Sweden

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Let's hope he's sober.

Are you suggesting 😠...oh never mind. 🙂

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Sock puppets give me the heebie jeebies. (Finally, I got to say that).

He be GB?

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Sock puppets give me the heebie jeebies.

Surely you mean the "screaming habdabs" or perhaps the "wimwams". ??

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Surely you mean the "screaming habdabs" or perhaps the "wimwams". ??

Screaming habdabs give me the wimwams. (And vice versa).

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Screaming habdabs give me the wimwams. (And vice versa).

You mean screaming dabhabs give you the wamwims??

Originally posted by moonbus
You mean screaming dabhabs give you the wamwims??

Sir, I like the cut of your jib.

I used to have a Swedish girlfriend from Norrköping. She was a flautist at the RSAMD (Royal Scottish academy of music and drama), from Norrköping. Listening to her practice was torture, up and down the scales, I wondered if she would ever play a tune. She used to give me these little salted liquorice 'sweets', apparently all the rage in Sweden. She loved our crisps (potato chips), Walkers especially. I think she wanted to marry a musician, but as I could only read a bar a day that was me out! Still I think of her fondly.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
I used to have a Swedish girlfriend from Norrköping. She was a flautist at the RSAMD (Royal Scottish academy of music and drama), from Norrköping. Listening to her practice was torture, up and down the scales, I wondered if she would ever play a tune. She used to give me these little salted liquorice 'sweets', apparently all the rage in Sweden. She loved our crisps (potato chips), Walkers especially.

Saltlakrits, we also call it 'salmiak'.

Originally posted by Torunn
Saltlakrits, we also call it 'salmiak'.

Salmaik, that's probably them, an acquired taste! I also met a girl from Umea once too. She was half Laplander or something amazing like that. Her dad was an inventor. She liked me but it was not the right time. I think of her fondly too.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Salmaik, that's probably them, an acquired taste! I also met a girl from Umea once too. She was half Laplander or something amazing like that. Her dad was an inventor. She liked me but it was not the right time. I think of her fondly too.

You have a lot on your mind... 🙂

Originally posted by Torunn
You have a lot on your mind... 🙂

Not really, just some little cherished memories 😵

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Not really, just some little cherished memories 😵

Such small things stay on your mind, really. When I lived in London, my friend and I would buy doughnuts covered in sugar, and try eating them without licking our lips - it was impossible. That was in 1964-65.

Originally posted by Torunn
Such small things stay on your mind, really. When I lived in London, my friend and I would buy doughnuts covered in sugar, and try eating them without licking our lips - it was impossible. That was in 1964-65.

yes its like the ending to some Bergman film where a couple are floating on a tranquil lake facing imminent death and all thats fills their mind is that they forgot to feed the cat. Mmmmm doughnuts!

Originally posted by Torunn
Such small things stay on your mind, really. When I lived in London, my friend and I would buy doughnuts covered in sugar, and try eating them without licking our lips - it was impossible. That was in 1964-65.

There was a break through in 1968 and it became possible (just).

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
She was a flautist at the RSAMD (Royal Scottish academy of music and drama), from Norrköping.

I had a girlfriend who played the pink oboe.



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