#Liquorice Allsorts

[cleowho]

“Would you care for a Jelly Baby?”

Actually, Tom, that is quite clearly a Liquorice Allsort.

The Sun Makers - season 15 - 1977

[mickules]

trick or treat !! perhaps the daiyas 👀?

👻TRICK👻

no.2 Evens Liquorice Allsorts

A mixture of liquorice sweets combining flavours of coconut, aniseed, and fruit with fondant, jelly, and soft liquorice.

[clnclm]

[dougielombax]

Liquorice allsorts taste like fucking POISON!

Me no likey!

Liquorice in general tastes like fucking poison!

I want to like it but every time I try I’m met with disappointment and dejection.

[vzhurunohama]

Liquorice allsorts style luminous crystal cubes

[weepingfoxfury]

The man on the radio is offering today's quiz. Name the 4 songs and work out what the 5th should be. Taylor Swift eases her way through yet another song that makes me think of lift interiors.

Bluebells aplenty. I had the temerity to move amongst them. They're situated beneath the Rookery. 'Presents' showered down and I beat a hasty retreat.

Newspaper day has arrived again. One Groundhog Day TV Guide if you please, and some of your finest 'news' to wrap my cat litter in.

The temperature has dipped again ... my toes ache in spite of the sunshine.

Trying to mix up my morning routine ... my hands and one and only marble have yet to agree on anything.

"We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves" - Leonora Carrington

[letstalkbeautyuk]

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[edandstede]

personification of a dolly mixture sweet

[tinknevertalks]

Planning out dad's gift and I think there'll be more bagging out (like I did at one point with his shirt). Gonna go for dinner at my parents house then bedtime routine then try try try to make a small scale version to see if what I'm thinking of doing is even possible. I think it is. We shall see.

For the girls I'm making Bluey PJ's.

For my sister I'm making [redacted].

My Mam and brother? ... I'll get back to you on that. Might make Mam a little bag with knitting sheep on? I dunno. I know very little tbh. I'll figure something out.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

I went and looked at the stop, and the sign is still there but they've covered it with a garbage bag. I shall charitably interpret this to mean it'll be removed very soon, but I have seen other signs left covered that way for long enough that the bag starts to shred.

There are 2 other bus stops on that same road a few blocks in either direction, so WHY? What's wrong with this one?? The bus is still going that way, so what difference does it make to the driver to have 3 stops on this section of road instead of 2? It won't change the number of people they've got to pick up and drop off. The next closest one I'll need to use to get to work is in a place with no sidewalks, so that'll be fun in winter when there are big snowbanks.

Fortunately the bus I needed to take for my errands was a different one, so it was ok that I watched that bus drive past the stop that's STILL marked on the map.

They actually did change the map fairly recently. They made the background a slightly different colour, changed the page layout, and changed the rotation???? So now the default view of the map DOESN'T have North as the top of the page??!? I only just noticed while writing this there's a little compass in the corner that you can click to set it back to normal, so why the hell is it rotated wrong in the first place? Why would they have it rotated differently from other maps? It makes it much less intuitive to figure out where you're going if you're also looking at a place on google maps in another tab.

This is the same intersection, one on google maps and one on the bus website.

The bus I did need for my errands was one I almost never take, and for some mysterious reason I read the map wrong and ended up looking for stops on the wrong street, which had none at all. (That one, at least, I acknowledge was my fault.)

So I missed my bus completely and had to wait another hour, because that's how often they run in the middle of the day, and this time I went to the place all the buses leave from so I could be sure to catch it. (In the meantime I went to the library and borrowed a book on The Unicorn Tapestries, so that was nice.)

All the other buses except mine arrived, and then they all left, and then a few minutes later my bus finally came. I got a couple of my errands done, but didn't make it to the place that closes at 4, so I will have to try again another day. Hopefully now that I know there's a little button to unfuck the bus map I'll read it correctly next time.

At least I got the main thing I went out for, which was thread for the thingy I'm currently sewing. And it was not too terribly hot on my hour long walk home.

(Also just for the record this is Maritime Canadian bus service I'm complaining about, I'm not american.)

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[elodieunderglass]

Mad Spring - sour gummies, you feral little goblin. Tangfastics. Airheads. Sour Patch Kids. Like High Summer, you choose fruit-flavored gummy sweets, but you pick ones coated in Pain Sugar. It isn’t enough to just get sugar: you’re chasing a different Sensory Experience (TM) than the rest. And that’s great.

Warm Spring - white chocolate, ruby chocolate, pastel mint drops, cotton candy, bubblegum. Marshmallows. Sweet, creamy, usually pastel. You have no particular objection to floral tastes like lavender and rose. You may be able to appreciate Turkish Delight.

Midsummer - tropical fruits: chewy and slightly creamy in pastel colors. Starburst/Opal Fruit, Creamsicles/Solero. Maoam strips. Cream sodas. Skittles, despite being jewel-toned, are in this season. Coconut and pineapple flavors go here. Also the home of chalky-type sweets like Love Hearts/candy hearts, smarties (usa) and You may be also able to appreciate Turkish Delight.

High Summer - Gummy bears and chewy, jellyish, jammy, gummy, springy in bright jewel tones. Gummy worms and jelly snakes, jelly babies, jelly beans, Haribo. Clearer and gummier than Midsummer.

Autumn Night - darker and more complex sweetness, often including an element of burning or alcohol, or another challenge. Cherry cordials, marzipan, champagne truffles. Also home of burnt-sugar tastes: maple candy, bonfire toffee, candy corn. Also home of matcha; red liquorice; red bean paste. When people bring you sweets from other countries, they’ll choose unusual local delicacies. You almost certainly were fascinated as a kid by lollipops at the science museum sold with real bugs in them.

Autumn Salt - peanut butter and peanut brittle, salted caramel, toffee, butterscotch. Toffee popcorn, Reese’s Peanut Butter cups, Snickers, Daim. If nobody has any nuts, you’ll choose chocolate with nuts, crisp or crunch over other things. Sweet just isn’t enough.

Winter Spice - herbal, spicy and medicinal sweets, usually hard old-fashioned sweets. Red-hots, burning cinnamon, chilli - eucalyptus, root beer, menthol; sarsaparilla. Hard candy, generally: old fashioned ‘boiled sweets,’ things that look gorgeous in glass jars. Parma violets. Fisherman’s Friends. You’re the only person who would eat a gingerbread house after decorating it. You’re also possibly a ghost, or used to be a Mad Spring. It’s also about the SENSATION.

Midwinter - dark black Licorice. Salty? Sweet? saltlakrids? Allsorts? Australian? You might like other things too, but when your loved ones are in another country, they go to the licorice aisle and get you the weirdest local variant they can find.

Long Winter - true chocolate, basic chocolate stuff: M&Ms. Dairy Milk. Hershey’s Kiss. But also home of fudgy tastes and sugar-on-sugar in a long slow sauce. Marshmallow, Handmade fudge, Phish Food ice cream.

Cool Winter - naturally, the homebase of minty tastes. peppermint wheels, York’s Peppermint Patties, After Eights. Also orange - chocolate orange - and, oddly, pixie sticks/sherbet and other sweet things that involve eating simple flavored sugar.

[vzhurunohama]

Gold cube encased in a jelly cube in a psychedelic liquorice allsorts landscape getting pulled towards an event horizon

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

today’s video from miles was the last straw. i’m officially writing a milex vintage shop au, featuring sias era alex working behind the counter and omb era miles buying more jackets than he needs purely because he can’t stay away from him (also featuring: alex not being able to take a hint, pining, ridiculous amounts of fluff, and liquorice allsorts)

[mybeingthere]

Scottish artist Craigie Aitchison CBE RA RSA (1926-2009) was well known for his paintings depicting landscapes, portraits, and crucifixion scenes in a distinctive Mediterranean palette.

Andrew Lambirth, who knew Craigie for 20 years wrote wrote so stories in the Atchinson's Catalogue Raisonné. Here are a few bits of his recollections:

"Although Scottish by birth, Aitchison moved to London in 1963, and thereafter divided his time between his terraced house in Lambeth and a second home in Italy, outside Siena. He painted still-life subjects, religious pictures, portraits and nudes, landscapes and his dogs. His preferred models tended to be West Indian or African because he loved the way other colours looked next to warm skin tones.

The first painting by Aitchison to enter a UK public collection was Model Standing Against a Blue Wall (1962), when it was bought by the Tate from the Beaux Arts Gallery in 1964.

Some of Aitchison's most popular paintings have been of objects he lived with: a tea caddy or a candlestick, a cup or a vase (mostly with flowers in it), a cellophane-wrapped Italian Easter egg or a handful of liquorice allsorts.

If Aitchison found a good model, he would paint him or her repeatedly, and his all-time favourite was Georgeous Macaulay.

There are several of his Crucifixions in public collections, but one of the most memorable is in Birmingham, dating from 1984–1986. A large canvas, as many of Aitchison's late Crucifixions are, it depicts Christ on the cross, but without any arms.

Aitchison was quite prepared to take liberties with human anatomy if it helped him to make the image more powerful, and his Christ figures sometimes have only one arm or one leg. (As he once replied to an interviewer who asked him why he did this: 'Not everyone is lucky enough to be born with two arms and two legs'.)

Craigie first painted a Crucifixion when he was a student at the Slade School of Fine Art, which is part of University College in London. One of the teachers said: 'It's a very serious subject and much too big a subject for you to tackle.' But that only spurred Craigie on to paint another one.

He never succumbed to adverse criticism, though he remembered it and was clearly wounded by it. Two visiting Slade tutors, Victor Pasmore and John Piper, both told him to give up painting. Thankfully he didn't. As he said, if it had been somebody he really respected, like L. S. Lowry, also a visiting teacher, he might have paid attention. But Lowry only encouraged him.

Considering the crowded nature of his home, he was surprisingly minimalistic in his art, as well as a great colourist. He thought his intensely poetic images were quite straightforward, but they are impossible to imitate convincingly. Although they look so effortless, he himself often had trouble with them.

In another interview with me in 2004, Aitchison discussed this: 'That seems to be all that it's about – deciding. Somebody said that painting is a complete and absolute way of having to make up one's mind. Whether to put two trees instead of one, or to leave it. It's exhausting trying to make up your mind. If it wasn't like that it would just be boring to do.'

Andrew Lambirth, writer and author of "Craigie Aitchison – Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné"

https://artuk.org/.../the-intensely-poetic-paintings-of...