Love hearts

[louiselux]

Tonight I will be mostly eating pancakes, although I'm not exactly shriven or anything.

It's been a very productive day so far: I went to the post office to post things, then came home and have nearly finished my report, have done all the Excel stuff and have spent an hour reading the ultra-thick DTI Innovation report. I posted some sweets to New Zealand, but M frightened me by saying that a couple who took a packet of crisps into Australia were fined £6000 pounds. I think he was taking the piss, to be honest. Anyway NZ is not Australia. I had to check after that on the NZ post office site, but I couldn't find anything about packets of Love Hearts being a banned customs item. And these days Love Hearts say things like 'text me' and U R nice. These modern crazy kids.

Comments

[biascut.livejournal.com]

I sent a packet of love hearts to the US about a month after September 11th: right in the middle of the anthrax/white powder scare. I was so paranoid I wrapped nearly an entire roll of sellotape around the pack and it took my girlfriend nearly half an hour to get into them!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Hee! I bet she needed a few sweets after all the sellotape tearing. I'll have to wait and see if my parlel gets opened and searched. I put confectionary on the customs label, so I suppose they might want to look in it.

[askance.livejournal.com]

I tend to doubt that story about the packet of crisps. My family always bring sweets back from overseas, and ususally declare them to the quarantine guys because seeming over-honest is the quickest way through. It's raw stuff like fruit, veg and meat that will get you a hefty fine, and then only if they catch you trying to sneak it past.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Exactly! That's what I said - it must only apply to plant and animal materials and things that are likely to carry disease. Not sweeties.