Beyond A Joke!

I think Nigel’s fascination for all things of a building site type nature may have gone a little too far …. and could now be regarded as bordering on the obsessional!

Fortunately,  I was with him when he spotted a pair of abandoned work gloves on the way to work …. one of my looks and a robustly stern “No”,  was enough to prevent him from picking them up and squirrelling them way ….

However, I had noticed that over the past few days he had been skulking, quite furtively,  at the bottom of the garden …. and disappearing for hours in the shed ……

….. call it instinct,  but I had a strange Derek Acorah feeling that he was up to something ……

….. I am not proud of it, but I decided that I ought to follow and sneak up on him …. and see what held so much fascination for him in the shed, as I was sure it wasn’t plant pots and compost ……

…… Poor Nigel, when he saw me,  he nearly jumped out of his skin ….. and his guilty little face said it all …

….. because, goodness knows where he had got them from or how he’d snook them past Darrell and I without rousing our suspicions,  …. but not only had he procured a “no smoking” sign ……

…… but also an old road lamp ………….. Oh Nigel,  …. what are we going to do with him ….. I fear a midnight knock on the door any day now,  with Castle Greysquirrel being torn apart brick by brick by the Roadwork's Police trying to recover other similar stolen paraphernalia!!!!

Confectionary Review–Cadbury Dairy Milk With Oreo

A little while ago one of our readers, Jen, extolled the virtues of Cadbury’s new Dairy Milk with Oreo’s, and naturally we felt that it would look most rude if we did not follow up her recommendations,  as she felt and we quote “….. it rates very, very highly on the Richter scale of noms”

So with that Darrell was duly dispatched to the village Tesco Express to make a considered purchase, to wit one large bar of Dairy Milk with Oreo.

All we could say/can say is OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, no detailed review is necessary, suffice to say it ticked all our boxes many times over …… 1,001% nom, nom, nom ….Forget the Richter scale …. this is on the Hynek Scale of nomness!

Not a single crumb was allowed to go to waste ….. we don’t usually encourage Nigel to lick his plate clean, as we generally regard it as being “common”,  but in this instance we felt that all licking could be amply justified!

Settled In Our New Orifice

We think we have now bonded with our new mahooooooosive  “demountable orifice” as Darrell likes to call it …

It is right at the end of a very long and echoey corridor , that reminds us of a scene from Casualty, in fact Darrell had been looking for a trolley to enact a scene with Nigel to prove the point ….. what are they like?

Darrell’s shredder has been carefully repositioned, precision calibrated,  and professionally plugged in and he has been shredding documents of a confidential nature with gay abandon ever since …..

My work station is also established and up and running ….

….. although I have a few niggles ….. but I will not bore you the minutia (at the moment) …..as my new demountable orifice motto is now “offer a solution, not a problem” ….. when preparing to speak to “the powers that be”!

We have a mahooosive whiteboard which is the object of robust novelty at the moment ……  we make everyone who visits us sign in ….. and I have added a certain levity with my “word of the week” spot …. which we must all try to use, as often as we can,  at any pertinent juncture of the day…… even if our interpretation isn’t isn’t quite right, as is often the case!

However, I am afraid the novelty of the aforementioned whiteboard and an ample supply of whiteboard pens is proving too much, for Darrell who insists on filling his side with infantile drawings, what is he like?

And then we have “view” ……. neigh “vista”  ….. as seen through the security wire in the windows, the bars across the windows and the railings placed in front of the windows………. which is proving to be quite a distraction ……..

Our Word Of The Week!

Our word of the week should really come as NO surprise!

What are we like?

A Pattern Emerging

Heaven help us ….. 

…… not only is there building going on at our place of work ….. there is also a robust programme of road works going on up the road from Castle Greysquirrel which Nigel has to pass every morning ……

Not only does he spend ages reading ALL the signs aloud and sighing in a  most alarming infatuated type manner…..

BUT ….. whereas he hasn’t found out (yet) where the workers canteen is at our place …… it’s blatantly obvious where the canteen is up the road …….

….. because (unfortunatley for us) it’s very well signed ….

….. I can only fear the worst when Nigel starts asking where he can get a metal mug from and if we have an old ice cream box he can have …. I’ve heard about “packing your trunk for the circus” …… but not for the road works!

Darrell And Nigel Go Cillit Bang Bombing

Yesterday I said how Darrell was a trifle concerned that dirty signage at strategic points of judging could cost us valuable marks in the Best Kept Village Competition …..

So,  rather than fret over it,  Darrell decided to take action and “do his bit”,  aided and abetted by Nigel ….. on a covert Cillit Bang Bombing mission!!!

Nigel,  as per Darrell’s instructions,  gave the sign a robust squirting of the aforementioned Cillit Bang ….

…. after which Darrell brought up the rear with a very liberal dose of elbow grease …… whilst pondering where the name “Cillit Bang” had come from ….. and whether we should consider doing a regular cleaning product review!  What is he like?

….. while Nigel wondered about Barry Scott …. and why he always speaks so loud in the adverts!

Anyway …. many hands make light work.
….. and the sign was soon gleaming …

Well done Darrell and Nigel …. perhaps a new craze has been born  …. Cillit Bang Bombing ….. with Barry Manilow Took Cryer  Scott as its president!!!

Best Kept Village …. Updates

Every time Darrell goes out for his evening constitution he seems to come back with more developments of a Best Kept Village nature …..On Wednesday he noticed the introduction of two old half whiskey barrels, each planted with a small conifer (we think) and other seasonal bedding plants,  next to the bollards outside Motor World …..

And then on Thursday another two appeared outside the shops on The Parade ….. however he could not help but notice that the road sign was a little on the soiled side ……

….. it’s not a good look …. and it’s the sort of thing that could cost us valuable marks when the Best Kept Village judges come on their judgely inspection …..as Auntie Jan is oft heard to say “It’s all in the detail” ….. and so Darrell, along with Nigel has got a plan!!!

Confectionary Review–Mini Milk Chocolate Lollies–They’re Chocolate NOT Ice Cream!

We didn’t think it would be a good idea to attempt two confectionary reviews in one sitting, and so decided that for a fair and balanced rumination,  it would be best to allow our palates, and Nigel’s tummy to settle and cleanse before another considered comestible chomp ….. to wit new Mini Milk chocolate lollies!

Again …. all we can say is nom, nom, nom!

We decided to let Nigel take centre stage for this review as Mini Milk’s are his unquestionable ice lolly of choice where “real” ice lollies are concerned … and so his opine of the confectionary version could and did prove invaluable on this occasion.

Let’s just say Nigel didn’t hold back in taking an amply sufficient bite when Darrell proffered him the white chocolate lolly first ……Nigel immediately noted that he had thought it would be solid chocolate all the way through …. but,  in fact,  it had a very subtle and moreish soft whipped centre …. which was,  to quote,  “very luverly”!

He tackled the milk chocolate Mini Milk proffered by myself with equal robust gusto and relish……..

….. but thoughtfully left a little on each stick for our delectation too!

All we can say is nom, nom milky nom, nom!!!  Our combined scores on our Richter Scale of noms?  ……. A very full bodied and acceptable 13 noms out of 10 ….  and if Nigel was Oliver Twist he would undoubtedly have uttered those immoral immortal words …… “Please Sir,  can I have some more!”

Confectionary Review–New Cornetto Chocolates

It seems that our disappointing review of the new Magnum Chocolates caused much consternation up at Splendid Towers, when they got wind of the lack of noms we had awarded them after our last confectionary review,  so much so,  that a young lady called Salma was charged with getting in touch with us to ask if we would be interested in trying some other chocolates from the same range to see if we liked them any better ….

Well …..  it would have looked most rude for us to refuse wouldn’t it?

So with all due haste the aforementioned Salma sent out a small package to us, asking for our considered and much in demand opinion ….. how very, very exciting!

Naturally, we read all the bumf that came with the parcel first,  so that we were all familiar with the delicacies to be evaluated….

….. this was then followed by some robust debate, at times heated as to what to review first ….. the Cornetto Chocolates or the treat sized Mini Milk lollies.

After several rounds of voting, the Cornettos had it!

Put simply and unequivocally  …. THEY DID NOT DISAPPOINT ….. oooooh no!!! We loved the crispy, chocolaty wafer …. and the creamy “ice cream” centre,  which can only be described as a confectionary and nomming triumph,  which was complimented by the crunchy hazelnut sprinkles.  It’s been a long time since there was so much contented nomming at the kitchen table of Castle Greysquirrel of a confectionary type nature.   The little Cornettos really are just like the real thing, but without the ice cream headache ……

Such was Nigel’s robust enjoyment that he didn’t want to waste a morsel and insisted on licking all the wrappers clean, which has to be said was a trifle disgusting, especially the slurping noises that emanated from the middle of the table …… but high praise indeed for the Cornetto’s. 

And our final score on our Richter Scale of noms? ……….. 15 out of 10!!!  Nomcornettotastical!

We think they would make a lovely and different addition to any après party,  party bags ….. and should we have a party, they will be in ours,  nom, nom nom!!!
Tomorrow …. our Mini Milk review!