"Verbal ordered departure"

Last night, as I said yesterday, was our church's Harvest meal.  Although it's is a fund raiser, it has also become a community event where good food is shared with good company - along with a quiz, a sing-a-long and a raffle.  We did quite well with the quiz but one of the rounds (or rather one of the clues on one of the rounds) had us foxed.  The round was food based and we had to solve the cryptic clues to reveal something that could be on a  menu.  The clue - the blog title - was meant to give us a pudding.  I will post the answer at the bottom of this post - but, go on, what pudding cold be summed up by the clue "Verbal ordered departure"?

A good evening usually means a late finish -and then, when I gt home, I just had to watch Strictly come dancing - so it was late to bed.  Which, in turn, meant that I woke up well past 8 am!  Two days in a row - disgusting!  However it was soon up and out - ready to meet the day (which was still cloudy and miserable!)

First up was church - it was our Harvest Festival service and any donations go to the local Independent Meals on Wheels.  It was lovely to see the children taking their gifts up - and it was all hands to the pump after their service as it was set out for the local C of E primary school's Harvest Festival service.  As the adults worked, the children ran into the churchyard to collect conkers - hings never change now do they?  On the way home, however, there was an unexpected sight of a runaway horse with a van following.  He did manage to overtake the horse before it got onto the main road and calmed it down - apparently the saddle had slipped and spooked the horse!  Fortunately the car behind me had two horse owners in so they held the horse and helped to keep it calm whilst he moved his van off the road.  He then walked the horse home as we all got back into our cars and set off home.


Once back home, lunch and dog walk - plus the proverbial light housework - it was time to make a start on a special, secret project (any clues from the machine settings?) before nipping outside to finish pruning the plum tree.  I only had one branch to cut off but it meant getting the step ladders out - far too much effort!






Then I spent some time finishing the Jane Austen jigsaw.  Being only 500 pieces, this has gone together really quickly.  I also managed to book some tickets for a musical in Leeds at the end of November - another chance for some Christmas shopping with Julia and Trisha?  Can't wait!

Last on today's agenda will be to settle down tonight with another Lynette Anderson  project which involves endless plastic template shapes but lost of delicious hand sewing.  You may recall that, having made Mum and Dad's Christmas present back in May (and darn good it is if I do say it myself!)  she then found something that she just had to have if I could make it for her!  Having bought the pattern, fabric etc Mum then said last week -"Oh it doesn't matter if I don't have it this year" ...... grrr!  As I pointed out that, since this was a Christmas project, there are limited opportunities to use it, Dad sat there nearly crying with laughter!  I think the real issue is that I know Mum well enough to say that a) she will have forgotten what the project really looks like, and b) she will have found another "must have" by this time next year - so I will just get on and make it!









And the pudding?  It was Sago - of curse - duh!!