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Hadda look inside me harvester. Moss ont metal filter. None inside. Tis good news.

When I was moving around the country a bit in my working life I found that the same brand of beer was brewed differently in different parts of the country to suit local tastes. Whitbread in the north east was krap, in Kent it was nectar. By far...

I dont have a clue what yous have all been drinking, seams like yous njoy a good bevvy :D

Light and bitter was my preference or light and mild

Wadworths 6X was a nice pint.

Watney's Red Barrel. Like making love in a punt! Tankard... Tasted like one with no beer in it. Courage Best..... not really! We were saved by being close to Devizes, so Wadworths, and being able to get hold of proper scrumpy if you knew where...

Well in the days of keg beer, pre CAMRA and all that, it was a heck of a lot better than a lot of the rubbish that was around.

So we went to see the MIL this afternoon. Surprise, Surprise we were the only ones there! Turns out they have the old gal on Vancomycin AB IV drip. That's a "last-ditch" AB AFAIK so clearly the infection is still there. :( Another visit to...

Oooops! Going going!! Gone! Blokey wasn't hurt. This one fell over just in front of us. a real soapbox. Blokey got out put it back up and carried on. :) :) :) Yet another'un, again, not hurt. Some nice wheel lifting. This rather...

Remember it being on Draft when I was a lad. A nice pint.

...and did it?

Do it taste the same ?

Yup, last time I saw this I was too young to buy it.

Bleddy hell ... aint seen that since forever ...

Must have been getting rid of old very old stock.

Munching bush in the garding.. Curtings will be all atwitch

Easier to catch for the barbie..

Look what I found in Tesco yesterday. Haven't seen it for ages.. Is rather nice..

Nice having the rain eventually land in Manchester I missed the old wet stuff. Even the lowbrows Mancunians, were beating the trees in thralls of joy hooping and hollowing.

It hammered down last night, mixed bag of sun n rain. Njoy yer day peeps. If the rain keeps off I might be able to swing some spanners.

Funny yer should say that. Eye finks there's about 5 or 6 visiting. T'other night when eye were wotching me garden from me kitchen door there was constant munchin from a bush that grows ont both sides ov me fence fer a good 10 minnits. Eye fink...

They must be the fattest squirrels in the land. Or they are hiding the nuts somewhere.

Small amount ov rain over night. Collected about 30L. Onto me second bag ov nuts this month. At that rate they is scoffin over 3kg per month. Might be as high as 4.

Lovely sunny day today, for a change. Off in a short while to Lautrec, the town that has lost most of its pink garlic harvest a month away from picking due to the hail. They are having their usual festival and this arvo a soap box derby. Hope it...

On another fred someone asked me if I had a brother called Ollie. took me a while to make the (sort of) connection. Stan and Ollie. and they were never even meant to be brothers.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Morning All. :D A bit dull and overcast here today. :( Going to see the MIL in hosp this arvo with the Mrs. Can see for myself how bad/good she is. :) The Nurse said yesterday that she was due to go down to theatre today for another...

Overlord show yesterday. Check out the bomber engine.. Can't upload the mp4 of it running though, sorry..

Yup thats the colour.:cool::cool:

My dad suffered with "mental health issues" all his life after his fiancée died, from TB possibly contracted from him, when he didn't even know he had it. I once came back from holiday to find he was in a mental hospital. The docs there told him...

I had a girlfriend in Lille who owned a white Renault 4. They were so common that she had the sense to stencil a small but easily visible design around the radio aerial just above the windscreen, made it much easier to find in a car park. Pity...