At the moment Mr Fox is eagerly awaiting completion of a new outfit…
Once his scout uniform is ready, he hopes to teach his well honed bush-craft skills to the little bears.
You never know when being able to tie a knot, skin a rabbit, or build a den with your bare paws might come in handy.
And who could be better to teach these essential skills than Mr Fox!?
Signposts are generally intended to convey some kind of important message. Unfortunately, much to the frustration of the world’s sign writers, some people choose to ignore them.
Mrs PB is one such bear.
Here are the signs she’s disobeyed so far.
Click on the pictures to read the stories
This isn’t a sign Mrs PB’s disobeyed, but she finds it amusing nonetheless!
Mr Fox and Mrs PB enjoy their music.
Mrs PB has the voice of an angel and Mr Fox loves to play the banjo and harmonica.
In fact, if she wasn’t quite so ‘difficult’ (Mrs PB can make Maria Carey look easy to work with) they’d make rather an impressive band.
Tonight though they put their artistic differences aside, and collated a list of a few of their favourite songs:
Meatloaf – Paradise by the Dashboard Lights
Sophie Madeleine – The Beard Song
Slow Club – Apples and Pairs
Cyndi Lauper – True Colors
Troggs – Wild Thing
Bob Dylan – Blowin’ in the Wind
David Bowie – Starman
It being Shrove Tuesday, Mrs PB set about making pancakes. She has been perfecting her tossing technique this year.
Unfortunately for Mr Fox, not only does this mean he’s been demoted as pancake tossing champion, he’s also been acting as the “tossee”.
Recipe & method from The River Cottage Family Cookbook
Ingredients (makes about 6/7)
1. Sift the flour and salt into the mixing bowl, then make a crater in the middle of the flour and break the egg into it.
2. Pour in half the milk and start to mix the eggs and milk with a balloon whisk, whisking in the flour from the edges a little at a time. Add the rest of the milk and keep whisking until there are no lumps in the flour. Pour the batter into a jug (it may need a little more milk, it should be about the consistency of single cream).
3. Put the frying pan on the hob and switch it on to not quite full heat. Add about a tablespoon of sunflower oil, swirl it round, then pour it out leaving a thin film of oil.
4. When the oil is hot, but before it smokes, pour a little batter into the pan, then tilt the pan so that it spreads out over the pan.
5. As it sets, loosen the edges (ideally with a palette knife, but we don’t have one so used a fork!). Flip the pancake over and cook the other side (it will be much quicker).
6. Slide the pancake onto a warm plate and add your filling! Mrs Emily’s mum always says to discard the first one because it normally doesn’t work, they get better as they go on!
For filling choices, Mrs PB is (unsurprisingly!) fond of beans. Mrs Emily is a sugar and lemon fan. Mrs PB says BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Have fun!
Mr Fox, a pancake tossing champion, remained close at hand throughout in order to supervise. Unfortunately he got a little too close when Mrs PB was practicing her tossing skills and one pancake ended up in a slightly unexpected place – unexpected for Mr Fox at least.
Earlier in the day, Mr Fox had suggested that Mrs PB might want to give something up for Lent. This was initially met with a stern glance – but after lending it a little thought, as part of her new brain utilization program, she decided that by nominating ‘vegetables’ she couldn’t lose. That way she wouldn’t even have to resort to splatting Mr Fox.
Mr Fox meanwhile wasn’t entirely convinced that Mrs PB had grasped the concept, but he didn’t want to press the matter – especially as he didn’t really have any intention of giving up anything himself! On its own Mrs PB might have let the whole Lent suggestion slide, but Mr Fox had had the cheek of making her read the recipe book before she started, and quite frankly the opportunity was too good to miss. The final outcome of the day’s cooking was therefore somewhat inevitable.
Quite how Mrs PB managed to upsize her pancake in the short journey from her pan to Mr Fox’s head, however, remains a mystery!
That doesn’t mean they don’t enjoy baking them on pancake day though – after all Mr Fox is an award winning pancake tossing champion and has a reputation to maintian!
Mrs PB was a little disappointed that this year she didn’t manage to land a few on Mr Fox’s head!
