Robert Poste's Child

Man

Ssh. She's sleeping. If you kiss her she may wake, like the princess in the story.

When McDonalds opened its first branch in London, my father drove us up from Kent (no M25 yet so it seemed much further) and we were amazed by how thick the milkshakes were. Reminds me - strawberry Nesquik. Tizer and cherry Corona, making ice cream floats by adding a spoonful of vanilla ice cream. Neopolitan ice cream cut into blocks and eaten sandwiched between two wafers. Messrs Softy and Whippy on a day out.

Heron

One for the new councillors' thread, perhaps?

Sainsbury's may be watching. Penguins, Viennetta and Mr Kipling French Fancies all reduced.

Oxter

Soup

The one in the tin? Still looks tasty. I secretly still like Spam.

Ovate

Magic

Covey

Stud

Credo

Fish fingers, goes without saying. Hula hoop sandwiches, white bread, ketchup. Happy days.

Instant mashed potato, especially the bacon one. I may have posted about this before but I make no apology for that. Life-enhancing, particularly at the end of an evening in the pub.

Baron

Toast toppers! I'd forgotten those. They were really big in the toasted sandwich-maker era in the early 80s.

What's been going on to make you say that, Lavender? Hope everything's OK.

Amusing article by Grace Dent in the Guardian on processed food's part in working class people's lives, particularly if you grew up in the 70s and 80s. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/02/grace-dent-processed-food-delicious-msg-sprinkled-class-war I'm not sure she's right though. My memory is that in the 60s and early 70s, the days of the space race and cold war, it seemed exciting to add milk to powder and make a chocolate mousse, or to unwrap foil from a mini roll. My childhood was long way from hers but we loved a lot of those things. For birthdays you'd have much preferred a processed shop cake to a homemade one. Your granny bought you Penguins even if your mother wouldn't. It made me wonder, which processed foods did you love back then and are there any you still love now? I used to love frankfurters; can't bear the lack of texture now. Still love Frosties and squirty cream (not together ... ooh, might have to try that, though, perhaps with strawberries).

The Brockwell Park one is three days, finishes Sunday night. Pray for rain...

Two proof points of the same thing, surely: that men (presumably older ones if they're in positions to make these decisions) are still treating women as inferior to men, chiefly because they are women. So in the NHS female doctors are (by last week's account) 25% 'less than' male doctors in the same roles. If those in power have already deemed women to be inferior to their male colleagues, why on earth would they promote them? When I was at school we accepted that women could do anything men could. That was going on for forty years ago. For public institutions (never mind the private sector) to be doing this still and, worse, showing no urgency to close the gap now it has been proven, is utterly sickening and indefensible. And if you're a woman, don't expect to be taken seriously or promoted after the age of 45.

Thanks for posting that. A refreshingly rational and reasonable account.

I expect her as PM to connect with people's cncerns and show empathy - or at least be very good at faking it.

I'm not sure they're real people. Bots maybe.