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Riktor48 · Admin Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Essex, UK

Well, I've just carved out my swede (turnip) - took about an hour, most of which was the face (as in the avatar)

Anybody else carved out their pumpkins/turnips yet? Anybody ruined theirs and had to buy another one? And do you make use of the scooped-out stuff?

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SageCat · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject:

Well done Sir! I haven't done mine yet, but will buy one tomorrow and attempt to carve a masterpiece! If I do manage to create said materpiece, I'll post my results on here.

As for the scooped out mushy bits, I'll probably bury them as an offering as I don't like cooked pumpkin or turnip for that matter!
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RavenStar · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject:

I went to Tesco on the way home to get my pumpkin but they'd already sold out!!

SageCat · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject:

Oh nooooooooo! Is there anywhere else you can get one?
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RavenStar · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:51 am Post subject:

I saw some in a couple of small green grocers around town but they were eally tiny and still quite green so I'm not buying one of them.

Riktor48 · Admin Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Essex, UK

Just got back from Waitroses. It's one of their massive stores, but not a pumpkin in sight! Last year they had masses of them piled up - right from the tiny ones to the gigantic ones you'd have problems carrying home! So it does look like a universal shortage as predicted. But surprising nothing in the media about it so far (watch this space!

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Any better over the pond, Koko?
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave. (Alexander Pope - Essay on Man)

herneoakshield · VII - The Chariot Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 142

My local Morrisons has loads of Pumpkins or did have on Sunday. But could I find a whole bloody Turnip so I could carve one? Could I hell...

I don't carve Pumpkins, much prefer to se the native Turnip even if it is harder to carve. I find the results much more satisfying and scarier too

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Riktor48 · Admin Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Essex, UK

I'm with you there, Herne......and altho' I don't like eating turnips/swedes, they have a really wonderful aroma when carved out and a candle is lit inside!

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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave. (Alexander Pope - Essay on Man)

RavenStar · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:17 pm Post subject:

I may have to resort to a turnip, just been out to sainsbury's by work and they've all sold out of pumpkins too!!

Riktor48 · Admin Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Essex, UK

I dropped mine just as I was positioning it in the garden. Part of the face broke off.........

Managed to put it back as best I could, but it's too late now to get/carve another. I'm bl**dy furious................

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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave. (Alexander Pope - Essay on Man)