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^ See above for my handy update. Ninja ice in small pools!

LONDON: Don't lean folks! It's sneaky out there. Apparently dry but the slippery stuff has pooled in the cambers and racing lines of corners and around drains etc'. Keep your wits about you.

1.9. Bit like crossing Tower Bridge this evening!

Minor snow.... but horizontal!

Bull fighting pic.... Live by the sword, die by the sword! Deserved.

I'm sorry Horatio.... It is.

Not all of it. But some of it definitely is.

I'm sorry.

That officially ruins it for me. Always one step too far!

When i was skint everything seemed to be 53/54 perfect!! now I've got money burning a hole in my pocket everything is 55/56/57- 64!! :D

This is just the sort of bike I'm after but 2cm too big :(

You and me both! Where are all the 54 SP / 53 TTs ?

Lovely bike, bumpy bump.

Fucking result! Fair play to the fella who stopped and got involved.

^ Hip flask on a cold night! Ohhhhh yeah.

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The user submitted pictures made me lol.

Me too. Love the sequence from left to right.

I've said it once and I'll say it again; people are brilliant!

Genius! Why have I never come across the phenomena that is Amazon review memes before?

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126 of 128 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Moving, 21 Jan 2009
By Fish - See all my reviews

This review is from: Box Canvas Print of ADOLF HITLER/IN 1939 from Mary Evans
This print certainly adds a certain feeling of gravitas to my child's bedroom.
I've knocked a star off as I initially thought that it was a picture of Barry Chuckle."

Right... Here's what I've learned for all you potential whisky owners...

The up front cost is the spirit, barreling, storage for 10 years.

Bottling, Duty and VAT is later...(!)

The 2k one is the extra peaty one. There's a cheaper option at 1200 apparently. (My Dad got lucky and did it early on for a lot less - more like 800 quid apparently).

It's a bourbon barrel, we think about 190 litres. It reduces as I said over time but is diluted at bottling so stretches out some (unless you request that it remains cask strength). We're looking at almost 250 70cl bottles.

I'm afraid that's as much use as I can be at the moment, but it's enough info to decide whether you want to get into a dialogue about it with the distillery. For my money, there's not much nicer than a Bruichladdich at 10 years from one of their Bourbon barrels. If you're Laphroig lovers it's a more sophisticated, less pokey version of that.

Whiskey galore!

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Don't think it's pea, but read the first two reviews for this product...

I have just realised that the whisky you'd get from a scheme like this would be cask strength though, so it goes a little further!

@ Rive Gauche. Happy to find out a bit more about it from my old man if you'd like? I'm in on his cask so wouldn't take part, but very happy to offer any info we have thus far. Ours is about 4 or 5 years old so far. We're in it for 10 years, then we may quarter cask part of it for a bit longer.

Some stuff to remember is that it doesn't work out as quite the amazing bargain it looks (11 squid a bottle) as I think there's no bottles included or indeed bottling (I'll check). Also there may be some duty to pay on receipt of the hooch. Plus there's some evaporation from the barrel during aging (known as 'angel share').

I'll ask the old man how it pans out. I definitely recall us getting in there when Bruichladdich had just reopened and we bagged a massive bargain. A lot less than the money they're asking now!

Good find. definitely taking up that offer.

+1 Cheers for the heads up. Off to the post office to pick mine up now.

That is some seriously dumb cycling. At one point he even takes to the pavement to avoid the bus as it stops only to buzz a load of peds and dangerously re filter into the carriageway only to be overtaken by the bus! His other option: go round the bus in the clear lane on the left and stay on the road.

south london to north london with a 30 metre extension reel strapped to my bag and this folded gazebo under my arm.

Unfolded and we'd be talking seriously impressive!

unicycle 12 miles on my back. It hurt a lot.

Go any significant distance on your back and it's going to hurt... Unless you're on a luge, or in a bunk bed on a ferry!

My house comes with a fuzebox

When I was sticking the knife into the toaster the fuze went and as a result the toaster stopped working and my house did not burn to the ground.

I don't really care that my house is still standing, but don't you think it is really shit that the fuze tripped and my toast got cold?

+1. Example.
You bought it, you broke it, you mend it.

How old is the Alan?

Yeah I figured as much. More notes than I would want / be able to shed on a gift. Thought it was somewhere along the lines of your time related gift demands though. If I win the lotto this weekend I'll sort you a quarter!

A very good friend just had a kid and I thought a bottle of whiskey would set the nipper on the right tracks from the start. Is there anything that I can buy now and that can be stored for 15-18 years (or however long til he steals it / are allowed to drink it)?

Hey Kboy. Just been mulling this over (if it's not too late for Baby warming gifts). Bruichladdich have a barrel ownership scheme. For example, my Dad 'invested' in a cask of spanking new spirit, distilled by Bruichladdich in Islay. He owns the barrell, they're looking after it, barreling it, aging it, storing it, taking care of the duty and when the time comes - bottling it. I'm designing the labeling etc and then we'll give it all away, lay some away, drink some and flog some. It's a few hundred quid obviously but he's a massive whisky fan and wanted to invest in a brilliant 'newly reborn' Islay distiller.

To cut to the chase, I wonder whether they offer a share of a cask scheme along these lines, so that you can start the ownership process now on some spirit, see it through its development and then when the time comes quarter cask it in a sexy sherry, portwine or rich rye cask or even eighth cask some????? (no idea how small a cask you can get).

The fella they have as chief distiller up there these days was honed at the original Bruichladdich factory, went to make lovely lovely Laphroig for years and returned once Bruichladdich was reborn. A clever sod to say the least!

Maybe there's a dozen bottle timeshare type oppo here for you if you catch my drift. Once the quarter casking and bottling is complete the little tyke will be well old enough to appreciate it, you can give him a couple of bottles and keep some for yourself.

Just a thought.