Everyone scarper, the rozzers are coming

[ArabellaScott]

Dawn Butler's called the polis on us! Quick everyone, namechange and look busy.

https://twitter.com/DawnButlerBrent/status/1737853431413657806

Are you thinking of Revels roulette? The coffee creme is the one we all avoid, though I've met people that choose them ....there are some sickos in this world.

All Revels are welcome in my mouth.

Bagsy a job in the library so I can sneak in Terfy books.

On the pizza front, the best pizza is anchovies, garlic, olives and capers with plenty of cheese. I will brook no argument on this.

Our revels are now ended, alas.

Pickled boars head, in fact.

I was reading a recipe for it the other day: lots of faff.

yikes, google describes it as a porcine frankenstein. I'm not a big fan of turkey but there are worse things...

The Salvation Army ?????? How does that get you a spell in the asylum?

Have you heard some of their bands?

And of course the solution to somebody having struggled with imprisonment is to lock them up some more 🤷🏻‍♀️

Broccoli on pizza. Surprisingly delicious.

Polish Christmas Eve as main Christmas celebration - rollmops (herring and dill pickles), then bbq roasted salmon with dill or red snapper with lemon. No meat. Quite delightful.

I love it when the salvos band do carol concerts, sing as loud and tunelessly as you like when you're accompanied by a brass band.

My parents keep threatening to have a Turducken for Christmas Lunch. 🫣

Meanwhile, musing today on how 'The Right Side of History' isn't always predictable - as DH drove along the recently opened Edith Rigby way I googled her.

I don't actually know what I'm having for Christmas dinner! Do I have a cheese and onion buttie or a bacon buttie? Decisions decisions!

All joking aside, until it arrives in Tupperware at some point tomorrow afternoon I really do have no idea what I'm having for Christmas dinner! I really hope it's not turducken!!

@GailBlancheViola I got nothing sorry, I'm guessing dad/hubby/brother/son wasn't into it.

It feels like the bloke in charge of you could drop off any girl / woman who was inconvenient / no longer useful and you had to give a reason but you really didn't have to try very hard.

Too much religion OR too little => fine sign here
get pregnant (immoral life) OR use contraception => fine sign here
best I ever saw (which isn't on this list I think) was reading novels

My Polish grandfather couldn't understand why English anglers would return perfectly edible fish to the river instead of taking them home to cook.

Ha! Excellent.

Don't your books have long sentences already? 😆

The Salvation Army ?????? How does that get you a spell in the asylum?

To shut them up, probably. SA met with a lot of opposition in the early years, both from the established church, so called philanthropists and authority generally who saw the poor as something to be kept in their place, not helped. Some Salvationists were imprisoned, a lot were physically attacked and several died from their injuries.

Oh! I didn't know that MrsDanvers, how awful. I've always admired the Salvation Army.

If you're in an era & sufficiently fancy household for pickled boar's head, then there may well also have been peacock.

For slightly more ordinary families and/or more recent history (Georgian & Victorian) then goose or beef.

The Salvation Army didn't quietly tug its forelock to the rich, when the rich were exploiting the impoverished. I forget the details, but Salvation Army members played a pivotal part (along with feminists like Josephine Butler) in raising the age of consent in this country to 16 in 1885, and they did it, to protect the children who were being sold in the sex trade.

Then, as now, it was not popular to impinge on the freedoms of sex buyers and pimps. You could blame teenage girls for being exploited, but never the buyers.

Yes! Costco (weirdly) used to do a 3 pack of haggis pizza. Haggis is also great on cheese on toast. Haggis, mushrooms and blue cheese sounds awesome.

My mother's family used to do capon but that hasn't been feasible for a long time as the original caponisation process seems to be not acceptable in the UK. A hormonal method is now used but apparently, It's Not the Same.

Partly the reason they upset so many people - William Booth wrote the book on how to get up the noses of the rich and powerful; and he enlisted the likes of William Stead who wrote The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon about child prostitution and trafficking to the continent that was instrumental in getting the age of consent raised.

The salvos round here do a lot of good work for the homeless, addicts and low income families. They're a good bunch.

Their motto is 'belief in action'.