Miskin at Easter 07 - cancelled

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 12:43 PM

Steve - I have made a comment on the separate thread, and I do think that keeping it private rather than trying on an open forum is a better system.
Perhaps Patti knows a suitable interesting local story to work with. Let's face it - with the local branch of Torchwood just down the road, there must be plenty of tales of Aliens and weird goings on...

Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Mrs Scarecrow
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 01:57 PM

Glad you're back Phot

Happy Festive season to all Catters

On the subject of mummers play at Miskin What about people who might want to be involved who are not catters. Mr Scarecrow particularly enjoyed his involvement last year and would probably want to be involved again. So far I dont think he has actually formally registered separately as a catter so can he be kept informed via me
thanks
Ann

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 04:17 AM

A very valid point Anne - sometimes people on the Mudcat forget that there are a lot of folkied who do not compute, and if they do are not necessarily interested in Mudcat. There are also the ones who have come here and gone away, either because it didn't suit their style of play or due to incidents such as run ins with trolls or arguments with some of the more abrasive members.
Anyway - with the sort of performance we had last Easter it works much better if you use local materials on the spot.
Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Schantieman
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 07:10 AM

Any other comments on this before I abandon the idea completely until Easter?

How about we all turn up with stuff to makie costumes & props on the spot?

S

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Hawker
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 09:55 AM

Splott!
You Hawked!!!!!!
Was I asleep? I might have enjoyed that!!!!!!

Does one refer to one who splots as being splatted?

Tee Hee.

Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Fidjit
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 10:49 AM

And splot you made a "Blue Clicky" !

Chas

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Splott Man
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 11:59 AM

I think Splott may be the past tense. The present tense would be Splotts.

Conjugation in Cardiff is simpler than elsewhere...

I sings
you sings
he/she/it sings
we sings
you sings
they sings

Therefore... I splotts, I have splott, I will splott.


What about mumming?

Does one person mumm?

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Polly Squeezebox
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 01:37 PM

Mmmmmmmmmmm ...... that needs pondering (or is it ponders?).

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Hawker
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 01:43 PM

I Mum ~ but only with the kids!
;0)
Lucy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: MBSLynne
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 02:31 PM

I once had a friend who was a vicar and another friend asked me, "What do Vicars actually do? Do they do anything else or do they just vic?"

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 04:49 PM

Splott: an area of Cardiff once accurately described as "The Bishop's Plot" (or possibly "God's Plot")
The locals shortened the name over a period of years.

CHEERS
Nigel

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Hawker
Date: 19 Dec 06 - 08:13 PM

Splott: a messy mark made by ink
Splatt: the sound the ink makes when it makes the messy mark
Split: I think I'd better before I get lynched!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Splott Man
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:09 AM

Thanks Nigel, that's the local story.

I'm aware of 2 other Splott's near Cowbridge, and 2 others in Somerset, so I think it's an old name. The common link seems to be a farm, and also low lying land.




Now have you tried Splottish dancing?

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Fidjit
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 05:00 AM

What about "Blue Clicky" dancing?

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Hawker
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 09:40 AM

No, but i had a good laugh at you doing it!
Tee Hee
How about a splot Morris team at Miskin?
Food for thought...........
Cjeers Lucy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Splott Man
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 10:18 AM

"Blue Clicky" dancing?

Sounds like my knees.


And don't forget the Grangetown Dap Dance.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 10:24 AM

Good job you reminded us, Ned. I'd completely forgotten it.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 11:00 AM

Ooh yes lets do the Grangetown dap dance at Miskin. I`ve just decided I`m going to have a birthday party at Miskin cos I`ll be 55 and I think that`s a pretty significant age. If we all bring a few nibbles we can do this. (I like to be nibbled at my age)

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Snuffy
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 11:17 AM

Can you still get daps nowadays? I thought they'd been replaced by trainers an' that, innit?

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 11:20 AM

I think they are called plimsols these days Snuffy.
Yas

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Snuffy
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 11:32 AM

They always were called plimsolls or pumps or sandshoes (sammies), etc depending which part of the country you lived in.

Are you telling me they call them plimsolls in Grangetown now? There's posh.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 11:36 AM

I dont know Snuffy i live in Llantrisant.
Yas

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 11:38 AM

They were called 'Gutties' when I was a kid around Glasgow. I believe it was a derivation of Gutta percha a kind of rubber.
G.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Selchie - (RH)
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 11:39 AM

Call 'em what you like & the more dancing the merrier, but don't forget your Border boots. Sue'll be after us all to dance with Herbaceous ~ another Miskin tradition ~ especially on Good Friday.

Rosie

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 02:00 PM

Aah aalwez thowt that 'Daps' were what we caalled plimsoles in the Navy.

Ye learn summat every day

They wez aalwez snadshoes when aah wez a lad on tyneside and me posh cuzzins in Warwickshire wore pumps.

Up on Tyneside a 'pump' wez a fart

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Dec 06 - 03:51 PM

Dame Pattie I.ll be there with the other half, 55 is a good age, They will be calling you the old girl next.
Rose

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Dave Earl
Date: 21 Dec 06 - 03:54 AM

55 WAS a good age that in my case it was a little while ago.

Dave

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: MBSLynne
Date: 21 Dec 06 - 04:27 AM

We called them sandshoes in Australia when I was a kid. Then we went American and called them sneakers when I was in my teens

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: The Barden of England
Date: 21 Dec 06 - 09:38 AM

We're on for our second Miskin - that should confuse the Hell out of some people eh Geordie Peorgie!!! And we'll have Port and Stilton and plenty of Digestive Biscuits on board too. Less than 4 months away.
John Barden

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 21 Dec 06 - 01:28 PM

By heck!!! Aah wish aah liked Stilton!!

Aah do love a drop o' Port though! - Aah've an aaffinity with Vectis's husbandman who knaahs a drop o' the mega stuff an' aall

We've seen the bottom of a few bottles me & him - What a gent

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 21 Dec 06 - 05:47 PM

Whey Aye!!!

Me and The Barden aall gathered in one place - It'll be mair like Christmas than Easter for me!!

AND..... aah should've lost a birra weight by then so's aah can hev a bit party on doon

Lukkin' forward tiv it!!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Hawker
Date: 21 Dec 06 - 07:29 PM

Today KB and I purchased some Stilton with mint & CHOCOLATE, I kid you not! It is Gorgeous, it was for our Christmas Day Cheese board but I dont thinkl it will last to Christmas eve. It is Yummy!!!!!!! I may try to freeze a bit, as it is a Christmas special!
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: MBSLynne
Date: 22 Dec 06 - 10:10 AM

Sorry...stilton itself is bad enough. The idea of mint and chocolate stilton makes me want to throw up.

BTW, did you know that stilton is now being produced at Quenby Hall in Leicestershire, which is reputed to be where the original stilton was made? It's not cheap, but I'm glad it's being produced there again. We also have a farm producing red Leicester cheese in teh county for the first time in 50 years. It's beautiful and I may bring some of it to Miskin

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Hawker
Date: 22 Dec 06 - 10:17 AM

Just to prevent any confusiuon, this is white stilton with mint and chocolate not blue (it is infact pale green stilton with dark brown chocolate chips I agree it sounds horrible in the extreme, but it tastes like heaven on earth, honest!
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: MBSLynne
Date: 22 Dec 06 - 03:51 PM

Oh well, it's a different matter if it's not blue. The idea of blue cheese, which to my mind tastes the way old, sweaty socks smell, with mint and chocolate is nauseating. White stilton I LOVE. Can't say I've been over struck on all these stiltons with various fruit, Christmas pudding stilton etc, but I'll keep an open mind on the chcolate and mint then!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Fidjit
Date: 22 Dec 06 - 04:42 PM

Lynne & co.
If you all like Stilton then you'll surely like, Cabrales from, Asturias/Cantabres in Northern Spain. Was a real blue before Roquefort was even Cambridge colour.
I know where I can get some, so will bring it along to the party.

Now, about the Music, Song and Dance.......
Chas

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 06:38 AM

Thank Goodness!! Thanks MBS Lynne!!

Aah thowt aah wez the only person on earth that cuddent stand stilton (or ANY blue cheese)

It took Mrs P nigh on 15 years te gerruz te eat 'MATURE' farmhoose cheddar - but she persevered and aah can eat it noo.

Aahh hev te say that aah like the sound of red leicester from Leicestershire

Aah dee like a bit of Y Fenni though - Siansbury's dee it doon here in Soothampton - (Sorry! That should be Sainsbury's - otherwise it soonds like a welsh delicatessen)

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: MBSLynne
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 07:20 AM

Sounds as though you and I have similar cheese tastes Geordie Peorgie. I can't stand ANY blue cheese either, and I don't eat cheddar generally because if it's mature it's too strong and if it isn't it's boring. I do like a lot of the British regional cheeses, which, thank goodness, are making a comeback.
Did you Know that there are something like 70 different regional cheeses in England and Wales? (Not sure if Scotland was conted in that)

I like the crumbly and creamy cheeses. I love Caerphilly (Gods, how on earth do you spell that??), Wensleydale, Cheshire, Lancashire, Yarg. Red Leicester is the cheese I always have in the fridge for day to day use.

The nice thing about them is that they go particularly well with wine, and with a good cider. I'm really looking forward to the stilton and port party (Or cheese and wine...) Yet another aspect of Miskin to enjoy!!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: GUEST,Alert Pedant
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 10:28 AM

You spell it "carefully"

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 12:12 PM

WIlly-nilly, say the bells of Caerphilly!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: The Barden of England
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 02:19 PM

I 'lurve' blue cheese - Angels delight with attitude. Give me 'Blue Vinny', 'Gorgonzola' and the King of them all 'Stilton' and I'm almost in heaven. With Port - paradise - - - - - bring it on!!!!
John Barden

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: MBSLynne
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 06:57 PM

Yeah, it's like 'banananas'...it's easy to spell, it's just hard to stop spelling

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: My guru always said
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 05:10 AM

I'm the same Lynne, no Blue for me, but I do LOVE mature Cheddar & local cheeses. But.....

I have just found a delicatessen which sells 'Norbury Blue' which is made just down the road but doesn't have a farm shop. It's now included in the cheeseboard for Christmas and I'll report back when it's been thoroughly checked out. It may be worth investing in for Miskin.

The very nice man behind the counter agreed to speak to his customers in French for the rest of the day and advised me to leave the cheese at room temperature for at least 2 hours prior to eating so that the Blue (which you can't really see at the moment) develops. We will be watching it....

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 05:14 AM

Watching blue movies is one thing Hilary, but blue cheeses?
G.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 06:02 AM

Thanks again MBS Lynne - Ah think thee and me'll get alang canny - Aah love all the crumbly creamy cheeses like Wensleydale & Cheshire, Lancashire & Caerphilly.

AND.... aah do like a bit of cheshire at me plateside if aah'm having a curry (Jalfrezi or Tamarind - Not Madras or Vindaloo)- It hez the same effect as having a bit of apple there - Just 'tiders' up the gob a bit between forkfuls.

Aah knaah the's ganna be them as cannot stomach the thought of chese & curry but aah dee hev some strange eating habits - But my mate Gerry used te like sausage & marmalade sarnies for breakfast!!! Aah thowt it wez gross until aah tried it - Then aah knaah'd it wez!!!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: MBSLynne
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 10:29 AM

I'm not a curry person at all.

I had a friend who loved cheese and golden syrup sandwiches and used to have vegenmite on her cinnamon buns.

When Richard was small he insisted, from time to time, on having a cheese, peanut butter and vegemite sandwich. He was quite definite about it and it was his own invention. I figured it was a very nutritious combination and probably his body telling him what he needed.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Hawker
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 10:52 AM

Cheese ~ red leicester or double gloucester and Banana toasties are wonderful
Cheers, Hawker

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 02:56 PM

HO HO HO ... And a jolly Christmas to all.


We will be looking at Miskin pictures over Christmas and remembering all our very special friends.

Andy and Jillie

XXX


But remember Christmas is only a rehearsal for Easter.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 03:01 PM

199 (Just because I'm generous!)

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 03:10 PM

W A L L O P !!

100

Happy Christmas everybody

Hev a gudden and a canny 2007

Geordie & Mrs P