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  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Because @Lizzie27 by the time I have tempered enough chocolate to make five eggs + chocs for fillings and a bag of mini eggs I cannot face chocolate (or marshmallows come to that!) its a kind of aversion therapy I think.  Anyway, still waiting for them to get hard enough to take out of the moulds............
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited April 2019
    Wasn't GW a greengrocer? Or is he the sweaty one who eats with his mouth open?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    philippa smith2 said:
    Yes B3 - GW was a greengrocer and probably Yes to your 2nd question too :D
    If he was a grocer, I presume he had a barrow in a market.  That's the only explanation I have for the fact that he has to shout all the time.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    We have a failed jeweller presenting Gardeners' World, so why not an ex greengrocer judging in Masterchef?
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Who's tht failed jeweller and why? Did they design bad ones or couldn't sell them or both?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    https://www.independent.co.uk/student/career-planning/getting-job/my-first-job-monty-don-recalls-his-years-in-the-costume-jewellery-business-516625.html
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Greg Wallace was indeed a greengrocer in Covent Garden - hence the shouting - who specialised in selling fancy veg and herbs and salads to top chefs in London - which is how he knows so many - and ended up on Radio 4, I believe, with a programme about what to do with seasonal fruit and veg.  TV followed with the first version of Saturday Kitchen.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    not sure if this should be curmudgeons or cheerful. A bit late to say the least.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48000185
    I wonder when they plan to rid Cambodia of the landmines they dumped there.
    Devon.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    And all the crap they left in Greenland.


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited April 2019
    wild edges said:
    And all the crap they left in Greenland.


    and in Laos. More tonnage of bombs were dropped on Laos by Vietnam and USA during the Vietnam war than was dropped over the whole of Europe during WW2.
    Devon.
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