What I've learned about the Brits from BBC

[John Lee]

Hello over there. I find myself watching several British television shows that air on our PBS stations (Public Broadcasting Station). Last night was "Call the Mid Wife." Another favorite is "Midsomer Murders." Here's what I have learned.

Brit #1 -- Call the Mid Wife, my water just broke and I'm having twins.
Brit #2 -- I'll put the kettle on.

Brit #1 -- I just cut off my foot trimming the mulberry tree.
Brit #2 -- I'll put on the kettle, carve a spoon from the branch and make some mulberry wine.

Not making sport of you guys just that tea and the kettle are omnipresent in the shows which I enjoy. Incidentally, my mother was born and raised in Bradford before marrying my father in 1945 after the war. Her maiden name was Dixon, perhaps some of us are distant cousins.
John Lee the Bald

 

[mousey]

You should read the 'survival is all about a cup of tea' thread...

 

[decorum]

Yep, sounds about right. 'If/When in doubt get a brew on'

 

[Hammock_man]

US Meals Ready to Eat; Flameless heater
UK Rat Pack ...Tea bags
Says it all
and a plus one for the survival/tea thread

 

[Kerne]

“Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.
"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.”
-Arthur Dent In Douglas Adams; Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

 

[C_Claycomb]

Yes, we like tea, however, don't believe everything you see in those shows For instance little villages in the Hertfordshire / Buckinghamshire countryside, where the fictitious Midsomer is set, do not actually have a murder rate on par with Chicago! lol

 

[decorum]

Incidentally, my mother was born and raised in Bradford before marrying my father in 1945 after the war. Her maiden name was Dixon, perhaps some of us are distant cousins.

Any known relatives in Dock Green?

 

[crosslandkelly]

[video=youtube;h7QdrkU8lVE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7QdrkU8lVE[/video]

 

[John Lee]

Any known relatives in Dock Green?

Dock Green doesn't sound familiar.

 

[sunndog]

Basic rule of thumb in a survival/disaster situation......if you are capable of getting a brew on then you may as well do so, cos it cant be that bad

 

[GGTBod]

Welcome John Lee, if you like cups of tea instead of drama you might enjoy my Youtube channel, i am always putting the kettle on when other folks might be freaking out, i just had a recent incident when in USA where a 70ft dead birch tree fell and crushed half my camp landing where i had just been sitting 2 mins earlier with my previous cup of tea, an American friend turned up in his canoe just as i was putting the kettle on before sorting it all out, he said i appeared far too calm for what had just happened, how else you gonna make a cup of tea if you are not calm

 

[johnnythefox]

we built am empire with bacon sarneys, brown sauce and lots of tea with milk.

 

[johnnythefox]

tea is only appropriate at certain times.

birth, death, marriage, morning, mid day, midnight, hot, cold wet or dry

drunk, sober, happy, sad, indifferent or just to have something to dunk your biscuit in.

 

[Toddy]

+1

I've just made a cup of tea and sat down here to catch up with the modding

cheers,
Toddy

 

[GGTBod]

+1

I've just made a cup of tea and sat down here to catch up with the modding

cheers,
Toddy

I always admired your no drama approach to modding, i knew tea had something to do with it

 

[John Lee]

we built am empire with bacon sarneys, brown sauce and lots of tea with milk.

Are bacon sarneys the same as a bacon sandwich? In another favorite BBC program of mine "Keeping up Appearances", Onslow often asks Daisy to get him a bacon sarney. Sadly, I just read that Geoffrey Hughes is dead. Also, is brown sauce similar to steak sauces or is this something I need to find?

 

[GGTBod]

The tree forcing me to put the kettle on during my recent trip

 

[GGTBod]

Are bacon sarneys the same as a bacon sandwich? In another favorite BBC program of mine "Keeping up Appearances", Onslow often asks Daisy to get him a bacon sarney. Sadly, I just read that Geoffrey Hughes is dead. Also, is brown sauce similar to steak sauces or is this something I need to find?

a bacon sarny is definitely bacon + bread, for me the better the bread and the better the bacon the longer i'll drag out the arrrrr in sarny when asking or taking about one, so a basic bread and supermarket bacon and no brown sauce is just a bacon sarny, proper smoked and cured back bacon served on a a half a stottie cake and drizzled in HP brown sauce is a proper saaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrnie

brown sauce hahahaha this tortured my dad when he first moved to usa, the closest thing you all have to a good brown sauce is the A1 Steak Sauce, but imagine it the same consistency as good ketchup

 

[decorum]

Dock Green doesn't sound familiar.

[video=youtube_share;1tQRglQqyf8]https://youtu.be/1tQRglQqyf8[/video]

I believe he had to deploy his truncheon once. Only once, mind. Apparently it was quite traumatic for him.

 

[Toddy]

The tree forcing me to put the kettle on during my recent trip

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:yikes:

Put the kettle on lad !

M