Jack Monroe #37 Don't f*** with cats.

[Pocahontas]

I spent a lot of the mid-nineties in severely ripped jeans with stripy tights underneath paired with army jackets and DMs, telling anyone who would listen how much I loved Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, Dinosaur Jr and Radiohead. And eating loads of ‘freshly-baked’ (sometimes raw) Millie’s (?) cookies from the shopping mall. Loved those days of fast metabolism.

 

[help i need some help!]

VICTORIA SHOES?! In the plaza. Was open still until fairly recently, paid many a pretty penny for DMs in there over the years

Yeah, not sure what happened to it tbh. I have heard that the Vic Centre is closing, all of it, but Southend Groups are full of nonsense. Do yu remember, before they put a roof on it, there was a massive shrimp, crab and cockle shells for kids to play on in there?

 

[ChickenPorridge]

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I don't mean to be impatient, but *checks calendar* where is the NEWS?

Oh my God yes. The NEWS that never bleeping materializes.

 

[peperomia]

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I don't mean to be impatient, but *checks calendar* where is the NEWS?

A wave made from seeds?

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

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I don't mean to be impatient, but *checks calendar* where is the NEWS?

Half the population can't even read whatever is typed on that or any of the other pictures, as she's picked the most inaccessible colour possible. So maybe the news is on one of them and we just can't bleeping read it?

 

[Pocahontas]

Yeah, not sure what happened to it tbh. I have heard that the Vic Centre is closing, all of it, but Southend Groups are full of nonsense. Do yu remember, before they put a roof on it, there was a massive shrimp, crab and cockle shells for kids to play on in there?

Just noticed your avatar!!!!!!
Kumquats? (Allegedly)

 

[AmTellinYa]

Exclamation! Can still buy it apparently

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Edit: currently GLing the thread so just under 10 pages behind!

I have a bottle of this! And also Anais Anais by Cacherel, both purchased in a vain attempt to re capture my youth I think. They both do still smell pretty nice though to be fair.

 

[MarmiteExtract]

Lasagne, anyone?

 

[colouredlines]

Popping in quickly (from...holiday! Sorry Jack!)

From that new article:

I often say to friends and family, ‘I’m not a bag of Liquorice Allsorts, you can’t just pick the ones you like, you either take the entire packet or you leave the bag on the shelf.

This may be one of the dumbest analogies ever, no?Let me let you in on a secret, Jack: you can eat the nice ones then throw away the blue bobbly ones, literally everyone else does...

 

[Lady Punchbag]

"I want to establish my own show, in my own way, using everything I've learned over the past few weeks."

 

[MarmiteExtract]

Seconding all the love for ’90s Body Shop white musk and Impulse sprays! I think my favourite was called Incognito. I wonder if they still make it

 

[MarthaFarkus]

Haha this is fun! Anyone old enough to remember jellybean shoes and bags? I was a late teen/early 20’s in the 90’s and Impulse o2 was the actual BOMB!

Edited to add: oh yeah I loved the Body Shop White Musk and Just Pink from Next!

 

[Eurgh]

Seconding all the love for ’90s Body Shop white musk and Impulse sprays! I think my favourite was called Incognito. I wonder if they still make it

Ananya til I die

 

[Penny4Em]

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I don't mean to be impatient, but *checks calendar* where is the NEWS?

I guess she's taking her time to really *really* consider the multitude of serious offers on the table versus doing her own thing.... she's got a lot of thinking and weighing up to do.

PAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahaha almost convinced myself then

 

[Pocahontas]

Seconding all the love for ’90s Body Shop white musk and Impulse sprays! I think my favourite was called Incognito. I wonder if they still make it

Babe. Put it on your Christmas list.

 

[Toffee finger]

I spent a lot of the mid-nineties in severely ripped jeans with stripy tights underneath paired with army jackets and DMs, telling anyone who would listen how much I loved Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, Dinosaur Jr and Radiohead. And eating loads of ‘freshly-baked’ (sometimes raw) Millie’s (?) cookies from the shopping mall. Loved those days of fast metabolism.

Can relate. I was a grunger/emo kid and thought I was soooo edgy.


I still listen to Radiohead and Greenday though

 

[MarmiteExtract]

Babe. Put it on your Christmas list.
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And just like that, all my dreams have come true

 

[Pocahontas]

Can relate. I was a grunger/emo kid and thought I was soooo edgy.


I still listen to Radiohead and Greenday though

Me too

 

[AmTellinYa]

Don't worry, we've had the many childhood nostalgia conversations on here today. She'll be doing something bonkers soon.

Yes I can almost sense her quietly seething simmering.....

 

[Toffee finger]

Yeah, not sure what happened to it tbh. I have heard that the Vic Centre is closing, all of it, but Southend Groups are full of nonsense. Do yu remember, before they put a roof on it, there was a massive shrimp, crab and cockle shells for kids to play on in there?

If Vic centre closes that means Wilko will go. Where will Jack get her 1000litres of paint from then?!