Piggy piggy PIG!

[venta]

Well, I just went to Woodley to buy some batteries. I failed - they proved too obscure for the likes of Robert Dyas and the Post Office - but found a Farmers' Market.

So I now have real apple juice - I like to think of it as blood wrenched from living apples. And some apple and ginger juice. And some intriguing-looking cider. And some handmade cheese with tomato and paprika in it.

And there was a pig roast going on. So I got a bun full of pig and apple sauce and crackling.

Farmers' Markets are a good thing.

(And I have batteries, too, but had to hitch a lift to the rather more prosaic Maplins with Sysadmin #1 to acquire them.)

Comments

[uitlander]

Mmm... the Woodley Farmer's market is a Good Thing™. They have a wonderful bread stand too, and the nice man who sells interesting beers & mead.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yup, saw the bread stall. It did look appealing.
Missed the interesting beer, though :( Shame on me.

[uitlander]

Well, we shall have to have a joint expedition next month - assuming either of us manages to remember.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Is it always the equivalent of today ? ie <counts> the third Wednesday ?

[uitlander]

I think so. Its always a wednesday, but I've never been organised enough to make a note of exactly which wednesday (although it does say on the banners in the centre of the precinct). There was a time when my trips to Woodley were frequent enough that I could be sure of just turning up on the right day. They always seem to have the pig roast.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Can I come?

[uitlander]

Can't see why not, oh owner of a car with more than two seats.

[venta.livejournal.com]

That Wednesday (17th Dec) seems to be the day I have to hare like a mad fool up to Nottingham to see New Model Army in the evening, so I might not have time to go a-Woodling.

*sob*

[ao-lai.livejournal.com]

Well, even though I'm theoretically on holiday that day, I do start to wonder whether it would be worth driving all the way to Woodley from Oxford just to get some roast pig inna bun.

Mmm, Roast Pig...

[narenek.livejournal.com]

It would appear to be so

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Boggle? Maplins? For batteries? Granted, they'll have them, but it seems a bit like going to Harrods to buy a can of Coke.

And all those poor apples that you callously sacrificed in passing. They probably screamed, you know!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Since everywhere else I tried failed to stock the batteries I wanted, and Maplins was a dead cert, it seemed like the best idea.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Plus, Harrods don't sell Coke.

[venta.livejournal.com]

They don't ?

I believe you, but am intrigued to know how you know :)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Well to some extent it's just an outright lie since I believe Harrods has a number of 'hosted' sub-stores, one of which is a pizzeria and they sell coke...

The same's possibly true of other 'slots' in the Food Hall too. After all, you can even get Krispy Kreme donuts there.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I know, I'm very excited about the potential of eating KK doughnuts next time I'm in the vicinity :)

According to my list of Interesting Facts About String, Harrods doesn't sell string, either.

[(Anonymous)]

In some Harrods original marketing they were famed for being able to sell *anything*. Coke and string included presumably. String *can* be purchased from the material department.
They had a line about if you couldn't buy it at Harrods then it can't be bought. Prehaps the Ebay bucket of water for £120 has outdone them though..

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hullo, Mystery Guest :)

According to my list of Facts About String (careful, or I'll post the other 19), you can't buy it in Harrods. Mind you, my Facts were published in (probably) the early 90s, so may be outdated. Or just wrong.

How do you know string can be purchased from the materials department ?

[(Anonymous)]

Reveal a source of information such as that?! Never!
What more does the world of string have to offer in its tangled depths?
;)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, Fact About String #8 is "Rope is made by twisting bits of string together: 1000ft of string makes about 720ft of rope." Presumably depending on the thickness. Best combined with Fact About String #1: "When is string rope ? When it's one inch or more in circumference".

Then there's Fact About String #11: "The flax industry in St Helena collapsed in 1966, when the British Post Office discovered rubber bands. Previously string produced for this country made up nearly 100% of the island's exports".

[(Anonymous)]

Wow! What more can string offer?!
Isn't there a logical thinking puzzle about unravelling string?

[(Anonymous)]

I was in Harrods yesterday, and I consumed Pepsi. In a stairwell.

Mind you, I had brought it in with me.

However, I'd be very surprised if you couldn't get Coke there. I haven't checked there in a very long time, but it used to be that the main food "hall" with all its exotic and/or expensive stuff actually extended over several halls on the ground floor [note: now more restauranty than I remember it being 10-15 years ago], but there was a smaller section in the basement below which was almost supermarket like (with supermarket checkouts, 'n'all).

That supermarket was great, because it catered partly to the American consumer by selling imported American product. Now, everyone knows that Kellogs Sultana Bran is a most fine breakfast cereal, but in Harrods you could get the superior Kellogs Raisin Bran, for it was that which was sold there.

Note: Raisin Bran != Bran Flakes + raisins. Tried that.

--
Richard

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Pepsi?

[redcountess]

mmmm, roast pork and apple sauce, you're making me drool, it's been ages since I've had a roast of any sort (discounting the roast chook I had at Whitby)!

And yay for Hoodoo Gurus!

[venta.livejournal.com]

You went to Whitby and you didn't go to The Greedy Pig for roastpiginnabun? Sacrilege. And then some.

If you're going in April, that needs remedying. TGP is barely spitting distance from the Elsinore...

And yay for Hoodoo Gurus!

There's Aussie solidarity for you :)

[(Anonymous)]

Who claimed to supply "everything from a pin to an elephant"? The long-defunct Whiteleys? Harrods? The Stores (as in Army & Navy, not Co-op)? I mourn that Bourne from which no Hollingsworth returns, but then, I'm old. And at least Harrods kept its food hall when its owner Mohammed Fayed took them out of House of Fraser, though HoF does, I think sell Cokein our local branch, as well as having a beer section which regularly makes the CAMRA honours.