Adventures in lip balm
Mar. 11th, 2019 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustI had expected that after spending last Tuesday afternoon at County Hall, watching the Planning Committee decide in favour of the County Council's own (very unpopular) plan to build itself a new headquarters down by the river, that I would be writing long, angry posts on the subject. Apparently not.
Instead, I feel moved to report that I have finally used the last of the little pot of Laphroaig Honey lip balm I bought in Bowmore - I was about to write 'a couple of years ago', and no, actually it was in 2015. Not an everlasting pot of lip balm, but because lip balm is one of the things I buy when an interesting one is offered to me, knowing I will use it eventually. Laphroaig itself is too idiosyncratic to make a good lip balm (it would be like smearing your lips with creosote, quite apart from the alcohol burn) but this was excellent, soothing but light and very reasonably priced. File under: would buy again.
Meanwhile, I have moved on to the next pot in my stash, which is in the shape of a duck. This duck, in fact, but tiny, barely an inch long, and less pie-eyed. The label tells me it was made in Taiwan, and comes from someone called 'Opal London' ("Website coming soon"), none of which is promising. The price label explains all: it says 'W.I. Rendall', which means that I bought it on Westray (and again, not expensive). The lip balm inside (there's a tiny pot sunk into the base) is bright pink, very sticky with a powerful scent of strawberry. It isn't horrible, but I'm not likely to buy any more. After all, how many ducks does one woman need?
I haven't spent the whole week brooding about Durham's democratic deficit: D. has been visiting and distracting me with such pleasures as wine and crosswords. We also went to a lecture at Redhills, about plans to preserve and make use of the old Miners' Hall. Also, the weather has been very strange: we walked home in sunshine from Sunday lunch at the Stonebridge, noticing a blackthorn hedge coming into bloom - and within an hour we had a heavy shower of - wait, that's not rain, it's sleet! No, snow... (not settling, but definitely snow).
Instead, I feel moved to report that I have finally used the last of the little pot of Laphroaig Honey lip balm I bought in Bowmore - I was about to write 'a couple of years ago', and no, actually it was in 2015. Not an everlasting pot of lip balm, but because lip balm is one of the things I buy when an interesting one is offered to me, knowing I will use it eventually. Laphroaig itself is too idiosyncratic to make a good lip balm (it would be like smearing your lips with creosote, quite apart from the alcohol burn) but this was excellent, soothing but light and very reasonably priced. File under: would buy again.
Meanwhile, I have moved on to the next pot in my stash, which is in the shape of a duck. This duck, in fact, but tiny, barely an inch long, and less pie-eyed. The label tells me it was made in Taiwan, and comes from someone called 'Opal London' ("Website coming soon"), none of which is promising. The price label explains all: it says 'W.I. Rendall', which means that I bought it on Westray (and again, not expensive). The lip balm inside (there's a tiny pot sunk into the base) is bright pink, very sticky with a powerful scent of strawberry. It isn't horrible, but I'm not likely to buy any more. After all, how many ducks does one woman need?
I haven't spent the whole week brooding about Durham's democratic deficit: D. has been visiting and distracting me with such pleasures as wine and crosswords. We also went to a lecture at Redhills, about plans to preserve and make use of the old Miners' Hall. Also, the weather has been very strange: we walked home in sunshine from Sunday lunch at the Stonebridge, noticing a blackthorn hedge coming into bloom - and within an hour we had a heavy shower of - wait, that's not rain, it's sleet! No, snow... (not settling, but definitely snow).
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Date: 2019-03-11 05:33 pm (UTC)The sort of shop where you can buy anything from a pin to an anchor- quite literally! :o)
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Date: 2019-03-11 09:59 pm (UTC)