Fr Edward Barlow

Cooking with #Pumpkins:
Recipe 26:
Plomeek Soup à la Neelix

Horrible Histories The King of the Universe

This morning's sermon for #ChristTheKing:

fatheredwardbarlow.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/h...

If it's this one, it's been around for a while... 😄

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Life observation:

It's considered good manners to shout "Thank you driver" as you disembark a #London bus...
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But if you do it on the tube, people look at you funny...

Cooking with #Pumpkins:
Recipe 25:
Pumpkin Cheesy Beano on Baked Sweet Potato

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Catching up on #TheArchers;

Everyone: "Phoebe's having a baby!"
Helen: "But there's a sheep emergency!"
Everyone: "But Phoebe's having a baby!"
Helen: "Sheep emergency!"
Everyone: "But we're on holiday!"
Helen: "This is an everyday story of country folk, damnit! SHEEP EMERGENCY COMES FIRST!!!"

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Our family services are the first Sunday in the month, and Christingle is always a December family service thing.

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So this year, Advent Sunday will fall the week before Fire Hazard Sunday!

Not long until #Advent...

Now imagine it being said by Kate in the same way she says "Yurt"!😁

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Although given the pronunciation of Jakob's name, "Jake" would be pronounced "Yak"!

My prediction:
Baby will be born at a notable Blackpool landmark (see picture below).

Kate's annoyance will be twofold:
1: That she isn't there for it.
2: That it upstages her "I gave birth at Glasto" story.

The Weasels in the Cosgrove Hall version were terrifying!

Cooking with #Pumpkins:
Recipe 24:
Ghost Pumpkin Satay

I may be thinking of Is That A Fact?

Which also had the words "King Canute sat on the beach, and told the waves 'Get out of reach'..."

Was that the one with the line "is it fact, or is it history?" in the theme tune?

(... Or something like that...)

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It's an extraordinary and intriguing cover, but when you get to that scene in the book it's a bit of an anticlimax!

Cooking with #Pumpkins:
Recipe 23:
Hassleback Pumpkin
(Served with pork chops and spring greens)

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After last night's episode?

Blackpool.

(But you'd tell some people to go to Scotland...)

Cooking with #Pumpkins:
Recipe 22:
Pumpkin Blancmange
(Served with spiced whipped cream)

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Riding on the backs of sheep, if I was following the episode properly...?

#TheArchers

And the sewage works, and the reserve venue for the pantomime, and the velodrome, and the Nando's...

(... Okay, I may have made some of those up...)
#TheArchers

It's hard to tell on Radio though, there could well be a whole mountain range we'd never been told about because it hadn't yet been required by the plot! 😁
#TheArchers

They'll have to add Borsetcestershire to that map when Helen brings the concept home to Ambridge!
#TheArchers

It'd save on budget: They could reuse the set from the George storyline...
#TheArchers

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Finlay and Helen, is it going where it sounds like it's going...?
#TheArchers

It'll be one of the silent characters... Tilly Button's been a bit surplus to requirement since Amber came along...

#TheArchers

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Surely the last thing a farming family wants on holiday is to be surrounded by sheep?
#TheArchers

Looking forward to #TheArchers Blackpool Splinter-Group-Contingent Holiday-Special Spin-Off!

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"I knew it was a bad idea to set off from the services separately..."

...It's called "splitting up to move the plot along", very Terry Nation...

#TheArchers

Cooking with #Pumpkins:
Recipe 21:
Pumpkin Teriyaki