8432 who is Greasy Joan?

Yes forgive my unfortunate title, but, sat here at 6.30 clutching my scalding Earl Grey(real mind you not your Italian Earl Grey), the stuffa chugging, and for once I have managed to get on the web. Hurrah for Bisenti broadband! Well, after reading the responses from my Merry Yule it made me come over all misty( suppose it could be the smoke from the stuffa), but had to share a few Chrissie pics and things.
Guess who wrote this:

"When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs into the hall
And milk comes frozen home in pail;
When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
To Whit!
To-who! a merry note,
While greasy Joan do'th keel the pot"

A Stirring yuletide thought.hmmm

Anyway also found this recipe that may come in handy at home or abroad(maybe as far away as possible)

Sprout Burgers

Mix together.
1 cup sunflower seeds-Sprouted (of course)
1 cup brown rice
1.2 cup tahini-miso sauce
1 cup sauted onions
1.2 cup WW flour
salt-1.2tsp basil (aha the Italian influence)

Mix together.
Shape and fry in oil on both sides until browned.
AND STAND WELL BACK...
This is put in for us poor unfortunate vegetarians at Christmas,thinking of you all.

also...

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General chat about Italy

Isn't greasy Joan a pal of the immortal bard?

As for sprout burgers...could they be Belgium's way of getting its own back?:laughs::laughs:

hang on another senior moment, its not droning Dylan and Under Milk Wood?
A

The immortal bard [I]is [/I]Shakespeare. The lines are from ‘Winter’ in ‘Love's Labour's Lost’ and continues thus;

When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson’s saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marion’s nose looks red and raw,
When roasted crabs his in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

Yes I know who the immoral bard is Neilo, he must have been having a very sort of Welsh moment whe he wrote it.
A

[quote=Angie and Robert;78983]Yes I know who the [B]immoral[/B] bard is Neilo, he must have been having a very sort of Welsh moment whe he wrote it.
A[/quote]

Hi A&R
What do you know that we don't ?

[quote=deborahandricky;78984]Hi A&R
What do you know that we don't ?[/quote]

That goddam santa beat me to it!!! Again!!! lol

Always enjoyed Cleo Laine singing this and other snippets from Shakespeare on SHAKESPEARE AND ALL THAT JAZZ - still available!

now the [B]immoral[/B] bard surely WAS good old Rabbie Burns ... the guy could've shagged for Scotland in the Shaggin' olympics & his views on the kirk & the devil are well known (see Tam O'Shanter/Holy Willie's prayer!)

a snippet from a net biography :

[I]"his lifestyle was that of a self-confessed rake who gloried in his sexual promiscuity without regard for the consequences, namely, bastard offsrping. To be fair, he and his wife Jean did take one of them into their home. [/I]

Nay Rabbie Burns Pigro. I can assure you I am right. Where's Pilch when you need him or her???

Yeh, having an off line moment..You know when real life begins and gets in the way of.....anyway Neilo gets the prize..it's deffo Shakespeare, in one of his weaker moments..Still not sure who Greasy Joan is. The fella in the red hat well I'm not sure of him either.
Christmas creepeth upon us again, do you love it or hate it. I change, one year I love it, next I don't. This year is our first in Italy and I count me blessings.
Ever gonna be a grand Reunion of I.T members. What fun.
Pilch

Don't know who greasy Joan was but at least she would have been warm whilst keeling the pot and sitting by the fire. Lets hope she had not eaten any sprout burgers, the results could be explosive!!!:laughs:

[quote=turtle;78998]Nay Rabbie Burns Pigro. I can assure you I am right. Where's Pilch when you need him or her???[/quote]

but I wasn't attempting to answer the (unasked) question "who wrote winter", I was just having fun with a typo.

Greasy Jean is usually taken to be a reference to a mischievous creator who stirs things up - so 'fate' would be a good answer, I suppose.

Pigro
It wasnt a typo , just thought it might raise a smile.
Ax