then caught the bus back to the monster-cat house. It was a busy bus and I sat next to a woman who was muttering angrily, I thought she was just a regular mad person but then I caught some words about kids and biscuits so I agreed wholeheartedly and we were soon best friends exchanging information about our tea habits:
first thing through that door I make a cuppa
me too
with plenty of condensed milk
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and if I go anywhere on holiday my bags are full of teabags and tinned milk
Shuntaro Tanikawa.
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Reminds me of being on a buss in the countryside once...just as a woman was boarding at the farm gate, two little children came running down the hill, shouting to her that "Auntie wants ten tins of con-densed!"
ReplyDeleteit turns out that condensed milk in tea is quite the thing
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ReplyDeleteI remember having to open a tin of Carnation when we'd run out of milk. Desperate measures!
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Carnation reminds me of Grandma x
DeleteI hate buses very much. I can't stand those people that break my comfort zone.
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