3Wells has a gin lake in the Cellar, Joanna. We don’t allow her a trapeze, and she Sulked at us about it, so you see…
You’d be welcome to splash about in the lake, or sit by the fire on a Chaise, though be warned, we all seem a bit Lurgified at the present.
The Aldi “Oliver Cromwell” London Gin is really rather fine – though these days I resort first to The Botanist.
I’ve long been an advocate for Boyle’s - also from Aldi. I’m not alone; on NYE the ravening hordes polished off a whole bottle, leaving the Gordon’s untouched.
In England I think it is called Cromwell.
That’s a different one - it was rebranded as Corley’s in Ireland. Can’t imagine why…
Boyle’s is definitely sold as such in the UK:
https://www.aldi.co.uk/boyle's-craft-irish-gin/p/085913232906800
(There should be a Reporter equivalent to Godwin’s Law: how long a thread can run before someone mentions gin)
Nor can I.
< saunters off warbling ‘Young Roddy McCorley goes to die on the Bridge of Toome today’ >
Warning - which should probably have been a line above its current position - I find that song a most persistent earworm once established. The Mexican Hat Dance is an effective antidote, however.
Oy! You lot! take it to the Cellar; the new member of the board was trying to ask a serious question in this thread…
Oh, she seemed to be entering into the spirit, if not the actual gin lake as yet.
Sorry, Joanna: we’re reasonably harmless really.
Yes we are sort of daft and full of fun from our shared secret vice of enjoying TA
We moved 16 years ago and I refused to leave Norn Iron without R4 for TA
See you in the gin lake
The Sparrow has a floating nest in said lake
Speak for yourself; I still can’t be doing with it. (But I did know about the vice before I proposed to That Fish.)
Oh My Goodness Me - what a Gin Soaked bunch I seem to have stumbled across…just like my neighbours around here in the hills TBH - except refreshing not to hear about sheep and political ranting - anyway - while you were all swimming in the Gin Lake until the wee small hours I had long since retired with TA podcast (am I being an intellectual snob or is Lee just really quite dim as well as dull? Not that there is anythign wrong with “nice but dim” though…there are many things worse…Pip, Hannah and Shula for instance ) to recharge grey cells with slumber in order to press on with my magnum opus on the TA - today’s task is idenifying the episodes in 2017 in which Auntie Chris’s unauthorised Costa Rican collective investment scheme was sold to her - does anybody remember who Matt Crawford’s posh smooth accomplice was? What was his name? Either Justin or Brian knew him from school and Latif Hussain (who is he supposed to be do you reckon?) was hoodwinked by him?
However -I do have to fit in a weekly swim near local ALDI and LIDL (Waitrose come no further North than the Tyne Valley - it is corporate policy I reckon - but at least it is handy for Jim, Jazzer and Al on way home today though - not they need it as the new Waitrose in Worcester is a latterday cathedral - hope they enjoy Housteads though ) - so will check out those gin recommendations but probably recharge my low(ish) ABV Riesling lake instead - or maybe a more structured semillon blend if anything interesting under a tenner…
Joanna
Your spiritual home is the cellar
We natter on about everything but bluddy polly ticks and have an obliging staff headed by Darrington the butler
It’s in the Not TA bit of the board and everyone there is a dote
Hugo Melling?
When I started drinking gin it was unpretentious falling-over-water. Now of course everyone and his three-legged dog is making some sort of foofy artisanal stuff…
From the BBC synopses, which may give you a starting point:
10/10 Gus - another breakthrough - cheers!!
Amazing groundwork Hedgie - some wonderful legal stuff for me to invent in there…I remember those episodes so well - it seems like yesterday - we all felt Aunty C’s pain - oh to have a pal like Peggy to pay one’s care home fees (where can I find one? ) - I hope the Laurels has a bar.
However one crucial detail still eludes us…I know she told Peggy that was “only” £50,000 (less than Caroline’s loss remember in 1991 - RPI link that… and we all see that Caroline must have been a trustie kid) BUT didn’t Aunty C later fess up that she ACTUALLY had invested the entire sale proceeds of her house (…what was it called? Something Cottage?) to Fallon and Harrison…the figure of £300,000 sticks in my mind - does anyone else remember that? Maybe we could look up the sale price on Rightmove or the Land Registry???
Can’t have been all of it, because:
and yet
(I’ll leave it to That Fish to listen to any actual episodes. I just do the archiving.)
A total figure of £350k rings bells with me.
The thing is, the chronology of this scam is all cock-eyed, as pointed out by the indefatigable Fish on this thread. Not only the chronology.
Aha…Matt was lying to whet Latif’s appetite for investment - Aunty C could have agreed to transfer funds and then transferred sales proceeds later but will burrow around in that thread - thanks for that - 350k does indeed sound about right for a bijou pretty 2 bedroom cottage in leafy Ambridge doesn’t it? Expensive to us Northerners …and crucifying for the likes of poor Emma and Ed - I reckon a creative solution to Ambridge housing shortages would be pre-fabs - or they all move to Prudhoe …ohh nooooo!
Goodness, you were all busy while I was sleeping! I’ve no pertinent facts to add but if I’d been awake earlier (I must explain, Joanna, that I am in Canada, oh, and welcome) I would have been putting my hand up and shouting “Miss, Miss, it’s Hugo Melling!”
So my sole claim to fame is that I used Hugo Melling’s name to leave a review of a hotel on Trip Advisor. Favourable.