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To Kick These People Out #2

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FuckYouChrisAndThatHorse · 22/01/2014 14:35

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Summary anyone? :)

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mistlethrush · 30/01/2014 10:12

I drink my tea black - but you have to drink it a lot weaker for this to be acceptable. Apparently its a lot more healthy too as the free radicals are somehow trapped by the milk

I could probably bring a pavlova - or at least the ingredients to erect one - it would go soggy if it was put together before arrival.

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FuckYouChrisAndThatHorse · 30/01/2014 10:16

I haven't had a pavlova for far too long.

Dh has tea without milk. He adds a bit of honey.

It's ok. But not as nice as Proper tea.

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ColdTeaAgain · 30/01/2014 10:17

Oh :( I'd hoped it'd be like using powered milk, not exactly a proper cup of tea but still drinkable! I am tempted to try it anyway...

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FuckYouChrisAndThatHorse · 30/01/2014 10:23

Do it and report back :)

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NigelMolesworth · 30/01/2014 10:24

Been off MN for a couple of days so only just caught up. Good news re email from reasonable lady. Fingers crossed now!

You are amazing!

ColdTeaAgain · 30/01/2014 10:51

Ok well...it's not great. But no worse than I remember the tea with powered milk was back in the days when I worked in a shop with no fridge.

I wonder if different brands of formula are more palatable than others? Hmm

Bonzodoodah · 30/01/2014 11:19

Fab news from reasonable woman!! hopefully your field will be yours soon.

Do you have damson bushes? If not do get some... damson vodka is DIVINE!

Oh and if we're doing bath jokes here's my favourite.

Two monkeys in the bath ...
one says "ooooh oooh ahahaha ooh ooh oooooo!"
The other says "well put some cold in"

MarvellousMechanicalMouseOrgan · 30/01/2014 11:38

Man goes for a job in a blacksmith's. The blacksmith asks him, "have you ever shoed a horse before?" He says, "no, but I once told a donkey to fuck off".

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FuckYouChrisAndThatHorse · 30/01/2014 11:45

Nigel, everything crossed, I just hope we get an actual date soon and don't end up getting strung along.

Coldtea, it's your duty to test them all.

Bonzo, I love damsons but have never made anything with them. I really want to plant a bit of an orchard. I love fruit trees. They're my kind of gardening. Good joke!

Marvellous we'll have to reverse it (as long as the horse does actually fuck off)

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mistlethrush · 30/01/2014 11:54

Damson gin is also very good.

My grandmother was a very good cook. We were staying with her when I was still quite little and had the dog with us - she slept in the kitchen. I woke early to hear the dog crying - went down (the crooked) stairs and peered over the kitchen counter that was open to the dining room where the stairs came down - and saw red everywhere - splashed up the units, all over the floor etc... sprinted up two flights of (narrow, crooked) stairs screaming that the dog had blood everywhere and got my father up - he went down to investigate and found that the dog was crying because, during the night she had discovered the one and a half remaining damson pies (in those white metal pie tins with the blue edge) cooling on the kitchen table - and had helped herself. She was crying because her basket was full of damson pips and the pie tins. Grin (she never, ever had any ill effect about eating any human food)

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FuckYouChrisAndThatHorse · 30/01/2014 12:22

Mistle :) that sounds like a terrifying scene to be faced with! Bloody dog! Grin

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IdaBlankenship · 30/01/2014 13:08

Morning all... um well afternoon actually. I made damson and apple jam last year and blackberry vodka, it was a good foraging trip.

Bonzodoodah · 30/01/2014 13:10

oooh slurp Idea!!

Bonzodoodah · 30/01/2014 13:11

Ida (fecking autocorrect)

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FuckYouChrisAndThatHorse · 30/01/2014 13:14

Slurp idea Grin

We can have a mid fest forage to see what we can find :)

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Misspixietrix · 30/01/2014 13:17

Marking place too after catching up on the story. The Cheek of it! Shock. I've gone right off the idea of Foraging after watching this week's Holby! Grin.

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FuckYouChrisAndThatHorse · 30/01/2014 13:26

Was it mushrooms, Pixie? I love a good liver-failure story line.

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IdaBlankenship · 30/01/2014 13:47

Well to be fair we did slurp it Grin

ThomasLynn · 30/01/2014 14:19

Pixel thank you muchly for the offer...but I'm five feet if I stand up straight Sad
By the time DD is ten I will have to sit her on the floor to tell her off.

Oh, oh CHRIS! I'm Australian! I can make pav! And Anzacs! And search people's bags and fine them for breaching Customs (we'll go halves, k?). Better still I've no idea of exchange rates so I'll just stick a GBPound sign in front instead of $. So that's fines starting at 220 Pounds.

Also if it's fancy local milk from Welsh cows named Daisy and Buttercup I'm excited for it.

enriquetheringbearinglizard · 30/01/2014 16:46

Ooooh it's now the inaugural INTERNATIONAL FYF™
and you've all reminded me that we have several large kilner type jars of homemade sloe gin, blackberry gin and blackberry vodka which I keep making to use up homegrown produce. Not that we grow it as such, the fruit just does grow all on its own accord and I'm not into jams or chutney making.

Wing, can you add that to the list please Thanks

AcrossthePond55 · 30/01/2014 17:01

Oh yes! to video screens. And in honour of '70s rock, our first song should be The Beatles' 'Admiral Halsey'. With exceedingly LOUD belting out of the chorus…."HANDS ACROSS THE WATER (WATER), HANDS ACROSS THE SKY-Y-Y-Y!!!"

Not sure about formula in tea, but I've heard that you can substitute breast milk. At least that was what I was told by someone who got in my fridge years ago and didn't read labels closely. (Not really. He said it was vile)

GlaikitFizzog · 30/01/2014 17:29

CAn I get a post work update of what's happening please? I'm on a quick turnaround to get back out the door for choir (ooh I could bring them along to FYF too!) :o

RenterNomad · 30/01/2014 18:33

You're going to need a marquee. We have one, but it's bloody heavy, and I fear the only delivery we'll be able to afford is Yodel Are you really hibernating?

MrsNutella · 30/01/2014 20:44

Chris horse sausage shouldn't be a problem at all. There is a stall occasionally at the local market that sells horse meat.... Maybe I'll have a closer look and see if they do some Wurst....
(Oktoberfest is really just a Munich thing that has got a bit out of hand tourist wise - Christmas markets, now that is where they give you the strong good booze!) maybe I could just bring a couple of Pretzel kiosks and hire men in lederhosen to fill them with tasty cheese or wurst as people wish.... Hmmm I'm off to look for a pot of gold to help me out with that.

saggy well if you have the time I have the sausage - so many sausage jokes to make....