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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 16:41:18

Sacre Bloo, mes petits pains sont grands et pendent librement.

J'ai restez dans ma magazin sans le uplifter.

phoenix Sun 29-Mar-20 16:36:40

I'm here!

He has got it wrong, I did not insist on having a white cabbage!

Heaven forfend that he ever gets anything wrong! shock He is MAN, he is invincible, see he him roar! (In his highly polished brogues).

MiniMoon Sun 29-Mar-20 16:27:51

KateK, are you bandying Jeanne Robertson about again. I posted this video yesterday on page 2.
I don't mind though, she's a very funny woman. Have you seen the one entitled "Don't snap an elephant to a tree"?
It's got nothing to do with the thread, but here it is.
youtu.be/92lofCtx52k

Katek Sun 29-Mar-20 16:06:26

This sums it up perfectly! Longish at 7 minutes but we’ll worth the watch.

youtu.be/-YFRUSTiFUs

Marydoll Sun 29-Mar-20 15:49:51

I feel I may have to alert GNHQ to the innuendo on this thread. As I've previously mentioned, I am an innocent. I have just broken my pearls, with all the clutching I have been doing. ?

GrannyLaine Sun 29-Mar-20 15:46:15

My buns are causing me anxiety May7
I did not perceive the misogyny in SirChenjin's post @13.58:25, merely a chummy salutation which did not comply with the spirit of Gender Equality.
However, I can see that it would cause some consternation if, in order not to be accused of misandry, SirChenjin had added "and to those with the XY chromosome, enjoy GrannyLaine's buns" Do you see the dilemma?

SueDonim Sun 29-Mar-20 15:44:56

Terribull, are you a published author? If not, you should be! grin

TerriBull Sun 29-Mar-20 15:27:22

Grandad, does Mrs Grandad realise how lucky she is getting her lunch cooked for her, I bet you're going to do the full tasting menu, a sort of Heston Blumenthal special something along these lines:

Misandry Mousse

Outraged Oeufs

Political Polenta

Health and Safety Hash

Grandad's Grrrr avadlax

Prime spare rib or Haulage Hot
Pot

All can be accompanied by the following:




Misogyny free fries
Pissed off Peas
Grouchy Greens
Ticked off tacos

Followed by :

Little woman lemon tart smothered
with verbal lashings and lashings
of cream or

Lets Blame Eve Apple Pie


Somerset cheeses and sour grapes
A selection of half baked biscuits

To wash it down a lovely 1900
"Why can't a woman be more
like a man Whine"

Petty bores

SirChenjin Sun 29-Mar-20 14:43:21

grin May I’m innocent of all misogynistic charges, honest guv’nor!

SueDonim Sun 29-Mar-20 14:28:19

Where’s Phoenix? Is she in the GN slammer? grin

May7 Sun 29-Mar-20 14:18:17

SirChenjin
Are you deliberately being rude to Granny
It's the most insulting misogynist
thing I've ever heard
Enjoy your buns indeed Madam ??
???

SirChenjin Sun 29-Mar-20 13:58:25

Next time perhaps Granny - enjoy your buns smile

GrannyLaine Sun 29-Mar-20 13:30:12

Great tip SirChenjin and it would have used those last dregs up nicely. A tad too late as the dough, is now rising nicely on the Aga.

Grandad1943 Sun 29-Mar-20 13:11:10

janipat, I thought she wanted a white cabbage for a creamed cabbage recipe and her other half came back with a green one. ?

Oh well never mind, as I stated you would probably not be able to find either around this neck of the woods at present.

I am just off to start our Sunday lunch as it's my turn to cook. Will seem strange as we very often have a family get together over lunch on a Sunday especially as it's our middle daughters birthday today.

Instead we have lockdown and just the two of us. ?

SirChenjin Sun 29-Mar-20 13:01:09

No don’t go - there’s lots more baking tips where that came from!

Till we meet again then Marydoll - bain marie and bonnet de douche grin

Marydoll Sun 29-Mar-20 12:56:02

Oh I'm loving this thread, it has lifted my weary spirit!
Thanks for ALL the contributions.?

Marydoll Sun 29-Mar-20 12:54:35

I'm leaving the room, I have been diverted by reading this thread, when I have important matters to deal with.
The Sunday papers await me. ?

SirChenjin Sun 29-Mar-20 12:53:17

I find a tablespoon of KY jelly stirred into my buns makes them nice and moist - worth a try Marydoll?

janipat Sun 29-Mar-20 12:52:03

grandad you could always try reading the post accurately! The OP needed a green cabbage for her recipe, a white one wouldn't work. Still you've never worried overmuch about accuracy have you?

Marydoll Sun 29-Mar-20 12:44:14

GrannyLaine good luck with my buns! The last lot were an absolute disaster and I'm supposed to be smart, didn't you know? I will never live it down, in fact DH won't let me forget it.
The word, rockery, was used in his appraisal. ??

GrannyLaine Sun 29-Mar-20 12:41:31

Oh Mon Dieu, le gelle KY, c'est nest pas pour manger. Nous sommes vraiment dans un crise mais nous mentenir le decorum

Greymar , I am literally crying with laughter...

Greymar Sun 29-Mar-20 12:38:31

I went to a crap school, I loved French. Failed my O level twice. The French I am using here is joke French, a joke

Grandad1943 Sun 29-Mar-20 12:38:06

Glad you are enjoying it Gemini17892 as I certainly am.

What I do not understand is the opening posters insistence on having a white cabbage. If the food stores are anything as the are in North Somerset here at present, you are only too grateful to walk out with any vegetables let alone specifying a white cabbage.

They would probably give you a green one and a bottle of bleach in our Tesco. ?

GrannyLaine Sun 29-Mar-20 12:37:59

My DD1 told me the other day that their children have reached an age where they zoom into any adult conversation. DD & SIL have to resort to speaking in French if they are discussing anything they don't want the children to hear.

Greymar Sun 29-Mar-20 12:37:03

J'ai confus, Ils sont plus de papis et son mari? Le papi " originale" et les papis additional?