Mad Over Fifties Club

[nungate]

Here we are again, another meeting of the Mad Over Fifties Club! Welcome to Nungate Towers, one and all.
Tonight's Tailcock will be the "November Noggin" a lovely spicy brew - guaranteed "central heating" for this cold damp evening! On our menu tonight we have a rich hearty beef casserole with dumplings, as our hot plate special, on the pudding trolley we have plum duff and custard! Other treats for tonight are volly vonts, canopies and horses doovers!
Up in the gallery the Minstrels are currently playing pontoon but later on they will be regaling us with their usual selection of madrigals and fugues, down in the ballroom our favourite local band The Tone Deafs have joined with the Hotel Spendido Palm Court Orchestra to form a "supergroup" and they will be swinging along to the popular tunes from the "Swing" era! (pass me my bobby socks!) Meanwhile down in the Music room we have a special treat, the return of Flamenco Flo and her performing poodles!
Everybody dance now!!!
For the rofl tonight I have to offer:
set of broken lute strings (courtesy of the Minstrels)
1 cardboard box (empty but useful)
Spare set of chains (thank you Igor)

A warm welcome awaits all who enter these portals

carriages at midnight

[Mammar]

Nungate, I doubt there is not a chocolate bar I cannot recollect.
However, the name of said bar escapes me . . .

[tonyav]

I remember those Frys bars, nungate. Do you remember those choc bars called Tiffin they had small biscuits and sultanas in them, I used to love those.

[DaisyNonna]

Queenie, I have to speak very sharply to myself about not scoffing any cheese in sight (or in the fridge).
Twiglets quake at my approach and olives hide!

[Mammar]

Did I double negative myself? DT will no doubt tell me.

[mrs_overall]

I am not a great chocolate lover but I have just polished off a tub of cheese footballs

[tonyav]

Tony goes to the kitchen for a bag of pork scratchings.

[nungate]

Yes I do Tony, they were nice - how about a Bar six?
(I'm a sucker for Turkish delight) Best beloved bought me one last night, I had it instead of a bite of supper! :-)

[tonyav]

Yeah, used to like those Bar sixes, nungate.

[queenofmean]

I can't help myself - ask nungate! When she makes Mac Cheese she is forever telling me to LEAVE the bl00dy cheese alone!

[nungate]

Never ever ask Queenie to grate cheese! (there won't be much left!)

Quite partial to those Bar Six's todays chocolate isn't a patch on what it used to be since Nestle got their hands on Cadbury - the dairy milk is so sweet now and has a cloying texture

[tonyav]

I agree nungate, Cadburys has gone down hill since Nestle's got their hands on them.

[nungate]

I know, I wish we could turn back the clock a little and stop it!
Now the Christmas tins of sweets are the same price but there are less choccies in them too! (we had a box of celebrations at Queenie's get together for a "guess the number of sweet box") and there were only 83 in the box there were more in them last year!

[DTCwordfan]

Wasn't it Kraft - not Nestlé.....

[nungate]

quite honestly DT I don't really care who is was (Kraft when I really think about it - Nestle isn't really much better) All I know now is that the chocolate isn't as good a it used to be

[DaisyNonna]

Not a very sweet person. Cannot abide Turkish Delight or any chocolate with a cream filling.
Had a very nasty experience with a plate of liver and onions, Mammar.
My very first day of teaching. An ESN (as was) in Bradford. The staff were expected to eat with the pupils to encourage them to eat properly (ie with knife and fork). My table had 7 5 year olds. The liver was of a consistency not encountered before or since. The onions seem to have melted. The gravy was definitely grainy. Potatoes were smashed rather than mashed and the cabbage had been reduced to slime. So traumatised I have no idea what the pudding was. I did, however, manage not to throw up until the children had left the hall and I got to the loo.

[tonyav]

Ah yes Daisy, school dinners, haven't got over them yet. I still don't eat mashed potatoes.

[Mammar]

I feel for you, Daisy. x
You know that theory that you have to eat something 7 times before you can really say you dislike it? I dislike liver, with or without onions.

[nungate]

Liver and onions yargh! How offal! (sorry) Ooh Daisy you are a brave soul.

[DaisyNonna]

No mash, no gravy? What would be your perfect dinner Tony?

[Igor61]

All this chocolate talk is making me hungry I wonder if the spare key to Mammars chocolate cupboard is still in the secret drawer [i

[i] tiptoes off in a manner of speaking ]