I want… to grow my own Homer Simpson potatoes

… or should that be “potate-dohs”?

As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, one of my clients is ShinyShack, my very favourite place on the web to buy gifts, gadgets and cool stuff.

I drool every time I visit the site; apart from the must-have gadgets and daft toys, there’s a great selection of retro sweeties and other mouth-watering goodies.

But ShinyShack have gone and surpassed themselves this time.

Because their latest must-have item isn’t a gadget.  It isn’t a gizmo. It’s not a packet of sweeties. It’s a potato plant.

But this isn’t just any old potato plant.

It’s a potato plant that grows crop after crop of potatoes that look startlingly like Homer Simpson.

I’ve never felt strongly either way when it comes to genetically modified food. I’m sure it has its good points and its bad points, much like everything else.

But if genetic modification of our crops means that we can enjoy a potato salad, or a sunday roast, with lots of little Homer Simpson faces staring up at us from the plate – then count me in.

I want… to tell you how to get free sweeties!

I recently posted on a blog named desire about fancying a packet of Fizz Wiz Pop Rocks.

Well here’s a thing… turns out my lovely clients at ShinyShack love Fizz Wiz Pop Rocks so much, they want to share the love by giving away loads of free packets.

If you fancy giving this amazing exploding candy a try, all you have to do is subscribe to the ShinyShack newsletter, and they will send you a free packet of Fizz Wiz Pop Rocks.

Now that’s what I call a sweet offer…

I want… a packet of Fizz Wiz Pop Rocks

Back when the world was young and I was but a nipper (otherwise known as “the early to mid ’70s”), the sweeties were so much better than they are today.

Spangles were great favourites, until I managed to get one stuck in my throat at primary school; the school nurse spent half an hour pouring hot tea down my throat to melt the damned thing, and I really thought I was going to die – either from asphyxiation or from serious burns.  I kind of went off Spangles a bit after that.

I want… a bar of chocolate

But not just any old bar of chocolate.

Lately I’m quite partial to Green and Black’s organic milk chocolate.  I buy a bar when I go shopping on Fridays, and eat a few blocks at a time over the course of a few days.  Sometimes I can make a bar last a week, but in most cases there’ll be nothing left by Sunday night.