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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.

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.

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

Balls. Who knows we might fancy a kick around.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

gnashers...to be glued firmly in place

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

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

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

Gluten-free cake

Preferably chocolate

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

Herbal tea

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

Instant Whip

remember that!

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

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

Ooh yes Instant Whip, strawberry or butterscotch.

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.

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.

LauraNorder Mon 28-Jun-21 20:13:04

Following instant whip…

LauraNorder Mon 28-Jun-21 20:13:16

Jelly tots

NanKate Mon 28-Jun-21 21:20:47

Kaolin poultice fir the First Aid tent.

ElderlyPerson Tue 29-Jun-21 00:45:01

Liquorice allsorts

ElderlyPerson Tue 29-Jun-21 00:46:32

Mousse

Marks and Spencer used to do apricot mousse in the late 1960s

ElderlyPerson Tue 29-Jun-21 00:47:13

Nomograms

ElderlyPerson Tue 29-Jun-21 00:47:55

Old Jamaica chocolate bars

ElderlyPerson Tue 29-Jun-21 00:48:46

Purée

lemongrove Tue 29-Jun-21 08:39:26

Queer foodstuffs in my hamper...who packed it?!

lemongrove Tue 29-Jun-21 08:41:25

Rock cakes...meant to be fairy cakes but they turned out quite differently, anyone like one with a cuppa?