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Annual Summer Jamboree ...All Welcome!

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lemongrove Tue 22-Jun-21 08:49:06

Now that the rain has cleared away, I have secured a huge field for our jamboree ( courtesy of Farmer Giles as usual.) Bring camping gear, food, drink, and useful or decorative items.
No wives/ husbands/ partners/ toy boys allowed but you can bring a well behaved dog or cat ?
As always, in alphabetical order, and bring lots of things to do as we could be here for a long time.This is also a chatty time really, so say anything you like ( within reason?)

I will start things off with...
Apple pie ( from M&S) as I have a bit of a thing about it at the moment, which is why I shall be mainly wearing elasticated skirts and chinos for this shindig.

ElderlyPerson Mon 28-Jun-21 18:42:13

lemongrove

was that the catchphrase of Ms Whiplash from the Argy Bargy bar from years ago?

jam...I need some for my morning toast

No, they were from the 1950s.

There was a lot of attention to the following in the news at the time.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_World_Scout_Jamboree

I don't know if it had anything to do with it, maybe just a topical name at the time.

The bag was about the size of a packet of crisps and had sweets and so item in it. Sold at the local "corner shop" amongst all the sweets, crisps.

I remember having one where the item was a piece of card with a small compass on it, about the size of a finger nail like a small model of a saucepan without a handle or lid and a transparent lid window on top and a small magnetic piece that always pointed north inside, presumably on some vertical pin.

I remember that such shops used to have large display cards each with lots of one item on them, often in assorted colours, held on by elastic threads, so pencils on one card, pencil sharpeners on another, pens on another, erasers on another.

Germanshepherdsmum Mon 28-Jun-21 18:31:17

Ooh yes Instant Whip, strawberry or butterscotch.

lemongrove Mon 28-Jun-21 18:24:14

was that the catchphrase of Ms Whiplash from the Argy Bargy bar from years ago?

jam...I need some for my morning toast

ElderlyPerson Mon 28-Jun-21 18:20:16

Instant Whip

remember that!

ElderlyPerson Mon 28-Jun-21 18:18:54

Herbal tea

ElderlyPerson Mon 28-Jun-21 18:17:40

Gluten-free cake

Preferably chocolate

lemongrove Mon 28-Jun-21 18:17:26

hot toddies all round...to keep out the June chill

lemongrove Mon 28-Jun-21 18:16:33

gnashers...to be glued firmly in place

ixion Mon 28-Jun-21 15:33:17

Fixodent, in that case, for them wot needs it.

Mollygo Mon 28-Jun-21 14:48:14

Extra delicious little sarnies ( as provided above) in case we’re all so hungry, they run out.

lemongrove Mon 28-Jun-21 14:04:40

Delicious little sarnies with their crusts removed ( in case I don’t find me teef.)

lemongrove Mon 28-Jun-21 14:03:00

Corn plasters....I rarely leave home without ‘em ?and thanks Doodle, I wondered where my best set of teef were.

Doodle Sun 27-Jun-21 19:48:48

Balls. Who knows we might fancy a kick around.

Doodle Sun 27-Jun-21 19:47:52

A pair of teefs lemon . There’s one here I think you left your spare set on the bathroom cabinet.

lemongrove Sun 27-Jun-21 16:15:57

Aperitifs....at any time of day or night.

lemongrove Sun 27-Jun-21 16:14:31

Z beds, so much comfier than lilos for our old bones.

Mollygo Sun 27-Jun-21 15:30:09

Youthful people to carry heavy stuff.

Doodle Sun 27-Jun-21 15:03:18

X Ray machine to see if any of those who fall over have broken anything ?

ixion Sun 27-Jun-21 13:18:19

Wellness Yurt.
As seen at Glasto

LauraNorder Sun 27-Jun-21 09:04:09

Vests for those chilly evenings

LauraNorder Sun 27-Jun-21 09:03:10

Urgent Updates of news from WillyWonkaMark2 in the absence of daily newspapers

MawBe Sun 27-Jun-21 08:57:06

Tea- brew a cuppa is always welcome especially if it is as cold as it has been recently
“The cup that cheers but does not inebriate” (plenty of the latter already!)

LauraNorder Sun 27-Jun-21 08:53:16

Sober! You must be joking Ixion, Orlin can’t handle a sniff of the barmaid’s apron.

LauraNorder Sun 27-Jun-21 08:51:27

Risky business smuggling in a husband, we’ve had strict instructions no others half to be included.

MawBe Sun 27-Jun-21 06:16:49

Queues for the portaloos?