Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 09:09 AM

The beer will be the Amber Ale. The Old Faversham Dark is finished, and the Double Stout and the Early Bird do not start until March, which gives us an agonising choice for next time.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 05:44 PM

I have just been watching Curling on the Olympics. 1st time ever,had a few pints and a smoke?
Whata parlava
"One would assume the silly buggers would scrub the arena " Before they stated playing ?


B.R has placed a Cow bone nut on me Mandolin and I cant wait to get Mandolin back Sunday.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 05:47 PM

Pete You still need a lift?   Please let me know by sometime on Saturday, if you can.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 05:52 PM

If it starts mooing "in time,"
its going straight back to Chatham

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 05:59 PM

VT I will bell ye on the morrow,beyond 1800.
Engineering works is only problem re sunday.
Bell you tom without fail?
Regards Pierre

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 02:36 PM

I wonder, Richard, if you would be OK with me arriving at about 1035, and holing up chez Bridge till you go across.

The alternative is arriving about quarter to one, and I might well be restricted to leaving on the 4.47 bus, so I want to get the most time possible.

You mentioned something about lighting the fire, and I would be happy to help, with that.

Don T (Arsonists R Us)

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 03:25 PM

Feel free. I will likely be panicking with getting the squidge into the slow cooker and oven and sorting the padachi. Now if I had a breadmaker... (or possibly two)....

Not my fire - the pub fire. Queue up outside the door and Big Mary will let us in.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 04:58 PM

The pub fire is a great fire very welcoming.
Big Mary? She,s a good laugh. Bloody good bar maid.

My ex in-laws have a bread making machine I have tasted bread machine bread,

once you get the hang of making it and getting the right packets re bread making ingredients.
Its trial and error bread it is very good once mastered?
It is not no cheeper then the bloomer from from the bakers but it is tastier but it comes with practice and of course it depends on the sachets or ingredients one uses. and there is a wide variety.
I made bread in a machine once and it could have been used has ballast on any of HM one time battle cruisers. or indeed fired from a gun .
I tried baking bread in a biscuit tin once using stone s in a under-tin to bake the bread. The thing blew up and red hot stones shot everywhere the biscuit tin lid was on my roof for months.
I hope to make this event and will sadly miss it if I cannot but my fathers health is my priority at present.
The break would be nice both from work and fatherly care.
which takes up a lot of my time.
Enjoy there event and I hope to be there.
I know for sure saturday night last thing has is the world now days?

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 05:01 PM

Ah - dwarf battle bread of Bhrian Bloodaxe. A true folk relic. It is the thing and the whole of the thing.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 05:04 PM

I know a bloke died of a severe yeast infection after using a bread making machine?

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 05:08 PM

ahhh yes the scone of stone...

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 05:09 PM

Pierre, he should have put it in the other end of the alimentary tract.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 05:19 PM

Thats what happened to the Pillsbury dough man we all loved or loafed?

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 10:16 PM

VT.....LMAO

Al

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: melodeonboy
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 05:30 AM

"I know a bloke died of a severe yeast infection after using a bread making machine?"

That wasn't Fru T Bunn from Viz magazine, was it?

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 07:30 PM

Right No Trains from Eltham cocked up trains from blackheath non running can only get in by New Eltham and has yet there is not guarantee I can get from Dartford to The nearest station.Kent end.

If it all goes well I could be first or I could be last,What is necessary I need to know.' is what is the nearest station to lOWER SToke. Rochester ,Chatham or Stroud.
By that time I would have smoked so much I could fly in and the devil maY CARE.
mE sister looking after Dad how its bloody trains.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 07:31 PM

Bit jumbled above thread Im pissed

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Royston
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 08:04 PM

"Thats what happened to the Pillsbury dough man we all loved or loafed?"

LOL @ PlC

I'm gonna remember that one!

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 08:11 PM

Strood

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 05:31 AM

Thankyou Richard I thought it was Strood.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 06:29 AM

I plan to get to Lower Stoke for opening time Sunday morning on me on steam thanks for the offers of lifts folks but i can make no arrangements to meet people due to a commitment. When and if the person/s arrives to take over that commitment has planned I can then get underway.
a lift to a railway station at the end of the session would be much appreciated if anyone has room in a car
The plan is to get to Strood and the person i am helping re commitment said he will pay for me to get to lower stoke by Cab so I shall be arriving by car and i wont be out of pocket.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 05:36 PM

Three lots of cheese 1. Cheese makers special.
                                     2. Mexican Red.
                                     3. Dutch Edam.
I also have a lovely whole meal 5 seed organic Loaf.
I will ask pub to put cheese in fridge.I get some butter from the village store,
Please enjoy and help your selfs.
See you all on the morrow.
regards Pierre.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 05:56 PM

I forgot the Green grapes and carrot eat them whole (Carrot sliced) with Cheese.
AAAAARHHHHHHHH bLISS

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 03:35 AM

8.50am and the rain is hissing down (I said HISSING missus), the wind is tying local trees in knots, and in thirty minutes I have to catch a bus, in order to arrive at a destination fifteen miles away before noon.

Oh the joys of Merrie Englande!

It's worth it though. See you all later.

Don T.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 03:50 AM

I have made some little (and I mean ittybitty) sausage(not vegetarian) sconey things.

Don't think they worked well, so may wait until everyone's good and drunk before I pass them round.

Got a cut on little finger of left hand so not bringing any instruments. I am too shy to play them anyway, because fingers cannot keep up with what brain tells them to do any more.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: naughtyforty
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 04:07 AM

Leaving shortly - it's hissing down here too!!! Thank goodness trains are nice & dry!! See you all soon

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 04:46 AM

The rain has arrived. Plenty.

And I have three squidges cooking - a vegan one, a pork one and a beef one. The pachadi (hot pepper sauce) is putting up a fight and I really need a more effective "device for the comminution of food".

The fancy dress party last night was quite a giggle, but a distaff person telephoned at quarter to ten and by the time the conversation was over it was ten to eleven so I had to rush to the pub without changing into gangster clothes. There were two young persons of gender who had done quite effective "Gangster's Moll" costumes.

Several (male) persons had grown thin moustaches for the occasion and Peter the karaoke king looked the spitting image of Arther Daley in his early role as handyman at St Trinians (the original films of them).

There was some truly agonising karaoke and I got pressed to sing (very flattering) and managed not entirely to murder "Roll Over Beethoven".

Must have a shower, feed Benjamin dog, put throw on armchair the cushion covers of which are in the wash, light fire, hoover and tidy.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 04:52 AM

hissing down here too. Hope the trains are running from Dartford
I have not left yet still awaiting me sisters arrival she is on her way ?

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 07:12 AM

My sister arrived at 11.45 she said she would be there for 9.30 ? I have now got back to my house and have lost heart in the traveling side of this session .
Faced with two bus journeys and two train journeys at this hour and taking into account delays and possible cancellation and late arrival time i feel it is pointless to embark on such a journey.
Pierre Le pissed off.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 03:24 PM

Been very creative sowed 40 Red Hot Pokers and transplanted 30 Sun Flowers. Be living off cheese for the fortnight.
Now I have to go to Chatham tomorrow to pick up Mandolin whereby it would have been much easier to have collected it today.
In the mean time I have had to put up with both Labour and conservative suits knocking on me door asking for me bloody vot?
Sent them packing,
Well I can at least secure me lodgings for the Sweeps tomorrow once I have seen B,R.
My sister needs a Red hot poker up her Jacksy it might give her some concept of time of day>

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 04:18 PM

Ow! My head...

Thanks to RB and all present who faced the floods. Lovely afternoon!
And RB, if you see him, say cheers to whoever he was at the bar that bought me that bottle of cider. He asked me if I was a hippy person, so I asked him if he was a happy man..

Looking foward to using the jar of?? What was it again? I know you should wash your hands before 'cuddling' after using it anyway.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 04:30 PM

Had a wunnerful time... Sorry I bungled the Bundling Song... Great fun at Richard's afterwards...

Need to get me some of those calm pills CS gave me. I was very relaxed.

Hope Don didn't have to wait too long for his train.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 06:50 PM

It's nearly a pachadi. Or to be simpler you can call it a hot pepper sauce.

A cup or two of chillis (of the violence that you prefer), a cup or so of red wine vinegar (or if you want it less sour, red wine), a lump of garlic (that's a whole lump, as it grows, not one sort of finger from the lump - the recipe says not peeled but I prefer to peel)

Put in food processor and smash like fury until smooth, almost like peanut butter but quite a bit runnier. It needs to be runny enough not to stick to the bottom of the saucepan. I turned the processor on flat out and went and did something else for nearly half an hour.

Put in small saucepan, bring to boil and simmer briskly for an hour or more, stirring and adding more wine/wine vinegar as necessary.

If you have lumpiness or significant texture, try to rub through a food sieve, or put through a food mill.

Return to saucepan, add sugar or honey to taste (tasting it is tricky as if you are too liberal with the size of taste you will paralyse your taste buds). You are aiming for a balance between the chilli heat, the vinegar sour, and the honey/sugar sweet. Simmer slowly until slight thickening is seen. Allow to cool a bit, put in clean empty jamjar (with lid) and refrigerate. It's supposed to keep for months in the fridge without freezing.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Girl Friday
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 09:13 PM

Well.. at least we missed all that stormy weather. Nothing too terrible in Grays, just the usual contiguous showers! Our Secretary, Liz, told me that the Treasurer was ill and hadn't done her finance report, so could we postpone the meeting til next Sunday. I was more than a little miffed. "We could have gone to a do in Kent... gave it up especially for meeting...missed first one... ill... second one... too knackered from Johnny Collins Day... missed third....Grrrr.... we're having the meeting!!!!!" Liz agreed with me that we can't keep putting it off. Put paw down with a firm thud! See you next month?

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: naughtyforty
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 03:58 AM

Had a lovely afternoon - thanks to Melodeonboy for conveying me to and from the pub to the station and to Richard for lovely food and hospitality. Don got his train OK - same one as me so he had some company. Got home about 10.00pm but worth the travel time. See you all in three weeks.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 04:26 AM

What's in that tea you leopards drink?

First was Jan 28, second Feb 28. How can you have missed three?

Last (unless I schedule another) this year will be Mar 21 (not 28), hope to see you astound the locals then.

We had a slightly smaller crowd this time, but some may have been put off by the weather - a number of local roads were flooded but (hooray) not my house this time. Yet. Alan flooded his ignition between Val's house and mine. Don said the bus had to go through puddles 8 inches deep. The lower stretch of the old Grain Road was reported not safe for low-slung cars. The shop next door to my house put out sandbags (and then took them in again presumably in case they were stolen).

There were plenty of combined effort roast spuds (I peeled and parboiled, Big Mary roasted in pub oven) and lots of other nibbly things, and some fine high spots. I particularly enjoyed a couple of Alan and Linda's things, and "The Bold Fisherman" rang off in true "revival traditional" style, in the time signature of "one", unaccompanied and with weapons of mass harmonisation.

Big Mary demanded "Ride On" (double entendre not intended) and got it in the Barden version. No Worries were skillful and their World War 1 segue was much appreciated by local Roland whose father who enlisted in WW1 under a false name and under age had just died. Roland also sang "Shoe-Shine-Sally", a mildly smutty army song, to assembled glee. The Hotel Torremolinos went down with its usual verve and subtlety to the glee of the locals. Clive who used to have an Ovation copy but now plays an Encore produced a fine piece in open G that was much liked. Annie wound me up as usual with songs of Irish pride and a mischievous grin. VT was well on song and produced inter alia a trad or tradalike (I don't know which) that was new to me and a number of verses of which had strong similarities to the words of "The False Bride" which I do to the tune of "I once loved a lass". CS was as vocally stunning as usual and got pretty well everyone going with Alison Grimes. Chris the local ventured into DADGAD and may put new strings on for next time. Naughty 40 was well received. Sheppey Paul managed to get a seat where he could watch the (silent) football on the square eyed god and still sing and play. Don raised the usual laughs and all liked his serious song using (with Les's permission) the words of Les Barker.

I was delighted to be asked to do a long one, in the early stages before all had arrived, and the Steeleye (or is it Fairport) version of Matty Groves stretched into a choogling almost funk massed band effort complete with improvised words in places due to a conflict between the Amber Ale and rationality.

Alas by 5 pm the background noise from those watching the silent foolsball had become too loud for us to continue, so we retired for squidge, but all in all, a pretty good 5 hours.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: morning wood
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 05:24 AM

Just a hello....

Been watching a few of the groups videos on uuuutoooob and really enjoyed them, and then tracked you down to this forum.
When I've got this "stairway" thing sorted on my old geeeetar I will try and make an appearance myself one Sunday ;-) The only downer is coming from Herne Bay involves driving and hence no drinking!!

In the meantime I'll look forward to more of the videos.

Paul.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: melodeonboy
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 05:35 AM

What a cracking afternoon, both at the pub and at Richard's gaff. Thanks for organising it, Richard, and thanks also for the great nosh.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 06:43 AM

Many thanks to all for a great session.

Special thanks to Mary, for the "two pints, one blak coffee..repeat ad lib", which enabled me to be reasonably compos mentis while disposing of my share.

No hangover this am, just a nice afterglow.

Magic!

Don T.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 06:44 AM

Still can't spell black though!

Bugger!

DT (singular)

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Girl Friday
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 08:36 AM

M'lud Bridge I refer you to your initial posting on the other Lower Coke thread,From: Richard Bridge - PM
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 06:58 PM

OK, after much blandishment, and Paddy and the landlord Peter both having bribed me with alcohol, and having taken due account of the risk of re-appearing on the 'cat, here is the eagerly awaited announcement of the Lower Coke (Upper Dogsbotham) winter sings, on the ground that no-one else appears to be doing anything competitive. Folkies do not compete, they co-exist. It is the music of the people.

Right. Here is the plan.

From opening time until closing time or earlier surrender to darts matches, darts competitions for the Sunday joint (meat, what else might I have meant?) foolsball on the square eyed God - usually till about 6-ish or 7-ish on the following Sundays: -

Jan 31
Feb 28
Mar 21.
Ok so I thought there'd been one in December, but I was right about January. So we missed two, but plan to be at the third. We drink only P.G. Tips - honest!

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 10:33 AM

Morning wood, I used to trek up there from Whitstable and it is well worth the journey.
If young Richard does extend the session of sessions into April I'll be back in the UK, will be going to it and can give u a lift from Whitstable.

Al

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 09:56 AM

Wonder wot VT and TSO are up to tonight.
Al

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 11:32 AM

We suspect resting

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: morning wood
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 02:44 PM

Cheers Al, stay in touch and we'll organise something nearer the time should the dates and planetary alignment etc allow.

Should of asked before but what are the prerequisites for attending these sessions?

Paul.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 02:47 PM

You have to be able to get there!

That's about it, really.

Don T.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 02:52 PM

You suspect right Richard... I am camped out on sofa, yawning (no sleep due to nightmares last night) and mudcatting. If I have recovered enough, we will be at Blackmore in Exile (now in Writtle) folk on Thursday.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 04:24 PM

I will be working on videos from this session on the weekend. You will see some of them uploaded on Saturday, I hope.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 06:44 PM

Morningwood - Essentials - no amplification unless you are a keyboard player or have a genuinely otherwise inaudible instrument, and even then keep it below the level of a solo voice. A liking for folk and folk-ish song and music. Consideration for others, particularly performing children and locals and novices all of whom are to be encouraged.

Advantages - own tankard and liking for beer, tolerances for local barflies who have not really got the etiquette right, please don't expect others not to join in unless you have a very good reason, sense of humour helpful, performance ability as far as possible, and we happily have a fair amount of 1954 definition folk sometimes twisted almost out of recognition and sometimes done very retrospectively, so likening that is good although we also have contemporary folk-style and even ARSS.

Subject: RE: Lower Coke Sun 28 Feb
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 09:54 PM

Will look forward to them VT. I try and keep an eye on the Lower Coke (Stoke) threads morning wood so will most likely have no problem arranging. Do you do Whitstable Folk club singaround, last Friday in the month (not advertised on website)? And not fotgetting Faversham FC singers nights every wednesday that there is no 'turn' booked. Both same conditions that Richard outlined under. I'm looking forward to getting back to all of em. Oh yes Deal also on Fridays.
Al