Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[prendrelemick]

How will GG manage without the Cold Ale Club's annual glimpse of Ms Welch in her pomp?

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

How will GG manage without the Cold Ale Club's annual glimpse of Ms Welch in her pomp?

This is how...

[The Atheist]

It was a link to some beer. Have your read the message this morning? Pictures that even hint at a shapely ankle are no longer to be tolerated! I think there is a clamp-down going on, and my beer link has fallen victim to the morality police.


In fact I can't see the link either and I posted it! It's so nice to know that that we have a gaurdian angel looking after our moral well being and making the choice for us as to what we can and can't see.

Yes, looks much better now.

The morality rule might make an appearance below!

This is how...

I can't even find the announcement now, but from what I saw, the photo will contravene the super-strict, new, no-bare-flesh rule.

I'm not sure why that would be the case, when the kind of photo above is considered safe for children in every other medium on the planet. I'll try to find out.

[prendrelemick]

[QUOTE=Gilliatt Gurgle;1238655]This is how...








Let's be clear, we must never look at the image above

[Paulclem]

If only I had known, you could have laid this gem on the allotment committee...
(My contribution to one of the poetry contest threads - recite to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence)

Hello Weber my old friend
I’ve come to grill with you again
Charcoal briquettes are piled high
A gallon of fluid lights the sky

And the Hickory smoke that is wafting in my face
I embrace

I hold the tongs of power.

Brats are hot and start to swell
New York Strip is medium well
Shrimp on the grill are swimming
Glazed chicken legs are dancing

To the tune of the flashing briquettes light
That sparks the night.

I hold the tongs of power.

http://www.weber.com/grills/series/one-touch

Excellent Gil. I can hear the tune as I'm reading it.

I didn't get this message. Am I exempted from the ruling then? I think it gives the Cold Ale thread a bit of... flavour.

Just back from my hols. A weekend in Bristol to visit daughter number three. She felt obliged to keep us entertained for every minute we were there and had set a punishing agenda. So after a five hour drive down (I hate the M6) we had a 10 minute rest in the B&B and then set off through Friday rush hour traffic to the other side of Bristol to meet her and her Handsome Man at Hugh Fearney-Whittingstall's Canteen. That was a 5 mile trip that took 1 and 1/2 hours. Anyway the food was dee-licious, and over fresh caught mackerel and mushrooms stuffed with smoked Pollock and cheese, she outlined her itinery for us.

We managed to avoid the 16 mile bike ride along a disused railway line, and settled for a walk round Bath, a walk up the Avon Gorge and across the Clifton Suspension Bridge, a Barn Dance and a visit to the SS Great Britain. Her Handsome Man was doing the Bristol half marathon on Sunday- At least she hadn't entered us for that.

I was in Bristol on the 14th for the Uni open day with the daughter. It's a nice city - I've never been there before. We had the usual tour of the campus etc, and then my daughter wanted to look round the extensive shopping centre. I was quite impressed - especially with the size of the seagulls. They are much bigger than the ones we get on our field...

On the Sunday I had to take the lad's other bag down to Oxford for him. We had a nice lunch in the Goat's Head - I forget the exact name but I'll be able to find it again.

It seems ages since I've been on with the chaps - it's been a bit busy at work.

[The Atheist]

Let's be clear, we must never look at the image above

I kept my eyes shut when I looked, so I'll be ok.

[prendrelemick]

I was in Bristol on the 14th for the Uni open day with the daughter. It's a nice city - I've never been there before. We had the usual tour of the campus etc, and then my daughter wanted to look round the extensive shopping centre. I was quite impressed - especially with the size of the seagulls. They are much bigger than the ones we get on our field...

On the Sunday I had to take the lad's other bag down to Oxford for him. We had a nice lunch in the Goat's Head - I forget the exact name but I'll be able to find it again.

It seems ages since I've been on with the chaps - it's been a bit busy at work.

Just missed you then, we were being force-marched around Bath on the 14th. It was half marathon weekend, uni open day, and Jane Austin festival weekend all at the same time, no wonder the place was heaving.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Stopped by the re post Ms. Welch above.
Let's see if it gets past the paranormal screening.

[prendrelemick]

Its gone! Help! help! I'm being repressed!

[The Atheist]

There's an app for that.

[Paulclem]

She's back!

Speaking of She, was it she in She?

No - just googled it. Ursula Andress.

[Sancho]

We're gettin' the band back together, boys!

How about a harvest festival? Or in the case of The Atheist, a planting festival.

Gonna need one of these this time:



Everybody can use a little sax from time to time, eh?

...
No one watches when the ambulance pulls away
Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light

Outside the streets on fire in a real death waltz
Between flesh and what's fantasy and the poets down here
Don't write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand but they wind up wounded, not even dead

Tonight in jungleland...

http://youtu.be/JR_0nbEzVdY

^From around 4:00 to 6:00 mins in that tune, Clarence rips into one of rock-n-roll's all-time great sax solos. (IMHO)

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

We're gettin' the band back together, boys!

How about a harvest festival?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jeb_D08XA

[Paulclem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jeb_D08XA

Good stuff Gil.

How's the lad doing? My wife was worried when ours first went. We'd dropped him off and there weren't many students around, and she was imagining him stuck in his room on his lonesome - probably weeping into his unconnected ether net cable. After a sleepless night she texted him and he happily told her that the contacts he'd made on the Facebook page had invited him to a club, where he's spent a while getting to know friends.

I slept like a log convinced that our sociability gene was still strong. So it was.

[prendrelemick]

Well, its that time of year when every young shepherd's thoughts turns to tupping his sheep. I think I'm now sitting pretty with 3 top quality tups. I still have that pink tup I bought a couple of years back, and he has gone from strengh to strengh (though his colour is now a conventional mucky grey.) Then Fred my octogenarian neighbour is semi-retiring and I bought two of his tups - one is an absolute belter -AND I got them both for £100!!!!!! Fred is convinced they are both going to die this winter, but I got them home, trimmed their feet, wormed them, fluked them, dagged them out (don't ask,) gave them some antibiotics and multivitamins, then fed them some corn for a couple of weeks and they are looking full of vim and vigour.

That left me needing to buy just one more boy and a good budget as well. So on Saturday I was able to spend £500 pounds on a big strong tup from the same lady breeder my pink boy came from - only this time the pink dye had gone a bright orangey colour. Never-the-less he's a magnificent beast , the only qualm I have is that his testicles are more uneven than is usual in tups, but he is a proven and gauranteed sire. Driving home from market I was grinning like a cheshire cat. I've never done that before after spending 500 smackers.