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I don't see how that works. Can someone explain.

As soon as it starts to taste superior to the bottles of commercial beer I've been forced to drink, which is usually about a fortnight after brewing.

The music that was the most popular with my generation before The Beatles and electric guitars took over– New Orleans Jazz.

I remember vividly leaning over the rails just past the last fence of the Grand National the year that the Queen Mother’s horse was in the lead. As I waited for the next horses to appear I completely missed the drama that happened on the run to the finish, when Devon Loch slipped and almost...

I wouldn't call Irish Moss either stinky or rancid.

Most decidedly!

You've lost me there. Please explain.

Lily the Pink invented Medicinal Compound, which was efficacious in every case. And a good name for a beer!

Fly buttons anybody? If you'd left one undone, someone would say 'It's one o'clock at the water works'.

Do you remember when the only things carried on Brewer’s Dreys and stored in pub cellars were wooden casks of beer, and the only carbon dioxide involved was that produced naturally by the fermentation process? There was a faded advertisement for bottles of Plymouth Breweries’ Pale Ale, painted...

My first car was this Austin Seven. It cost my Dad £55, was 7 years older than me, had a three-speed ‘crash’ gearbox, and we called it ‘Tweetie Pie’ - after the little bird on a Mel Blanc record in the hit parade at the time.

It changed colour as it went through the door. Clever.:?:

Enjoyed a couple of pints of my usual tipple, and thought how perfect the lining was on the almost empty glass. You can count how many swigs it took me to drink it. Couldn’t resist taking a photo to share it with you.

Certainly not. I use nothing else, nor could do the way my nose runs some times.

Mr Chad?

How to double de-clutch? Essential before synchromesh gearboxes

I used a cask breather at one time, and if I remember correctly set the regulator as low as it would go – about 5 psi. I also had a gas bottle empty itself unexpectedly, and tracked it down to a leak in the cask breather. I seem to remember immersing the whole thing in our pond and looking for...

The first video game I saw was ’Ping Pong’, built into a pub table somewhere near Earl’s Court. I bought a version you had to construct yourself from a load of electronic components, a bare PCB, a plastic box and two control boxes. It produced two ‘bats’ which were short vertical lines each...

I complained about the broken gauge, and they refunded the total price without question. You can't say fairer than that. I sent them this picture to prove I wasn't telling porkies.