1 Not mine, but these were on a bench at work. Both Americanised tea items. A mat to put the mug on, based on lyrics from Lionel Richie song 'Hello'. A mug based on the A-Team character 'Mr. T' where the mug is called 'Mr. Tea' and the handle looks like it is a hand with three gold rings on it ! So not really a cup of tea but a nice big mug of tea.
2 I got this today - the third picture is the van that on Mondays parks at the top of my road 4:00 to 7:00pm; we have no shops in our village (and only one pub) so businesses like that are welcome, and other weekday evenings he goes to other villages. The second picture (apart from a loaf of Hovis granary bread I already had) is what I bought from the van - medium chips, a fishcake, and mushy peas, with a wooden fork. It cost £3.60 and I did not have enough money for proper fish and chips as I had been to the Post Office sending two Numista swaps out - to Portugal and India, and had not much money left. Otherwise I would have got cheesy chips instead of normal, or onion rings, or pickled onions, or a pot of gravy, as well. Oh, and cheesy chips are where the shop puts grated cheese on top of the chips, then wraps them altogether, so that by the time you get home the cheese has melted all over them.
Maybe I should also have taken a picture today of the weather, to add to the English theme; it was sunny this morning and sunny this evening, but this afternoon was a terrible thunderstorm with large hailstones. The changeable English weather.
Quote: redsmithstudiosI love cultural food, that LOOKS delicious; if I were rich I would fly on over and pay you to take me around and try food for a week
There is also Yorkshire pudding ...
I had that (with sausages and onion gravy inside, and tomatoes and normal peas) at my parent's diamond wedding anniversary last month (they got a card from The Queen as they got married the same year as Her Majesty), and the pub (in town) put fancy lettering in chocolate sauce on their dessert plates !
Quote: torontokubaInteresting breakfast assembly. What exactly is in the bowl, fruit, cheese, ..?
Fruit, but it tastes horrible (very bitter).
I don't think the fruits are British, though. I ate that English breakfast on board on the ship I was sailing with and the crew of the ship was mostly Indonesian, so I think those fruits are possibly Indonesian or some sort (they served other Asian/Indonesian foods as well).
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
I remember many decades ago when all the family (parents and me and two sisters) went for a week to Devon and Cornwall, and we saw lots of ordinary houses (so not shops or cafés) put 'creams teas here' signs outside their own homes, so over the holiday we had lots of cream teas in various gardens. They had picnic tables and tablecloths, with a big pot of tea and plates of scones with dishes of jam and cream.
Quote: muralisone of very English thing in my area is man screaming with loudhailer from van "scrap metaaaal..." :D
The strange thing is, I haven't heard the scrap man "Any old Iron" for years since I was a kid. Then, Saturday just gone I heard someone in another street shouting for scrap metal and come on here today to see this posting lol.....spooky.
Quote: redsmithstudiosWhat? a scrap metal truck? like an ice cream truck? Someone must get a video of selling some scrap metal!
no, mostly there are old van and couple people collecting from you unwanted metal crap, once I saw stunning vintage female Peugeot bicycle and I asked to buy and got it for 5 gbp. if they are near my house I am always asking them to stop and then I am checking what they have got, because sometimes you can find great stuff!
In my country (Latvia) there is no way that someone would give metal for free, everyone is collecting and one in 10 years going to sell all scrap metal in special scrapyard.
YOU GOT THAT BIKE FOR SCRAP! Wow, that's a nice bike!
A scrap metal van is a new idea to me, here in the US you could probably do pretty well with that sort of thing. Except that no one would know what you were yelling "scrap metal" for. I wonder how this thing evolved to become a normal thing? Here we have more problems with scrap thieves than you can imagine.
Taking a break from swapping for a while, but still interested in pre 1799 Spanish coins, I will make time for that!
Quote: Lotus07Awwww, that looks delicious! I wish I lived a little closer to you, so I could pop by and test this wonderful pizza!
I would be happy to have you. However its real easy. We buy pizza crust and spread it on a pizza stone, spread olive oil, bake it then add tomato sauce, (sliced tomatoes in the summer), pepperoni, wild mushrooms, artichoke hearts, feta cheese, some bacon, and a pound or two of cheese. and any other toppings I might feel like that day.
350 till the cheese starts to brown on top!
plus some homebrewed beer.
Taking a break from swapping for a while, but still interested in pre 1799 Spanish coins, I will make time for that!
Quote: ALLRED1950can any of you tell me anything on this makers make, its from my tea pot
Thank you yours daryl
It's the coat of arms of the city in which it was made. The two most obvious are Sheffield (silver plate) and Staffordshire (china clay). It's neither of those though. Check the larger towns in the area of the British midlands known as "The Potteries", I'm pretty sure you will find it there.
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
Make Numismatics Great Again!
I don't think I have seen that combination around here - there is (at work) various people that come round the industrial estate ...
Ice cream van Sandwich girl
The firemen in first picture were there as they were testing hydrants in the area at the time, and the second picture shows what the sandwich girl was selling. There used to be a burger van that parked at the top of the estate in the morning and stayed there all day.
And this weekend (today and tomorrow) is the biennial (every two years) Bedford River Festival - which from here is about 3 miles (5 kilometres) away. So there will be all sorts of vans there, as in 2012 there were over 320,000 people attended across the vast area around the River Great Ouse that flows through the town. Will have to take camera (if I do go, as weather permitting - last two days we have had thunderstorms both evenings, and still raining this morning) to see what vans and stalls they have there. Also they have fireworks tonight, carnival parade tomorrow, raft race tomorrow, lots of music stages, and much more ... http://www.bedfordcornexchange.co.uk/outdoorevents/index.php
Also just found this from 4 years ago - one stall had German produce ...
Maybe the people that ran it were local, but I suspect as it is such a big event that they came from overseas especially. The girl walking towards me is my friend Rebecca, and I think she was buying something for her mother who is Austrian (and her father is Slovenian). I just got a burger I think.
There is definitely something charming about the words, "in our village".
There is also Yorkshire pudding ...
