Soop's Friendly Kitcheners and well behaved pets.

oldgoat I grew up in Fife and a loaf of bread was known as a half loaf!

oldgoat we have an upright freezer in the garage which was given to us in 1980 by my uncle who was a distributor for Walls ice cream. The freezer was being replaced in a shop and was in need of a home. It still has the Wall's logo on the front. Nowadays its only use is storing bags of ice.

I didn't know that certain freezers weren't suitable for use in a garage! That's something to bear in mind.

My Scottish aunty used to say she was 'off to do the messages' when she went shopping. Do people still use that expression charleygirl ?

Yes, although I live in London and have done since the mid 60's I receive emails at least x2 a day from a very old friend living in Falkirk who is frequently going off to do the messages.

Another word, excuse spelling is "trackle". "It was an auffie trackle trying to get hame the day as the traffic wiz auffie. That would be my long dead grandmother's interpretation of difficulty getting home!

Crafting I'd appreciate a slice of both cakes. I'm a very greedy mare. Just this minute ate two chocolates. MacS has taken the box away and hidden it somewhere safe.

Welcome to the madhouse kitchen, Linsco56 Your freezer would be snapped up if you ever decided to sell it. It would be classed as vintage. Vintage is sort after.

Charleyg and oldgoat The old sayings are well worth remembering.

N&G Having read your latest post, I also need a long lie down. You have boundless energy. Your grandsons are extremely lucky to have such energetic and caring grandparents.

Wobbly It is very easy to get "hooked" on certain painkillers. Should I forget to take the daily dihydrocodeine and amitriptyline I pay for doing so. My stomach cramps and I go into a weird (for me, that's saying something) mood.

wot Yep! That's where the water goes...

Elegran You never fail to delight me with your wide range of knowledge.

annsixty Your philosophical musing makes perfect sense.

Tegan Love the mini snowmen story.

Dramatictessa My word, you could so easily have been involved in a tragic accident.

Yes, I'm sure they still 'do the messages'. I'd say trachle, pronounced with the Scottish ch as in loch. My granny, originally from Dundee, but living in Fife, used to refer to a 'half loaf'. They were baked in pairs and then separated.

anno My late Nana from Northampton would say - "m'duck, me legs givin' me beltink..."

She also called bread - buppy.

In S.Yorkshire, my coal miner step-father called the tin with his sandwiches his "snap tin", and we called plimsolls "pumps". I was intrigued in Scotland over "fish supper", it was that at any time of the day.

number ...I understand that folk in Edinburgh say...you'll have had your tea...by means of a greeting. That makes me chuckle.

My parents used to take me out for high tea as a treat when I was a child. This was a cooked meal served very early evening where we lived.

I loved a fish supper and more so a white pudding supper. One of my favourite cooked meals cooked by my mother was stovies- previously cooked meat such as the remainder of a joint of beef with potatoes but I have never managed to find a proper "Scottish" recipe.

charleygirl My mum used to make 'tattie stovies' with lovely rich brown gravy. Sadly, like her faggott recipe, I never wrote it down.

Sounds similar and when my mother was dying I felt I could not ask her then for the recipe.

Our friend in the care home, would rather like a pool table and table tennis to be options available for the use of residents. Sadly, he's almost totally bed-bound. He is hoping for a meeting with the manager to discuss the matter. It isn't going to happen. There is no available space. The majority of residents use a wheelchair or are suffering from a form of dementia. For the time being, he's buoyed up with optimism.

I'm saying good evening as I must log off until tomorrow.

Take good care of yourselves.

My mother, who probably couldn't have pointed to Scotland on a map, made that every Monday with a pastry lid. We called it meat and potato pie and it was delicious.

Chraleygirl, old goat, annsixty I was in Iceland (shop, not country) and saw frozen stovies for £1 a go. Bought one, expecting a tiny bit of gristly minced meat in a grey gravy with a vast amount of potato. It was delicious - decent meat chopped small in a thick tasty brown gravy, with mash on top, definitely a good £1's worth. 5 minutes in the microwave from frozen.

Thank you for that Elegran I will check that out.

Not sure whether the meat was chopped or minced - but it was very small bits.

elegran
That would be an Iceland North of the Border, I guess. Bet I get blank looks if I ask for stovies in the York shop!

Well, after all the furore over Tesco, Unilever and Marmite, Iceland were offering a free jar of Marmite today, first come first served.

oldgoat Get it online - groceries.iceland.co.uk/search?text=Stovies
It seems to be £1.50 for 400g - I must have got a bargain.

"Online deliveries are free when you spend over £35.00. Over £35, charges will be £2.00/£4.00, depending on which time slot is selected"

£35 is 23 x 400grams of stovies - that would keep you fed for a while!

"How do I know if you deliver in my area?
Go to the Sign in and Register page and enter your postcode in the New Customer section."

Sadly elegran the only time I go into Iceland is to buy Slimming World meals. I think that a job-lot of 23 pots of stovies might be a few 'syns' too many!
Might get DD who lives in Fife to get some in for my next visit though.