Comments on: Strange Days Out #1 (The Little Britain sketch) http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/ This blog is about the things that make me smile, rant or shake my head in consternation. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:14:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Fergus Imrie http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-28163 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:09:18 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-28163 i love hammerwood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!xxxxxxxxxxx i love hammerwood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!xxxxxxxxxxx

]]> by: Fergus Imrie http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-28162 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:08:07 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-28162 i love you big dave peace out brother ps did i mention that i love you and hammerwood park is the coolest house ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love you big dave
peace out brother

ps did i mention that i love you and hammerwood park is the coolest house ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> by: posh-bloke http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-20650 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:56:31 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-20650 Hi! Delighted to be made fun of - thanks! Volunteers to do better guided tours are always welcomed, of course! After doing guided tours for 25 years, Basil Fawlty becomes your hero . . . and taking on the preservation of part of the National Heritage which is Grade 1 listed without much in the way of help becomes very frustrating. Visitors are really welcomed at 2pm. Whilst every guided tour is different in detail, one starts somewhere at a beginning. Welcoming late visitors is like a being a gramophone record being forced back two grooves every five minutes. :-( Other houses open to the public don't bother - they just give you a boring book to go around with or a pre-recorded machine. However, the important thing is that the place is fun and if I can make it fun for you . . . I've succeeded. But for what we have done here for the past quarter century, the place would be either a heap of rubble or a property development of flats. Isn't it better to be a place that people can come and see? This year I did my best to frighten people away by playing the organ excessively loudly . . . but instead they came for more! So we're getting good organists to come and play louder. Try the first encore in <a href="http://www.jungleboffin.com/mp3/organ/hugh-potton-1" rel="nofollow">one of our concert archives</a> to see how much fun it can be. Sorry the cake was dry - it should not have been and we do like people to tell us if there is a problem like that. We don't normally do cream teas but if on the rare occasions we do, we certainly do not use that stuff that squirts out of a can - that's horrible. Come for a <a href="http://www.hammerwood.mistral.co.uk/concerts.htm" rel="nofollow">concert</a> or even dare a tour sometime. And if you don't enjoy it, I won't have been doing my job properly . . . so please grumble if you want to! Hi!

Delighted to be made fun of - thanks! Volunteers to do better guided tours are always welcomed, of course!

After doing guided tours for 25 years, Basil Fawlty becomes your hero . . . and taking on the preservation of part of the National Heritage which is Grade 1 listed without much in the way of help becomes very frustrating.

Visitors are really welcomed at 2pm. Whilst every guided tour is different in detail, one starts somewhere at a beginning. Welcoming late visitors is like a being a gramophone record being forced back two grooves every five minutes. :-( Other houses open to the public don’t bother - they just give you a boring book to go around with or a pre-recorded machine.

However, the important thing is that the place is fun and if I can make it fun for you . . . I’ve succeeded.

But for what we have done here for the past quarter century, the place would be either a heap of rubble or a property development of flats. Isn’t it better to be a place that people can come and see?

This year I did my best to frighten people away by playing the organ excessively loudly . . . but instead they came for more! So we’re getting good organists to come and play louder. Try the first encore in one of our concert archives to see how much fun it can be.

Sorry the cake was dry - it should not have been and we do like people to tell us if there is a problem like that. We don’t normally do cream teas but if on the rare occasions we do, we certainly do not use that stuff that squirts out of a can - that’s horrible.

Come for a concert or even dare a tour sometime. And if you don’t enjoy it, I won’t have been doing my job properly . . . so please grumble if you want to!

]]> by: nika http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-2107 Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:53:00 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-2107 no, only reallllly cheap old grannies drink lipton tea.. or people in the south use it to make sun tea.. Lipton tea blows seriously. I will lukewarm water thats been sitting out all night before I drink liptons. Amazing that you have never heard of Irish Breakfast Tea.. its meant to denote a really strong tea, I bet you would find it repulsive :-) (Meaning I have no clue what you would like :-) I dont think people here would really make the connection between England and liptons.. they would England and Earl Grey or tea in a general sense. i think americans tend to buy and drink herbal teas and green tea much more than plain jane teas (tho this is not real green tea as in matcha used and loved by the Japanese.. just uncured tea, not allowed to develop much tannins) no, only reallllly cheap old grannies drink lipton tea.. or people in the south use it to make sun tea.. Lipton tea blows seriously.

I will lukewarm water thats been sitting out all night before I drink liptons.

Amazing that you have never heard of Irish Breakfast Tea.. its meant to denote a really strong tea, I bet you would find it repulsive :-) (Meaning I have no clue what you would like :-)

I dont think people here would really make the connection between England and liptons.. they would England and Earl Grey or tea in a general sense.

i think americans tend to buy and drink herbal teas and green tea much more than plain jane teas (tho this is not real green tea as in matcha used and loved by the Japanese.. just uncured tea, not allowed to develop much tannins)

]]> by: exmonkey http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-2106 Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:58:52 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-2106 Well some people in England say tea when the mean supper or dinner - it's a regional thing. As far as i'm concerned tea is a drink. Bad tea is not a good thing - bags are OK, the secret is not to leave the bag in in the cup for any length of time. I have never heard of irish tea. One thing I've noticed is that the rest of the world seems to drink Liptons tea. It's pretty nasty stuff, but I think that the name makes people think it's a traditional English tea. The truth is you never see in in the UK. Well some people in England say tea when the mean supper or dinner - it’s a regional thing. As far as i’m concerned tea is a drink.

Bad tea is not a good thing - bags are OK, the secret is not to leave the bag in in the cup for any length of time.

I have never heard of irish tea. One thing I’ve noticed is that the rest of the world seems to drink Liptons tea. It’s pretty nasty stuff, but I think that the name makes people think it’s a traditional English tea. The truth is you never see in in the UK.

]]> by: nika http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-2105 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:50:58 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-2105 Ex: thanks! My husband's family is British (Lincolnshire) and he has memories of vacations to the countryside.. lots of it about teas but I guess his kid mind never took note of the term cream tea. What you describe is like the iconic vision of a tea that most americans have.. we dont get that tea can mean an evening meal or be served just tea and maybe some other sort of sweet. If I had all that production everytime I had tea I would not fit into a building! insipid budget tea - blech.. tho to me I am less tolerant of bad coffee than I am the tea. I tend to only get strong irish or english breakfast tea with lots of sugar and milk.. tea has to hold up to that and NOT taste like tea bags, other than that, I am not picky! Ex: thanks!

My husband’s family is British (Lincolnshire) and he has memories of vacations to the countryside.. lots of it about teas but I guess his kid mind never took note of the term cream tea. What you describe is like the iconic vision of a tea that most americans have.. we dont get that tea can mean an evening meal or be served just tea and maybe some other sort of sweet.

If I had all that production everytime I had tea I would not fit into a building!

insipid budget tea - blech.. tho to me I am less tolerant of bad coffee than I am the tea.

I tend to only get strong irish or english breakfast tea with lots of sugar and milk.. tea has to hold up to that and NOT taste like tea bags, other than that, I am not picky!

]]> by: exmonkey http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-2104 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:36:39 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-2104 A 'cream tea' is basically a cup of tea served with scones, jam and cream (clotted for preference) normally taken at around 4:30pm You will find cream teas served in stately homes and museums all over the UK. Normally they are pretty unispiring. At best you'll get freshly baked scones, homemade jam, lovely devon clotted cream and a pot of loose leaf assam or earl grey tea served in a china pot. Normally, however, you get a cup of insipid budget tea, in a metal pot, two stale scones, some nasty red stuff claiming to be strawberry jam and a squirt of cream-in-a-can. <a href="http://www.broadwayhouse.com/creamtea.html" rel="nofollow">Cream tea obsessive page</a> A ‘cream tea’ is basically a cup of tea served with scones, jam and cream (clotted for preference) normally taken at around 4:30pm

You will find cream teas served in stately homes and museums all over the UK. Normally they are pretty unispiring.

At best you’ll get freshly baked scones, homemade jam, lovely devon clotted cream and a pot of loose leaf assam or earl grey tea served in a china pot.

Normally, however, you get a cup of insipid budget tea, in a metal pot, two stale scones, some nasty red stuff claiming to be strawberry jam and a squirt of cream-in-a-can.

Cream tea obsessive page

]]> by: nika http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-2102 Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:47:17 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-2102 I could NOT put up with that wierdness.. If I were greeted like that I would have left.. but then I dont have your great sense of humor and I would not have been able to appreciate the guy for his "specialness". :-) Here in the US we dont have alot of this sort of handmade historical house touring and such.. usually its run by an institution of sorts and done in a very professional manner (no yelling or polemics!). We must be missing out on a whole lot! What exactly is a "cream tea" versus other types of tea services? I could NOT put up with that wierdness.. If I were greeted like that I would have left.. but then I dont have your great sense of humor and I would not have been able to appreciate the guy for his “specialness”. :-)

Here in the US we dont have alot of this sort of handmade historical house touring and such.. usually its run by an institution of sorts and done in a very professional manner (no yelling or polemics!). We must be missing out on a whole lot!

What exactly is a “cream tea” versus other types of tea services?

]]> by: Stephen http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-2071 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:10:12 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-2071 Me too. Me too.

]]> by: c_henry http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-2063 Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:33:05 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/08/05/strange-days-out-1-the-little-britain-sketch/#comment-2063 Sounds like fun...must go visit. Sounds like fun…must go visit.

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