Amazon exiles discussion
Amazon exiles
sigh! you don't know what you're missing!
Tech wrote: "sigh! you don't know what you're missing!"... a Heart Attack?
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Skwerr sausage is really tasty, and fresh Scotch morning rolls make the ideal container. When we used to stay in hotels fairly regularly we found we could last till evening on the Scottish breakfast.Drool.
We occasionally stayed in a B.& B. in Pitlochry run by a little old lady like the one in The Lavender Hill Mob. If we both asked for fried eggs, she always gave my husband 2.
(I can feel a remark from tech in the offing...)
mmmmm..........mmm.........mmmmmmmm.........mmm......i'm trying, les, i'm trying!1
I always loved the Hogs Pudding that we used to get served up with our Breakfasts when on holiday as a child in Cornwall. We stayed at a lovely Farmhouse with such a wonderful couple - and the Wife made it to her own secret recipe. I've bought and tried it so many times over the years since then but nothing has ever even vaguely come close to just how fantastic her Hogs Pudding was ... so meaty and so herby ...
In fact I can almost taste it now just thinking about it? - Ohhh, it really was SO good! ;o>
An extra egg Lez, she has just put sexual equality back to the neolithic!
Lez, that was the way all bed and breakfasts in Scotland worked back in the day. They didn't even ask if the man wanted 2 eggs, it was just assumed.
You had to fill in a breakfast order every evening - they were headed Gentleman and Lady. There were usually American golfers and their wives there (often called Elmer and Joanie) who seemed mighty confused by local customs and vernacular. All good fun.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Lez wrote: "Gordon wrote: "suzysunshine7 wrote: "Right, I would like a large Hot Chocolate - with Marshmallows but no Cream..."Bleeuucchh! I've never quite worked out what the point of marshmallo..."
Oh bladdy 'ell! Vanilla? Vanilla...where the blazes is the Vanilla??!!
And what the flying F...is a roll'n'skwerr??!!
And do I need to toast the Marshmallows first, before putting them in your hot chocolate (retches!)....... Miss Sunshine?
Heston Bloominghell is never around when one need's 'im!
Oh...and so nice to see you back again! ;-)
Someone should make Suzy a drink made of Hot Chocolate Brazils.
I think you'll find GL, that's Suzy's kryptonite! :)
theDuke wrote: "I think you'll find GL, that's Suzy's kryptonite! :)"Yep, We know her weaknesses....
Brazil nuts take some melting.Does anyone remember the great late-seventies/early eighties sitcom Shelley, starring the late, great Hywel Bennett? There was a Christmas special in which he complained at length about the difficulty of cracking Brazil nuts, an activity whose extreme difficulty was compounded by the fact that the Brazil nut, once opened, resembled in taste & texture a particularly dry armadillo dropping.
Not seen that show, but then I was wee nipper in those days! :)I do know that Brazil Nuts are radioactive though!
is that Nabucco in our new picture, Gordon?
Yes, NC: the chorus of the Hebrew slaves.
As opposed to Nabisco, the chorus of the biscuit slaves...
mmmmmmmmmmm chocolate animal biscuits
Lez wrote: "It was good, well-written and acted."I loved the episode where he was stuck in a basement with another man (I can't remember the circumstances). There was graffiti on the wall: someone had sprayed "MUFC OK" and someone else had sprayed "WHUFC OK". Shelley pointed out the graffiti, commenting on its expression of an erudite debate over whether Manchester United Football Club or West Ham United Football Club was more OK. He said that, in generations to come, archaeologists would assume the late twentieth century to have witnessed a great war between tribal leaders called Mufcok and Whufcok.
Gordon wrote: "Yes, NC: the chorus of the Hebrew slaves."Promise you won’t use a pic of Poulenc’s nuns!
Lez wrote: "Promise you won’t use a pic of Poulenc’s nuns!"You'll have to enlighten me, Lez. I only know Poulenc's late choral music. Were there some grotesque nuns in Le Dialogue des Carmelites?
What, these ones?
It has a gruesome ending, a good orchestration can really give you the horrors! It’s best with sound only.
Are they exiles, like Verdi's Hebrew slaves?
(*sneaks in*) ... Carefully and quietly collects all of the Milk Chocolate Brazils
... (*sneaks out*)
;o>
Meanwhile, The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves is still my earworm this morning.
Tech wrote: "mmmmmmmm, nuns!"Betcha couldn't eat a whole one! ;o>
Eating nuns is a bad habit to have, Tech...
"Sisters are doing it for themselves..."(What, cannibalism?)
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we-elllll, it would depend on wh........."i know, sister, i'm a very naughty boy, and i need to be punished. i need to be thrown in the cellar and severely flagellated by a host of your sisters! i ain't no good!"....................................................................................ding dong! :)
Tech wrote: "we-elllll, it would depend on wh........."i know, sister, i'm a very naughty boy, and i need to be punished. i need to be thrown in the cellar and severely flagellated by a host of your sisters! i ..."
I like to see Nuns unafraid to show that they have a great sense of humour ;o>
I like to see Nuns unafraid to show that they have.............oh, never mind! :)
Gordon wrote: "I've just set this up as an experiment to see whether this would be a good home."I'm ready to settle down but haven't figured out how the system works.
Joaniepony wrote: "Gordon wrote: "I've just set this up as an experiment to see whether this would be a good home."I'm ready to settle down but haven't figured out how the system works."
Just park your pony in the corner and go with the flow.
Joaniepony wrote: "I'm ready to settle down but haven't figured out how the system works."Hiyah Joaniepony ;o>
Almost all of us are complete newcomers to Goodreads and are still learning how to use the site as well. It is rather overwhelming and over complicated on here compared to the Amazon Forums but it does get easier the more time that you spend on here, honest! ... x x x
Only the truly feckless could remain baffled at such a simply set out forum.
Serial wrote: "Only the truly feckless could remain baffled at such a simply set out forum."No need to be rude, S, you should be welcoming people 😒
That is me being welcoming.And I was being sarcastic to Suzy, not Pony.
I am proud to stand up and admit to being truly feckless - LOL! ;o>It's taken me the best part of two weeks to finally work out how to set up all of the differences between getting Digest, Individual Emails and Page Notifications on every Thread that I am interested in, or just one-off posting on. I want to keep up with everything but I definitely don't want to end up receiving up to a 100 post updates about them all every single day AND a daily Digest version of them all as well! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I am proud to stand up and admit to being truly feckless - LOL! ;o>"Suzy, your resilient good nature, is a wonder to behold :)
Serial wrote: "Suzy, your resilient good nature, is a wonder to behold :)"
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Well? - you almost sold it to me on the Sausage and Fried Potato but then you lost me again on the "swimming in a sea of bu''ur" ... (Butter?) ... YEUCH! ;oO