On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:38:08 -0700, graham > wrote:

>On 12/30/2016 1:51 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:35:54 -0400, wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 06:18:13 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 30 Dec 2016 19:11:56 GMT, notbob > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2016-12-30, graham > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Every xmas my Mother would bake a skep full of mince pies, the same
>>>>>> quantity of sausage rolls and also of Suffolk rusks.......
>>>>>
>>>>> Excuse me, but what language are you speaking? Seriously.
>>>>
>>>> jes looks like plain old English to me.
>>>
>>> 'ees from Suffolk
>>
>> 'skep' was new to me (although the context made it self explanatory),
>> but other than that, all easy enough to understand.
>>
>A skep in this context, is a very large, tapering, circular wicker
>basket. The ones at home were about 16" in diameter at the top and
>16-18" deep.

Thanks Graham, I didn't know what they were made out of.