Just wondering.....

[Oldjohnw]

Some of us are permanent members of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

Whatever you suggest I will oppose even if it means contradicting an earlier view, stated ever so loudly a mere two months earlier.

Now that does sound like a politician.

[rjb]

In which order to apply cream and jam to your scone for a cream tea. Tis a constant point of contention down ere in Devon....

Al

I do butter then jam then cream on my scones or is that scones.

[fausto copy]

I was hoping someone else was doing it correctly like me (on my sconns).

[al_yrpal]

In which order to apply cream and jam to your scone for a cream tea. Tis a constant point of contention down ere in Devon....

Al

I do butter then jam then cream on my scones or is that scones.

I do no butter, thick layer of clotted cream first, then the jam. I found if you do jam first then cream, its too difficult to spread the thick cream onto the very slidy jam.

Anyway you are in Somerset, what do they know about it?

Al

nb saw a local band t'other day called The Mangled Worzels

[rjb]

In which order to apply cream and jam to your scone for a cream tea. Tis a constant point of contention down ere in Devon....

Al

I do butter then jam then cream on my scones or is that scones.

I do no butter, thick layer of clotted cream first, then the jam. I found if you do jam first then cream, its too difficult to spread the thick cream onto the very slidy jam.

Anyway you are in Somerset, what do they know about it?

Al

nb saw a local band t'other day called The Mangled Worzels

I am a Plymouth boy born and bred. I prefer the Cornish method of jam before cream. Brought up on lashings of proper Cornish clotted cream.

[Cyril Haearn]

Some of us are permanent members of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

Whatever you suggest I will oppose even if it means contradicting an earlier view, stated ever so loudly a mere two months earlier.

Now that does sound like a politician.

That is of course the porpoise of the opposition, to oppose even things they should like support

[richardfm]

In which order to apply cream and jam to your scone for a cream tea. Tis a constant point of contention down ere in Devon....

Al

Not to Devonians, we all know it is cream then jam, it's only Cornishmen who do it backwards

[Mick F]

......................... and it's raining cats and dogs out there.

[Oldjohnw]

It appears to be raining swallows here. This is a staging post on their route south.

[al_yrpal]

......................... and it's raining cats and dogs out there.

No, its stair rods!

Al

[Cugel]

In which order to apply cream and jam to your scone for a cream tea. Tis a constant point of contention down ere in Devon....

Al

I do butter then jam then cream on my scones or is that scones.

I do no butter, thick layer of clotted cream first, then the jam. I found if you do jam first then cream, its too difficult to spread the thick cream onto the very slidy jam.

(snip)

Al

nb saw a local band t'other day called The Mangled Worzels

Here is your problem! Because you cannot butter, cream and jam the scone aright, you adopt an inept and incorrect procedure and attempt to portray it as somehow justified! What if you were to do this whilst driving or fixing the gas cooker!!? Terribly awful things would happen - as they will if you keep on treating them scones in such a cack-handed fashion. A large lady with apple cheeks and a rolling pin will school you or worse.

Anyroadup, I have reported you to the Devon authorities so you may find your immigration permit rescinded on the grounds of committing undevonish behaviours well beyond The Pale.

Also, I note that you have misspelt "wurzel". These things are all mounting up as evidence of your unfitness to be a Westcountrian.

Cugel

[al_yrpal]

Well, news for you... Worsel is how it was spelt on the blackboard announcing their prescence. Personally I am not a Devonian just as you are not one of the crackath.

Stick to Welsh Cakes

Al

[mercalia]

.....is there any topic, about anything - factual, opinion, political, lights, tyres, helmets, bells, ebikes, cars, bank holidays - which doesn't move on to what diplomats call 'a frank exchange of views' within a page or two?

well ask Cameron, he has plenty of time at the moment

[fausto copy]

crackath

[Cugel]

crackath

Like a psychopath but just a little bit cracked rather than the full loon-amok.

In fact, I yam the only sane one here. Oh yes I am!

Cugel, waving a certificate from the booby hatch men to prove it.