potage

Islamabad, November 17, 2011 (Frontier Star): Hours after police stopped 10 US nationals near airport for allegedly making video potage of sensitive buildings were allowed to go, media reported on Wednesday.

The daylight brutality on Sunday was caught on a close circuit camera mounted on a traffic junction in the Tamil Nadu city; it sparked the country when this potage was on aired on local TV channels on Wednesday.

It's easy to see why the French call their watercress soup potage de sante, or "healthy soup".

Trouble is, too many bowls of thick Potage Houllier has left observers and supporters hungry for the main course left in the kitchens.

They have sold us out for a pounds 500 measily mess of potage to keep faith with Tory dogma.

This is a bloke who for a mess of potage, typically pounds 1,000, is trying to destroy institutions that our forefathers sweated blood for.

We take it for granted that Oliver Twist's gruel, potage or soup was a dire concoction and barely able to sustain a young, growing body, but what was The General Soup Kitchen's offering like?

Trouble is, too many plates of thick Potage Houllier has left observers and supporters hungry for the main course lost in the kitchens.

If I'm eating at the castle I get a free King Henry five-course lunch consisting of Henry's potage, followed by fresh rib of pork with medieval-style sweet sauce and seasonal vegetables.

There is no good reason why the Midshires should follow the lamentable example set by other building societies and, as it were, sell its birthright for a mess of potage.

Who put the pot in the potage? The cons at Gateside Prison may be chuckling over the cannabis served up with the soup.

You can imagine 14th Century soldiery snatching a quick mess of potage in exactly similar surroundings.

My bet would be that greed will overcome, yet, just to muddy the waters even further, the Save Our Building Societies group claims to have got enough signatures to demand a special general meeting to put the case against the society disposing of its mutuality for the proverbial "mess of potage".

* Derek Iles - Potage - a Hexham home foods business specialising in soups.