I’m so gutted about the Body Shop, despite not going in one for over a decade. Also read this food diary top to toe and am so impressed by the commitment - the amount of times I just have Cheetos for dinner is shameful
Oh no, not the Body Shop! I loved those dolphins! And lining up all my little bottles along the side of the bath & making potion after potion! Basically all anyone gave or received for their birthday in the 90s! Do you remember the packaged brick of “make your own soap”? It was like clay! Soap you could mould into ANY SHAPE! Am I imagining this?
So much variety! I am in awe! Thank god I live with a man who cooks otherwise I would be eating Linda McCartney sausages, mash and tenderstem broccoli every *single* day, on repeat.
I loved every single word of this. I ask my colleagues what they’re having for dinner every single day, I think it’s so fascinating! Strangely I also have broccoli side, cooked in the exact same way as you, with an about 60% of my meals ….
The Body Shop nostalgia is so very real - going in for the strawberry lip balm was my mark of tweendom but also aspiration - as a young transfer to Greece from the US buying something from a shop that featured so heavily in the Seventeen mags I devoured made me feel worldly, socially and ecologically conscious, and fueled my dreams for bigger things. Also thanks for sharing your dinners - I thought I was the only one who stressed about this!
for me it was their lip balms - they were the one form of cosmetic allowed in my Catholic school, so I ended up a tweenage collector of every possible flavour I could afford (started off with the mint one but my personal favourite was Satsuma Shimmer, which they naturally discontinued).
I don't, in principle, object to children and tweens being interested in cosmetics - for a lot of them it's somewhere between a new toy and a new way to finger paint, but I'd feel much less nervous if they were just off collecting lip balms and nail polishes than pursuing retinols (which have a chance to do real damage to their skin).
I’m so gutted about the Body Shop, despite not going in one for over a decade. Also read this food diary top to toe and am so impressed by the commitment - the amount of times I just have Cheetos for dinner is shameful
Cheetos for dinner sounds heaven tbh!
broccoli taking this win in a landslide 🏆
Oh no, not the Body Shop! I loved those dolphins! And lining up all my little bottles along the side of the bath & making potion after potion! Basically all anyone gave or received for their birthday in the 90s! Do you remember the packaged brick of “make your own soap”? It was like clay! Soap you could mould into ANY SHAPE! Am I imagining this?
Massively impressed with your dinner schedule 👏👏👏
Omg absolutely every gift! And sometimes a 'create your own' basket if you were feeling flush or fancy. And yes that soap existed!
So much variety! I am in awe! Thank god I live with a man who cooks otherwise I would be eating Linda McCartney sausages, mash and tenderstem broccoli every *single* day, on repeat.
I loved every single word of this. I ask my colleagues what they’re having for dinner every single day, I think it’s so fascinating! Strangely I also have broccoli side, cooked in the exact same way as you, with an about 60% of my meals ….
The Body Shop nostalgia is so very real - going in for the strawberry lip balm was my mark of tweendom but also aspiration - as a young transfer to Greece from the US buying something from a shop that featured so heavily in the Seventeen mags I devoured made me feel worldly, socially and ecologically conscious, and fueled my dreams for bigger things. Also thanks for sharing your dinners - I thought I was the only one who stressed about this!
for me it was their lip balms - they were the one form of cosmetic allowed in my Catholic school, so I ended up a tweenage collector of every possible flavour I could afford (started off with the mint one but my personal favourite was Satsuma Shimmer, which they naturally discontinued).
I don't, in principle, object to children and tweens being interested in cosmetics - for a lot of them it's somewhere between a new toy and a new way to finger paint, but I'd feel much less nervous if they were just off collecting lip balms and nail polishes than pursuing retinols (which have a chance to do real damage to their skin).
Satsuma Shimmer! What a name.
Ahhh bodyshop bath pearls 🐬