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I'm not in the least surprised, people are still spreading it about, and it's almost certainly going to get worse before it gets better. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/

I was given "The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests", and turned a few pages last night.

Is that the UK version of the American magazine "Cougar Catcher"? "He enquired of him, innocently". ashock1

What I don't like is all these 500ml glass bottles, which are a pain to store, clean, fill, cap, clean, etc. In the Old Daze there were quart bottles, which might be better. I've seen litre swing-tops, but does anyone use them? I've also seen 1.9l swing top stainless steel bottles, but these are...

I thought Mr Farage actually quite liked Europe? After all, we are in it...

Oh, gosh. Surely the eu wouldn't break a treaty! Oh, wait......

Pish? "int expr. contempt, impatience, or disgust. [imit]." If it's the firm I've read it is, and the mass-produced producr, whether or not the name begins with an "M", I'd actually use the alternative (vulgar) word for urine. It's sub-standard. Doesn't the forum allow that word?

Oh dear, that, "if true", would be absolutely awful! Still, it's great that our own (elected) UK government and the eu commission have between themselves agreed a free trading arrangement, that will actually be operational in a few days' time, isn't it! Can you see the eu parliament voting it...

A sovereign nation is one that is sovereign. "It's" (sic) advantage is that it is sovereign.

Alas! I have no TV licence. However, it will probably be available "non-live" at some time.

If you have a TV licence, 8 o'clock TONIGHT has "Cider ... Gregg Wallace visits the biggest cider factory in the world, which produces more than 350 million litres each year. Cherry Healey explores how the factory is creating new orchards of a sweet apple variety called Scrumptious. And...

Hm. Where do we keep our bottles? In an outhouse? In a cool room? In either of those places in a box lined with a substance imnpermeable to oxygen? It would not have to be completely gas-tight to reduce oxygen ingress to a tiny fraction viz. an "unprotected" bottle, and would not need to be...

I've looked at recently-purchased PET bottles of cider, and the BBE is stamped as "Sept 2021". Since I've recently bottled about 70L of cider into the same bottles, I'm taking that as my approximate "drink by" date! Maybe "it's different for beers". Edit: Ah! I have now recognised my faux pas...

Really? He does drink beer, you know, even when out of the public gaze, regardless of the use of a pint in photo opportunities.

Very interesting. Before you chuck the boottles out: is there a "best before" date on either or both? If so, what is it?

What was it going to "renegue" (sic) on, precisely, and under what circumstances?

1) You are mistaken. 2) What are you trying to say, that the RN was set to open fire on trawlers operating illegally?

There was a character on Mendip who made cider, "Lukee" I seem to remember, who used to go around in what appeared to be a Stetson hat. He had a lorry, a three axle rigid I think, that had written on the sides something like: "The road may be long/The road may be bumpy/But we don't care 'cos...

What rubbish. It's as bound by treaties as are other countries and entities, just as the eu is, and it can mitigate in advance of others' breaking treaties, or even abandon treaties just as other countries and entities including the eu have done in the past. Consequences have varied from none...

I tightened the bottle cap and gave the thing a wiggle, to wash off the gunge on the inside, and, oh my! I had to let the pressure out rather slowly to avoid it going beresque all over the kitchen.