Do i have the power to end a thread? ^^

You're just jealous as you saw chocolate and not liquorice ......

Thank you!

I just bought a heap of very expensive chocolate for my stressed workmates. Now I am tempted.

Just one word of advice: succumb!

Or buy some millet and suck seed.

millet is for budgies

Americans are now furiously googling budgie.

another stressed worker here!

A budgie story.

A few years back now we stayed at a B&B in the Loire Valley. The living / dining area of this place, the gatehouse to a much larger mansion, was so over the top with decoration and "things" that we used to laugh every time we came in to it.

The owner was obviously fond of birds. In the kitchen you could hear some sort of parrot screeching and the owner shouting back at it. In the dining room, among the tons of other miscellaneous decorations and bird related junk, there was a cage with a couple of budgies.

Now budgies are Australian birds (budgerigars) and can learn simple words that are repeated to them - so, in the four days we stayed there, I took it on as my responsibility to teach these birds a bit of their heritage. Each morning, as we waited for breakfast, I would stand at the cage saying "G'day mate". Those birds had obviously been brainwashed, because they didn't repeat it at all, despite my untiring efforts.

By the third day, the perplexed manager asked me what I was doing. I told him these were Australian birds, so I was teaching them some Australian!

The poor fellow looked at me in absolute horror. Non, non non! - These birds come from Limoges - they're not Australian!

He'd obviously not met many Australians - pisstaking is our specialty!


(We took our Vegemite to breakfast, also. Chap was right traumatised!)

<guffaw>

I can picture all that, Margo.

I just hope the budgies weren't smuggled out.

I got the chocolates from here

http://www.chocolatree.net/menu.html

Oddly, reading it made me feel sick. Annoyingly, I AM sick....AGAIN!

Bloody bronchitis again.

Well, poo!

Very likely when I am having a coughing fit!!!!!!

Very sorry re your bronchitis.

Liked that chocolate tree website. I've bought belgian chocolates, my favorite, back in my last California home town, as well as in Los Angeles, but not here in Abq. That photo on the website brought a place in Parma to mind - wish I'd taken an indoor photo. All I remember identity wise was that it was in Garibaldi Square. So not only does Parma have superb cheese, superb prosciutto and similar, and some superb architecture and art, it's got great small shops.

I dunno if they have budgies there, though.

Too much Swiss cheese can near about destroy a pastrami sandwich!

And too much pastrami can just about destroy a cherry parfait.

I will have to try that out too.

I wonder if anybody has ever attempted pastrami wrapped rabbit sandwiches...

The fur would probably get in your teeth.