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Oh yes Warsteiner is quite good (as I remember) as is the Budweiser Budvar (no relation to the American dullard) but they're not quite the thing I'm looking for, neither is the Leffe which is not bad. I've had to buy some Stella in panic today, but I'm still searching for that continental light-headed blonde - like Stella - but nice?Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
A cup of Clover Organic Farms Cream-On-Top Plain Yogurt.
Eating some dry biscuits with duck and orange pâté and drinking Warsteiner beer at £2.54 for 660ml bottle ( just over a pint ). it's 4.8 strength and brewed in compliance with the Reinheitsgebot which guarantees its purity as having no artificial ingredients. It might be the beer that Neely is looking for, it certainly has a strong beery aroma.
EDIT: I have just seen your last post which nullifies mine but that's life. I was looking at the ciders, just out of interest you understand, and although they had 3 kinds of Weston's and various others, there wasn't a sign of Fursty Ferret. I was going to ask a member of staff about about it but he was obviously of foreign extraction and the conversation might have become unnecessarily complicated.
Ah, I'll give that Warsteiner a go then. A friend of mine drinks it a bit now that I think on. Yes, the Fursty Ferret conversation might have been tricky - it's not cider though, it's a Badger beer, not too keen myself though. With Weston's you can't really go wrong. I prefer either the Organic Westons (maybe a little too fizzy though?) or the original 2008 vintage - a proper cider that one, flat as a pancake and balls strong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
Although I must crack on with an essay, I've got 15 bottles of Stella on standby for later (it's been a looonng week) and some of that jazz - but first, must do some work. :yikes:
I don't know what that is but it sounds horrendous...Quote:
A green apple tootsie roll pop
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Originally Posted by Neely
Why would I eat something horrendous?:D
Talking of cider, I have some friends who live in Somerset and in their village pub the yokels...er, sorry, locals drink a cider from draught that's practically lethal and you can actually see bits of apple floating in it, although it's so cloudy it's a wonder anything can be seen. I once suggested trying it but my friends warned me off because it takes a lot of practice before a full pint can be drunk safely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
Oh, the Somerset folk have livers of steel, don't know how they do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
It's because much of the cider is produced in Somerset. Right now, after eating some Thai ribbon noodles and tofu, I am drinking a French red Brouilly 2009 from the Beaujolais region. It is very fruity and has a good body; rather like the young Brigitte Bardot, and I am enjoying some pastrami flavoured bagel chips to go with it. At £9.99 a bottle it is good value.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
:DThat sounds good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
I'm about to get a little bottle of Stella out of the freezer (chilling for 45 min to take the edge of the after-taste) and take a bath with Mary Wollstonecraft. If I had to liken Stella to a female, it would probably be this one:
https://www.nationwide-members.co.uk...56/pollard.jpg
Well, I'm probably being a little harsh, but not by too much. I know looks aren't everything, but this one's got no personality either...
Does Mrs Neely know that you are taking a bath with Mary Wollstonecraft?Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
As for the blonde female posted, it's just another example of the West's road to perdition.
Oh it was only a very, very brief affair I had to end it because she was really ranting, "women this, women that" more even than Mrs Neely when I forget to take tissue out of my jean pockets.
I take that back about the Stella - it IS as bad as Ms Pollard above, the depiction of which is indeed just another example of the state of the nation. It's worse than can be imagined.
Mary Wollstonecraft gets a brief mention in my book Pro Bono Publico; needless to say, it's not a favourable one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
I've never heard of Ms Pollard but I don't think I've been missing much by the look of her. It is amazing though how many women just like her are seen on the streets of Britain these days, Ms Wollstonecraft would have been proud of her achievmenmt.
White perch and fries.
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/1150/fishc.jpg
Oh yes, I will get round to reading your book - after I've finished my degree, which the end of is fast becoming a nightmare. I'll sort it though. Ms Pollard is from a comedy show Little Britain (actually a man) but the comedy is all too real.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2QTn0b1l6c
Had some Warsteiner, pretty good, almost the thing I'm looking for, more of a sophisicated German though, I'm wanting a nice air-headed Spainard or Czech - French bit, oh, la, la?
My brother bought me a Vintage 2008 Weston's, having that in a bit.
Perch?Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
[QUOTE=Neely;1017552]Oh yes, I will get round to reading your book - after I've finished my degree, which the end of is fast becoming a nightmare. I'll sort it though. Ms Pollard is from a comedy show Little Britain (actually a man) but the comedy is all too real.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2QTn0b1l6c
Had some Warsteiner, pretty good, almost the thing I'm looking for, more of a sophisicated German though, I'm wanting a nice air-headed Spainard or Czech - French bit, oh, la, la?
My brother bought me a Vintage 2008 Weston's, having that in a bit.QUOTE]
Well I gave up on TV some time ago, so I don't know about various programmes, but the fact that the girl in the scene is actually a man, shows exactly why the idea of feminism as a social advance is nonsense. Right now, I am enjoying a couple of Carlsberg special brew beers before heading towards my wonderful bed.
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Originally Posted by Neely
White Perch
The white perch (pomoxis annularis) was designated the official freshwater fish of Louisiana in 1993. Also called sac-au-lait , white crappie, speckled perch, papermouth, goggleeye, silver bass, and bachelor perch, the white perch is a schooling fish in the sunfish family.
Just hung up my Mom. I'm drinking a Molson.
Where did you hang her? Isn't it a bit heartless to be drinking a Molson afterwards?Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Tutti pop things, perch, Molson - hanging mom???
I've just finished an orange.
How mundane can you get? I've just finished a lime flavoured popsicle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
Carrots. Keeping up those rhodopsins!
At the moment I am enjoying some pastrami flavoured bagel chips with a few bottles of Leffe beer. I'm thinking of watching a Youtube presentation of one of Agathe Christie's Poirot series, an infallible cure for insomniacs, and that will soon set me up for my bed. :Yawn:
Oh I wish I had a Leffe or two. Stuck with stinking Stella. Just another bottle and then I'm going to bed. Currently watching Crimes and Misdemeanors, Woody Allen, not one of this better films, but good in places.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
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Originally Posted by Emil Miller
Yeah, I hung her for pointing out my grammatical errors. :cheers2: :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Neely
I'm about to go get a bowl of berries - Straw, rasp, and black.
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?
http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/5...xtothehead.jpg
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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