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phoenix Sat 28-Mar-20 15:19:11

Hello all, extra good wishes to you all.

Well, the newspaper (only once a week) needed to be collected from the village shop, so Mr P asked what else we needed. There were things that he had been unable to get from his supermarket trip, so I jotted them down, in clear, large print, giving additional verbal instructions suggestions.

(The village shop now has a "non browsing" policy, and have set up a counter in the doorway. Shoppers are encouraged to arrive with a written list, which they give to the staff member.)

His first attempt was aborted, he was shock to see the queue stretching 200 metres back down to the village square!

He came home, but said he would go back in an hour or so.

So, we had a light lunch (cheese on toast) and off he went.

I was planning to make creamed cabbage to go with the chicken hot pot for Sunday, so my list included a small green cabbage, and some cream.

I had actually said to himself "Don't get a white cabbage, it won't work, and if they don't have green cabbage, we won't need the cream, and we can just use the extra broccoli that you bought that we didn't need yesterday. He looked at me and nodded, as if to say "Roger! Willco!" and off he went.

The bit regarding "If no lettuce, get mushrooms, we will have to have steak, chips & mushrooms instead of our usual steak, salad & jp's" (Not as healthy, but needs must wink) seemed to have been taken on board.

However I'm now the less than proud owner of a very large white cabbage, and a large pot of cream confused.

I will list the white cabbage on the village FB page, there must be someone with a large family who can use it! (Can be left in a bag on our doorstep for collection) and I suppose I could make creamed broccoli!

Before anyone castigates me (big word for a Saturday) I really do appreciate the fact that Mr P does get the shopping, this post is meant to be a bit of lighthearted stuff!

Greymar Sun 29-Mar-20 20:59:35

Is to troll a relexive verb...Je me troll and so on?

SirChenjin Sun 29-Mar-20 20:56:13

Surely MrsGranny1943 qualifies for a Lifetime Achievement award??

Grandad1943 Sun 29-Mar-20 20:55:35

Phoenix in regard your post @20:38 today, the thought of my wife "dashing away with the steaming iron" really is a joke.

Last year when they were ripping out our kitchen they found the iron in the back of one of the cupboards, it was genuinely all rusty.

First time it had seen the light of day in donkeys years. ??

Anniebach Sun 29-Mar-20 20:41:09

CirChenjin I third that

GrannyLaine Sun 29-Mar-20 20:39:10

I'm not sure, but I think Grandad has just trolled himself shock

Marydoll Sun 29-Mar-20 20:38:37

I have a very strong suspicion that Papy is lying down in a darkened room and Mamie 1943 is using his log in. ??

phoenix Sun 29-Mar-20 20:38:16

Yes, perhaps he has gone rogue to the point that he has loosened his tie and left his brogues unpolished, and even (gasp!) unlaced!

An unironed shirt might be a step too far, poor Mrs Grandad will still be fulfilling her wifely duties (urgh, stop that thought) and dashing away with the steaming iron!

Grandmafrench Sun 29-Mar-20 20:35:25

Is everyone sure that Papy Neuf Cent Quarante Trois hasn’t morphed into a real person at last? He’s dangerously close to sounding like a human being.....or has he employed a ghost writer. Don’t say you’re going to cancel the awards - best fun I’ve had this lockdown AND I was ironing a frock and breaking out the gold lamé slingbacks !

Gemini17892 Sun 29-Mar-20 20:35:19

And an award for Mrs G43 who must having a hard time in the lockdown ?

Curlywhirly Sun 29-Mar-20 20:28:59

Marydoll I know you very rarely fail, I was really shocked! Presume then, that said scones turned out beautiful and do sound very tasty. Grandad I too am shocked at your language, I have always viewed you as a paragon of virtue; I can only think that the numerous ladies on this thread have finally managed to lead you astray. Tut, tut.

phoenix Sun 29-Mar-20 20:22:02

SirChenjin I second that!

No uncertainty in this quarter over some things, very very certain about some things.....

SirChenjin Sun 29-Mar-20 20:17:55

That, Granny, is an excellent idea!

Marydoll Sun 29-Mar-20 20:15:48

Language, Grandad. I'm shocked! ?

Grandad1943 Sun 29-Mar-20 20:14:44

With all this worry and uncertainty, l
think I will put YouTube music on with top sounds of the 1960s and 70s. Life was far more certain and simple when we all knew that we may be nuked at any minute in the cold war.

We all knew exactly where we were and where we were likely to be blown too when the bomb went off. ??

Ahhh, beside the ever present cold war we had Vietnam, then the Cuba Crisis, then the civil rights showdown in America, while all the time the IRA were trying to blow us all to kingdom come home here.

Christ, I miss those times. ?

GrannyLaine Sun 29-Mar-20 20:12:38

Maybe we cut out the middle man, just send our votes directly to GNHQ as a kindness to them so that they don't have to trawl through all our cakery They could then just send us the total. Voila!

SirChenjin Sun 29-Mar-20 20:10:32

Does M&S sell goat now Marydoll?!

I’m going to nominate

1. Grandpere de la Pompous

2. Captain Mainwaring

3. Lord Chief Justice Misandry

Greymar Sun 29-Mar-20 20:08:45

Anything with warm and dough must be good.

phoenix Sun 29-Mar-20 20:07:21

Definitely NOT, Marydoll!

Marydoll Sun 29-Mar-20 20:04:36

As you posted just after me, Phoenix, I hope you weren't alluding to me. wink

phoenix Sun 29-Mar-20 20:02:54

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Marydoll Sun 29-Mar-20 20:02:02

SirChenjin, I misread the last part. I though your DH had bought goats.

Not only have I lost the will to live (over the maths puzzle thread), but I have now totally lost the plot! ?

SueDonim Sun 29-Mar-20 20:00:48

Gemini Chuck in a hand sanitiser and two loo rolls are yours!

Phoenix, the supermarket sent me kidney beans instead of butter beans. I have plenty of kidney beans but no butter beans. Also, I have no garlic, I discovered yesterday. I do have enough ginger to keep the UK going for months, though. grin

SirChenjin Sun 29-Mar-20 20:00:03

I sent DH down to M&S today - yes, I did!!! Not for cabbage though, I’m not making the same mistake as phoenix, no siree Bob - and he reports that the shelves are very well stocked and the place is very quiet. I even got fresh chicken <gloats>

Marydoll Sun 29-Mar-20 19:58:33

Curlywhirly, I can assure you, I rarely fail at anything!
My hot cross buns have only failed once in over forty years, I can't be expected to be totally perfect.
I leave that to my husband (and others).

Curlywhirly Sun 29-Mar-20 19:54:59

Well, I don't wish to brag and make you all jealous, but I have a pack of 24 toilet rolls, bought might I say, about 4 weeks ago, well before the recent shortages. So, I am open to offers, but, as I can't find any flour at all in our supermarkets, have to say Marydolls sultana and cherry scones sound lovely - however, if they are homemade, hope they turned out better than the failed baps/rock cakes. If not, then GrannyLaine's warm sourdough loaf (a particular favourite of mine) sounds very good.