Fionnghuala's Journal

I now understand how a cup of tea can be refreshing in the heat. After hours of trawling through Hay-on-Wye offerings I was both hot and real thirsty, and I knocked back a restorative cup of tea super fast, with the gentle scorching sensation in my throat making me feel cool and soothed. This has never happened to me before, and I don't think I really believed it ever could, despite mrmisanthropy's wild claims.

Today I was nosing about the biscuit section, when I noticed you can now get Oreos in quite respectable sized packets... I have long refused to buy them in those tiny, over-priced snack packs. I snapped them up, thinking they would be a talking point with my American tea-guests. This is a thinly veiled rationalisation, I rarely have American tea-guests, and all grown-ups reject Oreos anyway. Turns out there are things your core sense of self just never stop missing...