They've made a bit of a come-back, as have old fashioned sweet shops and it's much easier to get hold of these things than it was ten years ago. Though I saw a Sherbet Fountain in my local supermarket at the weekend and it was a plastic tube and didn't have a liqourice sticking out the top. A pale imitation.
Whatever happened to the smokers set I used to get every Christmas? Big chocolate cigars, liquorice pipes with red sprinkles stuck on top of the bowl, coconut loose baccy, and sweet cigarettes in a proper packet. Also chocolate cigarettes with foreign labels round them made of rice paper. Haven't seen them for years. Oh, the innocent pleasures of youth.
The new versions have a chocolate bong, sweet joints made from marzipan skunk...and a licourice crack pipe
Anyone fancy buying the cap that Oldfield was wearing when Harold Larwood fractured his skull...or maybe Russel Crowe’s leather jockstrap?! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...arre-items-in-russell-crowe-s-divorce-auction
Just what I used to think with flying saucers, but it was worth the disappointment of the outer part to get to the sherbet inside.
I’ve definitely seen baggage handling equipment made in Hull at Heathrow, I assume Fenners, so possible.
Wasn’t it Fenamec rather than Fenners, who made baggage handling stuff. I went for an interview there when i got hoofed out on the scrap heap, after my apprenticeship finished. Obviously failed miserably in the interview....
Huntley and Palmers: Biscuit tin sex secrets revealed ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-eng...-and-palmers-biscuit-tin-sex-secrets-revealed
Not everyone's cup of tea but I have made, what I consider, a purchase of the year up to now, Carole Kings Tapestry, 50p, from a charity shop. A CD sleeve with the words and although some of the songs are not to my liking there is enough to have played it constantly on my computer. A few of the songs stand out for me but I blame it all on that show I went to see not so long back at The New Theatre, Beautiful when it dawn on me, belatedly, very belatedly, how brilliant her song writing was, helped by her husband, and then ex-husband Gerry Goffin.
