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Jigjag

You were very close but there is one you didn't get, so a rather easy clue for you:

Spice missing, setter having run out, eats at home (6)

Malone

Thanks for all your help with the election campaign. I am afraid that having 2 policies, as per Labour and Tories, confused the electorate. The Parties with one policy did very well. I have promised my followers that I will reflect on this before issuing a statement. Btw the bakery was closed today so I will have to follow-up the pie fiasco tomorrow.

malone

I spoke to Gotte Bunn, Head Baker this morning. You were right. My order was taken down as 2 Gross pies, but passed through to the pie Department as 2 grass pies. The bakers apparently use terms like Kate and Sidney instead of the correct ingredients, and a Grass pie to them meant Leek and Brocolli which is what they sent. They have offered free pies for the next event. I suppose Spooner would have enjoyed working in a bakery but I am not keen on them (Spoonerisms not pies)

grunger

Thanks for your clue, which I solved, and I have just read that the "girls" are on tour again, but one short. It seems that it is not going well. Were you offered the chance to join them?

Grunger

Thanks for your election and pie news - debacles all round (including the 'Brocolli'!) Still, it was very kind of you to take on the task of catering.

Jigjag
As the last event wasn't quite the scintillating evening we'd hoped for, I've been looking into staging the event elsewhere. I'm considering various options - London, Edinburgh, the Isle of People (renamed in view of political correctness).

I called upon a young, tech-savvy neighbour as I hoped he'd advise me on the best way to more forward in this age of social media, digital media etc. He gave me lots of information - all about chirps and blogs and vlogs, but I understood very little. He mentioned Twittering and advised me to get a 'hashtag'. I searched through all the ready meals in M and S, but the corned beef meal had various cooking instructions, serving suggestions and so on, but no tags as such. Nil desperandum, as we pedants say....

Malone

My sincere apologies for the spelling error. The annoying thing is that I looked up Broccoli to make sure I got it right - then got it wrong! I would love to go to your next event, though I am sure you would prefer alternative catering arrangements. The Kettering catering is excellent if you decide to go there.

I am afraid I don't engage in social media but hope you get your corned beef hashtag. Bully for you!

Grunger, glad you didn't mind that I felt compelled to mention the broccoli! I think we'll avoid pies next time, maybe go for some plant-based products, a dollop of quinoa here and there.

Another neighbour, Iona Pensell-Case, offered to run off some posters for me. She's very artistic, so I had high hopes … which were cruelly dashed. The first poster had some very good artwork on it, but it was spoiled by the huge, bold, multi-coloured headline - PUS 2019. Iona said this was to avoid cramming in the full wording, Pedants United Show, but I fear she may have been out to sabotage the event. Back to the drawing board … again, literally.

Malone

I too would love to go to the next event, perhaps the Isle of Black is also a possibility. I will help in any way I can.

I suppose the hashtag is not vegan or you would have found it in the Plant Kitchen at M & S. I don't know where you will get one. By the way, I get my blogs and vlogs from the local sawmill.

Malone

Thanks, our last postings crossed. I like Miss Pensell-Case. I agree that perhaps a better poster could be created by a poster on this thread - not me though. I use a drawring-board, I am afraid, and I cannot stop pronouncing the "r"

jigjag

It is very kind of you to suggest that I could have joined the girls, but for me retirement means retirement as I think Mrs May May have said. The tour has been beset with various problems, all rather foreseeable I'm afraid. I warned them that their singing and dancing was even worse than 20 years ago. Even so, only one fan has walked out, and as he was Welsh, I assume it is you!?

No I am not Welsh, grunger, though I live on the border.