Poke = bag, I thought? (at least to my mother and grandmother)
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Folk in Edinburgh and Dundee say "poke ae chips" as well.
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Been away camping at Culzean for a few days.
Not only is a pokey hat an ice cream but Reynaldo's in Ayr do a fantastic Ruffle Bar flavour. I now don't know if that is my favourite or if I stick with Pooh Bear.
Didn't see any slugs but number 4 son caught a snail and investigated it for some time. When he went back to see it the snail had run away.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Aye, "poke" is a general Scottish thing, but especially East Coast.
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Reynaldo's vanilla flavour well worthy of consideration. You could also have ruffle bar separately or if pushing the boat out a whole bag of rufflettes. Croy shore for the camping?
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No, Culzean castle campsite. Nice and pastoral but the memsahib prefers more busy sites with entertainment. Boys happy with trees and snails.
I've never had a bad pokey hat from Reynaldo's.
Managed to completely ignore the Dr Who thing as I was in Morrisons gently telling a lady that a Brompton was probably a bit extreme for taking her grandchildren round the park and a folder from Decathlon might suit her needs better. Also got stuff to make curry. Bring your own bag thing on the scanner doesn't work. When I put a Brompton bag on the scanner it shouts for the staff.
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My old boss used to say 'it's a pig in a poke' - meaning it's a load of rubbish.
New LW designs... a pig in a poke
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My mum, in Glasgow, used to sing an alternative version of the national anthem to us. It went:
God save our Auntie Jean
She lives in Aberdeen
She makes ice creamDa da da da
Send her victorious!
A pokey hat between the four ae us
Thank God there wisnae more ae us
God save Auntie Jean.Posted 11 years ago # -
Insto - good song
Folds - any pannier rejected by self scanners, I avoid them. New dr who has an ice cream name, as he put it
Posted 11 years ago # -
My carradice seems to work OK as "own bag" in sainsburys / asda - go figure?
Also......even for here this thread has gone a tad off topic !!
Calumcookable - give it another chance, change route for a week and see what happens?
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How light does a pannier have to be before it is accepted by the self scanners?
Petition to Tesco/Sainsburys to raise weight limit?
Posted 11 years ago # -
Brompton bags have metal frames. I have a steel one and an aluminium one.
I'm getting a Brompton message basket so I can use the M6R like a trolley and then load stuff back into it after scanning.
I get dirty looks from check out staff when I don't bring my own bag they days.
CC could you say roughly what route you were using?
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I cunningly avoid the bag weight issue by putting the pannier on the ground and piling my foodstuffs into it when it's thinking about my card. It doesn't seem to mind the items leaving the scale during the electronic handshake.
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Yes, apologies to CalumCookable for thread drift (to which I contributed)...
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CC, I did the same in 2003. My resentment towards the road users responsible just got worse though. I had to do something so I joined ERC. CTC would also have worked though having seen them out and about I thought they might be a bit too slow for my liking. ERC was a good choice and completely rekindled my enthusiasm for riding a bike.
Eventually though I gave up commuting on the roads. I found a longer slower and infinitely more relaxing off-road route and bought a cheap mountain bike.
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Strangely my commuting has gone the other way to Cyclingmollie - I started on a MTB, then a hybrid and now a road bike. I also moved to use the off-road routes less (on my longer route in) and using the parallel road routes instead - they had less frustrating chicanes/junctions/etc and kept clean of ice/leaves/mud/glass.
When you are dealing with a far less than perfect environment for cyclists, you have to make choices between two evils.
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