Party pooper LJ!
Oct. 7th, 2012 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartWell, folks, it seems that LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But I still have most of the comments in my inbox, and will re-post the original entry and list the available comments with the simple mentioning of the names, if it's all right with you. If not, tell me, and I'll delete yours.
We won't allow LJ to crash our party!
Original post
Hi folks! *waves*
Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.
So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!
You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.
Cheers!
Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.
Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.
NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.
We won't allow LJ to crash our party!
Original post
Hi folks! *waves*
Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.
So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!
You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.
Cheers!
Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.
Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.
NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.
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Date: 2012-10-07 06:55 pm (UTC)I shall have to try that, as we have lots of mint plants in pots on the patio & I love the taste of mint. I've drunk something called mint tea & not enjoyed it, but I think that was black tea with mint.
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Date: 2012-10-07 06:56 pm (UTC)You have to be careful with mint tea; often you may get green tea with mint. This may be a perfectly good drink, but if you had your heart set of something very minty it will leave you disappointed.
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Date: 2012-10-07 06:57 pm (UTC)Green tea would be ok, but I think what I had was black tea. It was very odd. There are lots of French tea brands which mix herbs/fruit with black tea, which are (in my experience) invariably awful.
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Date: 2012-10-07 06:59 pm (UTC)Ah yes, you get a lot of 'fruit teas' in Sweden that are black tea with some fruit flavouring. I do not like them at all! I don't mind black tea, without the fruit flavouring, but I like it with milk. That doesn't quite work with the fruit thrown in...
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Date: 2012-10-07 07:00 pm (UTC)To the current day, the mere idea of tea with milk baffles the living highlight out of me. I don't know why. Perhaps because when I was a child, milk striclty belonged into the coffee... Well, into the strange product that was sold to us as coffee and never saw a single coffee bean in its sorry existence.
We only had black tea back then, and we drank it with honey because a: we didn't have lemons, either and b: because it mostly went as cold medicine.
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Date: 2012-10-07 07:03 pm (UTC)We used to get honey-and-lemon water to soothe sore throats when we had colds. To this day I dislike the taste of honey, but this remedy is very good! I get around the problem by adding lots and lots of lemon juice to the point of almost completely masking the honey.
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Date: 2012-10-07 07:10 pm (UTC)My Mother who was actually born English doesn't drink 'normal' tea at all and her father always drank it weak and without milk.
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Date: 2012-10-07 07:11 pm (UTC)I can't speak for all the English, obviously, but I think that would be quite unusual. I have relatives by blood or marriage from a lot of different regions of the country, and a fair spread of classes, and all of them (except me) drink Typhoo or English Breakfast type tea, with milk, by the bucketful.