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Is asking DH to carve out 25kilopumpkin in time for Halloween "a big ask"?

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25kilopumpkin · 20/10/2011 22:02

Brought home enormous pumpkin today and tasked DH with job of hollowing out and carving in time for Halloween. It almost didn't fit in car and the only place it goes inside is on top of freezer..I smell rebellion?

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biddysmama · 20/10/2011 22:05

i'll send my husband round, he keeps asking why we dont have any yet like a little kid .... its because they rot in the warmth

mumsamilitant · 20/10/2011 22:05

Laughing here, absolutely excellent. well he has time.

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25kilopumpkin · 20/10/2011 22:11

I'm most worried because he said he has got a specific "dremel" attachment(?) that might sort it... What's going on?Wink

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ddubsgirl · 20/10/2011 22:15

ohhhhh can i come and do it? tried pumpkin for the 1st time today,did a cooking thing at my twins school witht he boys and made pumpkin & coconut soup & pumpkin pie it was lovely!and kids carved out pumpkins x

moreyear · 20/10/2011 22:15

YANBU. A he is owns the appropriate equipment add you are expecting him to do a damn fine job.

Angelico · 20/10/2011 22:16

Lol! and to think last week I heard some radio piece about how all the pumpkins this year were going to be tiny... Hmm

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25kilopumpkin · 20/10/2011 22:23

I changed my name in it's honour, I had to take the pushchair out of the boot to get it home! DH shudders everytime he walks past...Grin

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Trills · 20/10/2011 22:25

YABU to ask him to carve a pumpkin if he doesn't like carving pumpkins.

They are not a necessary thing, they are something that should only be done by people who think it is fun to carve pumpkins.

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25kilopumpkin · 20/10/2011 22:33

I do a lot of stuff thats not "fun", anyway he has two cardboard robot costumes to make as well so he needs to get going...

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PomBearAtTheGatesOfDoom · 20/10/2011 22:44

Pumpkins are thin walled, with not a lot of stuff inside them and don't actually take much doing. It's not exactly building a pyramid or painting the Forth bridge to carve one...
Now when I were a lass.... cue Hovis theme type music we had to have a turnip and it would take our Dad 17 days to pt a dent in it and we would bend every spoon in the house finishing off the hollowing out, then we would have to eat the turnip for tea for a week... Grin

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25kilopumpkin · 20/10/2011 22:52

You see, people don't even believe me when I tell them about the turnip!!!Angry I can still remember the smell of burning turnips at brownies. Also no Ikea = no tea lights so stumps of candle used Sad...oh god, that's it isn't it, I have bought the biggest ever pumpkin to compensate for having only a turnip as a childBlush???

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squeakyfreakytoy · 20/10/2011 23:47

Grin I had forgotten about swedes (not bleddy turnips.. they are the little white and purple things!!!)...

I dont remember there being pumpkins around when I was a kid, so it was a hollowed out swede with a bit of a candle in it!

moondog · 20/10/2011 23:49

at the concrete turnip

BabyDubsEverywhere · 21/10/2011 00:12

How the feck do you hollow out a swede?!

AprilAl · 21/10/2011 01:04

I'd totally forgotten about the swedes, but as soon as you mentioned "the smell of burning turnips at brownies" the memories came flooding back. Grin

Bogeymanface · 21/10/2011 01:10

My mother did a swede once and even she cant remember how she did it and is impressed by what she did! It was great though because it lasted far longer than the pumpkin I did for the kids last year, and I got to carry it to school to show off as it was strong enough for her to put a string through it!

We didnt have an electric knife either, which is the only way I would consider trying it on a swede!

Bogeymanface · 21/10/2011 01:13

Is anyone else tempted to have a go at a swede this year, for old times sake and just to see if you can?!

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25kilopumpkin · 21/10/2011 01:39

Feeding baby.. No not tempted to purchase any more root veg...Grin also, you're right of course it was a "swede not a turnip"!? So why did we always call it turnip? Blush and hollowing it out always meant bent spoons. They are v hard, I remember the carved face bit looked like it had had strokeSad

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Bogeymanface · 21/10/2011 01:48

Coward! :o

Trills · 21/10/2011 08:19

I'm sure you do do lots of stuff that's not fun, but if you are doing lots of unnecessary stuff that's not fun I suggest you stop it.

Carving out pumpkins is entirely optional.

Grumpla · 21/10/2011 08:23

Buy him a chainsaw as an early Christmas present.

Hell, buy YOURSELF a chainsaw and get cracking!

KreepyInMind · 21/10/2011 08:26

Envy at 25K pumpkin

MurderBloodstabsandgore · 21/10/2011 08:33

If I have understood it correctly, I think that a swede is a turnip in a north south divide type fashion? My friend was from Newcastle and swore this was so. [gullible]

There is no way I could hollow out either without industrial eqiupment. I struggle to chop a butternut squash.

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25kilopumpkin · 21/10/2011 08:33

Hey Trills you are right but I've bought it now, it shall be done...Wink

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25kilopumpkin · 21/10/2011 08:35

Butternut squash v pesky, only me and babies like them anyway, they get to 18 months and refuse it...

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