General Chat

We went out today.

For an outing we went to Bridport to buy some Dorset Knobs and thought we might go over the Salisbury Plain by way of a change.

It was raining and, when we stopped at a diner, I put my cardigan on while I crossed the car park.

We had breakfast and went back to the car where I kept the cardigan on.

Down to Bridport, we will give Crewkerne a miss next time too, and into the knob shop. Walked around a bit in there, bought some stuff and, as we were leaving, he told me my cardigan was inside out!

What are Dorset Knobs?

Hard.

hard ????????????

Fattening :-D

This other Canadian had to google. Sounds like stale sweet bread buns to me.

Define.

This Canadian has now also googled :-D

wikipedia says ........

"A Dorset knob is a hard dry savoury biscuit which is now produced by only a single producer, for a limited time of the year.

Dorset knobs are made from bread dough which contains extra sugar and butter. They are rolled and shaped by hand. They are baked three times. Once cooked, they are very crumbly and rather like very dry stale bread or rusks in consistency

They are named after their shape's resemblance to Dorset knob buttons, but have also been compared, in size, to door knobs"

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when Sharron posted "hard" .............. I thought she meant hard candies :-)

I've got one of those Sharron. I went out with odd shoes on but he didn't mention it . When I asked if he had noticed he said yes but forgot to say........

His latest.......I had long hair and had it cut short, he didn't mention it for days until someone else commented that it looked nice. Unlike yourself, I have given up lol.

DH didn't say anything when I had lost ONE lens from my sunglasses.

I must have had a cold or something and the cat, who was getting on a bit by then, had peed on my jeans when they were in a heap on the bathroom floor (hm,hm, hung tidily in the wardrobe I meant to put).

Anyway, OH and Fred's mate let me go out smelling of cat's piss!

That will teach you to 'hang' things up :-D :-P :-D

cats can climb sheer walls

;-)

At least he finally noticed Sharron lol

Mine spends so much time looking for his lost specs, he doesn't notice anything else lol

No, he saw the label.

And so,no doubt, did numerous other people.

I dunno I thought this was going to be about the cat not looking after you when all the time he had everything well ordered.

Dorset Knobs go very well with a nice cup of tea. Along with decent beer they are something you cannot find in Yorkshire.

In Ireland, cardigans are known as 'ganzies'.

Dorset is a lovely county. And so it should be - being so close to the nicer county of Devon. :-D :-)

A old boss of mine used to use that word gansey for a sweater or a jumper. He lived in North Norfolk by the sea altho I think he came from Essex. He told me that the name came from the Guernsey fishermen's jerseys knitted to keep the wind and spray off them at sea.

If you google 'What is a gansey?' there are several sites where a gansey is described as coming from Guernsey fishermen's sweaters. They had their wives and mothers, even themselves, knit identifying initials or marks in so if they were drowned and bodies in jumpers were washed up, they could be identified. However there is a further site which denounces all of that as folklore lol

I can picture him now, taking his snuff with half of it going down the front of his own gansey lol

Lizx

nudged for Ann in Cardiff,

thank you Sharron - now I know :-D