Ah the heady days of youth...

[hellison]

Took a spin down the country this evening to see the lovely JA and catch up, having been a Bad Friend and neglected her lately!

We had a lovely evening sitting in her back garden in the sun with the dogs, having tea and buns and gossiping. Also, I got presents - belated christmas and birthday (I have been Very Neglectful), which included the picture below, taken many many years ago, at an 'abba' themed birthday party, hence the rather 'flower child' look. Look how ladylike we were, sipping The Punch of Dooooom delicately through straws. From a saucepan.
From the looks of things, that was the 2nd batch, after we ran out of one of the vital ingredients (Diamond White) and had to replace it with Mad Dog 20/20.
Which was possibly NOT the best idea ever, but it seemed like the right thing to do at the time ;p


OMG look how YOUNG we look. It looks slightly wonky cos I don't have a scanner and had to take a photo of the photo. If you see what I mean.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

young and - hee - COY!

despite the saucepan. mainly.

btw, i uploaded you a MUSIC, woman. did you get it? (and thesme's malign influence has me OVERUTILISING CAPITALS again, bah!)

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Ooh i spotted it earlier at work, must go get it now. Hee the caps. Its very hard to stop once you start ;p

SO very very young... and CLASSY, we had straws!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

classy like diamonique? *flees*

and i know, i almost typed MALIGN!

please make me go to bed, btw. i'm eyeing the wine bottle and thinking 'just another wee glass...' but i have to cycle in the morning!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

GO TO BED!

I tried to get the music thingy, but it said 'internal error' and wouldn't let me :/ I may try again in the morning, bed now!

[kake]

When I first skimmed this I thought you were talking about drinking Diamond White and 20/20 NOW, in the PRESENT.

I'm glad I was wrong.

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Diamond White? Mad Dog 20/20? Is it 1991?!

Another tipple of mine during that period was *gulp* Thunderbird.

The very word makes me nauseous...

[being-here.livejournal.com]

Ah! You're so young and cute!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Rofl, close, 1992 I think ;
OMG thunderbird - my brothers mates had this thing where they'd put half a pint of t-bird in with half a pint of kings acre, it was LETHAL. I only drank it once, had one of the worst hangovers EVER

[hellison.livejournal.com]

*shudders* even the THOUGHT of drinking them now is just... wrong ;p

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I know ;p It's so sad life has to take its toll over the years ;p

[thipe.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if that's a coy look, or more 'I am pondering ways to keel you and eat your brainssssssssssssssss'...

[being-here.livejournal.com]

Meh. Tell me about it ;-)

Me mam used to say 'you were such a cute child. I can't understand what went wrong...'

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I think it's more 'i am so very very very drunk but trying hard to focus'. I wonder where my glasses went ;p

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Ah, mothers say the sweetest things ;p Mine looks at old photos and says thinks like 'oh you were so pretty then'.
*mutters*

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

they probably went the way of everything else.

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

NO......................................................................................................COMMENT!

(i cannot believe you even REFERRED to that parpy)

[hellison.livejournal.com]

But it's such a pretty picture! And classy too, with the saucepan and straws ;p

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

why ?/ WHY???? ARE YOU DOING THIS? WHY? WHY?

[hellison.livejournal.com]

um... because I like the picture. It cheered me up no end last night ;)

Tho mostly today I am wondering where i got those cheekbones from and where they went to...

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

You still have them silly!

And I know you're being Bold.

[thipe.livejournal.com]

Although... Tentmeet.... *plots*

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Oh No. No More Diamond White for me. Really, it's For the Best. Trust me.

I am still considering bringing Sojan's Special Cider, tho I do have to drive back home Sunday, so I am undecided really...

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

wE HAD a song and all it went:
"I blame it on the Diamond Whhiiiiiite
I drank last niiiiiiiight
And snogged a shiiiiiittteee"
To the tune of that song that was going round at the time ooooh what was it called ooh help me out here hellison

[hellison.livejournal.com]

um... something to do with satellites. Sleeping Satellite maybe?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

!

(mine is actually the opposite. when i was an awkward, unhappy, socially inept but top-of-the-class-geek teen she told me "looks are more important than brains for a girl". thanks, mum. that really helped with the psychological adjustment. not! now she thinks i look ok. if i would do this other thing with my hair and lower my standards i might even get a proper boyfriend!)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

oh, yes, thunderbird! the drink that prompted a friend of mine (when we were 16) to spend a hogmanay night wandering about the village wearing sunglasses. sunglasses she kept forgetting she had on, at which point she would drunkenly bewail the extreme darkness of the night while swigging from the bottle clutched in her vice-like grip.

ah, youth!

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

if that's true it's a very silly name for a song and our version was better

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! I don't have any tales of crazy Thunderbird antics, cos I don't actually remember anything from the nights I drank it. Quite scary actually!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

i did. at 2am. sleepy today! (but i had only a very small volume of wine, so the cycling was fine. phew!)

[hellison.livejournal.com]

original lyrics (http://www.elyricsworld.com/go/t/Tasmin-Archer-lyrics/Sleeping-Satellite-lyrics.html). I reckon ours are much better too!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

and lower my standards i might even get a proper boyfriend!)

Because, of course, it is the HAVING of the boyfriend that is of importance, whether or not the bf is actually *worth* having is entirely irrelevant... Obviously part of some secret Mother Code of Practice...

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

argh that appears to be a trojan infected thingie

[hellison.livejournal.com]

eek! It just looks like a page with lyrics on to me!

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

came up with trojan warnings every time I clicked on it!