Looks like Mary Poppins and the chimney sweep.
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Ah, but was the pork pie hot? ( as I was quite surprised to find out when at some friends from up that wayđ˛)
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Shouldnât that be a Yorkshire pudding ? Or maybe a fat rascal ?
A local delicacy often served during a darts and dominoâs inter pub match was hot black pudding and fried onions accompanied with tost and dripping. Considering the beer drunk to swill it down it wasnât healthy but was a real treat to eat.
Locally black pudding was called black dag but no idea why.
You might be right but a good pork pie, hot or cold, and a good helping of branston pickle washed down with a pint of Wards or Stones bitter would do for me. Cheers!
Yorkshire curd tart which I make sometimes.
The Co-op butcher in Carnforth used to make super black pudding, but my granny made the best.
Itâs bloody awful, but at least the (Barbour?) quilted gilet looks almost believableâŚ
OTOH public portrait sculpture is a minefield.
A long time ago in post-Apartheid South Africa, the citizens of East London, a city in the Eastern Cape raised sufficient money for a commemorative statue to Steve Biko, an activist and trade unionist whoâd been beaten to death by state security officers.
Very moving Peter Gabriel tribute at:-
https://tinyurl.com/bdesskuz
I canât get the link to work directly, but itâs OK if you copy and paste it into your browserâŚ
The statue had been commissioned from a local Black sculptor without any formal training, and to be polite it could have been a bit better⌠So one evening Iâm settling into my chair on the terrace gazing over the Eastern Cape mountains with my sundowner martini and the phone rings, itâs live SABC radio news (local equiv of PM on R4). Theyâd phone me, without warning, whenever there was an east coast art issue.
âAh professor what do you think about the Biko statue controversy?â
Me, trying to be cleverly SA PC, âIt doesnât really matter what the statue looks like, what is most important is that the constituency of people whom Biko fought for, are satisfied with this commoration.â
So, the following morning, local newspaper headlines, âRhodesâ prof says it doesnât matter what Bikoâs statue looks likeâŚâ
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Do you know what a dag is?
For those that donât, perhaps you didnât grow up on a sheep farm 
. Its the bits of sheep shit that get stuck on the wool at the back end of said sheep. They kind of stick toheter down the wool and it causes dags. They are a pain after shearing as you have to hand pull them all off before the fleece can be baled up to go to sale,! Can you tell how I spent my summer holidays? On the upside the fleeces once chucked in the big bale (fabric cube not unlikebthe âbig bagsâ from.the brico but bigger) hung from a frame had to be periodically climbed into (cue another job for the kids/ teenagers). We would be wearing âriding bootsâ (elastic sided brown leather boots) and shorts, after that the boots didnât need cleaning for ages and Iâve never since had such moisturised legs!
The colloquial use in Australia is âyouâre such s dagâ meaning youâre such a dawk/ geek/ soppy (depending on use).
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And ârattle your dagsâ means hurry up, I love that expression
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Another job for the kids was after dagging, collecting them up thus becoming âshoddyâ to be put around young apple trees.
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The moisturising cream I use for my lichen planus has lanolin in it, extracted from sheeps wool. And as you found out, itâs also used for softening leather in the leather trade. Itâs wondeful stuff.
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Gandhi walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.
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