In December 2005 and May 2015, Mum and I enjoyed house sitting in London. We became enamoured with McVitie’s Hobnobs – plain oat biscuits. We liked to listen to BBC Radio 4: The Woman’s Hour and The Archers – along with a cup of tea and a Hobnob or two.
I was delighted to find them on the shelf in a supermarket here last weekend. They were the chocolate-coated version, but lovely all the same. Then I spotted them in my local supermarket and bought a packet – only to find I’d mistakenly bought digestives, not Hobnobs.
It’s nice to re-visit the past, but perhaps I won’t go on a hunt for more. After all, they’re imported from the UK and, as Mum pointed out, our homemade Anzac biscuits (also made with oats) are our favourites just now. It was a nice bit of nostalgia though, and has been before when, in May 2021, I took a photo of this delightful Sharon Murdoch Munro (the cat) cartoon in The Press.
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