Comments for Fox and Maus

Comment on Drag races and thermoses. by epicurienne

epicurienne — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:25:50 +0000

Poor Short Stack. If that smell has stayed with me for 3+decades, Heaven help the poor kid. At least there are stench removal sprays these days!

Comment on Drag races and thermoses. by Fox & Maus

Fox & Maus — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:47:00 +0000

Rancid milk stink is some powerful stuff! We’ve had to have a few talks with Short Stack about drinking all his milk, lest it turn into a horrible, reeking mess later in the day. Our success rate is nothing like 100%, but we’re working on it! In the mean time, we’re going through a LOT of plastic bags.

Comment on Drag races and thermoses. by epicurienne

epicurienne — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:19:12 +0000

AND we used to do the plastic bag thing with our thermoses.
AND we still used to get leaks through our school bags. Which no matter how much we washed them, never quite recovered, especially where milk was involved.

Comment on Drag races and thermoses. by epicurienne

epicurienne — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:54:41 +0000

My lunchboxes were alreays really boring. My favourite one looked like a big blue brick but had room for a cool drink container in it, which would keep your lunch cool in summer, AND you could drink from it! If it was really hot weather, we’d freeze our juice overnight – wey hey, what excitement. As for thermoses. Well. I had a terrible habit of forgetting to wash mine out properly or forgetting to drink my soup/hot drink during the day, so that whatever had been in the thermos well and truly reeked when I poured it out. My thermos was dark blue, but the same shape as yours above. I absolutely hated it after a while. My mum often used to put a hot chocolate drink in it and for some reason it never tasted quite right.
I also remember that after the movie/TV series branded lunchbox phase, somehow the cool kids all started to use old ice cream containers as their lunch boxes because old and reused and battered was cool, but tidy and branded was out.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane!

Comment on Cast Iron Seagull, part II by harpreader

harpreader — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 13:39:12 +0000

Well written, Barn. Your words made for pleasant, gentle Saturday morning reading. They draw the reader right into your adventure.

Also just read a couple essays by North Cairn that you may enjoy. Will show you one when you and the monkeys arrive in a few hours. Can’t wait to see you!

Dad

Sent from my iPad

Comment on Drag races and thermoses. by Fox & Maus

Fox & Maus — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:59:04 +0000

Oh, MAN! I loved G-Force! Well… except for the gleep-gloop kid who spoke exclusively in sound effects. He was just kind of annoying.
Come to think of it, I tend to speak in sound effects a lot myself. Uh oh.

Comment on Drag races and thermoses. by Fox & Maus

Fox & Maus — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:58:38 +0000

Weird.

Comment on Drag races and thermoses. by hildigunnur

hildigunnur — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:08:07 +0000

It works here, on Chrome the line with Please log in using… and the icons beneath the comment section doesn’t appear.

Comment on Drag races and thermoses. by Mike Dwyer

Mike Dwyer — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:32:51 +0000

My first lunchbox (which, sadly, I don’t have anymore)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/179/441620189_683dca8f23.jpg

Comment on The Long Trail to Happiness by Fox & Maus

Fox & Maus — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:10:27 +0000

Those really should get written down, even if only in the rough. I’ve heard about Bandy all mu life, but don’t know a single story.