I would jail them both. Most dogs just want you to love them a little bit while they love you unconditionally.
So, Picalilli, good or bad. Made a batch of my own a couple of months ago. Just had it with some ham and cheese. So lovely.
Good. Love a bit decent piccalilli. Mind, when it's crap, it's bloody awful....will take the skin off your teeth. I had some nice stuff (Calders) my son gave me, along with some Northumberland Nettle cheese and crackers. Tremendous.
Nettle cheese is one of lifes real treats. My sister in law gets me cornish yarg as a present when I see her. Lovely stuff. What is the Northumberland cheese mate, never come across that.
This is it.... My son got a Country Hamper sent to his house from work and this was in it. There was chutneys, Picalilli, jams etc in it. Most of it he wouldn't eat, so I end up with it. Made from hard cows apparently....
I’ve just gave a nettle soup to a vegan friend and she’s just text me to say one of the best soups she’s ever tasted.
Missing it for the past few years, Used to ge able to get Crosse and Blackwell over here but not anymore. Might have to make my own as haven't found any decent substitutes. At least i can still get Branston Pickle
I know every generation thinks the one following them is a downgrade, but events over the last week have really given me pause for thought. I bought a poppy the other day from a Legion stall in the shops. I asked if they had a lanyard too, I needed a new one for work. The old lad apologised and explained they have a reduced range of products this year due to people not having much money. Now I'm not into poppy shaming, if anyone doesn't want to buy one that's their personal choice. Having seen the amount of Halloween tat outside houses though, and listening to what must be thousands of pounds literally going up in smoke tonight, I seriously question where people's priorities are.
About 10 years or so ago a young lad knocked on my door late one dark evening and in answering found a charming young lad asking for donations to the British Legion Poppy fund. Now normally anyone door stepping me get short shrift but I asked this kid in and ended up signing for a monthly standing order, the amount isn't relevant, and we've been paying this ever since. I was just saying to her indoors yesterday that there seems a dearth in places where you can buy a poppy this year. I have two enemal badges, one a SAFC, the other my old constabulary badge each bearing a poppy, and wear them each year with great pride. At a time when charity donations have been getting a bad press this is one organisation I would urge anyone to support.
For so many priorities lay no further than the words me, me, I want and now. And having spent a load also on Xmas tat , they’ll be the ones in January bemoaning that the govt aren’t putting £60 a month into the electric account
I see the latest charity donation at the supermarket check out is coming under scrutiny, another trouser pocket job I would imagine.
i am all for the tragedy of all wars being remembered, hollywood is the only place that celebrates war, but it seems a lot has been hampered by those who claim we should not remember...when everyone stops remembering they forget how many died from all races around the world. i remember every newsagent, pub and especially the clubs always made a big 'thing' about the poppy, many shops would have a good supply on the counter, sadly, most will order online, pubs and clubs are closing rapidly and cannot remember the last time i saw a 'newsagents' as such, mostly monthly magazines in some corner of a different shop. history should never be forgotten, especially the parts we got wrong so they are never repeated.
We have a younger generation who have time to march , protest and pull down statues because of what happened a long time ago - but cannot find just one hour a year to go to the local cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday
Like you Cumbrian, I have an enamel poppy from my place of work and an enamel SAFC poppy, both of which I wear. Every year I give £10.00 to the first poppy seller I see and explain about my enamel poppy. This year the bloke thought I was daft and tried to give me anything he had on display, in the end I took a paper poppy to appease him and had a long chat about his career in the forces. I was never in the armed forces but my Dad was a regular soldier before and during the war and I have access to his experiences through the DLI website. I have the utmost respect for everyone who served and especially those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
