Just decanting a fortnight's worth of neat #Vimto into a smaller, empty drinks bottle Because you only want to drop a full, open, 3 Litre size bottle in your kitchen once!! 😱 Strength isnt my strong point so it looked & smelled like a fruity Murder Scene in there last week. It wasnt funn(el)y 🤦♀️😆🙈
Ah yes, the drink with an interesting anagram.
🤣🤣🤮after 50+ years of drinking it Mum's just seen that🤣
Dont let it put her off 😂 Pretend Jeff didnt say it! 🙊🙉🙈
Nothing will put her off her vimto🤣 but Jeff is not nice🤣🤣🤣
Sorry. Just gonna put myself on the naughty step.
It's for the best🤣🤣🤣🤣
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🤣🤣🤣 Ssshhh Jeff! 🤫🤢
Oh god. You have my sympathy, I base a lot of my decisions on "What if I drop it?". But 3 litres...
Seriously it was like a #Vimto explosion! 😱 It went EVERYWHERE! And I was in the middle of doing the tea so you can imagine how absolutely thrilled I was 😩 Its the combination of weight & size that makes them so unwieldy when they're new but they work out cheapest - unless you spill a lot like me 🙈
OMG! The stickiness as well as the smell.. Easier to move house🤣🤣🤣
Well our old house is currently up for sale after 8 years so i'm sorely tempted to put an offer in to buy it back off them! 🤪😆
It may be a sign🤪
Probly not 😏 Other things havent changed round there so frying pan/fire and all that 😖 Anyway, Its weird coz my friend's old, old house is also up for sale too & it backs onto my parents house, so we could move there and put a gate in the fence like we had as kids (that's how we know each other! 😄)
That sounds perfect 👌 🤣🤣
😂😂 For Heidi and my mum maybe!
Helen this is obviously a lie!! It’s a weeks supply for you at best!! 🤣 I can just imagine the carnage. Glad to hear Heidi not taken out by the explosion!
Do you think I would've still been sporting all my own teeth when we met D if this was a week's supply? 😝🤣 Heidi wasnt involved in the carnage but her vocabulary got expanded, yet again! 🤬🙈😂
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Hahahaha! Dropped a ketchup bottle in a white cupboard kitchen once. Abattoir vibes.
😂😂😂 It was a CSI with a pleasant smell, but oh my god it took forever to clean up. I practically flooded the kitchen with it 🙈 There was considerable screeching!
😂 Oh the stickiness too!
You can hear it/feel it with every movement 😆🙈
Like a 90s nightclub floor 😂
Or student digs 😂😂
Yes! 🤢
Hahahaha! My god… I can hear the slippers sticking to the floor as I type! Try something like? Saves all that nonsense! 😅😅😂😂😂 Funn(el)y enough! amzn.eu/d/4PYuL85
😂😂😂 Its still tacky in there even though I swilled everything repeatedly praying it wouldnt stain 😆🙈 You dispense (😜) such useful info missus - ta very much chuck 😘🤗
Yeah, absolute nightmare stuff! If it went under the kick boards, ahhhh! 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 And… very good! Hahahaha!
I cant even get the kickboards down, the kitchen fitters wedged them in that tight 7 years ago 🤪🙈😆 At least the spiders will be stuck together en masse anyway.....🕷🕷🕷🕷
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😂😂 I hope that Heidi was well out of the way of the friendly fire 😁 Otherwise a new colour added to the breed standard Vimto & Tan 😀
😂😂 Thankfully she was in her bed well out of my way in the other room Mick. Its a very small, one person kitchen so I cant have her in there with me, but being only 5ft 4" and able to touch all 4 walls if I stand in the centre meant it went on all 4 walls!! And eveywhere else too 🤪🙈
🤣🤣 bet your first words were not 'oh fiddlesticks there's been a calamity' 😁 Probably a bit like a scene from Prestwich CSI 🤔
Well obvs! 😆 And Crime Scenes dont come much more messy tbh 🙈
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Tell the truth, you’re really decanting your fresh blood supply cleverly disguised as Vimto 🩸 😄
🤣🤣🤣 You went and said that out loud James!! 🤫😜
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Male human’s student housemate once had three bottles of home-made elderflower champagne explode in the kitchen whilst maturing… Before the cleanup they had no idea the walls were supposed to be white!! 😆🍾🧽🪣
Mum made ginger beer, it exploded in the middle of the it sounded like gunshots. There was yeasty, ginger beer dripping from the ceiling. The smell and stickiness took months to clear🍾🍾
Maybe you've not properly lived till you've covered your own kitchen in sticky liquid at least once 😆 Today's 🤦♀️ moments include burning my palm at 6.40am on the kettle steam as I reached over it to move summat 🥴 And putting a full dark wash on with neither soap powder or softner in the drawers 😩😤
Mum's done it a few times! Recent mishaps knocking a bottle of rose lemonade out of the cupboard( smelled nice but 10/10 sticky) not even sure where it came from🤣🤣 opened cupboard door and a large glass fell out, narrowly missed her head and shattered, she's still finding glass🙄
😂🙈 What the hell is happening to us?!!! I cant believe the things I forget, drop, spill, swipe, smash these days. I'm a clear & present danger to myself and others. I actually check a few times now to see if I've turned the gas hob or oven off after tea or baking coz I dont trust myself!
Mum's always been clumsy but it's off the scale now, not sure if it's menopause, trying to do everything in a rush or impending old age 🤣🤣🤣
I'm praying its the meno as there might be an end to all this nonsense at some point. If its old age i'm knackered already! 😫
Mum keeps hoping it'll stop soon but it's 10 years now🤪
10 years?! You're kidding me?! 🤯 What age did it rear its ugly head for her? I'm about 3 years in and hating every hideous minute of it 😫
About 45 she started having symptoms, 47 full-blown hot sweats etc. She still gets them but not as often along with joint pains and fatigue, brain fog etc....
M’s nodding, but she’s never spilt Vimto, purely cos she’s never tried it 😂🐶🐾😘
Best not to spill it, but do try it. 😘🐶🐾
Try it, dont spill it - whatever you do! 😄
Next time she buys squash she’ll get some. There seems to be lots of different ones, which is best (as long as it’s a no added sugar version)? 🐶🐾😘
For scale this is what 3 litres looks like on the left. It also doubles as a door stop in the summer 😄 Just glad I didnt buy the even bigger version though.....😜
That's the one we have - the regular, but no added sugar version. Find a small normal sized bottle though! 😆😋😘
My mum knows that feeling - she keeps getting her words mixed up and thought she had dementia - until her doctor said it’s common in Menopause
Mum does that as well🙄
I dont even know what the words are. I keep saying to Ste 'you know, the THING'! And I have to ask if i've already told him summat coz I cant friggin remember 🤪
Mum does that too, also keeps her fit running upstairs for stuff she's forgotten🤣🤣
Ooh, yes! Forgot the cork ‘bang’s as they flew across the kitchen and hit the opposite wall… 😆
😆 I was just thinkin, come the revolution, they could be good weapons in the right hands - eg ours! 😆
Too right!
🤣🤣🤣 This is pure sitcom stuff! 👌
*The Young Ones… 🤭😆
Yep!
Preparation makes ask the difference.
It does to my cupboards, walls, floor, clothes! 🙈😂
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What is this thing ‘Vimto’ Helen? It looks dangerous to me. - Bobby 👋
Its the Drink of Champions Bobby! And its not that its dangerous itself, its the size and weight of the budget friendly mega-bottles you can buy it in if you're a middle aged female 😆🤪 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimto
Thanks for the link Helen. I’ve never heard of it before but it sounds very interesting. 🤨 Definitely not a great floor cleaning product though, even a young and inexperienced Dale like me can guess that. 🤪 ~ Bobby 👋
🤣🤣🤣 Only if you like the murder scene look Bob 🩸
Oh dear. 🩸🩸🩸 HooMum tried red coloured mouthwash a while ago - couldn’t keep using it cos it made her feel like a vampire every time she spat it out. 😂😆😂 ~ Bobby 👋
🤣🤣🤣 That appeals to me and makes me laff Bob! 🧛♀️🩸
She’s a bit mental is my HooMum. 😳
We have something of a "spilling Vimto" theme developing here... Did I put the idea in your head? 😉
Much as i'd like to blame you Paul 😜 no, it happened last week - not long after the Iceland delivery. I'm still not over it..... 😬😆