woodbutchmaster
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That takes me way, way back to my misspent youth "Asti Spumante" it was more commonly called "Nasty Spewuppi"Spumante if you are an Italian sympathiser.

That takes me way, way back to my misspent youth "Asti Spumante" it was more commonly called "Nasty Spewuppi"Spumante if you are an Italian sympathiser.
Back homeTime for a few miles me thinks![]()
That takes me way, way back to my misspent youth "Asti Spumante" it was more commonly called "Nasty Spewuppi"![]()
Champagne corks make good plugs. I lost mine while touring a couple of years ago and the bar tape started to unwind so I popped into a pub and asked for a cork. It did the job admirabubbly.A piece of pine dowel works very well if you sand it to a chamfer and whack it into the handle.
The wine of course, water is for washing the bikes and cars with, I think animals drink it too. My local wine emporium secured many cubic metres of Châteauneuf-du-Pape last year and are flogging it for €2.40/L.Good red wine 14% abv is €2 a litre in a 10 ltr. box from my very good friends not far from here. Water in a bottle from the supermarket is much the same price or possibly more if it's the sparkly variety. What am l going to drink ? l ask you![]()
Champagne corks make good plugs. I lost mine while touring a couple of years ago and the bar tape started to unwind so I popped into a pub and asked for a cork. It did the job admirabubbly.
EDIT: I was playing catch up and didn't realise the subject had been thoroughly discussed in following posts.
The walk will be nice though.Long weekend for me too, but I'm looking after a friend's dog today so planned ride scuppered. Actually, it's nice to have some canine company, the ride'll keep
True, especially if the sun stays out. It's a five mile walk home for him so I'll set off lunchtime. And a bakers in his village does very nice coffee and pasties. And pastries ☕🍽🌞The walk will be nice though.
I remember adverts for Stones Bitter, the hook line was changed by many to "stones bitter, comes up great guns".That takes me way, way back to my misspent youth "Asti Spumante" it was more commonly called "Nasty Spewuppi"![]()
But "a meal without wine is like a day without sunshine"🍷It's nearly a year since any alcohol passed my lips.
I did have a steak & ale pie, once, but I don't think that counts...
Oooh, now that sounds like a real bargain .🍷The wine of course, water is for washing the bikes and cars with, I think animals drink it too. My local wine emporium secured many cubic metres of Châteauneuf-du-Pape last year and are flogging it for €2.40/L.
They bought it from a négociant whose market for the US had collapsed due to the punitive tariffs enforced because of the Airbus Boeing trade war. Apparently it is usually sent for bottling in the US, when it runs out I will be bereft.