Tom Burrow's legacy

One of our funniest and definitely more memorable memories in primary school is that of Tom Burrow and his legacy.

Never before had I heard of the drink 'dandelion and burdock' but now whenever anyone mentions it, it brings a smile to my face.....

Dandelion and burdock

It started after school one day when me and Lee bumped into a 'certain someone' (in other words, Tom). He seemed to be by himself carrying a giant bottle of dandelion and burdock.

Actually, Stevie, I'm pretty sure he was standing next to a postbox, fake-crying with anguish because he couldn't get the lid off that massive bottle. (God knows where the bottle came from).
We went over to him (a bit more cautiously, as we had spotted him moments ago lying on the pavement clutching a used lottery ticket and whispering, "I've won, I've won." to himself repeatedly) and I asked the question anyone would ask.
"Tom what the hell are you doing?"

He looked a little worried, a little crazed, but asked, "Would either of you care for some dandelion and burdock?"
We both awkwardly replied, "No".

Tom seemed to have other ideas- he flew after us with the bottle; Stevie screamed and dived for cover, I jumped quickly out of the way, and Tom went hurtling to the ground, and we all watched in silence as the bottle spun through the air.

Tons of Dandelion and burdock spurted out into the street, covering a very posh old lady.


The lady shrieked in horror, shaking her wrinkly fist, and shouted, "MA MACINTOSH! WHAT HAVE YER DONE?" 
She pulled her two terrified grandchildren into her particularly disgusting mustard macintosh (which was some weird little form of poncho) and threw herself at Tom. It wasn't a pretty sight- her macintosh fluttering in the breeze as she screamed at Tom, spraying innocent pedestrians with dandelion and burdock.

A macintosh, modelled by this rather
striking young man.

....I don't think she talked like that Lee....Afterwards was a blur; all three of us ran away as fast as we could, which wasn't very fast as poor Tom wasn't exactly 'fit'. After about two minutes we'd lost her, and then deserted Tom, who was looking rather sad that he'd lost his oh so special 'dandelion and burdock'.

*We changed the name to 'Tom Burrow' to avoid embarrassment for the real *sighs* 'Tom Burrow'.

First encounters.

We think it's only right to start our blog in the very beginning- how we first met.
 This is NOT a love story, just how friend meets foe. (And then becomes friend again.)

Okay, so basically, when I first met Stevie, it wasn't exactly what one may call 'love at first sight'. In fact, I'm pretty sure 'hate' was an understatement. But- to be fair- we were only in year four, and I was the typically chubby eight year old girl, with short hair and she was the slightly less fat, neat little nine year old.
It all started when I was trying to draw a perfect little angel on a scrap of paper. She ran over with a permanent marker and drew an obese hand on my little angel's arm.
It was war.

To be fair Lee, ^ you asked me to help draw it and I offered to help, so I did. And to be honest I thought my draw-over was pretty good.

Well, you thought wrong.

Haha, well anyway, I drew over your work (trying to be helpful) and all hell broke loose (lol). you showed the picture to everyone and before I knew it the whole class was after me!

I've never seen eight year old's charge so fast. Come to think of it, I've never seen one little girl curl up into a ball and beg for mercy in the middle of the playground either....

Okay well maybe you exaggerated that a bit but still. I was small. I was scared. And we were enemies. however, with little kids being, well..er.. little kids, we made up the next day, and since then, we've been inseparable.

Ahahaha I suppose that's true. Mind you, if we hadn't have made friends in the end, then I suppose that I wouldn't ever have laughed as much as I have, and I probably would have had many less near-death encounters.

Shut up lee, its usually you who gets us into "near-death experiences".But anyway that's how it started and hopefully as we develop this blog there will be lots more to come. Over and out..

Me and Lee in Newcrost Park!
(Back in the day)

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Getting started!

First lets get this straight, this blog is joint.

Me (Stevie) and my friend (Lee) wanted to create something that we could both relate to, enjoy and generally have something to symbolise our friendship,but we're kinda' knew to this whole blogging thing so  we will just take this step by step and see where it leads us.

We have decided to make this blog a montage of our funny memories, favourite things and the overall happiness in our lives, and as we said, we don't know where this will take us but don't knock it until you've tried it. 

P.S. Please enjoy the blog!

 P.P.S. WE LOVE GINGER SNAPS.