Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc

Subject: Folklore: Send Grit to Folkwaves Peat and Simpson!
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 04:12 PM

I have just heard of a terrible Grit shortage in the UK.

Apparently these people do not stockpile grit and salt in the event of a snow emergency! Yes doesnt happen there very often but one would think that would make it easy to prepare for.....anyway...

I heard via the BBC radio derby

Folkwaves

Mick Peat and Lester Simpson.

Please help out in these times of national emergency when folk presenters may not get to their studios! How?
Send a little bag of grit and road salt to

Mick Peat and Lester Simson
BBC Radio Derby

If you all reply they will surely have enough grit to thaw themselves out and get traction upon the face of the earth going once again.

Mail your little packet or container of road salt and grit to:

Mick Peat and Lester Simpson
BBC Radio Derby
56 St. Helens Street
Derby, DE1 3HY, United Kingdom
01332 616 161

We are out to thaw out a nation! Do your Bit! Be a salt and grit sender! The true grit is the grit you share with others.

Conrad Bladey
Peasant
Baltimore Maryland
[e-mail]

Subject: RE: Folklore: Send Grit to Folkwaves Peat and Simpson!
From: Ernest
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 04:31 PM

But beware: there are cheap copies sold via e-mail that don`t work properly.

Always make sure to send TRUE GRIT !

Subject: RE: Folklore: Send Grit to Folkwaves Peat and Simpson!
From: PoppaGator
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 05:30 PM

I would send grits from the southern US, but I don't think that's what you're talking about...

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: PoppaGator
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 05:33 PM

Just salt with those grits? No pepper?

I like my grits with salt and black pepper, AND butter, AND a little shot of red pepper sauce. Plus, of course, the runny yolks of a couple of over-easy eggs...

Subject: RE: Folklore: Send Grit to Folkwaves Peat and Simpson!
From: Rasener
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 05:54 PM

Well if everybody sends grit to the studio, they won't be able to get in and then there is no show.

I am totally against that. I love Folkwaves. Sod the roads.

Anyway, I dare say that Mick & Lester, are watching this thread and titilating

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: Rasener
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 05:57 PM

Listen you peasant, stop stirring the grit.
We in the UK want to listen to them and I don't think a bag of grit will help their piles


of music they have to put on.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Send Grit to Folkwaves Peat and Simpson!
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 08:15 PM

Even corn grits will help the folks in the uk. dont worry about the volume they many not have grit and salt but they do have shovels! Keep the grit coming. Maybe coloroful grit. Grit from your street, your yard, from wherever. These people of our mother land need assistance.
These presenters need to get to work. Send it now.

Grit grit across the waves.....shoulder to shoulder we've grit for one and all!

WASSAIL!

Conrad Bladey Operator of the Wassail Epicenter
Google it by name!

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 08:19 PM

Grit grit and salt better than malt give them grit and they will prevail.

Send it out without a doubt they need traction we go to action.
Save the folkwave presenters and their communities.
Get that wassail going not stopped by snowing

send them a packet of grit do it now!

Wassail!
Conrad Bladey of the Wassail epicenter
Just google it by name!
Every little sand granual will help the UK!

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 08:20 PM

Good! Corn grits, road grits, baskets of grits pocket full of grits and a basket of grits under the stairs!
If you dont send the Uk grits they will have no wassails!

Get them up and running!

Find them traction upon this earth!

Conrad

Subject: RE: Folklore: Send Grit to Folkwaves Peat and Simpson!
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 08:22 PM

Grits across the ocean, grit across the seas, salt and grit for good ol'e england get them off their knees!

Conrad

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 08:25 PM

The #1 PISSANT returns.........

Tell ya' what Conrad, why don't we send YOU a stick of dynamite that you can shove up your ass and light? Sounds like a plan............except that you're such a whopping asshole it might take a case...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: GUEST,999
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 12:28 AM

Why does the UK need grits? Do they also need collard greens? Keriste, they're a strange people.

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: Smokey.
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 12:59 AM

Harrumph. We're not all strange. Some of us are distinctly odd. I seem to be the only normal one.

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 03:40 AM

You've come to the right place.
Here in Middlewich we have a huge mountain of salt.
It's not as big as it used to be, after the snow 'emergencies' of last year and this year.
But I'll see what I can do...

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 03:45 AM

Oh, and in case you think I'm joking...


Salt Mountain

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: Darowyn
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 05:07 AM

Outside Huntingdon Hall in Worcester there was one of those Yellow Fibreglass bins that they leave the salt and sand mixture in, for spreading on the ground when it's icy.
As usual it had the word "Grit" moulded into the front panel.
Next to it was another identical one, except that this one was labelled "Determination".
It was an art installation.
I met the artist later at a show, and she told me that they really did have salt in them. I just thought that it was brilliant, both witty and useful as well.
Just what we need in this weather, Grit and Determination.
Our bin men, who have not ventured out for six weeks now, please take note!
Cheers
Dave

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: gnomad
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 05:59 AM

The north-east is doing its bit for salt production too (0.5Mt/year as at 2005) at the Boulby Potash Mine (link) It is a sideline to supplying 55% of the county's potash requirements, as is being home to the Zeplin lll Dark Matter Detector. Mind you, the place is an eyesore, especially from out at sea.

Our local press is reporting council concern that people are nicking salt & grit from the bins. I can't help believing that they are probably putting it on the roads/pavements, just like the council would in the unlikely event that they got their collective fingers out. The thieves are hardly going to be putting it on fish and chips are they?

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 03:57 PM

Don't make folk presenters nick grit- send it them via T'internet- do it now they need traction!

CB

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 04:37 PM

We're not allowed salt, Nanny State says it's bad for us....and there's no grit left in the oountry, as political correctness removed it from our souls.. ;0)

What we need is snowmobiles, huskies, huskymen in snowmobiles to rescue poor frozen wenches who will need thawing out..

Anyway, we don't need grit, we have tea.

We won WWII because of our tea...it gets us through absolutely everything.

:0)

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 04:38 PM

Er...the country, not the oountry, although we'll soon be an oountry if the ice keeps up..

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 06:49 PM

Grit
Grit here
Grit there
Caps full
Baskets full
Bags full
bins full
grit in my pocket
And a little pile under the stair

Do the grit wassail and send the presenters at Derby a little sack of grit. Salt it well!

Conrad

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 06:53 PM

Bend over Conrad.........Somebody give me that stick of dynamite over there.........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 08:19 PM

What a bunch of asses. I'll help Catspaw.

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: Folkiedave
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 03:39 AM

We're not allowed salt, Nanny State says it's bad for us..

Simply not true.

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 07:39 PM

The gritless people need our help. Get that grit into the mail now.
Wassails have been canceled, concerts too all for lack of grit....but we are there for you the gritless.Help is on the way. Packets of grit should be arriving soon.

Salt em down,
Grit em down

Conrad

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 08:37 PM

Anyone who has bought road gravel (grit) by the ton knows how expensive it is for sanding roads. No laughing matter.   
Here in Calgary, 30,000-40,000 tonnes of road salt and uncounted tonnes of road sand and gravel are used each winter.
For road surface temperatures below -5 degrees C, a sanding chip mixture (4% salt, 96% fine gravel) is used on roadways. Cost in the millions.

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 08:48 PM

Buy it by the bag one by one.....sending it is fun~!
Get them grit- plenty of grit in my road free for the taking....
Pack it up and mail it in.
Get those presenters some traction....

CB

Subject: RE: Organize to Send GRIT to the UK Emergenc
From: Rasener
Date: 18 Jan 10 - 03:53 PM

LOL Managed to get you a mention on Folkwaves tonight Conrad. You at least deserve that :-)