Teddy Bears Picnic

dLockers said:
Pfft, what trees?

It is a lot more modern to porcelain tile any inch of potential soil and eradicate any trees as they make leaves :rolleyes:

Also birds sit in them. You want bird crap on your corner sofa?
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You don't work for my local council do you? They have an obsession with concreting everything. It's actually really annoying when we're supposed to be all doing our bit for the environment yet it looks like I'll soon be living in concrete city.
 
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I quite like hearing ice cream vans, with their crappy sound systems churning out snippets of music. It's nostalgic for me. I haven't bought ice cream for donkey's years, but maybe one day I'll wander out and get one for old time's sake. Cider lolly? Rocket lolly? One of those ice creams with a bubblegum at the bottom? Funny foot? Major decision!

I'd probably be shocked at the prices now. On the other hand, I get paid a bit more than the 50p a week pocket money I got back then. So it's probably proportionally a lot cheaper for me now.
 
Our one plays the song that starts with “If you go down to the woods today”

I think it could well be the teddy bears picnic.
 
Angilion said:
I quite like hearing ice cream vans, with their crappy sound systems churning out snippets of music. It's nostalgic for me. I haven't bought ice cream for donkey's years, but maybe one day I'll wander out and get one for old time's sake. Cider lolly? Rocket lolly? One of those ice creams with a bubblegum at the bottom? Funny foot? Major decision!

I'd probably be shocked at the prices now. On the other hand, I get paid a bit more than the 50p a week pocket money I got back then. So it's probably proportionally a lot cheaper for me now.
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One comes down my road every so often I am always tempted but always feel like the neighbours would think I’m a total weirdo a man who lives alone in his 30s buying an ice cream :o

I’d you ask for a 99 do they know what you mean?

And then do they say here’s your 99 that’s 299?
 
BowdonUK said:
What is with all the different tunes the Ice Cream van has? I seem to hear different ones in different areas.
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They seem to play "greensleeves" around here, saying that I havn't seen or heard anything this year lockdown seems to have done for them

Tefal said:
One comes down my road every so often I am always tempted but always feel like the neighbours would think I’m a total weirdo a man who lives alone in his 30s buying an ice cream :o

I’d you ask for a 99 do they know what you mean?

And then do they say here’s your 99 that’s 299?
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Just go for it thats what I do the biggest problem though is no cash to hand usually, the ones parked at the beaches seem to take cards at least
 
Tefal said:
One comes down my road every so often I am always tempted but always feel like the neighbours would think I’m a total weirdo a man who lives alone in his 30s buying an ice cream :o

I’d you ask for a 99 do they know what you mean?

And then do they say here’s your 99 that’s 299?
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I certainly wouldn’t think that. As long as you’re just buying one going home and not hanging around with the kids. Then I’d worry
 
Blackjack Davy said:
They seem to play "greensleeves" around here, saying that I havn't seen or heard anything this year lockdown seems to have done for them



Just go for it thats what I do the biggest problem though is no cash to hand usually, the ones parked at the beaches seem to take cards at least
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I remember doing a half marathon in Lytham a few years back. I'd gone out the night before (**** you months of training!), and it was a really hot stuffy day. I really struggled around the course in some pathetically slow time and after lap 1 i'd spotted an ice cream van near the finish. Used that as motivation for lap 2, only to find they were cash only :(
 
Buy a load of expensive Mr Whippys and then run away without paying. Ice cream vans are very slow, so you could probably outrun one. Plus, it's an excellent story to tell the kids in future.

I was sorely tempted to pluralise Whippys with an apostrophe.
 
Every time I hear one it brings back memories from the early 90s of the ice cream van that used to do the rounds of our estate at 10pm. As a naive preteen I went to it once to ask for a poke with a flake and was duly told to **** off. The other clientele should have been the clue. Vodka, cigarettes and other vices were his wares.
 
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