When I lived in the south of France, my preferred brand of sun tan oil was Bergasol. It gave very little skin protection, but I did get a nice tan. Of course, given the amount of time I spent in the sun, I would have got a nice tan no matter which oil or lotion I'd used, given that back then no one used high SPF products. I certainly wasn't thinking about protecting myself against skin cancer. Apparently the original formula Bergasol is no longer sold because of the amount of the tanning accelerator psoralen, a cancer-causing substance, that was in it.Despite its quintessential Englishness, I didn't encounter Earl Grey tea until many years later and disliked it intensely at first sniff. It took me a while to figure out why - the flavour comes from oil of bergamot - the same oil that gives Bergasol its distinctive smell! Earl Grey is DH's favorite kind of tea and I have to make sure that it is kept in a separate Tupperware container from my Tetley's British Blend so as not to contaminate it!
AA, So, you are the brown topless one in the picture, am I right? ;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for your kind comments...do buy the webcam.
ReplyDeleteMerry Xmas!
Daffodilly - I ordered the webcam today and had it sent to AA's parents. I think it will be nice and DS and DD will enjoy seeing their grandparents when they aren't as green and fuzzy as they were on their previous webcam.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the Earl Grey - what's the matter w/that?
Billy - there was once a picture around here of a certain bathing beauty...
Billy - I'll admit to having sunbathed topless in my youth (though I think/hope the photographic evidence has been destroyed), but I never managed to tan quite that deeply!
ReplyDeleteWell, I personally think the tanned gal looks too dark --I can jsut picture dry skin in her old age. I think the less tanned one would be more natural and end up far better off in the long run!
ReplyDeleteI never was that wild about Earl Grey and less so now!