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When you're in the sin bin, you can hear a faint whine, sometimes more of a soft buzzing sound, which is the cries of the lost, cast out into the ether. Fled lamenting into the nothingness

Jim, you ought to be a writer .. oh. Yes.

Jim wrote: "When you're in the sin bin, you can hear a faint whine, sometimes more of a soft buzzing sound, which is the cries of the lost, cast out into the ether. Fled lamenting into the nothingness"

No, that's the flies.

I keep forgetting to wash the bins in there.

but they are literary flies of course

I thought there were no flies on Jim

Well there probably are when he is out looking after the cows...

Don't think we still have cows in England?

He's in Cumbria. They do things differently there!

Well I assume there still are... I haven't been out in the country for quite a while, so I might have missed a mass cow cull.

I was going on all the foreign imports of milk and seeming lack of beef available for making burgers etc, so just assumed

I live in dairy farming area. There are 3 farms in the village.

Just fields of wheat,oats and rape near me

David wrote: "I was going on all the foreign imports of milk and seeming lack of beef available for making burgers etc, so just assumed"

Massed imports is due to the fact that buying proper food at the normal world market price means that there isn't enough margin to pay for the sort of advertising budget, executive salaries and suchlike that a modern 'efficient' supermarket needs.
If you go to somewhere old-fashioned and grossly inefficient like a real butchers shop where he buys real cattle, has them slaughtered and then cuts up the carcass in his shop, selling you the bits you want, then you'll find that there's plenty of meat etc in this country

David wrote: "Just fields of wheat,oats and rape near me"

The wheat is to make the bread, so you can have a cold roast beef sandwich. The oats is either for feeding horses so that supermarkets have something really cheap to put in burgers, or for making the porridge you need to set you up for your breakfast bacon. The rape is to produce oil which is probably used in most cooking oils now to some extent, a little bit in industrial lubricants, a fair bit in biofuels, but the important thing is that the stuff that's left when they've squeezed the oil out is an excellent animal feed and is therefore used to produce real food.

Best butcher I ever went to was in Coniston

Cumbria does have some really good butchers. Even in Barrow with all the supermarkets we still have four or more proper butchers in the indoor market alone, plus those with shops.

But one that is both good AND has a website is Higginsons
http://www.higginsonsofgrange.co.uk/i...

Last time I went to Cumbria we were with some friends who live in St Bees. They bought a waberthwaite ham. It looked delicious and the assured us it was.

Cheers

MTM

M.T. wrote: "Last time I went to Cumbria we were with some friends who live in St Bees. They bought a waberthwaite ham. It looked delicious and the assured us it was.

Cheers

MTM"

It is, and so is the waberthwaite cumberland sausage

All off the Cumbria for a meat fest then. Barbie at Jim's (Ken may be there too).

Won't be a sausage fest if Ken is there.

Ken can model Jim's e knickers

David wrote: "Ken can model Jim's e knickers"

reaches for peril sensitive sunglasses

Actually, you can't go far wrong in this neck of the woods, lamb and lots and lots of really good local pork.

Mmmmmmmm..... foood....

Cheers

MTM

Food indeed... Fillet steak in red wine for dinner. :oP Red to drink too, of course.

Hmmm. Roast pork here, with home made Autumn Jelly. Red wine to drink!

Had roast beef for lunch, roast potatoes, peas and sweetcorn and a yorkshire pudding. Cream doughnut for dessert. 7up to drink.

I've just had my dessert. Scones with clotted cream and home made strawberry jam.

Ah. Don't do pud. Then you can have a bigger dinner!

This is why I have mine three hours before dinner. Afternoon tea, I believe.

Oh, I do approve of getting another meal in!

Do North Yorkshire also do supper?

I'm in E Yorks and I'm from Manchester - but if it's a meal, I do it!

Ignite wrote: "I'm in E Yorks and I'm from Manchester - but if it's a meal, I do it!"

I was told that if you cannot miss a meal or eat an extra one, summat were up!

I believe a meal that is not enjoyed is an opportunity wasted! ;-) ...And life's too short to drink bad wine.

Cheers

MTM

Definitely agree on the wine comment. Same for beer and brandy :~S

David wrote: "Definitely agree on the wine comment. Same for beer and brandy :~S"

I told one person I'd given up drinking bad, gassy beer, for lent.
Back in 1985 ;-)

17 year old daughter highly ammused that I am now on twitter and refuses to follow me. I don't see why it's so amusing, then again I don't fully understand this tweety business. She told me I must re-tweet; bad form not to do so apparently, so I appologise. Just need to find out how :~|

Hi. I heard you were all stuck at the zoo.

Oooo look, you're not alone with the tumbleweed any more, I'm here, until it falls over again!

Cheers

MTM

One made it through like a wounded soldier

Phnark, I've just commented on the 'Morning' thread and managed to be the first person to say anything on there for 6 hours... that has to be... well... a first!

Cheers

MTM

Are you the only one that made it back? Are the others stillin the zoo holding pen? I have to go out now... so you hold the fort

I'm back YAY!

Yay, everyone's back just as i have to go out

David wrote: "Yay, everyone's back just as i have to go out"

The law of sod is strong with this one.

Cheers

MTM

Well that was a short reign as Dark Lord...

better to have Dark Lorded and lost, than never to have Dark Lorded at all

Had you got as far as picking a sidekick?

I haven't seen an advert in Henching Weekly...

I did hear that 'thugs are us' is recruiting, apparently they've got a big new contract.