I’d never seen that before! That is creepy! Yikes.

oh jeepers, I even said the lines in my head before I read the last bit of your post Timmy.. what was that all about??! My sis and I used to collect the toys obsessively. Don’t think we were even bothered about the chocolate!

Another fave of mine are the orange Tango adverts.. boyyyyyyyyyyyy did people get in trouble for re-enacting those!!!!

Those were brilliant Janey. Nuts.

Hi Timmy – I don’t think I’e seen that before, just googled it and watched on youtube – creepily weird!
Froglet only gets the first line Yowzer, maybe I need to learn the rest!
If there is a starburst jingle, I bet no one knows it!

Oh it IS creepy! Mind you humpty dumpty always is. I was disappointed TIMMY,was expecting the words to have a nice reggae beat.
LUCKY, our resident poturno expert..which is swede and which is turnip? And are they low carb? Coz i love what i call turnip ( big knobbly) rather than swede ( small and round… Am i right?) and will be thrilled if can incorporate x

Oh blimey yeah, loads of people in my school got expelled for Tangoing people. Quite a few kids got perforated eardrums. Stupid advert really!

My school was a bit like that. I was one of the good kids and even I caused an 80 foot mushroom cloud by blowing up a telly in the incinerator. Hockey was banned because people used to just beat 7 shades of s*** out of each other with the clubs, and in my first rugby lesson aged 11, I was congratulated by the PE teacher when I successfully spear tackled some poor kid from my class (I did judo at the time and knew how to lift and smash people, lol).

Yowzer – from Google… Turnips contain fewer calories per serving than potatoes — 18 calories per cup of cubed turnip, compared with 59 for russet potatoes. Most of the calories from both foods come from carbohydrates. Each cup of turnip contains 4.2 grams of total carbohydrates, while an equivalent serving of potatoes contains 13.5 grams.

This is one of the things hubby and I argue about lol. He calls it carrot and turnip mash, but I use swede. He says same thing, but they’re not. Swede is the bigger one of the two, usually brown and orangey outside, and the flesh inside is orange. Turnips are smaller and the flesh is white. Outside is white and purpley. But also certain parts of the UK call them different things too, so it makes it even more confusing. From Google… However, in some dialects of British English the two vegetables have overlapping or reversed names. In the north of England and Scotland, the larger, yellow rutabagas are called neeps or turnips from folk etymology, while the smaller white turnips are called swedes.

Timmy! Sin bin!

So, it’s the smaller ones I’m talking about Yowzer lol.

Nah, spear tackling was fine in those days! And one of my mates from that very same class went on to play for Wales too. 5 caps he got.

Cool 🙂 I’m not a Union fan though, I like Rugby League.

Might have know, typical Gog, ground humpers, etc, etc, etc 😉

😛

Proper game 🙂

Right, I’ve decided, I’ve enough calories, I’m having turnip fries tonight with my haddock. Yes, yes I am. Oh yes. Watch this space.

Yeah it is a proper game.

Apart from rucks, scrums and lineouts, and the fact every position is the same size.

I will concede that the skill level is generally higher amongst the ground shaggers as compared to the more gentlemanly pursuit of Union.

Saying nothing… 🙂 Off to peel turnips and look at my Stu Reardon calendar… 🙂

Perv! At least you lot have stopped nicking our players. Never forgiven you for stealing the best of the Jiffy years from us!

Hahaha, fair play to him for being a success across the codes, not too many can do that. Hubby is smarting that Josh Charnley is defecting from his team atm.

Perv is right, especially when I humiliated myself in front of his Mrs on his merchandise stall at his testimonial. By perving over him. And making inappropriate comments about what I would do to him. Didn’t know she was his girlfriend. My bad.

LLOOOOOLLLLLL

I’m lost in a rugby haze now. Don’t bother explaining it to me – I’m just there to see big men in small shorts! Used to watch Northampton Saints in the days when the place I worked had a corporate box (i.e. free beer).

I may had to try turnip surprise Luvky – I fear it may be met with the same howls of disappointment as cauliflower mash cottage pie however (my boy is telling anyone who will listen how terrible that was).

There were three women on the stall, one had her back to me, two were older, didn’t pay much heed to the one not talking to me. They had packages for sale, keyring, pen and mug, all including Stu in a state of undress. One of the ladies says ‘Look, bargain. Wouldn’t you like to have a brew with Stu?’…

Would I! A brew? I’d have more than a brew with him I tell YOU ladies… etc. I eventually stop dead and think to ask ‘Oh God, none of you are married to him are you?’ And then this very thin, very pretty girl turns around and they say, yes. Her.

Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiist! On a bike!

I couldn’t apologise enough. ‘It’s ok’ she said. Probably used to it but still!! I was cringing to the very core of my being. What a bloody tool.

Well, I can’t vouch for it as a mash yet, remember. I’m doing fries tonight, and the wedges were spot on.

I’m a season ticket holder 🙂 I love it!!

Muahahahahahahaha… I bet you begged for the ground to open up and swallow you 😀

As we walked away from the stall everyone else burst out laughing. Wouldn’t have been so bad if the week before, I hadn’t made another faux pas, one of our players, Scott who has recently left, only a young lad, and the girls had a bit of a thing for him, called him Scottie the Hottie. As he scored a cracking try, I turned to them and said very loudly ‘Well! Scottie is not just a hottie, he can score tries too.’ My daughter paled, her best friend took about five minutes to tell me, in fits indiscreet laughter, that his father and his girlfriend were sat behind us. Directly behind us. And as I’m not what you’d call quiet at times… yep.

Honestly. You make me look subtle!

I have NO filter…

LUCKY Rewriting this coz got confoosed..
how do you deal with big ole swedes..you could use up a whole 800 cals a day cutting up those big old knobbly fellas
I’ m with yr hub tho..its always called carrot n turnip mash.
Thanks for the nutritional info..deffo gonna eat more of it tho prob only mashed with pepper and butter – not as inventive as you are!
Ps so funny about yr faux pas! I dont understand any of the rugby talk or who youre talking avout,but i know all about putting my foot in it! 😀😀😀😀😀

Hahaha yes but it’s turnip really 😉 Isn’t the complete about change in terminology crazy??? I’ve just made some matchstick fries with them now, drizzled olive oil over and will season with seal salt and garlic powder. Nom.

You know when they say ‘I can’t take you anywhere?’ Yes. That’s me. 😀

Duh. Sea salt…

Soz Lucky i still got totes confused there tho you explained it so well!
Ive got it thru my thick head now …see above,edited my stoopid post!
The matchstick fries sound great,you deserve NObel Prize for cutting them up like that and you must have the strength of a lion! X

No, no nonononononono. Lol.

The big one IS a Swede. The little ones are turnips. But in certain parts of Scotland and England, they are called the opposite. My husband (Lancashire) calls the little ones swedes. And the big ones turnips. And to confuse matters even more, in Wales we call it rwdan. But that’s another story… 🙂

I’m cutting up the little ones 🙂 Jeeez, the only way I cook a swede is in the microwave, Yowzer! Life’s too short and I haven’t enough fingers to spare to cut one of those up. Nuke it until it starts ‘singing’, and scoop all the cooked flesh out! Lovely, and hassle free 🙂

Ahhhhhhh have you edited something. I’m confused now. LOL. STOP!

Sorry..Think i ve got it now LUCKY ..before you lose the will to live!😀 XX
Big knobbly is swede
Lil fella is turnip
Oh i might try those matchsticks after all! Let us know if they go crispy!
Ohhhhh Great idea re swede in micro! Life’s too short for struggling with a swede and a big sharp knife!
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Ps i’ m a Lancashire lasssie..or used to be…is now Merseyside. Xx

Yes that’s right – officially 🙂

But you are also right in a regional way 🙂

I was sobbing in the corner of my kitchen already, but then husband brought home a honking bike horn for youngest. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

Yes, I won’t cook it any other way now, saw it on a Facebook page last year (when I used Facebook!) and it works, and dare I say it, tastes nicer? Tastes like swede, sometimes it can be so bland when it’s boiled. Mash it in with your ready cooked carrots when they’re done. Voila!

Hubby is from Wigan 🙂 I spent 6 years in Manchester from 16 – 22 as well.

They’re in, easy to peel, and I’ll give you the verdict once we’ve eaten them 🙂 Even the illusion of something sometimes is better than nothing!

A honking bike horn?? That goes in the same cupboard as the drum kit and a whistle as far as my tolerance levels go!

Oh, he HAS a drum kit too…

in the cupboard I hope.

Mashed swede is delicious with a spoonful of horseradish sauce in and a little gravy, ooh it’s making my mouth water😍😍😍

No, in the eldest’s bedroom… *sigh* He does have practice pads on them so that’s something.

Turnip fries were nice! Crispy fries? No, not really. Imho the only way you can get really crispy proper chips is if you deep fry them. These were tasty though, reminiscent of when I make homemade sweet potato fries in the oven, that sort of taste. But yeah, I’d make them again, definitely!

I haven’t tried that Jan, but it sounds nice! Be a good way to liven up a Sunday dinner now that it’s roastie and yorkie-less! Unless the chickpea batter yorkie’s work, that is!

Just had my tea, a homemade (legal) cupcake and some Oppo, cals coming in at 749 for the day, carbs at 30 but I don’t know how many carbs were in the cupcake. Hopefully under 20! Cup of coffee later and that’s me for the day. Are you walking tonight Janey???

I fee like I should walk more tonight but it’s currently raining and I know my OH has had a day of it at work so not sure if we will get out… If the rain stops then maybe! For an office day I’m quite chuffed with the steps so far 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

In that case… EAT MY DUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀

Competitive Lucky isn’t very nice…

Lucky
In the voice of Yoda impressed I am the force is with you this evening. So organized, best check you haven’t been beamed up 👽👽👽

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Oh what’s a legal cupcake, don’t want to stop you walking mind you. Was talking to a customer about the jawbone thingy, I’m defo decided now, I need one. Trying to do the same in the phone is problematic, so looking it up 🚶🏃💃👯⛹👾

Right. That does it. Where’s my raincoat?

Well Lucky we are all holding our breath to see what your reply is to janeycoughdrop, will you won’t you, cor it’s like a soap.👯 👯 👯 Couldn’t find two people walking.

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I couldnt find two people walking either..These doggies will get you walking faster!
( says she from the sofa!) x

A legal cupcake is one that has been made with BSD allowed ingredients 🙂 So mine had almond flour, coconut sugar, nuts etc. You’d be amazed what you can actually make out of other flours. Some things are passable, others are lovely.

Oh I did! I’ve been for a one hour walk. I am now, once again, in the lead. Where I should be. Bwahahahahahaha. No seriously, I just wanted to get my 10,000 steps, want to make a concerted effort now to do BSD properly as recommended in the book. Think I might have hit 10,000 three times in the first 7 weeks, and the recommended is that daily. Plus I haven’t done the exercise. I haven’t counted the carbs until yesterday. So, this next stint now, I want to up my game. Let us know if you get one Jan.

Well done LUCKY! I need to start upping the exercise!and I need to get into all these flours! 🌸🌷🌸🌷🌸

Almond seems to be the most ‘workable’ for cakes. But it’s also very pricey, so you can’t afford mishaps really. Chickpea flour is versatile for savouries, I’ve even made pastry with it. And of course, the chickpea wraps, which are an acceptable bread.