General Chat

Explain.

Dermot, I am just wondering, it is not your smoke in the woods is it? Seems like you have been tapping your still today.

Bucket of chips - It's difficult for youngsters to grasp the description of growing up & living in a working-class environment that existed particularly between the 1930s & 1950s.

And,while we are at it, why do peas and chips come in buckets?

I much prefer plates too.

I've had fish and chips served on top of a grease proof type paper on a normal plate...Why?

Another thing I'm not keen on is pie, lasagne or whatever served in a small pie dish and then balanced on a plate, where vegetables or salad items do their best to hide out of sight.

Couldn't do that with a tin tray.

Greek restaurants have little respect for plates & other crockery. Grab & smash!

Dermot, just stop it ,please.

Oh that dry sense of humour of yours is so dry we should call it Sahara ....

Sharron - sorry that my roguishly dry sense of humour dented your frail imagination.

Old age has given me a thick skin & I'm a bit deaf plus my mind wanders. My memory goes back to at least half past eight this morning. My brain is on holiday much of the time but the rest of my body is still stuck here.

I stopped watching 'Britain's Got Talent' on TV when the 2012 winner was announced - a performing dog named Pudsey. As a pure-bred Philistine, I couldn't take any more of such nonsense. It wasn't the little cute dog's fault!

Yeah that cake in a mug thing is weird but at least it made my daughter bake something for once......only cos she really wanted it and I refuse to do it ! :-D

Oh leave it out Dermot.

Not having a laugh about coffee in a jam jar is not going to help the starving in South Sudan or anywhere else any more than it is going to stop your roses having blackfly.

Just maybe some of have given the price of the coffee we don't want to drink from a jar, and you don't know how many coffees that might be to a fund to help alleviate the suffering of the people of South Sudan. You just never know.

AND I will tell you here that I doubt I will ever cook a cake in a mug.

Allan how will we know when you've sobered up? :-D

Dermot I don't doubt that they and many others would....

Too true, Dermot :-(

The starving population of South Sudan & other miserable places would love to have even a spoonful of food served in a jam jar.

And they wouldn't waste time checking the 'best by date' on the container.

Caroline, I'll post a retort to your comment when I have sobered up.....probably by next Thursday! :-( :-D :-D :-D

I can well believe it Allan :-D

Oh yes, I forgot about the jam jars.

Have never had anything served in one of those (too high end I expect) but have always wondered why you would.

Square plates don't quite do it for me either.

Caroline, usually a dash of Cognac, and then set a match to it :-P :-D :-D

bits of steak served on red hot volcanic rock....................stinks like nothing on earth....
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No wonder your coffee is hot Allan if it's flaming.....what do you add to it :-D