Saturday 13 November 2010

Saturday 2.


Had a 'phone call just before supper from Danielle to say that her grandfather, Roy, had died during the night. Mentioned them on Wednesday's blog. Bit of a shock. Roy was in his mid eighties but a very active, independently minded man. Too many unexpected deaths recently. As the Irishman is supposed to have said:- "There's people dying this year who never did before". Come to think of it Roy would have appreciated that old chestnut- his surname was O'Shaughnessy.

To more cheerful things- we've just had a superb supper- see above photo - from the top (for Lori's benefit) yorkshire pudding, roast beef (sirloin) with a dab of horseradish sauce, carrots, mashed potaoes, broccoli, and roast parsnips in the centre. This was followed by a jam puff each with custard. Ann said she made it with blueberry jam, and she had more jam heated to pour on, as the whole point of jam puffs (as with jam rolly polly pudding - and we have Lord Emsworth's dictum for that) is that there's plenty of jam. On which deep philosophical point, I think I'll knock off - So- Goodnight All.
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3 comments:

Lori Skoog said...

This is another dinner we would like to have you send over. Love everything about it! And the picture is great too!

Nea said...

Yum! But I had a delicious stew this evening, so I won't complain and tomorrow it's Father's Day here and we're having a smorgas cake. Yum, yum!

Happy Father's Day!

Crowbard said...

Jam yesterday... Jam tomorrow....
BUT NEVER jam TODAY!!!

Ah well... if there's no bread for a jam sandwich we'll just have to make do with cake (filled with jam and cream of course.)

As the Froggies used to say...
'La vie est douce sans confiture!'
Personally I prefer a bit of confiture in my vie.

Pootatu agrees vehemently, her v-word is 'nesseste'. I'd share my jam-butty wiv 'er but I don't know where to insert it now there are no winchester drives!