A selfie of me and @lateturn in front of our train at Sleaford. It's a class 170 and we are in platform 3. The train has just shunted from platform 1
Absolute scenes at Sleaford earlier with @lateturn.bsky.social. If I look frazzled, it's because I was ๐ A challenging day but it helps when you work with the best of the best ๐๐ป
I wonder if they still have this utterly terrifying snowman effigy at the base of the big wheel where you queue ๐ณ went in 2016 and it terrified me hahah
Thank you ๐๐ค
My boi!!!
๐ Literally the greatest compliment!! Thank you
๐ the great dentist conspiracy theory!!
They are okkkkkk. Wish they had a chocolate centre personally
Finally ๐ thank you
Thank you, took some time ๐
Glad to be of service ๐ซก๐คฉ
A photo of my partner Dan sitting on the sofa rolling his eyes in jest
Thank you to my long-suffering @mrdannyp.bsky.social who has to wait every year until I do my critical analysis to actually eat them
The same photo of 2024's sweets laid out
Also can we discuss the terrible choices that have been made here- who asked for 8 toffee pennies?! Absolutely no one. And I'm still mourning the loss of the caramel brownie in 2021 tbh. And 7 pissing coconut eclairs?! Gimme more Strawberry delights and then we'll talk.
A photo showing the box on the weighing scales. It has the sweets inside. The total weight shows 751g -the box is 111- meaning that the sweets weigh 640g!
Some facts. There hasn't been any shrinkflation here- compared to the same size as last year, we actually have more sweet-age. In 2023, the weight of sweets themselves was under 600g, which the box claimed to be!! This year, thankfully we have 640g of actual sweets. Good work Nestlรฉ (box is 111g)
A photo of Quality Streets from this year laid out on my front room carpet. They are laid out in a colourful 'graph' style with the sweets that are the most plentiful in the box on the far left, across to the sweets that are least numerous on the far right. In this box, there are 8 toffee pennies; 7 strawberry delights, orange cremes, fudges, caramel swirls, coconut eclairs; 6 toffee fingers, Purple Ones; 4 Green Triangles, orange crunches and milk chocolate blocks.
A similar photo from 2021 showing the range of quality streets from a larger tin. The most plentiful sweets are caramel swirls with 13, and the fewest are green triangles with 4
A similar photo from 2022 showing the range of quality streets from a 600g box. The most plentiful sweets are toffee fingers with 8, and the fewest are green triangles & chocolate blocks with 4
A similar photo from 2023 showing the range of quality streets from a 600g box. The most plentiful sweets is fudge with 8, and the fewest are green triangles & chocolate blocks with 4
WELL folks. Time to move my yearly Quality Street analysis over to Bluesky. And boy what a year it is in this niche confectionery world...
Some pics included of past years entries for context.
This is so upsetting to read. No one should go to work and never come back
๐๐ I did myself dirty
THE WORST ANGLE OF ME ๐
To almost quote @raves.bsky.social โ it's amazing what a lot of train nerdery can accomplish!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgUK...
My cat black Pippin looking very demure, with his yellowy-green eyes half closed and up towards the side
'Famous' picture of Princess Diana with her iconic 'side eye' expression in the Panorama special interview that she did in 1995
Lady Di is back, in black cat form
A photo of the Christmas wreath I made against a backdrop of our kitchen, which has blue-ish cupboards and mustard tiles. The wreath is mostly made of fir tree greenery, holly leaves, ivy, and lots of berries including holly, pyracantha, pink snowberries and rosehips
A close-up of the wreath showing all the berries
A photo of the wreath on our rainbow doormar
It's that time of year when we go for a walk, I get stuck in lots of brambles, then make a wreath out of what hasn't managed to kill me. Cheated slightly with some Pyracantha berries from our front garden, but they look kinda like fairy lights ๐ฅฐ
Seems like it might not be airing this evening due to the flooding at Northampton station unfortunately, hopefully Tuesday it'll be out ๐ค๐ป
Free him!!!
19 more spaces filled I think!
Look out on Monday evening's BBC Look East for the full story!
Gathering of approx.20 people in front of "All Aboard to Northampton" ticket collection.
We all congregated at Northampton to add many new tickets!!
He was given the opportunity. And chose to stay ๐ซก
I tried to post this earlier. Damn meridian signal ๐
A photo of our black cat who has climbed behind our glass shower curtain and is sitting on the corner of the bath behind it, looking at me as if he is trapped forever
He's in prison
I've been to Norwich 2 days in a row and have been disappointed at how the snow gradually disappeared the further east we got ๐ญ
Thank you ๐