I am ill at the moment, just a touch of flu like symptoms, you know the usual stuff, aching bones, runny nose, a cough and you look like death warmed up.

Apart from my nose being red raw and my head pounding, I usually enjoy being off work, I read and hire shit dvds like The Vampire Hunters and stuff like that. However, with no work to do and plenty of time on my hands... I think... And that can be dangerous. It can result in a new story or song or worse... An idea, or I get hung up on something stupid. Today, I got to thinking about the term 'Life is full of little disappointments', now I reckon that is a pretty negative outlook and I tried hard to think of one... And then it happened!!!

I love Revels, you know the chocolates that have orange, coffee, toffee, Maltesers and best of all... The little chocolate discs. Now, I love the little chocolate discs and I don't like the coffee or orange and can take or leave the toffee... But because of the discs, I will work through a bag of Revels... If they just sold the discs, I would probably still buy Revels at it's the contrast and the 'unknwn' that makes 'em great.

Anyway, I was in Blockbuster hiring The Vampire Hunters and few other shit films when I saw them on the rack by the till...

A giant bag of Revels...

A bag with the words 'New Sweet' plastered boldly across the top left corner... Now this is something unheard of, something Revels fans have been waiting for, almost as long as being able to buy the chocolate discs on their own... A new centre... Oh my God!!!

The bag also had a little picture of each of the old centres, the coffee, the orange, the toffee, the Malteser, the disc... And then, yes... A QUESTION MARK!!! A big '?' slap bang in the middlle, this was almost too much for me to handle, they weren't going to tell me on the bag what this new centre was!!!

How exciting is that!?! So I bought a bag and hurried home.

Jesus, I thought, I'm going to have to eat one at time just in case I get the mystery centre, I don't want to pollute the taste with a damn coffee or orange... So I grabbed the first chocolate...

Coffee...

Next one... Orange.

I had a couple of discs just to reset my palate... Now this is when my imagination kicked in, what had Mars come up with? Maybe fudge, or white chocolate or maybe just to throw everyone off they have done something wierd like curry flavour or hedgehog flavour like those crisps that were all the rage... Wow, I really need to get back to work and get a life.

And then I realised...

Hold on, that was a raisin... A fuckin RAISIN!!! Now maybe it is just me but two things went through my mind at this point.

1) I didn't realise straight away because for some reason I thought raisins were always in Revels but thinking back, nope, that's the new sweet.

2) Is that the best the Research & Development guys can come up with, a fuckin RAISIN!!! What a stretch!!! Way to earn your £50K a year salaries boys, A FUCKIN RAISIN!!!

And then I found something in the bottom of the bag much more interesting... It looked like three Maltesers melted together and then covered perfectly in chocolote... I knew it was a freak but far more interesting than a damn raisin!!!

And then I thought just how like life, this bag of Revels is... You get excited about the hype, the anticipation of something, then you find something by accident that is a whole lot more interesting...

fuckin raisins.

Oh and I wrote a new tune too and worked out a Ben Harper song...