# So, who wants to help... to perpetuate the cellar? **URL:** \ **Category:** Not The Archers\ **Created:** [12 January 2020 18:29 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502 "2020-01-12T18:29:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 165
**Author:** ![joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/joe/32/126_2.png) [@joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/joe)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2020 13:53 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3282 "2020-03-21T13:53:13Z")
![image](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f9c68363104559f23b16401bed6ab9ce89a6eb4b.jpeg)[https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840x2160/1022916-George-Mikes-Quote-It-was-decided-almost-two-hundred-years-ago.jpg](https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840x2160/1022916-George-Mikes-Quote-It-was-decided-almost-two-hundred-years-ago.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/fanta/32/98_2.png) [@Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Fanta)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2020 14:31 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3283 "2020-03-21T14:31:56Z")
George Mikes was a rather splendid person in many ways. ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2020 17:07 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3284 "2020-03-21T17:07:09Z")
And he wasn’t George Steiner! Lest this statement baffle the casual reader, I was trying to think of George X’s name for some reason which now escapes me and my initial description - George Thing, Eastern European writer, spoke lots of languages - elicited the suggestion of Mikes from an Helpful Fish. ---
**Author:** ![Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/fanta/32/98_2.png) [@Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Fanta)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2020 18:05 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3285 "2020-03-21T18:05:42Z")
Yes, well, understandable error I feel. ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2020 18:07 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3286 "2020-03-21T18:07:07Z")
Oh, yes - entirely. ---
**Author:** ![joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/joe/32/126_2.png) [@joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/joe)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2020 18:15 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3287 "2020-03-21T18:15:24Z")
Have been experimenting again. V. hot & v. crusty… ![IMG_3155](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3445f0823fb88c7a00739426b4387ec7757414e6.JPG) (Steps smartly back) ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2020 18:19 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3288 "2020-03-21T18:19:34Z")
Oooh. That looks good. ---
**Author:** ![Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/carinthia/32/6542_2.png) [@Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Carinthia)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2020 18:26 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3289 "2020-03-21T18:26:39Z")
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_/ \<----- Me Plate Me Elbows are beeyoooutifully honed in these trying times… Carinthia.xx ---
**Author:** ![Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/fanta/32/98_2.png) [@Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Fanta)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2020 18:27 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3290 "2020-03-21T18:27:59Z")
Nancy is alive… Hurrah! > **[A tale for our times: laughter is still the best medicine | Nancy Banks-Smith](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/21/a-tale-for-our-times-laughter-is-still-the-best-medicine)** > > For one moment 100 years ago a war widow and a plague orphan had fun courtesy of Charlie Chaplin ---
**Author:** ![joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/joe/32/126_2.png) [@joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/joe)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2020 18:29 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3291 "2020-03-21T18:29:41Z")
Looking forward to trying it with the remains of the beef & Guinness stew. Getting a tad worried about future stocks, though - not a bag of flour to be had locally. ---
**Author:** ![Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/carinthia/32/6542_2.png) [@Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Carinthia)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2020 23:02 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3292 "2020-03-21T23:02:44Z")
I think that we need a round of Medicinals… Carinthia.xx ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2020 23:20 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3293 "2020-03-21T23:20:53Z")
Damn’ bloody right we do, Dahlink. Wotta good idea. Gxx ---
**Author:** ![HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/hedgesparrow/32/124_2.png) [@HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/HedgeSparrow)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2020 23:23 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3294 "2020-03-21T23:23:42Z")
Koskenkorva 60% for them as does. Wot I may not be able to replace easily if we don’t go to Finland. Orf to me nest. ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2020 23:40 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3295 "2020-03-21T23:40:38Z")
[starts sourcing parts for emergency pipeline] ---
**Author:** ![Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/carinthia/32/6542_2.png) [@Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Carinthia)\ **Post date:** [22 March 2020 00:08 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3296 "2020-03-22T00:08:27Z")
Looks through Odds & Sods in the garage Wonders if anything will suit… Carinthia.xx ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [22 March 2020 00:14 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3297 "2020-03-22T00:14:11Z")
> [@Carinthia](#): > > Odds & Sods Any Boring Sods would be particularly useful, Dahlink: happy to take 'em off yer hands. G xxxx ---
**Author:** ![Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/carinthia/32/6542_2.png) [@Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Carinthia)\ **Post date:** [22 March 2020 00:18 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3298 "2020-03-22T00:18:48Z")
Ha You know what itizz like in any garage/glory hole All that stuff saved ‘just in case’… Carinthia.xx ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [22 March 2020 08:16 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3299 "2020-03-22T08:16:46Z")
Urgle. That was a really _lousy_ nght’s sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/carinthia/32/6542_2.png) [@Carinthia](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Carinthia)\ **Post date:** [22 March 2020 08:31 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3300 "2020-03-22T08:31:37Z")
Tea Pee Back to bed… Carinthia.xx ---
**Author:** ![joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/joe/32/126_2.png) [@joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/joe)\ **Post date:** [22 March 2020 08:41 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/so-who-wants-to-help-to-perpetuate-the-cellar/2502/3301 "2020-03-22T08:41:41Z")
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