One of my most vivid childhood memories is of my mother and my father standing at our kitchen sink in Winnipeg surrounded by
the last empty bottles, big smiles on their faces as my mother poured each one out.
Not exact matches
I wouldn't mind having it for collective and historical signifiance, but all the same I'd rather have a 50 yr old
bottle of scotch which will eventually be
empty than a 400 yr old book full of stories, and nothing more, that will
last for much longer.
The island of my kitchen is a mountain of name - change papers, cookbooks, recipe clippings, a «fruit bowl» holding dried peppers and papery onion skins, a nearly
empty wine
bottle, banana loaf crumbs, a planner open to
last week, a Guggenheim - shaped mug containing an inch of tepid coffee.
I cried and smiled while he — quite satisfied because he just had a
bottle — took in the «
empty» milk for the very
last time.
The after - after - party just ended, the
last celebrity - filled limo has pulled away, and the dozens of
empty champagne
bottles are being rounded up.
Just send us the
empty bottle and we'll refund you to the
last penny, no questions asked.
You in a kitchen laden with
empty bottles, dressed in a onesie, still wearing
last night's make up and clutching an
empty tub of Haagen - Dazs might not send the right message to potential dates.
Amid all the historic cars it's easy to breeze past a tidy display case carefully protecting an
empty magnum of champagne, but if you pause for a moment you might realize that among all of Dan Gurney's accomplishments and inventions, the tradition founded with this 50 - year - old
bottle of Moët might be the most
lasting.
In Armenia
emptying a
bottle into another person's glass obligates that person to buy the next
bottle, so it's polite to put the
last few drops into your own glass instead.
A Leftovers from
last week, expired milk, an
empty jar of mustard, ketchup spilling down the sides of the
bottle and that Tupperware at the very back?
Cooked bacon sandwiches for Sprogs» breakfast (to remove temptation from fridge for The Great Famine of 2012); did grocery shopping; bought Husband six - pack of beer for New Year's Eve party; bought chooks 25 kg bag of scratch mix; staggered to car with 25 kg bag of scratch mix; washed and hung out two loads of washing; filled recycling bin with
empty bottles and cartons; baked eggshells to make grit for chooks; assembled wraps for Husband and Sprogs for lunch; baked banana bread to use up manky banana supplies; baked biscuits with Sprog 2, who doesn't like banana bread; shut back door 50 times to stop plague of mozzies getting in; shut front door 20 times to stop plague of mozzies getting in; killed lots of mozzies; threw out old magazines and newspapers; put crap away from recent car trip; cleaned chook shit out of chook house; sorted three baskets of clean laundry; unpacked and repacked diswasher; returned to supermarket for forgotten essentials: toilet paper, broccoli, sparklers and
last shot of caffeine before The Great Famine of 2012; cooked dinner; washed Sprogs» hair and painted Sprog 2's toenails rainbow colours for New Year's Eve party; copped grief from Husband for painting Sprog 2's toenails (some sexualisation nonsense); went to New Year's Eve Party; reluctantly abandoned third glass of French champagne after being reminded of designated driver status; drove Husband and Sprogs home from New Year's Eve party; took Unisom; collapsed in bed at 11.50 pm.
Last night, while I was baking a huge Jack O - Lantern, I spotted an
empty Jack Daniel's Whisky
bottle in the recycle bin, and this is how I came up with the idea of hacking the «JACK»
bottle.