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rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

You realise I had to google clapshot :rotfl:

You & me both KC!

As well as hundredweight & neep & tatties!!!!! :eek::D

elantan

ive noticed the reduced section doesn't have as many bargains anymore either although there must be a bargain hunter round our way as most of the time there are none to be had lol

starnac

Neep and tatties I knew as my parents went to a wedding in Scotland a few years back and discovered haggis. Now they can only have haggis with "neeps" and "tatties" said in the most awful Scottish accent you have ever heard :rotfl: I blame their age

Pippilongstocking

You lot make me giggle!

Working at home today getting ready for a workshop tomorrow (cooking workshop) (insert shreeky face) never given one before. As its about leftovers I'm tempted to go to the garden centre pet section and get a couple of rubber chickens, that should liven the chat up

Helping at a workshop tonight too but that about crafts and I'm just making the tea :-)

Walked mutts but must check banks.

Hope you all have a great day :-)

Sorry for all the googling! Clapshot is a favourite here :-) in any silly accent!

Sends out vibes for reduced bargains, all round and sunshine and bluebells

EssexHebridean

LOVE Haggis here - but generally without the accent Starnac! :rotfl:

Pippi - I've been meaning to tell you - I made Skirlie last week after you introducing us to it - easy peasy and tasty as a tasty thing - thanks for that! :kisses3:

Rubber chicken (with or without props!) is a great subject for a food workshop like that I would have thought - great idea! can just picture the faces if you bring out one of the pet shop ones to illustrate though!

We'll find out next week whether the days of 10p bread are gone over in the Hebrides as well - I suspect so - there wasn't much sign of them last year! Elantan - I pop into Mr M's occasionally where the reductions are great but there are a couple of women who go in there with trollies and literally sweep the lot off the shelves an armload at a time. SO much of it must get wasted it makes me properly :mad: - I use ready-sharpened elbows and lever them out the way now!

Love to Stripey family & Mutts - especially that small fiendish one.

Greying_Pilgrim

Hail Pippi and Stripey Gang members :hello:

ooo, loving the YS talk. Pity - as everyone is widely reporting, (whatever your location), that there seem to be 'slim pickings' these days - irrespective of whether more folk are snaffling the bargains. The on-farm waste that is caused by supermarket 'requirements' makes me :mad:. We are eating superb british asparagus at the moment, that is otherwise destined for the skip because it is either 'too fat', 'too thin' or 'too long' for the packaging! What utter hogwash! And thank you thrifty relatives who 'skip dive' (and are no spring chickens) and share the bounty around (with, it must be said, the growers permission). The irony being of course that when I wafted thru 'waitflower' on the weekend, their asparagus hailed from........Peru!

Ooh, the food workshop sounds brill Pippi. I'm sure that you have a gazillion recipes and tips for 'rubber chicken' yourself, but do 'lob in' the link to Elaine Colliar's rubber chicken experiment for your students as an extra resource. Elaine is a Fife gal, so it's keeping it regional! Plus I thought she had got it up to 13 meals in the finish........

Essex Hebridean I was minded of you last night (again :rotfl:), but this time I was watching the coverage of RHS Chelsea Flower Show. In the cottage/courtyard gardens, someone has designed a garden on the theme of a 'Hebridean Weavers Cottage'. (West Hebrides springs to mind, but I may of remembered that incorrectly). The garden was lovely, as was the 'example' of a 'bothy'?????? (is that what I mean?) the traditional stone houses with thatched roofs weighted down with stones anyway. There were vegetables growing in the garden and Toby Buckland pointed out the value of kelp seaweed to fertilise the soil, flavour the potatoes (?) and keep the soil stable/intact. He also added that the crofters would bring it to their homes directly from the beach and that the salt content would ........ keep away the slugs! What's the betting that we'll now hear of 'kelp rustling' as the gardeners of Britain go on midnight sorties to stock-up on this 'new' slug repellent!

The garden inspired by the poet Emily Dickinson - I think it was called something like the 'Massachusetts Garden' (?) was also lovely - there were flowers created in material (leather I think) to represent embroidery and tapestry (I assume ED was a fan), they were lovely - I think Keiss might of liked it.

Anyway, I hope everyone is ok. I've snap boxes for tomorrow to rustle up and then I'm going to watch who got all the medals on the Chelsea Flower Show...erm...show!

Greying

Karmacat

That sounds lovely, GP and the rubber chickens from the pet store sound *fantastic*, Pippi, you've got to do it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I noticed some great recipes on Elaine's the other day, around dandelions :j

starnac

I def think you should get a rubber chicken Pippi. Bit of humour never hurt! Good luck with your classes x

EssexHebridean

Greying - that sounds amazing - might have to do some scouting around on iPlayer to see if I can find that! I was going to say that maybe we should bring the car back from our next trip with the car boot stuffed full of kelp but a) there's not enough room in the boot and b) Kelp smells FILTHY as it rots, so maybe not! :rotfl: the South East's Kelp black market will have to do without our contribution!

Greying_Pilgrim

EssexHebridean wrote: »

Greying - that sounds amazing - might have to do some scouting around on iPlayer to see if I can find that! I was going to say that maybe we should bring the car back from our next trip with the car boot stuffed full of kelp but a) there's not enough room in the boot and b) Kelp smells FILTHY as it rots, so maybe not! :rotfl: the South East's Kelp black market will have to do without our contribution!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

EH the garden was featured again tonight on the BBC2 coverage (at about 8.30ish) - Toby Buckland must really like the garden. It is the Motor Neurone Disease garden and it won a Gold Medal in the artisan gardens gategory. A picture of it is HERE (garden No. 7 just in case the link goes to the telegraph page rather than the specific pic).

Hope the cookery demo and class went well Pippi.

Greying