It's what once passed for Continental sophistication on our grim rainy island. The ’70s were great, weren’t they? All Ford Capris and plastic furniture. Are policemen looking younger?
If this is your favourite: You’re a pensioner, or looking forward to being one
🍫The Purple One
Until 2016, you could make a little joke about ‘The Purple One’ being a bit like the other ‘Purple One’: sexy popstar Prince. Then Prince died. So it became awkward.
If this is your favourite: You’re a dinky Minneapolitan with carefully tended chest hair
🍫The Green Triangle
Easy to spot in the tin, you can simply point at it with your foot, and whoever is looking after you over Christmas can unwrap it and pop it in your mouth.
If this is your favourite: You’re a dimwit, not good with words, or an alcoholic
🍫The Chocolate Toffee Finger
It's a tooth-filling-pulling delight you can nibble demurely from one end, or shove in widthwise all in one go, like a wild mustang being forced to accept its first bit.
If this is your favourite: You’re a no-holds-barred thrillseeker. Nice one!
🍫Vanilla Fudge
No messing about with this one. It’s fudge, yeah? Fudge, mate. FUDGE. Hands up who likes fudge. No one. Yeah.
If this is your favourite: You’re not sure what fudge is
🍫Caramel Swirl
It's a chocolatey version of a 1968-style psychedelic wig-out, in that it sounds pretty fucking mind-blowing, but is actually just kind of ho-hum.
If this is your favourite: You’re a crazy retro-futurist (and wear cord Pop Boutique flares)
🍫Toffee Penny
It's a confectionery abomination. Disgustingly nude in a tin of chastely chocolate-clothed sweeties, its texture is like the top of a very very old man’s head.
If this is your favourite: You’re a weirdo. Don’t come round mine at Christmas
🍫Milk Chocolate Block
You’re in the queue in Sainsbury’s. You know the drill. What are you thinking about? Post-Christmas-dinner washing-up. You’re a martyr, and the unbelievably down-in-the-mouth Milk Chocolate Block is for you.
If this is your favourite: You’re a killjoy
🍫Strawberry Delight
With the amount of sugar that’s in this baby, you could make the corpse of Willy Wonka into marmalade. It’s like spice for nans. Do not give it to kids. Ever.
If this is your favourite: You’re a dangerously mood-shifting lunatic
🍫Orange Chocolate Crunch
It’s fucking octagonal. The investment needed to churn out this beauty might explain why the Toffee Penny is hairless. It’s lush, honest and makes evidence disappear.
If this is your favourite: You’re freemason and/or a bent copper
🍫Coconut Éclair
First things first: the Coconut Éclair is not a mini Bounty. Instead, it harks back to an era of sexual possibilities, relaxed drink-driving laws and untamed hair – tonsorial, pubic and other.
If this is your favourite: You’re a dreamer, and we love you
🍫RIP: Honeycomb Crunch
Like an ‘EastEnders’ character who’d just been released from prison, the Honeycomb Crunch turned up suddenly a few Christmases ago, and immediately caused mayhem.
If this is your favourite: You’re a big man, but you’re out of shape
🍫RIP Toffee Deluxe
Forced into exile by the Honeycomb Crunch, it was back for 2017. In possibly the lamest piece of confectionery marketing ever, Nestlé announced its reinstatement in a news story.
If this is your favourite: You’re the blinkin’ King or Queen of Christmas
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📈The UK has moved into a new tier of ‘Plan B’ restrictions.
Faced with rising infection rates and the more transmissible Omicron variant, the country has announced new measures to slow the spread of Covid-19 and keep the virus from overwhelming the health system
⁉️What are the rules?
🔴Working from home is now strongly encouraged
🔴Face masks are now compulsory on public transport and in most indoor public spaces (but not in hospitality)
🔴The NHS health pass has been made compulsory in specific settings like clubs and large venues
The ‘cocaine hippos’ got their name because they were brought to Colombia by drug lord Pablo Escobar.
In the late 1970s he smuggled four hippos to his private estate near Puerto Triunfo. They were intended purely to entertain; Escobar also collected bison, ostriches and goats
When Escobar died in 1993, the hippos were deemed too difficult to seize and transport, so they were left to roam the Magdalena River, Colombia’s main waterway.
As of 2019, there are thought to be 80 to 100 of them spread across a range of 2,250 square kilometres
'It's been quite an intense year and a half for ESEA people because of the Atlanta shootings and all of the Covid racism. The times we’ve come together as a community have often been hard and sometimes depressing, so I really wanted to create a joyful space for our community'
So what can you expect?
⭐An arty, fun night of 'house music, techno, gabba and industrial punk'
⭐Film screenings by ESEA artists
⭐A performance by Zah
⭐DJ sets by Chooc Ly, Ms. G, and June Bellebono
Global warming can be difficult to properly visualise. If you’re not directly threatened by rising sea levels, suffering water shortages or ravaged by wildfires, how do you know it’s really happening?
That’s why projects like Climate Central are essential. This website creates maps that show which parts of the world could find themselves underwater due to rising sea levels as early as 2030
♻️It could come as a surprise that the UK’s first carbon-neutral community was built way back in 2002. And it’s in Sutton.
BedZED was created by @Bioregional, a charity that works to develop more environmentally friendly ways of living
🏡Co-founders @SueRiddlestone and Pooran Desai were looking for a place to build a sustainable office, but when Sutton Council put up a plot of land for sale, it was so large they thought, 'why not build homes too?'