Summer's Nigh...ice Cream Time.

A little bit of nonsense:

Icecream


Official postmark


TV watchers may have heard this haunting melody
on Oz TV for Peter's "Drumstick" Icecream (others may know it as "Cornetto")

1970's "sunshine pop"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkobH1sr0cs

Give a little time for the child within you,
dont be afraid to be young and free.
Undo the locks and throw away the keys
and take off your shoes and socks, and run you.
La, la, la...

Give a little time for the child within you,
dont be afraid to be young and free.
Undo the locks and throw away the keys
and take off your shoes and socks, and run you.
La, la, la...

Run through the meadow and scare up the milking cows
Run down the beach kicking clouds of sand
Walk a windy weather day, feel your face blow away
Stop and listen: Love you.

Roll like a circus clown, put away your circus frown
Ride on a roller coaster upside down
Waltzing Matilda, Carey loves a kinkatchoo
Joey catch a kangaroo, hug you.

Dandylion, milkweed, silky on a sunny sky
Reach out and hitch a ride and float on by
Balloons down below catching colors of the rainbow
red, blue and yellow-green: I love you.

Bicycles, tricycles, ice cream candy
Lollypops, popsicles, licorice sticks
Solomon Grundy, Raggedy Andy
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, home free.

Cowboys and Indians, puppydogs and sandpails
Beachballs and baseballs and basketballs, too.
I love forget-me-nots, fluffernutters, sugarpops
Ill hug you and kiss you and love you
La, la, la... Love you.

Hope you liked it :)

I could just go some icecream now.
Wait, is that Mister Whippee I hear coming up the road.

Steve

Heeeeyyyy! nothing like a softcone...

When our tacker was young, he would pierce the
bottom of the cup, and suck the icecream out the bottom...Kids!

Sigh, for us in the northern hemisphere, winter's nigh.

...more time for stamps?...and Cocoa

That is hilarious! I suspect they sold quite a bit of ice cream.

Ah, one of favorite foods.

There is an ice cream store in the mall. The library (one) has a little store that sells ice cream even (high school is near so they do good business).

Who is the lady on the stamp? Someone to do with the ice cream shown?

It seems like it is Jingle Month on SCF!

Yes Puzz,
she is an operatic singer Dame Nellie Melba
The dish is the Australian Famous "Peach Melba"

Her story (wiki)

The Peach Melba is a classic dessert, invented in 1892 or 1893 by the French chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel, London to honour the Australian soprano, Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931).[1] It combines two favourite summer fruits: peaches and raspberry sauce accompanying vanilla ice cream.

In 1892, Nellie Melba was performing in Wagner's opera Lohengrin at Covent Garden. The Duke of Orléans gave a dinner party to celebrate her triumph. For the occasion, Escoffier created a new dessert, and to display it, he used an ice sculpture of a swan, which is featured in the opera. The swan carried peaches which rested on a bed of vanilla ice cream and which were topped with spun sugar.[2] In 1900, Escoffier created a new version of the dessert. For the occasion of the opening of the Carlton hotel, where he was head chef, Escoffier omitted the ice swan and topped the peaches with raspberry purée. Other versions of this dessert use pears, apricots, or strawberries instead of peaches and / or use raspberry sauce or melted red currant jelly instead of raspberry purée.[3]

January 13 is National Peach Melba Day in the United States.[4]

Dame Nellie Melba on another Oz stamp

The Peter's Drumstick Icecream advert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqyiFtLnKkc

Rod
You got my mouth watering. But here in Montreal the ice cream season is over. Now it's the leaves season and we can say the maple leaves season. There is leave in the street, in backyard everywhere. Usually the city pick the bags full of leaves to turn them into compost. We know about leaves, we have a maple leaf on our flag. Thank you for the Melba stories, the dessert and the singer. Daniel

That's a nice story Rod, thanks.

and let's not forget the rest of this stamp series.
Pavlova, Lamington and ANZAC Biscuits. YUM!



Steve

Anzacs,,,,Yum!

Lamingtons?....well, to be honest havn't really experienced
a really good lamington for years.
Charity sponsored and produced for profit they suck.
However, have one from a Country Womens Assoc afternoon tea and they are heaven.