80 mile an hour winds, buckets of rain, waves crashing up to the sky and bits of tree and houses trashing everything in site?
Everywhere but here. We got about an hour of rain and then a gorgeous sunset (you’ll have to take my word for it - I forgot I had my camera with me); it wasn’t even windy enough to turn my cheap Primark umbrella inside out. I suppose I should be grateful that I’m not going to wake up and discover a tree on my bed or something but… oooo, anything for a little excitement!
I had a day today. Work was all fine and fun as usual but this evening I just felt tense. I felt unwanted, unneeded, useless, crap and all those happy happy words. It was one of those evenings when I just wanted to throw my hands up in the air and scream ‘why do I bother?’ or something equally as melodramatic. It was the kind of day when I really really wished I hadn’t given up chocolate for Lent - I could have eaten my own weight in the stuff today! Oh, only two more weeks to go! Hurrah!
and then… mmmm, Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, Galaxy, Dime Bar, Mars Bar, and yes even you - Reeces Peanut Butter Cups - all of you shall come second to this
It’s a five stone (about 30kg) easter egg, made by L’Artisan du Chocolat, sold at Selfridges for £499 ($1002.49). And worth every bloody penny. Four people have already bought one. 168,540 calories in it. That’s just beautiful.
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March 11th, 2008 at 12:22 am
ZOMG that musta hurt the chicken that laid it.
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March 11th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Good luck getting more than 2 dollars for your pound. I can think of better things to spend 500 quid on. Do we know what it tastes like? I don’t like Easter eggs.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Good grief that’s a lot of chocolate!! Split it with you? ;o) (What diet???)
We didn’t get too bashed up in the storm either, although some of the roads here got pretty messed up with bits of trees and lost grannies.
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March 11th, 2008 at 9:07 am
How many cadbury’s cream eggs could you get for £500?
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March 11th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Holy chocolate heart attack!
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March 11th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Ugh. My stomach hurts just looking at that thing!
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March 11th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Kris - Maybe it’s an egg from a really big duck
yorksdevil - Google and everywhere else is hovering at 1GBP to 2.02USD - good bad or straight up funny? You decide! And re the taste - I had a very small bar of L’artisan du Chocolate… er… chocolate and I turned into Fred Astaire
Penelope - 50/50 split? Oh yes…! Is the ‘weather’ only happening where the GMTV presenters are, and if so where’s the fire and brimstone I ordered for Fiona Phillips?
Dan - Right well, you can get 24 for £8 at Asda so that’s er… about 1500… Lovely. And 1…2…3… puke.
Kapgar - heart attack, diabetic coma… whatever comes first!
Miss Britt - It makes my teeth ache… which as we well know is a very very bad thing!
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March 11th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I know a shop that’s selling packs of 6 for £1.49. This works out at 2004 eggs for your £499, but I don’t think they’ll have that much stock.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I just… want to hold that giant chocolate egg for a while. Maybe hug it a a few times. That’s not wrong, is it?
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March 12th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Kyra - not wrong at all. There was a suggestion of worshipping it like a deity in the office… but like a tribe that eats their gods… obviously!
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March 12th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
yorksdevil - That’s a hell of a lot of sickly icing sugar!
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