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Sun_Addict

I can remember my mum having a jar of maraschino cherries for snowballs, similar to glace cherries but in some sort of syrup. She had plastic sword cocktail sticks to skewer them on. I used to love sneaking a couple out too, wouldn't like them now, far too sweet. 

Tightpants24

Snowballs reminds me of 1970s New Year's Eve parties.  Obligatory vol au vents, cheese and pineapple on sticks stuck into a foil covered grapefruit, and mini hot dogs.  Great times.

Blackcats

Hi SH - I liked the glacé cherries that were used for cakes and SA reminded me that the cocktail cabinet cherries were maraschino cherries and they were yummy too. No plastic sword cocktail sticks in our house just the plain wooden cocktail sticks.  Feeling a bit deprived now. 🤣.  

Yes tightpants, the snowballs were New Year's Eve treats.  We also had ritz crackers with a swirl of primula cheese spread on as part of our buffet and sausage rolls.  I think the lady guests drank cinzano and lemonade and the men had beer from a Party 7 tin or Double Diamond.  Although I remember one year there was a bottle of cherry brandy for the ladies which was very continental.  

Blackcats

I plucked up courage to request a flexible working arrangement and I'm really pleased that from 1st July I'll be working a 9 day fortnight 😃.  My boss tried to push me towards going part time but I held firm and requested under the flexible working policy as a carer.  

I've reviewed the 5th April to 4th May budget and it just about balances but only because the underspends on various categories balanced out the unplanned £75 garden centre spend. Overall £4.50 overspend.   Garden centres are so tempting so I've put in a category of spends for the next couple of months.  I'm going to sort through all my plant pots and I've grown a few plants from seed so I'll occupy myself like that rather than being tempted by the "ready made" plants at the garden centre.  

Tomorrow I will buy £25 premium bond and move £50 each into 2 pots and £100 into another pot.  Then nothing further money wise until 18th when I will have a further £200 available which I hope I won't need so it can go into the holiday savings pot.  

Sun_Addict

Party 7s 🤣 I can remember lads bringing them to parties back in the 70s. When I think back they were only about 14 or 15 😱 Don’t even mention Cinzano 🤮 I totally ruined my 18th birthday party by starving myself for weeks beforehand to fit into skin tight trousers a la Olivia Newton John in Grease, a couple of Cinzanos and I was off my head and passed out. My mum was not amused to say the least.

Great news about the flexible working 👏

Blackcats

Sun addict - you made me laugh out loud!  Those Olivia Newton John trousers have a lot to answer for.  Grease was on tv a few weeks ago and I'd underestimated how eye wateringly tight they were.  I was horrifically sick as a teenager after a couple of Pernod and blacks - there was a very vibrant purple stain on the pavement for a good few weeks afterwards.  

Sun_Addict

Pernod and black also off my list after a very bad experience on my 20th birthday 🤮🤣

Blackcats

I'm not sure Pernod and black is a great combination in any circumstances.
Weather was horrid earlier but looks a bit brighter now.  Enjoyed a nice day at home pottering about.  Did some tidying in my office - on the surface it looks tidy but there are lots of papers in storage boxes and a few folders with out of date bills and papers in.  

I've tackled 1 storage box and shredded the unwanted papers.  Amazing how a little bit of sorting feels so good.  

I finished listening to my audiobook - One Moment by Linda Green - one of the best books I've listened to for a long time.  Beautifully narrated too.  

Home made pizza for tea and then I need to find something to watch on tv which might be easier said than done. 

foxgloves

Lol @Blackcats & @Sun_Addict, I tried a pair of those trousers on, aged 14, in a local boutique. I broke the zip because they would only ever have fitted a twig. I remember sneaking them back on the rack without the assistants seeing & never going in the shop again in case I had to pay for them.
Re cinzano..... I ended up in casualty when a bottle of the stuff fell on me at a 6th form party!
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Blackcats

🤣 those black Sandy style trousers.  I never even tried to get a pair on - not because I was really sensible but I knew that there was no way my parents would let me go out of the house in them.  I bought a short ra ra skirt when they were fashionable - my dad warned me not to go upstairs on the bus when wearing it!  
Cinzano 😳 clearly needs a health and safety warning !