I Dream Of Pies: May 2009

Sunday, 31 May 2009

Swamp Dino

To celebrate the arrival of summer and some excellent weather the Swamp tribe invited the Pies and others to a barbecue at the Swamp Estate.

Delicious food from our hosts, great weather and entertaining company made for an excellent evening topped off by a Swamp guest arriving with a Ferrari Dino GT! In superb condition ,oh yes what a beautiful car.

Our generous fellow guest, before the evening ended, took some of us for spin. The smell, the throb of the idling engine and the snarl of that V6 engine as the right foot went down was a delight. I also now know what supergirl wants for her 18th.......dream on!

Police Incident Plot109a

This year has seen the Pie tribe reclaim more of the wasteland of Plot 109a for cultivation. However yesterday the police prevented access to the site due to an ongoing "Police incident" ? Radishes gone amok, Terrifying Turnips, Cold blooded Carrots .......????

So far we have planted Cauliflowers, Potatoes,(X2) Radishes, Lettuce,(x2) Onions,(x2) Garlic, Cabbages, Broccoli, Beetroot ( X2 Varieties), Sweetcorn ........

Quotes We Like

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” - Samuel Johnson
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato
"Oh - don't live up to your given roles There's more inside you that you won't show" - P Weller
"Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship." - Dr Samuel Johnson
"With fame I become more and more stupid, which, of course, is a very common phenomenon" - Albert Einstein
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Nietzsche
" Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt" - Abraham Lincoln
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see it" - Confucius
"The Most Wasted of days is one without Laughter" - EE Cummings
" Actually there's quite a lot in my brain....I just can't find it sometimes" - Pie Offspring No 2
" Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can" - John Wesley
" It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually" - Dr M Scott Peck
" Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress" - Mahatma Gandhi

Pie/Pastry Watch

01/11/14 Steak & Ale Pie - 9.2/10 Valley Butchers
12/09/13 Steak & Stilton - 9.1/10 Hollands Pies
04/07/14 Cheshire Cheese, Chives & Spring Onion Pie - 9/10 SJ Bebbington
16/02/10 Huntsman Pie - 9/10 Edwards of Conwy
08/10/09 Steak & Mushroom Pie - 9/10 Hawarden Farm Shop
03/09/09 Steak & Stilton Pie - 9/10 Vaughans, Penyffordd
03/06/08 Pork Pie - 9/10 Phil Salt Butcher, Chester
26/04/07 Steak Pie - 9/10 Vaughans Butchers, Flintshire
08/07/07 Steak,Brandy & Pepper - 9/10 Harvies's Ltd
19/04/07 Sausage Roll sm - 9/10 Vaughans Butchers, Flintshire
07/05/10 Sausage Roll - 8.5/10 Cowards of Frodsham
07/05/10 Pork Pie - 8.5/10 Cowards of Frodsham
06/02/10 Beef & Ale Pie - 8/10 Simply Pie, Whitchurch
08/10/09 Sausage Roll - 8/10 Hawarden Farm Shop
07/05/10 Steak Pie - 8/10 Cowards of Frodsham
22/12/08 - Balti Pie - 8/10 Pukka, Goodison Park
05/04/08 Lamb Oggie - 8/10, Butchers, Buckley
29/04/07 Steak & Onion Pie - 8/10 Blakemere Centre, Sandiway
24/04/07 Steak & Kidney Pie - 8/10 Village Bakery, Coedpoeth
08/12/07 Scouse Pie - 7/10 Goodison
18/12/08 Pork Pie & Stuffing - 7/10 Vaughans, Penyffordd
28/03/07 Sausage Roll - 8/10 P & A Davies, Chester
17/04/08 Steak & Kidney - 7/10 Hollands, Liverpool
26/02/10 Pork Pie - 6/10 Stokes Of Ellesmere
12/04/08 Square Pie - 6/10 Loaf, Birmingham