Number one son and his girlfriend went to Balmoral Show near Belfast on Friday and Saturday.
They stayed in a hotel overnight and we pet sitted and checked and fed and watered the livestock and vegetables and plants.
They came back with northern English goodies from Sainsbury's supermarket. All things we don't seem to get here since Brexit.
I do some times source Newcy Brown from a off licence in County Kerry. They get it from the north.
Bill Wyman said when he moved to France. The one thing he missed is Piccalilli. I miss real ale and bitters like Newcastle Brown.
Vimto was invented in Manchester and it's a cordial and I have seen it for sale in Dorset and Kent.
Perhaps next time they go up there they will bring us some proper meat and potato pies?
Nice treat, it's a shame when supplies are stopped, hopefully with the new EU deal you might get to see them again locally.
ReplyDeleteIt's the every day things you miss Marlene. Cornish pasties and Somerset cider also come to mind. The new EU deal does look very promising all round. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteWe all miss something living in a foreign land. I'd live a kiwi meat pie. Visitors bring marmite and chocolate but no meat pies alas. Homemade are just not the same.
ReplyDeleteI hope you find your meat and potato pies. And Cornish pasties!! You can't replicate those either
So true Linda. It's a treat to go to Blighty to sample the regional foods and beers. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteNext time they go up there they could buy you a bowler hat and an orange sash. You would look so smart and you could rant about Newcastle Brown like Ian Paisley.
ReplyDeleteI could rant about the supermarkets filling their shelves with European beer but no English ones. Fair play to the EU and Labour Party government for seeing sense and making a level post Brexit playing field.
DeleteReducing the impact of Brexit via the back door. Very clever. However, The Orange Windbag seems to have a special aversion to the EU so Keir and Rachel had better watch out.
DeleteThe EU can always reciprocate with US tariffs. He's not thought it out.
DeleteI enjoyed a bottle myself, this week :)
ReplyDeleteLucky you Jules. It's become a rare treat here.
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