Midsummer Fayre?

[Florence Fennel]

You can uncross your fingers now!!

How very dare you, oh ye of little faith My tongue's not in my cheek either

[Florence Fennel]

Right, love to stay here chatting, but the big screen is now mine, all mine.

[veggiechicken]

How very dare you, oh ye of little faith My tongue's not in my cheek either

I dare because you don't know where I live
See you tomorrow

[donnakebab]

Potty, I thought you were my friend Now you're larding it with Flo.
Maybe one of you can clarify something for me in relation to pork pies - and the Walls factory. I was told that Walls used the pig meat for their pork pies and the pig fat for their icecream. What do you reckon? Not now, of course, but originally.

And didn't McDonalds used to put chicken fat in their milk shakes?

I can't do lard. I like pastry and all but not allowed anymore.

[Florence Fennel]

Chicken fat I don't like. Chickens shouldn't have fat really should they? It seems wrong somehow. Himself loves to eat the crispy skin, eww. Anyone got a marquee for this event?

[veggiechicken]

Ahhhhh, Chicken fat!! That's something I CAN relate to Just don't put me near a brazier or I may melt Flo's OH had better not come to close either or he'll get a nasty peck!

[mothhawk]

Potty, I thought you were my friend Now you're larding it with Flo.
Maybe one of you can clarify something for me in relation to pork pies - and the Walls factory. I was told that Walls used the pig meat for their pork pies and the pig fat for their icecream. What do you reckon? Not now, of course, but originally.

Yes, I believe it's true. I remember as a kid that ice cream contained "non-dairy" fat (does it still I wonder - make my own now ). Certainly Walls wanted something to sell when sales of sausages and hot pies fell off in summer, and started selling ice cream in 1922.

And a bit of history I know - because of meat rationing during WWII, Walkers looked around for something else to sell from the premises, and considered ice cream, but as meat bacteria doesn't go well with milky things, they decided to use their surplus fat to make that modern day snack food, the potato crisp, and the rest, as they say, is history.....

[mothhawk]

Is there going to be a stand for exhibiting rare and unusual animals, like this pushmepullyou?

[Florence Fennel]

There'll be a queue with shovels if we do.

[binley100]

but a queue behind which end ? or is the middle the business end ?

[mothhawk]

There'll be a queue with shovels if we do.

I've never figured out where you hold the shovel under a pushmepullyou...... doesn't really have a rear end, does it?

edit: Dr Doolittle had all those animals in his house, and never a shovel in sight......when I kept animals, shovel free moments were bliss!

[mothhawk]

I've got a jar of elbow grease you can have for the tombola

[Florence Fennel]

Like it MH. There have also been donations of a chocolate fireguard and a left-handed hammer.

[mothhawk]

I may have a chocolate kettle to go with the fireguard. I've also had a rummage in the shed and found:

4 diesel spark plugs (unused)
a box of nail-holes
a neck tourniquet (used but good condition)
a shoelace repair kit
a tin of tartan paint
an inflatable dartboard (used)
a set of rowlocks with key
and a replacement bubble for a spirit level

[cardiffsteve]

I got sent for a long weight when i was an apprentice