Sayings

Why did my gran use the phrase" Make Haste" when ever we used the bathroom. I never understood it and can't seem to find any information as to its origin?

When I was very young I loved my glove puppet of Prudence Kitten - somehow the name always conjures up this image. (aaah)

Love it susieb755!

Yes of course it was poor old Prudence who Gordon Brown mistreated and maligned.

85% statistics are wrong...........

jeni

"She sat like Patience on a monument smiling at grief"
As I vaguely remembered, It is from Twelth Night." (confirmed by googling) i dont know any more about it though.

Why can I remember trivia like that but not where I wrote down the password.

On finding someone had left the door to the kitchen open and the heat from the coal fire escaping my mother would say, "Were you born in a barn? Put t'wood in t'hole."

Well absent, if you remember your posts just before you took a sabbatical from GN, I would say you are Very Young At Heart.

A saying I like and use a lot is ! `It doesn't matter who you vote for the Government get in.'

What! Amorone?

It's lack of body is the very reason to put it in a cocktail rather than drink it on its own.

And me! Give me a good Amorone any day! I had one on the QE. It cost say it very quietly! pp. $112. For the bottle.
I did make it last two days and it was lovely!

Sounds interesting - but I always think Beaujolais nouveau is over-rated. Friends in the village used to have beaujolais nouveau parties - it went down like lemonade but I remember feeling very fragile afterwards!!
How about something involving a fresh lemony flavour, like Limoncello?

Bu the Virgin Mary probably tastes even healthier as it doesn't include vodka gracesmum.

You could do something like stir 4 measures each orange and lemon juice and 1 teaspoon caster sugar (that's for extra flavour) together in a mixing glass. Pour over ice (that's the rocks) into a tumbler and top up with Beaujolais Nouveau (that's the virgin). Decorate with a slice each of orange and lemon and serve.

'Dear Prudence'?

I think it was Prudence that Gordon Brown was so keen on, not Patience!

Baggsy I practise. I'll let you know when I think I have got it just right - but I may be some time. I love Bloody Mary(s) - they taste so healthy!!

gracesmum Well a Virgin Mary is a classic non-alcoholic cocktail although I find the idea of non-alcoholic cocktails anathema. Shall we just call it a mixed drink for argument's sake? It wouldn't be that difficult to invent a Virgin on the Rocks.

Piffy has a lot to answer to. lol

Virgin on the rocks sounds like a very nice cocktail, doesn't it?

A son!

And him adon of the manse!

who was Patience?

Oh is that like a combination of Leonardo's Virgin on the Rocks and Shakespeare's patience on a monument? (I don't think she's the same Patience as Gordon Brown shafted so seriously when he was Chancellor.)

Google says, it should be piffy on a rock bun and probably comes from piffy= patience. A rock bun = cake. Are we any wiser?

Glad to see you on line again, helshea.