This has become a parish tradition: a lunch, with a few stalls, run by our Union of Catholic Mothers.The lunch is simple, but very good. On the menu today was pumpkin soup (I understand that this was delicious, but having a severe aversion to anything remotely resembling a vegetable, I didn't partake... you'll just have to take Leutgeb's word for it, and, as she's an excellent cook herself, I think that's a pretty safe bet!) with fresh French bread, followed by sandwiches, tea and a mince pie. Not at all bad for £4.
There was mulled wine available, and popcorn, a couple of raffles (I don't recall what the prizes were, and I rarely win anything anyway, but that's not the point, so I just bought some tickets...), a flower stall, and, my all-time favourite, the cakes' stall. We have some seriously good bakers among our UCM members. I made a bee-line for this stall and promptly snaffled a rather nice Christmas cake, (which will do well as a little offering on Christmas Day when I go down to visit my sister), a cake, iced in virulent green icing (but enticingly labelled "sultana-and-sherry") which will make an appearance in the Science Faculty office on Monday morning (it's going to be a tough week ahead, so we will need a little treat!) and a small jam-and-cream-filled Victoria sponge which is mine, all mine!
I also bought some little chocolate cup cakes, which will just have to be eaten quickly, lest they go stale. It's such an onerous task, but I guess I'll have to try...
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Meant to tell you pumpkin is NOT a vegetable or even a fruit. Nothing counts as a v/f if it is laced with sugar. [Pumpkin pie, for instance!]
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