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As it happens my bottling FV with tap cracked recently so I'm forced into using an alternative. I will get round to setting up a beer system once the thousand other things have been dealt with.

I have a lovely stainless steel bottling stick but it doesn't fit any of my FV or barrel taps. I now bottle using a jug and funnel attached to a short length of tubing. used to for several brews now an seems to work fine.

A ago friend of mine named his son Brian, born about 1992, I am his Godfather

Seems a lot of variation in price at the moment. £1.89 at Morrisons and 5 miles down the road £1.78.

oh, Brians. I was about to say SA for the first five pints then Dark as for Brians, "The Life of..." is probably my favourite film.

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Dickens

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Endoscope (am I doing it right)

Celtic Timber are only a few miles from me. I bought some nice oak planks to make a book case for my granddaughter. With her little brother arriving at the end of the year, I'll be ordering some more. Very helpful.

I'll be back to work on Wednesday complete with body armour and kit vest. At least it won't be as hot as it was in Iraq!

only one way to find out

As above, pour, inspect, sniff, taste...if it passes all these tests then enjoy a sneaky find.

Interesting, I thought it was dreadful, but to each their own. I'm enjoying The Valhalla Murders on Netflix at the moment.

Was searching for Festival Porter as I put a kit on just now. Mine came in at OG 1042 but it was about 26C when I pitched, was wondering how yours turned out @dannymac ?

As my nephew who is a pilot once told me, a good landing is one you walk away from. An excellent landing is when the airfare is still serviceable afterwards

In military circles the issued stuff was known as John Wayne as it was rough, tough and took **** off no one. We all had our own personal stock of 'comfy-bum'

There was a line of those across the yard from my Nan's back door and if you were caught short in the night there was a 'guzunda' - so called because it guzunda your bed. I'd go and stay for two weeks in the summer, up to when I was ten and she moved into sheltered accommodation.

Perhaps surrender is an emotive term, but he granted freedom to convicted terrorists, pardoned those on the run and granted 'comfort' to those implicated while doing nothing to honour the effort and sacrifice of those who suffered and died in the name of law and order. I served in NI - in one...

I met Margaret Thatcher. I supported her politics, saw how she tamed the units and generated a robust economy. Inflation was reigned in, the reduction of interest rates was commenced and living standards increased. Some people didn't/don't like her and that's up to them. I find it odd that...