yes, but probably only since I got here, sorry.

did someone mention rhubarb crumble? Fantastic.

Nonsense - we've always gone chasing after things we enjoy...



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In PSD's case it's usually......

Anyway...

Oi! I haven't had any of that for over a year now - so don't stereotype me!



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I never stereotype! My computer isn't modern enough. I monotype. So there!

Kaz: brilliant !

You did it again, you did it again!!!

lol

I guess that as long as you caught it and didn't make a fuss, we'll all be discreet about what you were chasing...



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

ok seriously confused here.... silver turnips? Swedes? Is that what I call turnips/neeps? The big round yellow ones we use for Halloween? What I call swedes are small and white and uurk. Basically. Neeps & carrots mashed with butter & pepper - food of the GSD!

(um and what was he chasing? Soory, noob here...)

I'm not too sure. It's been such a long time...



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Alison

Are you Scottish?

In England, the big yellow/orange jobs are called swedes, whereas turnips are small with white flesh and skin with greenish or purplish tinge.

I knew Scots referred to swede as neeps, but I didn't realise it was short for turnips. How confusing.

Also didn't realise swedes had anything to do with Halloween . . .



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Tracy wrote:
>There should be a disclaimer on this thread... Do Not Read on Empty Stomach.....

So I've added one.

Swedes have loads to do with Samain.

I wouldn't want to meet Abba down a dark alleyway, for instance...



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Here in Aus we have swedes, turnips and swede-turnips, just to confuse the issue. None of them are particularly tasty, though....

PSD, put it DOWN! You don't know where it's been!

I had a great deal of trouble convincing an Italian friend that we make our Hallow'een lanterns out of neeps (swedes, the big 'uns with the yellow flesh and purplish skin). She reckoned they were too tough to carve, which they are, but we Scots do not let such a detail discourage us, we just whine until another family member does the hard work. The smell of a nightlight burning inside a turnip lantern is one of my treasured childhood smell memories.

Pumpkin lanterns are for wusses, and smell nasty, sort of composty and damp.

Do English people really not celebrate Hallow'een?

Isn't trick or treating a horrible corruption of guising? Demanding confectionery with menaces is not something I particularly approve of.

Can any UK citizens tell me anything about Eigg Island?

Trick or treating is a modernisation of the old Samhain practise of leaving little gifties out for the witches and spirits who floated around on Oct 31. If a household didn't leave out an offering (the 'treat') they would be tormented by the spirits until dawn, hence the 'trick'. A nice pagan act, one feels.

Nothing much is done about Halloween Down Under, except a lot of complaining about these American festivals invading our landscape. Of course, the fact that Halloween is European in origin has no bearing on the matter.

ya, but nobody celebrates Halloween like we do! Costumes are planned for months ahead, moms plan with their children and make many of them from scratch, fathers take the children around door to door and the moms stay home to hand out the huge quantities of candy...

and if you're old/young enough, you attend a costume party where copious amounts of witch's brew/bloo goo punch is consumed and you hook up with someone you feel lucky enough to remember the costume of, let alone the name!

And Novemeber first is national hangover day....

Jeepers, every Sunday is National Hangover Day in Aus.

my husband says to say:

"I've heard Australia is just like Arkansas with a beach...is that true?"

LOL, he's such a stinker!