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Pick’n'mix – we were discussing this at work today, techniques for getting the most sweeties for your money, the obvious one being staying away from the fudge.  Delicious as it is, it’s heavy – and with picn’n'mix heavy = expensive!

My own personal favourite used to be the woolies cup fill p’n'm.  Basically £1.99 and you could take as many sweets as you could fit into a cup and fit a lid on.  I had a technique as well.  First you should get the small dolly mixtures and put some to the bottom, half fill the cup with slightly larger sweeties, (here’s the important part) then a couple of mall scoops of the smaller sweeties and give the cup a good shake, thus allowing them to fall fown the cracks between the larger ones.  I’ve seen far too many people walk to the checkout with a cup full of air – what a waste (or is that waist)

Woolies Pick'n'mix

One would repeat this process until the cup was full to the brim and just be able to fit the lid on!

Well good news folks – Woolies pick’n'mix is back!!  Well an online version which sends the sweeties to your house.  OK so it’s not the same, you can’t sneakily nibble on a sweet as you fill your bag (not that anyone ever would!) but the age old institution of mixing up sweeties is back again!  It’s even got sound effects!  I’m a bit disappointed that there are no foam bananas but it’s great craic even if you’re not buying.

It's wrong - just wrong

Of course if you’re nostalgic for sweeties from your childhood – chocolate foil cups perhaps, or maybe even golden nuggets – what about chocolate cigarettes (try getting them passed now!)  A Quarter of dot com is the place to go – you’ll be amazed at the old time sugar mountain they have available!

All that said – this is wrong – just wrong! Sherbet Fountain should be in a paper pack not these newfangles paper ones.

I’ve seen a few dodgy reviews of this movie, which I saw last light, but I have to say that I quite enjoyed it.  Washington was excellent as the now4 stone heavier NYC Transit worker and Travolta was Hopperesque (is that a word? – it is now) as the evil Ryder.  I thought it was a bog standard, formulaic thriller that hit all the spots for me.

Either that of I’m starting to like “daddy films”!

The Mullan and Connolly clans had a great holiday in Donegal this year, with some weather to make you think we left this wee island of ours.

(Below are photos – if you’re prompted for a password just think of where we live in lowercase)

For the first time in years my eyes aren’t streaming at the very thought of summer – I’m sleeping without snoring, no nosebleeds, I could mow the lawn without a face mask!

It’s official – I love my doctor! She precribed me some wonderful drugs and they’ve really transformed my days from mysery to… well… great days!

Visiting places with great deals of vegitation need never be a problem again!