ADs trying to stay upright in a muddy park

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Another thousand posts filled and we're ploughing on through another weekend of squelching through parks before we hit the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.

The AD chat continues...

Or roasting them with oil, garlic, and chestnuts?

Argh, x-post. Referring to sprouts not rellies

It is the boiling of the sprouts that attracts the Covid. It's the aerosols from the boiling water. Frying or roasting is fine.

Yay to staying in with mince pies for company

Thanks to all for mince pie suggestions

Aldi is the only place in walking distance and it’s probably best

I’ve already had frangipani, salted caramel and icing topped from there. It’s not even December.

I can’t believe anyone’s talking about outside!! Mum has a garden but why should she freeze?! All such overprivileged gits.

I’ve decided I better have a bath to stop myself wandering out to buy more food, it really is getting that bad. There is something oddly peaceful about 9pm Aldi shopping. The dementors aren’t there, I think they think good citizens don’t shop late, and there’s few enough people that you don’t have to do the distancing dance.

I haven't left the house since Saturday, DD has been sent home from school to isolate and I'm WFH. Normally I'd get out to walk her to school. I really ought to force myself to go out tomorrow - but it's so depressing when everything's closed.

@justasking111
I expect there is many a family breathing a sigh of relief that they have an excuse to stay home alone thus avoiding the dreaded rellies grin
@ISaySteadyOn
Or roasting them with oil, garlic, and chestnuts?

Never thought of doing that with my relatives.

Oldies are gone. Contemporaries have own families, my son's fiance is a miserable drain at the best of times and my daughter wants to stay home alone Christmas Day. No troubles for me.

May spend Boxing Day with my daughter and may visit my sister and her husband during the following week. Won't be roasting any of them though

@ProfessorRadcliffeEmerson

Noooo, sprouts are the work of the devil! Adding chestnuts and bacon is just a waste of chestnuts and bacon, they become contaminated by the bitter green little horrors. I'm quite sure they spread Covid and should be banned at once.

I am firmly in support of this.

Sprouts are permitted but must either be cooked individually or, if you must cook them in the same pan, they can only be from a maximum of 3 stalks. The stalks should be from the same field & not mixed up. No more than 6 sprouts from the same stalk should be in the same pan at any one time.

The pan should be well-ventilated with the lid off. If a sprout has symptoms of Sprout-blight (blemishes, mushiness or a persistant stench) it must stay in the vegetable tray at the bottom of the fridge. Any other sprouts, carrots, or stray ends of cucumber that have come into contact with the sick sprout must isolate in the fridge until New Year.

Sprouts may be accompanied by bacon or other side-dishes, provided they leave their contact details.

These are quite simple rules for a jolly Christmas. If you don't like sprouts you are advised to follow common sense but stick to the rules. You can't be too careful.

Did someone really suggest putting cheese in coffee?! 😂

@Missushbb

Did someone really suggest putting cheese in coffee?! 😂

They really did. Milk was classed as non-essential .

@TheOrchidKiller

Sprouts are permitted but must either be cooked individually or, if you must cook them in the same pan, they can only be from a maximum of 3 stalks. The stalks should be from the same field & not mixed up. No more than 6 sprouts from the same stalk should be in the same pan at any one time.

The pan should be well-ventilated with the lid off. If a sprout has symptoms of Sprout-blight (blemishes, mushiness or a persistant stench) it must stay in the vegetable tray at the bottom of the fridge. Any other sprouts, carrots, or stray ends of cucumber that have come into contact with the sick sprout must isolate in the fridge until New Year.

Sprouts may be accompanied by bacon or other side-dishes, provided they leave their contact details.

These are quite simple rules for a jolly Christmas. If you don't like sprouts you are advised to follow common sense but stick to the rules. You can't be too careful.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@TheOrchidKiller

Sprouts are permitted but must either be cooked individually or, if you must cook them in the same pan, they can only be from a maximum of 3 stalks. The stalks should be from the same field & not mixed up. No more than 6 sprouts from the same stalk should be in the same pan at any one time.

The pan should be well-ventilated with the lid off. If a sprout has symptoms of Sprout-blight (blemishes, mushiness or a persistant stench) it must stay in the vegetable tray at the bottom of the fridge. Any other sprouts, carrots, or stray ends of cucumber that have come into contact with the sick sprout must isolate in the fridge until New Year.

Sprouts may be accompanied by bacon or other side-dishes, provided they leave their contact details.

These are quite simple rules for a jolly Christmas. If you don't like sprouts you are advised to follow common sense but stick to the rules. You can't be too careful.

😂

@TheOrchidKiller

Sprouts are permitted but must either be cooked individually or, if you must cook them in the same pan, they can only be from a maximum of 3 stalks. The stalks should be from the same field & not mixed up. No more than 6 sprouts from the same stalk should be in the same pan at any one time.

The pan should be well-ventilated with the lid off. If a sprout has symptoms of Sprout-blight (blemishes, mushiness or a persistant stench) it must stay in the vegetable tray at the bottom of the fridge. Any other sprouts, carrots, or stray ends of cucumber that have come into contact with the sick sprout must isolate in the fridge until New Year.

Sprouts may be accompanied by bacon or other side-dishes, provided they leave their contact details.

These are quite simple rules for a jolly Christmas. If you don't like sprouts you are advised to follow common sense but stick to the rules. You can't be too careful.

If I don't allow any sprouts in the house can I have red cabbage and cauliflower or must I only have one.

If I can only have one, how many days before I can allow the other in the house.

I am assuming broccoli and cauliflower can share a pan - surely it would be ---- not be right to not allow that?

@Missushbb

Did someone really suggest putting cheese in coffee?! 😂

Cheese in coffee. Leaving brownies on a doorstep was like turning up with the Grim Reaper. As was sitting on a bench to eat crisps. Touching gates was murdering farmers. Letting a child with SNs out to exercise for the second time of day or driving them to an empty field/ beach was mass murder. And as for those joggers BREATHING and PANTING... the slipstream was like being in the toxic wake of an aging leaky oil tanker of doom!

So amid all this madness, we kind of blundered together in a confused state of "is it me???"
No idea how many threads we've had now. Over 40 yet?

I forgot to list children taking their own body bags to school and blowing out their birthday candles on a potato so they don't kill granddad.

No idea. And the themes grew organically so difficult to find the original. But I do love a barmy thread-chain. I had a lovely bunch and of MNers when TTC and we had a Yam theme

Is this the thread for parents at home?? What does AD stand for please? Thanks!

@WandaDavy

Is this the thread for parents at home?? What does AD stand for please? Thanks!

nope

You are welcome if you don't judge others for doing things differently that's all.

Parents, elders, workers and even combinations, all fine.

We know the virus is dangerous to some but we also know that it isn't the only thing - and that for most it won't be very serious.

We make our own risk assessments, (whilst mostly following the official rules) we don't judge others. You can stay home alone forever or you can take every possible chance to get out there, so long as you don't judge others for not doing the same.

We also appreciate that, whilst death is sad, it is inevitable and isn't always the worst option; that things other than covid kill, and that, despite Covid, it is still understandable to be disappointed, sad and hurt (or happy and joyful) about other things.

@NannyGythaOgg
If I don't allow any sprouts in the house can I have red cabbage and cauliflower or must I only have one.
If I can only have one, how many days before I can allow the other in the house.
I am assuming broccoli and cauliflower can share a pan - surely it would be ---- not be right to not allow that?

There's always one, isn't there?

It's quite simple.
Follow The Science, Hands, Face, Space, Go To Work On An Egg, Watch Out There's A Humphrey About, Stay at home, eat your 5 a day, Save The Whale.
Honestly, what is it that people don't understand?!

Further instructions regarding the rules of Custard vs Brandy Sauce will be leaked to the press late on Christmas Eve follow in due course.

@BogRollBOGOF I’d forgotten the body bags to school!

Anne Frank

Naturally for the ADs, any vegetable combination is acceptable if one of the vegetables involved is phallically shaped.

Oh - and AD is antidementor.

Dementors are fictional characters in Harry Potter that suck the joy out of everything. Anti dementors are about not making everything about Covid and that real life still goes on, with all that it entails

From cheese in coffee, body bags to schools and Anne Frank via rude vegetables. That’s the AD threads

@TheOrchidKiller
Watch Out There's A Humphrey About,

No, my Humphrey (the big hedgehog) isn't about, I think he's hibernated but I quite like it when he is about (he is allowed in my garden isn't he. I do keep the door shut). So long as there isn't a Handcock about, I don't really care about the rest.