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Oh and thanks for the x ray specs reminder

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My pleasure! It is such a great song

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I’ve always adored trifle. Those unctuous layers and of course the custard. It sometimes makes a satisfying gloopy sound when you dig a spoon into the trifle dish. I loved those books - thanks for sharing them.

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Only just catching up on my reading! Thanks so much for the mention. I love trifles and am now keen to dig into several of these! X

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Thank you for such a gorgeous recipe xx

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Marvellous. As you know, I am a fellow enthusiast, and will never turn down the chance to include a trifle in a book if it's at all possible. And thank you for the always welcome dose of X-Ray Spex

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Absolutely my pleasure!

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I had forgotten about My Naughty Little Sister, books I loved as a child and read them to my own! And trifle which was always my grandmother’s dessert of choice. She used to make me a special one that didn’t have cream, which I disliked as a child. And no one ever worried about we children eating the heavily sherries cake layer. Perhaps that’s why we liked it so much!

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That is excellent grandparenting xx

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Ms. Styrene possessed many talents, but lip-synching was not among them. You've got my mind racing about all the possibilities of trifle-- especially the banana pudding recipe I love but haven't made in years, which I will now never *not* think of as a trifle. But I will not be putting hundreds and thousands on it-- they are an Agatha Christie agent of murder.

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Used to love watching TOTP for the general cheese and awful lip synching. Some groups used to exaggerate their incompetence. I think The Clash refused to appear because they would only sing live. I'll be in Louisiana soon where I plan to go to the Piggly Wiggly for their little tubs of banana pudding.

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I went to what I like to call Eudora Welty's Piggly Wiggly a couple of times a few years ago in Jackson, Mississippi (she lived down the street). It made me feel extra literary.

And I think you're totally right about The Clash!

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I have already plotted my route from PW to PW after we leave NOLA. My last visit was to one near Tuscaloosa where a maniac football mom totalled our car. ( It was homecoming.)

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I sometimes think the primary reason I could never live in the South is that I hate (American) football. It is practically a religion there.

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It's incomprehensible to me. Cannot understand any of it

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It's hours of boredom punctuated by mere seconds of excitement, served with a generous helping of traumatic brain injuries.

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