Tea? (Part 2)

[Puddles]

Just remember its illegal to eat them on Christmas Day!

What profiteroles?

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Just remember its illegal to eat them on Christmas Day!

I won't tell anyone if you dont.

 

[Puddles]

I like mince pies and profiteroles.

Here you are

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Here you are

 

[Puddles]

Just remember its illegal to eat them on Christmas Day!

Mince pie ban
Legend: It has been claimed that the act of eating a mince pie on Christmas Day is illegal in England.

Evidence: Festive celebrations, including mince pies and Christmas puddings, were reportedly banned in Oliver Cromwell's England as part of efforts to tackle gluttony.

But the ban did not survive when Charles II became king. In fact, the Law Commission says none of the 11 laws that remained on the statute books after Cromwell's reign related to mince pies.

Verdict: Myth.

 

[Saluki]

I have mostly decorated the bathroom (I can't reach the top 2", even when standing on a chair) and I think that I have given a tendon in my left hand a tweak. Its really uncomfortable. Will tea help or should I grab a large glass of wine?

 

[Puddles]

I have mostly decorated the bathroom (I can't reach the top 2", even when standing on a chair) and I think that I have given a tendon in my left hand a tweak. Its really uncomfortable. Will tea help or should I grab a large glass of wine?

Wine would assiat more, I had a great aunt that said drinking a glass of sherry after you cleaned a room as you worked your way through the house was of great assistance!

 

[classic33]

by Nisha Chopra
Before you start tucking into a mince pie tomorrow – beware as you're actually breaking the law.
Oliver Cromwell believed that Christmas was plagued with superstitions of the Roman Catholic Church which he despised and he also thought the tradition probably had Pagan routes.
But his decision to ban all Christmas celebrations in 1657 didn't go down too well with folk in Kent.
Civil disturbances broke out in Canterbury and in London during the December of that year and these provoked riots – known as the Plum Pudding Riots – in the Kent city in 1658.
It resulted in Cromwell having to send out 3,000 armed men from The Westgate Towers to break down the city gates and enforce the ban.
Historian Mark Connelly from the University of Kent says the ban of eating mince pies still hasn't been abolished.
He said: "Cromwell held that if you're caught eating a mince pie on Christmas Day you're definitely trying to celebrate this banned festival."
23/12/11

FACT
See also http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/cromwellballs/

 

[ScotiaLass]

I have mostly decorated the bathroom (I can't reach the top 2", even when standing on a chair) and I think that I have given a tendon in my left hand a tweak. Its really uncomfortable. Will tea help or should I grab a large glass of wine?

Tea first (preferably with biscuit) then wine. Sorted.

 

[welsh dragon]

Tea first (preferably with biscuit) then wine. Sorted.

Howdo mrs

 

[ScotiaLass]

I am bored. It's Saturday night and I'm sat here, alone, watching rubbish tv and checking my weather app every hour.

 

[Puddles]

by Nisha Chopra
Before you start tucking into a mince pie tomorrow – beware as you're actually breaking the law.
Oliver Cromwell believed that Christmas was plagued with superstitions of the Roman Catholic Church which he despised and he also thought the tradition probably had Pagan routes.
But his decision to ban all Christmas celebrations in 1657 didn't go down too well with folk in Kent.
Civil disturbances broke out in Canterbury and in London during the December of that year and these provoked riots – known as the Plum Pudding Riots – in the Kent city in 1658.
It resulted in Cromwell having to send out 3,000 armed men from The Westgate Towers to break down the city gates and enforce the ban.
Historian Mark Connelly from the University of Kent says the ban of eating mince pies still hasn't been abolished.
He said: "Cromwell held that if you're caught eating a mince pie on Christmas Day you're definitely trying to celebrate this banned festival."
23/12/11

FACT

I point my learned colleague in the direction of thus!

"But the ban did not survive when Charles II became king."

so ner!

 

[welsh dragon]

I am bored. It's Saturday night and I'm sat here, alone, watching rubbish tv and checking my weather app every hour.

Have a very big glass of wine then

 

[Puddles]

I am bored. It's Saturday night and I'm sat here, alone, watching rubbish tv and checking my weather app every hour.

Is the weather frightful?

 

[hopless500]

I have mostly decorated the bathroom (I can't reach the top 2", even when standing on a chair) and I think that I have given a tendon in my left hand a tweak. Its really uncomfortable. Will tea help or should I grab a large glass of wine?

I recommend bypassing tea and heading for the medicinal properties of wine