Open up your bag and round
a quarter of sweets for half a pound a drumstick lolly that’s hard to beat lemon drops for a special treat chocolate footballs and fizzy drops the magic candy that fizzes and pops cola bottles and sherbet tubes candied shrimps and pineapple cubes Now , don’t eat them all now, they’re a treat, we agree but eat them all and you wont eat the fish and chips for your tea!Sweets
Mis-shapes
Food, Poetry18th August 2018
#chocolate
They’re the bits of your favourite chocolate bars
that didn’t quite make it past quality control
chocolate covered clumped raisins
meet up with lumps of honeycomb
and those dolly mixtures, that shot past the bag
but didn’t hit the factory floor
producing a chocolate surprise – white or brown
sold in bags in each and every town
no search for perfection here – its sold at cost price
but kids they go for it – it tastes just as nice!
Treat
Acrostic, Food, Poetry, SweetsSalford, 4th January 2018
That Tin box in the Christmas bag hides something
Really sweet and tasty
Everyone knows its something special
As you don’t have it to excess
Thing is – you can have some every day – after you’ve eaten your dinner
Banana Split
Acrostic, Food, Poetry, Strawberries, Sweets
Served up in a glass bowl
Wonderful fruit combines with frosty ice cream
Everyone smiling as the bananas are
Enveloped by the Ice cold tastes of strawberry and chocolate and cream
Together – as they melt and mingle – they make a heavenly delight
A colourful place
Art, PoetryThe seeds of creativity
come from a blank page
ideas held in seed form
spread and grow in the mind
a pencil, sandwich and cream soda
the architects tools
as rainbows cast across lemonade seas
marshmallow clouds and fudge trees
provide perfect plates
for a teddy bears picnic
Fudge :)
Cooking, Eating, Food, Poetry, Sweets, Treat, Treats
I.
Butter meets pan
Sugar melts in butter
Both held by cream
II
Sweet little cubes
settle down in the fridge
but don’t set like jelly
III
Chocolate, Cherry, Mint
Lined up in rows alongside Vanilla
Coconut – a favourite
IV
cubes of sweetness
transported to the tongue
heading for hips
Repurpose
Home, Life, PhotographySalford, 28th January 2017
A post for the weekly photo challenge –
Things reused for not what they were supposed to be…
This can be illustrated nicely in my office cum bedroom
Its a Tin, an old biscuit tin….regular readers of my blog might recognise it – but a couple of Christmas’s ago, it held much more than the mere coinage than it does today…
its contained everything from creamy vanilla fudge to chocolate mints.
but today? its a container for my spare change – the odd coppers that end up in my pockets of my trousers and coats. when its reasonably full – i’ll take it down to the local coin machine and pocket the proceeds…which I might spend on a box of fudge or chocolate – and being empty, the tin will be re used again
I was given this tankard on my 21st birthday. Now although I drink beer occasionally, I don’t drink it on a regular basis – and i’m more likely to drink out of a pint glass than a tankard. So, instead of my tankard gathering dust on a shelf (or more likely, collecting windswept desert sand from the nearby Trafford road) I’ve put it to some kind of good use,holding the art materials that I use to create drawings and such you might see on here 🙂 there maybe a time it gets reused as a pint pot – but it’ll be well cleaned before I use it for that ! 🙂
Ice-Cream Mix
Cooking, Food, Fruit, Fun, Treats
A piece in response to the daily post prompt
A new flavour for Ice cream ?
This is a job for my inner child….if not for letting the younger members of my family loose in the kitchen to create to their hearts content
There’s already so many to choose from, it surprises me how the likes of Ben and Jerrys manage to come up with new ones.
However, there’s always something missing from the mix.
I mean – walking into Whittard’s there’s a whole host of flavours for coffee and hot chocolate…
So along those lines – how about a new Neapolitan Ice cream ? a Deconstructed Banana Split, with Banana, Chocolate and Marshmallow flavours. Thing is with Neapolitan is, it doesn’t have to be the same three flavours – pick your favourites and go wild. You could go all zesty with Orange lime or lemon – or even deconstruct a northern English favourite with Vimto inspired flavours – i’m thinking Blackberry, Raspberry and Grape.
You could add your favourite sweets into the mix – Jelly Beans, Chocolate Drops, Popping Candy…”Space Dust” – now that would raise a smile.
And of course there’s always the fun fictional fruits – remember “willy wonkas chocolate factory” – Snozzberry ice cream anybody?
So let the kids loose in the kitchen as their favourite sweets mix with their favourite flavours, banana with chocolate, chocolate with cherries, strawberries and cream…
The Fun thing about it is you’ll have three of your favourite flavours and as it softens coming out of the tub – it’ll mix into a heavenly taste.
Photography@BASIC – Ed.5
Salford, 9th March 2016
Today’s session involved creating ‘reminders’ for our cameras.
We were each given an envelope with tags with the common functions of our cameras and each of us had to write down how to get each function on our camera.
I created my set of ‘tags’ for my Sony Cybershot, (DSC H-300) as its the camera I will be using mostly, to create images for this Blog
How to switch on Flash, what modes were on the camera, and basic file operations were some of the things we had to find and when we had – scribbled the ‘how to’ on the back of each tag…with each member of the group having various different cameras, it will help when we go into more complex processes in creating our photos.
Each set of tags will be laminated so we can use them Indoors and Outdoors.
After we had completed the exercise, we did a spot of close – up photography with some jars of sweets.
Jelly Babies and Cola Bottles
Humbugs and Dolly Mixtures
Old Sweets
Acrostic, Childhood, Food, History, Museum, Museums, Photography, Places, Poetry
A tale of Sweets past in the Window of Matthew Tomlinsons grocers shop at Lark Hill Place, Salford Museum & Art Gallery, by Peel Park.
#Acrostic #Sweets #Museum #Street #Children
Over the passing of time
Lads and lasses tastes change.
Damson Drops and Mint Humbugs go
Sideways for Cola Cubes and sherbet dips
When you cross the cobbles of the Victorian age
Every Mum and Dad smiles as they are reminded of
Each little treat – They were introduced to by their Mum and Dad
Tales of when a shilling would get you a host of delights
Smiling away at the delicious tastes in glass jars
