DevonGuy said:
I tend to get given whisk(e)y by all sorts of people and consider myself extremely lucky. My real love though is Breton Lambig and just wish it was easily (and reasonably) available in my corner of the cosmos. I'll not be able to make it over the channel before next year (if ever) so i guess my current bottle will be my last.
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Don't be so bloody miserable. Tell me where to get it from and we'll get you a bot next time we go over , if poss! :):):)
According to this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambig
It is only the same or very similar to Calvados aged for four years, which really isn't a problem to get hold of!! I've drunk loads of that and even have some at the mo, somewhere on the sideboard!;) I'll get my Normand friends onto it.:)
 
My Old Landy said:
Not really, it acts under convection with the differing temperatures and kicks the heat back into the room...... Supposedly :)
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I saw that book too. Have had a few houses where the rads were stuck under the windows, as you say, the idea being the hot air would rise, float across the ceiling etc, etc.
Think this urban myth has since been disproved as no one builds houses like that any more!
 
DevonGuy said:
I tend to get given whisk(e)y by all sorts of people and consider myself extremely lucky. My real love though is Breton Lambig and just wish it was easily (and reasonably) available in my corner of the cosmos. I'll not be able to make it over the channel before next year (if ever) so i guess my current bottle will be my last.
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If/when we are allowed to Holliday our trips are over to Brittany. I love the champagne cider
 
Hicap phill said:
If/when we are allowed to Holliday our trips are over to Brittany. I love the champagne cider
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Have you tired "Pommeau" and "poiré"? Both worth a bash. https://frenchcider.com/blogs/blog/tis-the-season-for-french-cider-and-calvados
and https://www.google.com/search?ei=m8...hUKEwjksezr7-7sAhXJQEEAHUerDI8Q4dUDCA0&uact=5
for pommeau. In fact I am not sure that this isn't what you are referring to.
Wifey loves cider and doesn't drink beer of any sort. So varietal cidres in France are what she goes for, and she isn't wrong. Every day beer in France is often cr@p, Belgians make much better beer. to get decent beer in frogland you have to be prepared to spend serious money and then a l;ot of it is made by monks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappist_beer
 
Stanleysteamer said:
I saw that book too. Have had a few houses where the rads were stuck under the windows, as you say, the idea being the hot air would rise, float across the ceiling etc, etc.
Think this urban myth has since been disproved as no one builds houses like that any more!
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Yeah, my house has rads under every window :) built in the 60s and CH added in the 70s! I have not owned or lived in a modern house, nor do I intend to :D
 
My Old Landy said:
Yeah, my house has rads under every window :) built in the 60s and CH added in the 70s! I have not owned or lived in a modern house, nor do I intend to :D
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Having lived in houses built from 1815 to one designed myself and then built by a modern builder I have to say that both Ancient and Modern have their problems and their advantages.
Character is very difficult to put into a modern house, and also, unless you are lucky enough to be able to buy a big plot of land and plonk your house on it, most modern houses have sh!t tiny gardens.
I absolutely loved the 1815 house, with all its period features, its basement where the servants once lived and worked etc. but it was impractical and cold in the winter.
Our modern house is great and convenient but bizarrely it isn't perfect, some of the building was done in a slipshod way.
Put it this way, I think it would take about two lifetimes to be able to come up with an ideal house and even then there would still be compromises.
Life is like that I think!
Getting philosophical now.
Time for bed!;)
 
Hippo said:
Lots of peeps ut wuk buy booz frompt italy un france. It's delivered int boxes of 6 bottuls. Can yer get wot @DevonGuy wants ont web?
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Pretty sure you could get anything that way. We import it physically cos it is just cheaper than paying transportation. But as of Jan !st duty will be payable hence our mad buying and stocking over the years since 2016!
All we need to know to help him is egzactly what he wants. We pass through Normandy on our way back every time we come back.
French cider comes in bottles that look like champagne cos they come with a champagne cork which is wired down. And this is because they are allowed to finish their fermentation in the bottle. You have to be careful opening them cos sometimes they are actually worse/more lively than normal champagne, even if they have come straight out of the fridge. The fact that they are made from just one type of apple gives them a very specific flavour and that is really nice. Brit ciders, unless you really dig into it, are often made from a wide variety of apples and end up with pretty bland taste. I used to visit Norton Fitzwarren when a rep and you wouldn't believe what apples went into the vats!
Due to wifey, I know a lot more about French cider than I do about their beer!
 
My Old Landy said:
Yeah, my house has rads under every window :) built in the 60s and CH added in the 70s! I have not owned or lived in a modern house, nor do I intend to :D
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Just bin lookin ut the web fer this. It seems peeps put rads under windas because they were single glazd un drafty yeers ago. The rad killed the cold air coming int. Nowadays yer betterer oft putting the rad in the coldest part ov the room. But not behind a sofa as they can absorb a lot of heat and that int good as yer not heatin the room.
 
Hippo said:
Just bin lookin ut the web fer this. It seems peeps put rads under windas because they were single glazd un drafty yeers ago. The rad killed the cold air coming int. Nowadays yer betterer oft putting the rad in the coldest part ov the room. But not behind a sofa as they can absorb a lot of heat and that int good as yer not heatin the room.
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Funnily my 1928 house had a rad along the only wall in th esitting room where you could put a sofa. Total pain!
 
Hippo said:
Lots of peeps ut wuk buy booz frompt italy un france. It's delivered int boxes of 6 bottuls. Can yer get wot @DevonGuy wants ont web?
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Stanleysteamer said:
Pretty sure you could get anything that way. We import it physically cos it is just cheaper than paying transportation. But as of Jan !st duty will be payable hence our mad buying and stocking over the years since 2016!
All we need to know to help him is egzactly what he wants. We pass through Normandy on our way back every time we come back.
French cider comes in bottles that look like champagne cos they come with a champagne cork which is wired down. And this is because they are allowed to finish their fermentation in the bottle. You have to be careful opening them cos sometimes they are actually worse/more lively than normal champagne, even if they have come straight out of the fridge. The fact that they are made from just one type of apple gives them a very specific flavour and that is really nice. Brit ciders, unless you really dig into it, are often made from a wide variety of apples and end up with pretty bland taste. I used to visit Norton Fitzwarren when a rep and you wouldn't believe what apples went into the vats!
Due to wifey, I know a lot more about French cider than I do about their beer!
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Mornin tu frens!
You'm proper kaind ter think uv fer thinkin uv us boys. Us knows ztuff be vailabul ont computerisater an broad bandage but twer gude vun goin Brittany an lukin rown, avvin a punt on this an that. Be gude testin us crappy French anorl an geddin chance ter munch ont craypes an zeavood. Us used ter mayke a week uvvit an tayk votographs anorl which us vound easier affer us bort camra. Fing was as ow zavin ont wine fer a year med trip partly zelf-fundin. In vact, toad-alley self-vundin iffn us got propper special deal vrum Brittany ferries. Us rekkon the Haters hev vucked us propper on thissun but twas probly part of plan ter begin wiv. Sad an sorry ztate uv affares.
 
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