a foreign world.
ReplyDeleteOh, you rebellious colonists don't know what you're missing if you've never had the tradition of a tin of Quality Street at your Nan's house!
DeleteThat earwax-textured stuff called Hersheys is no comparison. A friend once gifted us some "Candy Kisses". I threw them out and kept the tin. Jx
Oh, I like the second frock!
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, as I am the ambassador for Ferrero Rocher I ought to leave now.
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Hope you've stockpiled, Ms Scarlet - there's bound to be shortages once the hard border goes up against the EU. Jx
DeleteOh, no! I forgot about the Brexit repercussions on Ferrero Rocher!!! I only bought one box at the Co-op the other day - I should have bought everything they had (and they were on offer, too)!
DeleteYou'll just have to make do with good old British Tunnock's Teacakes! You could always wrap them in a bit of gold foil... Jx
DeletePure QUALITY and right up my STREET !
ReplyDeleteBoom-tish! Jx
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