We bought about six boxes of Matchmakers at Christmas, right, thinking we would give them away to people we visited. Shame we never got invited anywhere. (I guess answering phone calls, emails and texts would have helped.) Anyway, in the end, we had to eat them all ourselves. For the unitiated, Matchmakers are chocolate sticks which look like this .... ... and it's a very clever marketing ploy, to have chocolate in such a thin form. In fact, the advertising even claims that Matchmakers are a healthy diet food .... You too can lose so much weight eating chocolate that you make no indentation on the sofa It's all a Big Lie, of course, because no one, no one, says, after one Matchmaker, 'Hey, guys, I'm STUFFED. Let's put these away and have more tomorrow.' Still, you can nibble away at a Matchmaker while watching Downton Abbey and pretend you are being elegant like them. It makes a change from usual practice ... ... which leads to you...
Guten jour, come esta you
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ReplyDeleteHah!
ReplyDeleteGreetings!
ReplyDeleteLane - I don't speak whatever language that is, but I hope it means, 'There'll be a cheque in the post for a million quid tomorrow morning.'
ReplyDeleteDeborah - ...................... (beat you)
ReplyDeleteSharon - Indeed!
ReplyDeleteMartin - Konnichiwa (Japanese - are you impressed?)
ReplyDeleteSilence is supposed to be golden, but single words are purgatory - where have all your others gone? Here's to verbal diarrhoea, says I! x
ReplyDeleteSo you got the free Guardian booklet of rudimentary Japanese too, did you?
ReplyDeleteI have to say, jinksy, I guess I'd rather have verbal diarrhoea than any other type ... mind you, with the number of liquorice allsorts I've eaten today, who knows?
ReplyDeleteLizzie Love - no, I didn't, though I wish I'd known about it. Daughter at uni studying Japanese. Husband at home studying Japanese. I only know the one word. Not that I feel inadequate or anything ...
ReplyDeleteHey guys - I'm loving this string of comments on my one-word blog post. It appeals to the sense of the ridiculous in me (which seems to be my dominant feature ... something went wrong there).
ReplyDeleteBut your sense of ridiculous is why we're all here in the first place! Well, speaking for myself, at least.
ReplyDeleteDeborah - thanks so much! Stay around then. I can't see things getting sensible anytime soon.
ReplyDelete"Far too short. 's not fair!" said Moptop darkly ...
ReplyDelete"Goodness, I'm glad you turned around before they snapped your photo, Moptop" said Lesley brightly ...
ReplyDelete(tee hee - just keeping the ridiculous string going)
Let idiocy rule! It's irresistible - just like liquorice allsorts...
ReplyDeleteMoptop - 'Sorry about the shortness of it,' she said, briefly.
ReplyDeleteLesley - that's right, just keep it going. It's what makes the world go round.
Jinksy - let it rule, yay! Man the barricades. Hoist the mainsail.
Hi-gher!
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