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I sympathise, but why did you buy so many bottles before realising that it didn't match your requirements? I was looking at the beers in the supermarket today and saw one called Bitter and Twisted. I laughed when I saw it and some guy standing nearby came and looked over my shoulder to see what I was laughing at. It's brewed in Scotland and, as a blond beer, might be worth trying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
£6 for 6 bottles or £10 for 15?? I intended to give my brother some but forgot and have nothing else apart from one lonely can of San Miguel. I'll have something better tomorrow night though. I haven't even got any decent coffee now that poor Pollards is gone, victim to Starbucks and council mismanagement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
Iced tea (which isn't actually cold tea like I'm told it is in other places on earth, in Canada it's more like lemon flavoured sugar water that's been colored brown).
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Originally Posted by Neely
You should have smelt a rat straight away, I don't think there will be any discounts on Leffe or Duval for example.
I hope Pollards is nothing to do with the female you posted earlier. I have only been once to a Starbucks and was not impressed by the coffee. As someone who has worked in local government, the words council mismanagement are not unknown to me. However, the worst place I worked at was the Home Office, which was a complete mess and, as one former Secretary of State declared : "Unfit for purpose."
At the moment, I am eating an Edam cheese sandwich and drinking a bottle of St Mungo lager, which is probably the only beer in the UK to be brewed in accordance with the German Purity Law and therefore contains nothing but natural ingredients. It is certainly a cut above any home brewed beers I have drunk previously and well worth a try by serious beer aficionados.
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Originally Posted by Emil Miller
No, no, no relation thankfully. Pollards was a very decent coffee shop. It was one of the oldest retail establishments in Sheffield and was where I got all my teas and coffees from. I would also get my jams and piccalilli from there too. A real shame. (See blog post for further details if necessary.) You worked as a Civil Servant then? Must have some stories from the Home Office no doubt.
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Originally Posted by Emil Miller
I've not heard of St Mungo, sounds quite decent. Stella claims to have nothing but natural ingredients too, but it still poor drink.
I have a Duvel for tonight and I'm going to enjoy it for sure. Yesterday I polished off a Liebfraumilch, gift from my dad - he always comes bearing gifts.
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Originally Posted by Neely
I thought I'd answered this post but it seems to have disappeared, maybe the French red I was drinking had something to do with it.
Yes, I had two separate stints in the Ministry of Defence and I also worked in the Foreign Office as well as the Home Office, but the civil service was not my sole employer as I worked in local government, the private sector and also in Germany . Not being married gives great flexibility in the labour market, which, in turn, builds up a good deal of experience when it comes to discovering how society functions. Working in government allows an employee to know things that those in the private sector don't and it's useful in forming an opinion on why things are as they are. In my second book, The Fateful Circle, the main character is a civil servant and is based on a man I knew in the MoD. The scenes that take place in that Ministry are founded on personal experience and I've been told that they have the ring of authenticity. Similarly, the part of the book that is set in Germany, is based on experiences I had there. I sometimes think that if I hadn't had to work, I might have written more than I have, but the paradox is, that without the various jobs I've done, I wouldn't have gained the experience to write anyway.
Chicken hotpot with a can of coke zero.
Nice, what vintage?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
A nice 2011; served ice-cold, of course!
I have just eaten a plate of spaghetti and am now finishing the accompanying bottle of Chianti complimented by some Thai Sweet Chicken crisps.
A gourmets favourite!
freshly laid poached egg on vegemite toast with a cup of tea
I'm about to get a Duvel out of the fridge, quality beer.
Is this a picture of you?
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Haha.
Duvel is quite good!
Just polished off a couple of hard boiled eggs. Sorry Neely, I doubt they were free range eggs.
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