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[bimble]

Kippers and kale. 2021 is going to be brilliant.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

I also heard that they are about to release a new variant of kale onto the market on the 1st January, with the name 'Brexit Famine Prevention', or did I just dream that?

 

[splonkydoo]

Back to the Middle Ages now and should be oats and parsnips most of the year round.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Back to the Middle Ages now and should be oats and parsnips most of the year round.

Sounds alright to me.

 

[bimble]

As long as a return to beer instead of water is part of the plan things should work out fine.

 

[splonkydoo]

Sounds alright to me.

I'll smuggle in a few 9 bars of proper mash from Ireland occasionally.

 

[splonkydoo]

As long as a return to beer instead of water is part of the plan things should work out fine.

Pissy water, marmite, and parsnips! Oh what wonders!

 

[Pickman's model]

Back to the Middle Ages now and should be oats and parsnips most of the year round.

Let's have a rerun of 1381 only this time kill the king at blackheath. Or Boris Johnson

 

[Artaxerxes]

Back to the Middle Ages now and should be oats and parsnips most of the year round.

I’d be ok with this tbh as long as the supplies of dried chillies don’t run out.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

'Great' minds think alike - see post above. It's a bit of a perfect storm taking shape.

any port in a storm
oh
wait

 

[brogdale]

There is a variety of kale with that very name, Hungry Gap, I believe.

And the name by which the last 4 years of the Johnson/Sunak administration will be known to future historians.

 

[brogdale]

I gather the Dover lorry queue, or M20 as we used to know it, is now > 5 miles*

*none of that revolutionary French nonsense!

 

[Flavour]

I wonder what the volume of trucks coming into Dover was like before 1973

 

[not-bono-ever]

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not nice for everyone involved in this

 

[Pickman's model]

Kippers and kale. 2021 is going to be brilliant.

pizzas grow in all seasons

 

[TopCat]

I gather the Dover lorry queue, or M20 as we used to know it, is now > 5 miles*

*none of that revolutionary French nonsense!

It must be weird. Having to comply with police directions and never leave the cab for an unspecified amount of queueing up time. Ginsters pies and adult nappies.

 

[Pickman's model]

I wonder what the volume of trucks coming into Dover was like before 1973

They were smaller in those days

 

[Pickman's model]

Ginsters pies and adult nappies.

And that's just for the cops

 

[Raheem]

They were smaller in those days

They were just as loud, though.

 

[TopCat]

Shell shocked: 'Lobster capital' braces for Brexit

Live shellfish exporters in East Yorkshire and Devon say new certification requirements are 'unworkable'

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Ginsters pies

Known as Gangsters round our way

 

[andysays]

I also heard that they are about to release a new variant of kale onto the market on the 1st January, with the name 'Brexit Famine Prevention', or did I just dream that?

The bad news is that any vegetables like kale which you might hope to harvest during the spring to fill the hungry gap should have been planted months ago and done much of their growing already.

 

[brogdale]

The bad news is that any vegetables like kale which you might hope to harvest during the spring to fill the hungry gap should have been planted months ago and done much of their growing already.

Wasn't all that sowing done back in the heady days of British jobs for British workers euphoria that followed our escape from the neoliberal supra-state? Now we shall reap as we have sown...

 

[TopCat]

Wasn't all that sowing done back in the heady days of British jobs for British workers euphoria that followed our escape from the neoliberal supra-state? Now we shall real as we have sown...

There was no real or genuine effort made to recruit UK workers to farm.

There were more articles in the Guardian moaning on about lazy brits than there were actual recruitment adverts for farm work aimed at UK workers.

 

[andysays]

Wasn't all that sowing done back in the heady days of British jobs for British workers euphoria that followed our escape from the neoliberal supra-state? Now we shall real as we have sown...

I've got some kale, sprouts and leeks on my allotment; don't think it's enough to feed 60 million people though...

 

[brogdale]

There was no real or genuine effort made to recruit UK workers to farm.

There were more articles in the Guardian moaning on about lazy brits than there were actual recruitment adverts for farm work aimed at UK workers.

Shit Year Zero.

 

[brogdale]

I've got some kale, sprouts and leeks on my allotment; don't think it's enough to feed 60 million people though...

Got any security guarding that plot?

 

[andysays]

Got any security guarding that plot?

You may have noticed that although I've posted quite often about my allotment, I've never mentioned its actual location.

I certainly don't want a bunch of hungry Urbanite free loaders thinking they can muscle in on my over-wintering brassicas

 

[brogdale]

It must be weird. Having to comply with police directions and never leave the cab for an unspecified amount of queueing up time. Ginsters pies and adult nappies.

Almost Trumpian

 

[Gerry1time]

As long as a return to beer instead of water is part of the plan things should work out fine.

I have a theory* that there was a close correlation between the lack of clean drinking water and the spread of the British Empire. Basically we were all continuously and collectively slightly pissed for a few hundred years, and so went round nicking countries like students nicking traffic cones. Once universal clean drinking water came in, we sobered up, looked around at what we'd done and sheepishly handed things back.

* almost certainly bollocks but still...