Ages ago, my blogging mate Peter romandespatches sent me these photos.
He had been meandering through a cemetery in England, when his eye was caught by a flash of white on the grass.
Luckily he stopped for a closer look, and found this:
It’s a bit hard to decipher what was on this shopping list, and we are left to ponder how it came to be lost/discarded in a cemetery.
Here are my best guesses:
- milk
- double cream 75 ml
- 1/2 fat (?) fresh 75 ml
- no idea
- some medication 50 mg
- flat leaf parsley
- chicken
Thank you for thinking of us, Peter.
What fun! And it looks like an interesting recipe. Parmesan something?
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it turned out to be shaved parmesan, JoAnna.
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Just stopping by to say a cheery HI! 😀
Hope all is well!
(((HUGS))) ❤️
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Just wanted to pop in and say Hey to you!
I hope you are doing well.
Sending ❤️ and (((HUGS))) your way today! 🙂
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Hiya. It’s getting pretty wintery here in Australia, but that is preferable to the searing heat of summer. All Minx wants to do is eat, sleep and stay by the heater!
How are you and the handsome pooch? ❤ xxx
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We are doing good…keeping too busy. But that’s okay…busy keeps us outa’ trouble! 😉 😀 HA! 😛
Love to you and Minx! 🙂
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Hope you’re okay still Yvonne.
Andante
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How nice to hear from you. I am fine, just don’t have any urge to write now that travels to Italy have been curtailed.
And how about you two? Are you alright, and will you be getting to Venice anytime soon? ❤
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Can’t really see it, for various reasons. But you never know….
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HA! I’m getting my grocery list ready today for shopping tomorrow. Nothing weird or puzzling on it…just “boring” 😉 stuff like onions, carrots, almond milk, grapes…
Maybe I’ll add “rope” and “gumption” and see what I find in the store! 😉
(((HUGS))) and hope you are well and smiling! 🙂
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Do you use Gumption, because I think you have plenty of gumption! Heck, can’t attach an image of Gumption. Do a search for this cleaner; I love it!
❤ xxx
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🙂 HA! I’ve never ever heard of Gumption cleaner before…but I now see I can order it online! 😀
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Cleans most things around my house!
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Good to know! Thanks!
It’s so funny ’cause I was being silly…just using the word gumption to mean “get up and go/spirited” and now I find out it’s a cleaner. 🙂
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Dear Yvonne, I hope you are OK. So many things here in Venice remind me of you often (not least “Yvonne’s bottom”!), as well as my lovely cosy red socks. Love from the 3 of us.
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Hi to you folks. I watched Andrew and Cheryl on live webcam last evening. It brought a lump to my throat. xxx
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How nice to see someone you know! We should have met A&C on Friday evening but there was a transport strike, and now we’re in Sicily. I have a difficult shopping list for you at home, if you’re still in the market for them?
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A&C cut a fine figure in the costumes Andrew made. He’s a clever fellow!
Sure, send me the list when you get home, it might jolt me out of doldrums.
Have a lovely time ‘way down south. xxx
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🤗🇮🇹😘
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Had you on my mind and am hoping all is well!
Leaving some (((HUGS))) and love for you here! 🙂
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What about you YvOnne,. I have just re-read a post from 2018 in which you were proposing yourrself to be my nurse for the dialysis at the hospital !! ! 🙂
Love ❤
Michel
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Oh Michel, I just saw your comments. How nice to hear from you. I hope you and you family are okay. ❤
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What about you, Yvonne ?
Love ❤
Michel
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I think of you so often. Hope all is well.
Just wanted to stop by to share some (((HUGS)))
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Hey Yvonne … just dropping in to say I hope you had a beautiful Christmas and New Year and you’re staying cheery among all the Argh out there. 🙂 Take good care and here’s to This Too Shall Pass. x0x
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Thanks, and the same back to you.
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I hope you are enjoying the holidays, SweetYvonne! 🙂
❤ and (((HUGS))) 🙂
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Hi, nice lass. All is good, thanks. I hope it’s the same with you. 💖 xxx
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Hi GP. When I first looked at your comment, I thought that was a bomb! I must watch too many spy movies.
A happy and healthy 2022 to you and yours.
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haha, I wouldn’t do that to you! Have a wonderful new years, Yvonne!
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Just me. Just thinking of you. Hope all is well! Are you out shopping!? 😉 😀
I’m doing as little shopping as I can get away with! 😉
(((HUGS))) 🙂
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❤ and (((HUGS)))
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How are you doing?
Just stopping by with love, hugs, pats, and rubs…pass them out accordingly! 😉 Between human-beans and Minx! 🙂
❤
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Hi Yvonne! We used to be in touch when we both read and commented on Cynthia’s posts. I do miss her so much. How have you been? (I am in Sydney by the way) I should send you some of my own shopping lists! They will make interesting reads!
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Hi to you. Every so often, I come across one of Cynthia’s intelligent comments inan old post. It never fails to make me recall her voice.
I rarely post these days, but one of yourshopinglist might bring me out of my cocoon.
In NE Victoria, it seems we have had restrictions forever!
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Just stopping by today with ❤ and (((HUGS))) 🙂
Can you believe it's October!?!? 🙂
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We started DST this morning, and I am having to convince the cat that in “old time”, it is not time to fill her tummy again. 🙂
How are you yours? ❤ xxx
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Aw. 😻 Yes, that time changing messes with all of us. 🙂
We’re doing well! We’ve so much to be thankful for! 🙂
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Just me…Just thinking about you…Just wishing you well.
How you doing? How are things going?
❤ (((HUGS))) 🙂
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We had an earthquake yesterday! 5.8 magnitude, very shaky for a while! Amazingly, no damage or injuries.
And how are you? 💖 xxx
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YIKES! 😮 Glad there were no injuries or damages!
In California we felt a lot of earthquakes. I know they can be so scary.
Doing good. Just amazed at how September is flying by. 🙂
(((HUGS))) ❤
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Just wanted to say Hey! How are you doing?
(((HUGS))) 🙂
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Absolutely fine thanks. We just came out of a brief lockdown and that feels so good! I hope you are okay, and the gorgeous wee doggie is the same. xxx 💖
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We’re doing well! So much to be thankful for! 🙂 Keeping busy with work, chores, and even fun stuff! 🙂
How are you doing? Can you believe August will soon be past?
(((HUGS))) ❤ 🙂
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Just stoppin’ in to ask How are you? And to leave you some (((HUGS))) 🙂
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I’m absolutely fine, thanks. Growing gills and learning to swim because we have had an extraordinary amount of rain falling, which is very welcome.
And how are you, my little patootee? ❤ xxx
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Oh, good on the rain! 🙂 We’ve had a very rainy July and we needed the rain, too. 🙂
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I love shopping lists so much I leave them at home.
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That keeps them warm, dry and safe from the nasty virus, right?
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Hi Yvonne,
we supopose, the word is ‘parmesan’.
We have the attitude that we have to read every piece of paper lost or thrown away. The surrounding of the cemetery makes it, of course, to seem more meaningful.
Thanks for sharing
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I think most of us are just naturally snoopy!
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Wonderful location for a find
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It is. John sent me a list from Tasmania that he had found in a strange place. Unfortunately, my computer won’t allow it to be uploaded, which is a pity.
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Yes, a big thank you to Peter…for sharing this fun list!
Hmm…wonder if someone dropped it or it blew there on a windy day. ??? 🙂 It looks like it’s been battered about or stepped on.
I think combining some of those items together would make a delicious meal! 🙂
(((HUGS))) 🙂
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That’s the great mystery of shopping lists. We interpret them according to our life experiences. What is one mystery item we’d find on one of your shopping lists, C?
See what Sue said about finding a list in a cemetery! ❤ xxx
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Nothing mysterious on my list. Mostly buy the same things every week…with lots of veggies and fruit on the list. 🙂
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Definitely Parmesan shavings. I think also 75ml Crème fraîche but it looks as though the writer had a couple of attempts at spelling it. Pancetta is a possibility as is Panna cotta, but 50g? An odd value.
The shopping list could have been at the bottom of a carrier bag, I take one to the cemetery so that I can carry the dead flowers to the bin easier. 🙂
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I often get a small quantity of pancetta, so 50g sounds okay to me.
You may have answered a question someone else had about finding a list in a cemetery, thanks.
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I turned it left, I turned it right, I blew it up and shrunk it down. I got Parmesan on top of what you gave. But, as in ancient Egypt where the dead people took groceries for the journey in the afterlife, I can’t imagine anyone wanting to take Parmesan.
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Well, it depends on what else you pack on that last journey, Bruce.
Still drear and wet in my world. With lockdown as a bonus prize.
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I think it’s Parmesan shavings.
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You are absolutely correct, Jean!
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I think Peter is on the money.
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And, Peter is currently in isolation in Rome. It’s been a long time since he has been in his beloved country/city.
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That’s interesting, because I just heard from my cousin in Latina today. That’s an hour south of Rome. She is working as a ticket seller at an aqua park there. Seems it is very busy!
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Peter arrived from England a couple of days ago. He gets out of isolation in a couple of days.
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Ah. Ora capisco.
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Brava!
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Thanks very much, Yvonne.
I’d clearly not read it properly as it’s given us some mysteries, hasn’t it?
I think the outstanding items are:
Possibly half-fat cream?
Parmesan shavings
I think the 50g is pancetta rather than medication.
They are surely making an Italian dish?!
Peter.
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Hah! Shavings and pancetta it is, Peter. Bloomin’ simple when someone points it out to you.
So, what dish will you prepare this evening while in isolation in Rome?
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I actually had a Freedom Day Dinner last night, Yvonne, prepared by friends – home made pizza & various side dishes, plus some plonk. Peter.
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I give that the nod of approval!
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Is the fourth item parmesan? Although I can’t make out the second word.
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Is there such a thing as parmesan strings? The second word seems to start with an ‘s’.
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I googled but it would seem not. Perhaps it will remain a mystery.
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Parmesan shavings!
No idea about the other mysteries, though. The 5th item looks like pancetta to me, but that doesn’t fit with 50mg which does sound like medication.
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Yes! That would make sense. I wonder if they were making carbonara.
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That sounds right, and makes me hungry!
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Me too!
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I can’t decipher any of it either it almost looks like it’s been put there for someone to photograph and send it across the oceans just for you
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Thank goodness Peter stumbled on it, eh?
I tried again to use the photo you took in Tassie, but i still got a message saying ‘Invalid image’ Phooey.
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