Foodie Pen Pals

The Second Month


I will break the bad news now.


 There will be no amusing photos of Westie or Miss Thomas this month, as they have better things to do, now that the weather has decided to feel summery. My Westie spends most of his time either asleep on his duvet, or chasing cats and birds out of our front and back gardens, now that the muddy puddles have gone. Miss Thomas has a Summer project; she is busy printing and laminating members of the WSPU (The Women's Social and Political Union); she then puts them in a box and shows them to her friends, as you would a sticker collection, or 'Top Trumps' cards.

If you are old enough to remember, the 1970's/1980's essential viewing for a Saturday night, 'The Generation Game', with our very own  Larry Grayson and Bruce Forsyth, you will know the high light of the show was the 'Conveyor Belt' game, where the contestants had remember what passed them on the, er, conveyor belt; if they remembered the item, they won it. Of course, they always got the cuddly toy.

Brucie in 1958, on a beach
Image: BBC

Larry and the Lovely Isla St. Clair

So first on the conveyor belt (remember, you are not going to win anything! I just want the prize for the Most Humourous Foodie Pen Pal Blog Post...) is a bar of Sainsbury's 'Taste the Difference' White Chocolate. Miss Thomas doesn't like white chocolate, so she can't steal it, so Mr Thomas and I will have it instead.

Hoping the mountain is made of white chocolate too...

The next item on the conveyor belt is a Union Flag tea towel, in bright colours. Rule Britannia, I say...

May she dry many dishes...

Concentrate very carefully, as we have a few items together coming up next...

Three is the magic number

Yes, three items, which are a tub of Fairtrade cocoa (oh, I see many giant chocolate muffins and chocolate cookies in the near future..), cranberries, though not the pop combo(which according to a quick search on the web, have just made a new album), but the fruit, and will be used for Polenta and Cranberry biscuits, from a book that claims that it is the "only biscuit book you will need!". Along with the other twenty biscuit cook books that I have...Finally, in this threesome, some Afternoon Tea, in a box with a picture of an old 'Routemaster' London bus. I would like very much to be on that bus, drinking Afternoon Tea, just like Cliff Richard, Melvyn Hayes and Una Stubbs.

Fill with cake

Coming up on the left is muffin and cupcake cases. Miss Thomas really, really wants the posh muffin cases, for holding sweets, crisps, any other small food, pens, and other rubbish she owns, but she cannot. Sounding really mean, I told her to buy her own, as she gets enough pocket money to do so. Cupcake cases in pretty colours, for the Domestic Goddess that I am.


All this (imaginary) conveyor belt of loveliness came from Amy at cookingcakesandchildren. Thank you very much for the lovely things that you sent!


If you want to join in the Foodie Pen Pal Fun, please go to Carol Ann at thisisrocksalt.com.

And Finally ...The Cuddly Toy!

Some Clips from 'The Generation Game' via 'YouTube'


Larry Grayson Easter 1981
Bruce Forsyth November 1972