Furry Knickers Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Mrs Gupta phoned me today and told me that LD Lines are offering a £10 each way fare from now to january for a car and 2 with no restirictions on length of stay. You have to get on the dog (tel 0870 4284335) and quote NOW. I have booked 2 return trips for only £40, I don't think that is deer! I love deers too, do you remember that terrible sad song back in the 80's about all them deers that were swept away to sea and got drowned? I think it was the Goonbay Dancers that sang it, and it was based on a true story! I can't remember the title but it went.......Seven deers have fallen in the river, seven deers have been swept out to the sea.......It makes me cry every time I hear it.[kiss] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Bejabers, that does sound like a good one, so it does. Please thank that nice Mrs Gupta for letting us know, and I too hope that no deer were harmed in the making of this special offer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catalpa Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 [quote user="Will "]...I too hope that no deer were harmed in the making of this special offer.[/quote]... but if there were, rest assured they'll be in my freezer by now. [:-))][:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deimos Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Will said: "Bejabers, that does sound like a good one, so it does."I actually thought their 2nd single was better, though it was never a great success from a chart perspective.Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furry Knickers Posted September 24, 2006 Author Share Posted September 24, 2006 I had an email from Mrs Gupta this evening, and she said you can book online at www.aferry.com/france and still get the £20 return fares. I am a real ejit no doubt! Anyway, you don't need any vouchers like them BF crowd. I know they do deer fares and LD don't, but it might be worth going with BF just to see a lovely deer! Can you imagine seeing one in the canteen eating a little bowl of grapes? Maybe some day I will see that in the Little Italy Cafeteria on The Norman Spirit, who knows?Imagine it's october next sunday! bejaney, how time flies. I suppose it's like the way fruit flies and green flies too! I was thinking about Helen today (it is the anniversary of her passing away) She was me first ever pet Fly back in Kildare. I reared her since she was only a small maggot, so I took it very badly when I found her body in the milk jug. I can't understand why fly tipping is so popular? I think that when your fly has passed on, it deserves a dignified departure. Helen was buried in the garden to the Batchelors singing 'I Believe' They were on their way to Dublin, and stopped at our house to ask for directions.A Fly is for 30 days and not just for Christmas! so don't give them as presents.[kiss] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 But Mr Furry Knix it's only available Portsmouth-Le Havre, not the other way! And there was me thinking I could stock up on parsnips and Christmas crackers! [:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Also with October coming on their won't be so many flies about, so make the most of the few that are left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furry Knickers Posted September 25, 2006 Author Share Posted September 25, 2006 Dear Mrs AmourI am so sorry that you won't be able to get your few things in for Christmas with this offer, so as me and the one will be going over to me little wooden house in Calvados in the first week of december, I can bring you over a heap of parsnips and a few crackers (if you are not too far away from us) Mrs Animal, I left behind Barry and Robin when I last was at me house in Normandie. I dread to think what has happened to them since then! After the one went off this morning in a terrible huff , I was sat on me Joseph Hoffman sofa with John the Pug ( Edwin the sausage dog was at the bagwash because me tumble dryer is broke) I was having a grand drop of tea when I noticed a hole in one of me slippers! I took it off and for some strange reason, I had this compulsion to hold it upto me eye and look through it. Well I was amazed at what I saw! It was an enormous turantula spider walking down me curtain! Of course it turned out to be a little house spider in the end, but looking through the hole in me slipper put a whole different perplection on it. [kiss] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Now, where are my old slippers, I could just do with a new pair of binocliars ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Thank you Mr Furry Knix, depends what part of Clavados you're in, we're only next door in Manche and Christmas just isn't Christmas without a parsnip on your plate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 You don't need to go to the UK for parsnips....they are available all around me here in very sunny Bretagne.Mind, I would go to Jersey 'just for a look'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deimos Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Parsnip lovers might be interested in the Times article from yesterday giving the results of "the ugliest vegetable in Britain - won by a Parsnip. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2373788,00.html#Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 How on earth would you peel that one ? ! Looks like an octopus.Saint Amour, can't you grow them ? Parsnips Can someone please remind me what they are in French and swedes.Cassis, is this your Jude at the bottom of this one :Do you love parsnips? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furry Knickers Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 I was thinking that too Mrs Animal!I might bring over a few parsnip trees to Normandie and flog all the parsnips when they are ready to pick, or I could start a pick your own parsnip garden! Mrs Amour (is that love in French?) We are about 15 minutes from Lisieux, and about 5 minutes from the zoo. Did you know it is still illegal for a man to woo a woman with his parsnip in Ireland? Brian Boru introduced this barbaric law a good few years ago. Surely to God you would think they would change it now in this day and age with all them new treatments they have. "If a man can't share his parsnip with a woman, then he may aswell not have a parsnip at all at all" ( as they say in County Kildare)The Panda song is now completed and entitled 'A Panda Only Cries Once' it is a very sad song, and the panda passes away in the last verse. I have been approached by Daniel O'Donnell (again) and when he was rejected, he approached the bloke next door. [kiss] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 What a catchy title. I hope to find one in my stocking at Christmas.Are you doing a French version?Parsnips are panais which is almost panda. Could they be related?Rutabaga is swede which doesn't seem to be related to anything.(North - South divide. A rutabaga is a turnip to me.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 [quote user="Christine Animal"] Saint Amour, can't you grow them ?[/quote]We grew some a couple of years back and they were fantastic! Did some last year and they were hopeless; I think that dampened OHs enthusiasm and he didn't get round to putting any in this year, so we're parsnipless this winter. [:(] And if anyone's interested, they're pasterknacker (don't know about the spelling) in Swedish. Sounds a bit like Mr FKs priest!I'd love a copy of the Panda song when it goes into production Mr FK. Did he have to die in the last verse though? Christmas songs are usually happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Yes, pasterknackers should appeal to FK, he'll be trying to plant some ! Alexis thank you for the translation, panais, but isn't turnip - navet ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Yes you're right Christine, a turnip is a navet but Alexis must be one of those strange northern people that call swedes turnips and turnips swedes. At least the French have it the right way round! [;-)]Is that you displaying your pasterknacker? That's what ours were like the first year we grew them, and not at all woody and tough. We were able to have cream of parsnip soup and enough roast parsnips for four of us out of each one!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 No, that's not me. I never touch the things ! [:P] I have just seen Chef Simon calls le panais "La Carotte Albinos". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Blimey! Now I am confused!A rutabaga is a turnip to me. A swede is a navet.If you take a look in the old dictionary, you will find that a rutagaga is a swede and a navet is a turnip.So it is wrong.......[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Just look where that £20 return has got us. Quel navet !Here is a navet, or rather a few navets... http://www.aujardin.info/plantes/navet.php and here are rutabagas, known as "table turnips or swedes" ... Rutabaga and Turnip Any clearer... ? [6] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 All I can say is PASTERKNACKERS! to you lot - and I still can't get a £20 return to get some[6] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llwyncelyn Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 What then is a Jerusalem Artichoke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llwyncelyn Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 There are here in (50) many and I mean many parsnips and particularly here in my garden. Have I cornered the market and if so please see me at Percy market then on Sunday at Trouville. Only 50 euros notes will suffice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanneclaire Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 Rutabaga is actually French back slang. At harvesttime the wily French would come over to Kent to harvest much prized Rutabaga. The locals heard them crying out "Bagaroot, mon vieux" and often beat them to the harvest. So the French started to call them Rutabaga to confuse the locals. Personally, I'm very fond of Rutabaga Thermidor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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