Excuse me, do you have a job?
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Yep, during Corona I have been doing work as an academic consultant and freelance researcher. I was going to go back into teaching this September (after my doctors hold me to rest after trying to kill myself again in February) but Corona got in the way again.
This year luckily removed my weakness of caring about face and reputation. So I have no issues admitting about what would be called career killing problems.
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Oh dear, I’m happy you’ve made an about face. All of that face and reputation business is overrated anyway. Enjoy your hard earned stash!
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I remembered that I used to love this stuff as a child but they don’t make it like they used to. I’m hoping this mix will peak my memories.
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Thanks, it made me better at being an impartial academic in the end (though the process had its moments). As I just approach all freely now, I earn oddly interesting friends as a result. And, enemies from all that I detest.
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Definitely a childhood winter filler for me. We would all compare who had the best warming drink at primary school and then one kid showed the stones in his pocket which his mother had put in the aga before bed.
Either I’m old or from a posh area.
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I loved Ovaltine as a child and I remember my Mum buying me the Ovaltine chocolate bar from our local chemist that she would pass on her walk home from work. I remember the orange wrapper well but sadly haven’t seen any about since those early days. Horlicks was another nice hot milky drink and I remember there were also Horlicks sweets in a long paper tube that was also sold in the local chemist’s. Happy days.
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Ovaltine chocolate bars were a thing an age ago. I’ve not seen them after the days when Euthymol sweets and cigarette chocolates left this reality.
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You are right and I remember those days well. The Euthymol tooth powder that was pink and came in a little round tin tasted ghastly to me so why anyone would want to eat the sweet’s was beyond me. I drew the line at Fisherman’s Friends which I also think would make an excellent vape juice for those winter months and chesty cough’s. That was a nice trip down memory lane.
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Man, this one has proved to be QUITE the addiction.
I gotta up my sourcing, as I’m having to make the stones in 120ml bottles now.
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Chemist’s? Another British word that doesn’t jive with me. Do you mean the local pharmacy/apothecary that also sells sundries?
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Oh my goodness, you just jogged my memory. Like these?
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Is this what you mean?
We have those here, too, and I love them. I agree they would make a great vape, especially if you have a stuffy nose and chest.
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Oh yes, that’s them.
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I’m a huge fan of Fisherman’s friends and all my friends around the world became addicted to them. As I’m stuck in the UK, I get regular requests to post them around the world, along with Jakeman’s
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We are obviously both gentlemen of a certain age Sir.
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We do have a shortage of apothecaries these days and sadly a return of their plague masks probably won’t go down well.
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I’m going through all the vapes in my long steep cupboard and my mad gooseberry cocktail idea is spot on at 9 1/2 weeks. Now I need to remember who’s recipe it was an adaption of using only Flavorah.
Edit: Just remembered: It was @Plunderdrum’s.
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