Could be time to break out the shorts...

[Boston Bees]

May England, Scotland and Wales all win.

 

[Monbees]

allez le bleus

les bleus, surely

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

les bleus, surely

your right

 

[JamezF]

Warmest day of the year so far here, topping out at 15.6°C. And despite the chilly easterly wind I spent the entire day out in the garden in shorts and a t-shirt

James

 

[pargyle]

Warmest day of the year so far here, topping out at 15.6°C. And despite the chilly easterly wind I spent the entire day out in the garden in shorts and a t-shirt

James

Do they still sell Fiery Jack Ointment for chapped legs ?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

The only shorts I've broken out this weekend is a fresh bottle of Jura

 

[Curly green finger's]

The only shorts I've broken out this weekend is a fresh bottle of Jura

What's jura?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

What's jura?

it's an island in the inner Hebrides, not far from Islay (only a short hop on the Port Askaig ferry)

 

[Curly green finger's]

it's an island in the inner Hebrides, not far from Islay (only a short hop on the Port Askaig ferry)

So your referring to a bottle of whisky?

 

[Erichalfbee]

it's an island in the inner Hebrides, not far from Islay (only a short hop on the Port Askaig ferry)

Not cider, then?

 

[Wilco]

The only shorts I've broken out this weekend is a fresh bottle of Jura

I think we need to see the proof.

it's an island in the inner Hebrides, not far from Islay (only a short hop on the Port Askaig ferry)

As opposed to a Fuggles?

Is that ferry only passed to the left, the right or is either way permissible?

Not cider, then?

Don't wine.

 

[user 819]

So your referring to a bottle of whisky?

Whisky not a term I use for the good stuff, but a bottle of malt.

 

[pargyle]

Whisky not a term I use for the good stuff, but a bottle of malt.
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Jura one of the best as well .... I like it but I actually prefer Bunnahabhain which is an Islay malt

https://www.jurawhisky.com/en/all-whisky/

https://bunnahabhain.com/
Mind you, with both of them knocking on the door of £30 a bottle for the least expensive it's for high days and holidays but as a substitute I quite like this:

https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/spirits/ben-bracken-speyside-single-malt-scotch-whisky/p15802
Which is a very smooth drink with some subtle flavours.

 

[rook66]

May England, Scotland and Wales all win.


I won't ask you to tell my fortune!!

 

[elainemary]

I broke cover and popped a few supers on yesterday, admittedly I cheated a bit as these went on colonies I condensed down from double to single brood.
A lovely day where I popped about 50 crown boards and no dead uns, many colonies past crossover and looking plump, very few dinks.

What are dinks?

 

[Curly green finger's]

What are dinks?

I think he might mean small as in dinky?

 

[mbc]

What are dinks?

Tiny clusters still surviving but won't amount to much.

 

[Arfermo]

Perhaps not but we still beat the Welsh........just saying.

So did the Italians bless them. Haha.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I think we need to see the proof.

Quiet night last night - although I did have to finish the last bottle first. I prefer the Jura 'Origin' which is matured in new oak barrels (not second hand sherry ones) and was the only one they made and the 'selling point' of the brand (as the head taster told me when I visited there when our training boat anchored in the bay some thirty years ago) But nowadays it's the fashion to sell loads of different fiddled about 'flavours', even Springbank with it's lovely sherry aftertaste has been blighted by this fad.

Is that ferry only passed to the left, the right or is either way permissible?

with the current ripping through the sound, much of the time it seems the ferry is sailing sideways, but the usual anti collision rules of stand on/give way vessels apply

Mind you, with both of them knocking on the door of £30 a bottle for the least expensive it's for high days and holidays

nah, sorry I won't switch from the ones I like, I actually haven't been partaking much of the evening sipppers the last few years, so I have quite a stockpile still to go through, although I've only a few Jura's left in the store I have quite a few Penderyns as well as a mixed bag of my brother's Christmas presents, including the latest Dalwhinnie with a dash of heather honey (oh dear)
My grandfather in his later years used to measure how good a birthday or Christmas he'd had by the number of Whisky gifts he'd received. I remember his last (90th) birthday, when I arrived at their house and asked him what sort of a day he'd had, he just shrugged (didn't like 'fuss') glanced at the corner next to his armchair and said 'not bad - twelve bottles so far'
Unfortunately, with the Springbank I'm not enamoured with their bog standard ten year old so the last one I bought cost me about £50.
I don't hoover down loads every evening so don't mind paying for it. Same as Port - I seldom pay less than £20.00 for a bottle.

 

[Arfermo]

https://bunnahabhain.com/
Mind you, with both of them knocking on the door of £30 a bottle for the least expensive it's for high days and holidays but as a substitute I quite like this:

https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/spirits/ben-bracken-speyside-single-malt-scotch-whisky/p15802
Which is a very smooth drink with some subtle flavours.

My preference is to follow Prince Charlie and go for Laphroiag 10 years old. Not to everyones taste of course - Charlie is what I mean!!