pawl
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pawl
Legendary Member
- Location
- Desford Leicestershire
Auntie Jean...
Flick of the Elbow
less than
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- Pentlands Water of Leith
Not sure if I’ve mentioned this before but for MrsF’s birthday treat last year we bought the Edinburgh Gin gin-making experience, it was a brilliant afternoon where you make your own. They provided an array of botanicals, 20 or so, and talked you through the flavours of each, then guided you to a combination to suit your taste. You added them to your own distillation and while that was doing it’s stuff they kept you entertained with a tour and tastings etc then after a couple of hours you came back to bottle and label your creation to take home. Very informative and very enjoyable.
pawl
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- Location
- Desford Leicestershire
12boy
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- Casper WY USA
Googled figgin. Apparently it is torture involving fresh ginger inserted into the anus. I will not be going for a figgin. One of my favorites, Terry Pratchett, refers to a torture involving ginger beer that makes hard men quail.
Can't say I'm overly impressed with Biden, but I'm depressed with Trump. As we say here, a racist , misogynist and a criminal go into a McDonald's and the counter man says...What would you like, President Trump? There is a lot of healing needed in this country. And probably a lot of mental health treatments. For some reason, the number of mass shootings seems to have declined recently. I am glad for that.
Got my anti-root trench lined with plastic and largely filled back in although it will need to settle before I replace the rest of the soil/rocks I dug out. I should go for a little ride this morning even though the wind is very strong. My nerves are shot from the political situation and some Bike Medicine is needed. I alternate between oatmeal/yogurt and 3 eggs cooked with cheddar and a big piece of local whole wheat loaf with butter and Marmite. Today is the egg day so yum yum.
Be safe and well.
Can't say I'm overly impressed with Biden, but I'm depressed with Trump. As we say here, a racist , misogynist and a criminal go into a McDonald's and the counter man says...What would you like, President Trump? There is a lot of healing needed in this country. And probably a lot of mental health treatments. For some reason, the number of mass shootings seems to have declined recently. I am glad for that.
Got my anti-root trench lined with plastic and largely filled back in although it will need to settle before I replace the rest of the soil/rocks I dug out. I should go for a little ride this morning even though the wind is very strong. My nerves are shot from the political situation and some Bike Medicine is needed. I alternate between oatmeal/yogurt and 3 eggs cooked with cheddar and a big piece of local whole wheat loaf with butter and Marmite. Today is the egg day so yum yum.
Be safe and well.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
I think it a sign of old age to feel the cold more. Openreach guys were out fixing up damaged lines couple of days ago and my neighbour was wearing just a short sleeve shirt while up telegraph poles. I had on jersey and jacket and was still cold while he said he was warm enough even when not working hard.Fact check: GPO ceased to exist in 1969. First email sent in 1971, but I bet your first one wasn't sent until at least 25 years after that!
I hope that your friend will be ok!
Chorley must be a LOT bigger than I thought it was... [looks it up]... Ah, Chorley DISTRICT is about 118,000 but the town itself is about one third the size.
Indeed! Even assuming that Biden wins and that there isn't some kind of civil war with those heavily armed militia nuts shooting anybody that they don't agree with, the fact is that near enough half of those voting opted for Trump. There was a 2/3 turnout so 1/3 of all eligible adults supported him!
He doesn't look well enough for a long stint in the job. I reckon he might be forced to stand down, in which case his young VP would take over. Now, it would be interesting to see how she fared in the job!
I feel the cold a lot more now, with my dodgy circulation. I've been wearing longs off and on for weeks.
Fully agree. The Aldi one is 37% so a decent strength.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
I would have straight tonic, Schweppes ideally. The flavour is in the gin and shouldn't be masked by the tonic.
We quite often have a flavoured gin. Closest we came to this was rhubarb and ginger which was very good.
PaulSB
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- Chorley, Lancashire
Yep, this is a very scary thought. We have several friends in the States, all are Democrats.
On a trip to Portugal we met up with one of our American friends. Her travelling companion was a Republican. Our friend took us to one side and said ,"don't, just don't!" So we didn't!! One morning the lady said at breakfast "I don't understand why all these people are demonstrating against Trump in London. Why is it!" So I had to explain very carefully that "some" people didn't want Trump in our country.
PaulSB
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- Chorley, Lancashire
Yep. I can't understand why a political party would put up a 78 year-old as a candidate?
Surely a young person with enthusiasm, ideals and new ideas is what any country needs?
oldwheels
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- Isle of Mull
On my trike trip out this morning the traffic levels were not too bad but about half were tourists by the looks of them and there were cars parked in some usual tourist spots. None that I recognised as being local particularly mid morning on a Friday.
I did mention that I only managed to get one pack of local bacon. It was posted yesterday morning that the fridge was restocked and you really have to get up there fast to get any although the person in front of me with very clear handwriting had taken 4 packs but did not look at previous pages to see what else had gone fast.
I gave a heavy duty tyre compressor to a pal and am getting meat in exchange so should be stocked up for a long time I hope.
I did mention that I only managed to get one pack of local bacon. It was posted yesterday morning that the fridge was restocked and you really have to get up there fast to get any although the person in front of me with very clear handwriting had taken 4 packs but did not look at previous pages to see what else had gone fast.
I gave a heavy duty tyre compressor to a pal and am getting meat in exchange so should be stocked up for a long time I hope.
