Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

A good programme at 5pm today on BBC1 Supermarket secrets, well worth a watch.
On next week as well. A portion of the programme was on the wine industry and how Tesco knows what to order in the run up to Christmas. A lot of wine is drunk in the run up to the big day and then the emphasis switches to champagne on the big day and for the new year, as well as wine. A huge vessel came in the docks from Australia carrying 40ft standard containers. I thought they would be packed with boxes of wine but there was not one glass bottle on the ship, with millions of ltrs on board. The 40ft containers had a huge plastic liner that was filled with wine, all air tight.Only one liner per container. They were than emptied into vats and all the bottling was done here. The wine industry has moved on. :-))

Bulbs - your living in the past. :-))

Dreamcatcher, thank goodness I never drink Aussie wines! Rocket fuel!

Dennis Skinner (aka The Beast of Bolsover) is always good entertainment. It would be a shame if he wasn't around, no matter how barmy he is.

lol. doodlebug4.

the problem with this one imo, is that the NuLab toffs stood by and let it happen/covered up when in power...so it's a bit rich to be pointing the bone at this stage.

What a pathetic excuse for a no show.

http://news.sky.com/story/1387592/farage-blames-immigration-for-ukip-event-no-show

Nigel Farage has blamed immigration for failing to turn up at a UKIP event in Wales at which 100 people had paid £25 each to meet him.

The UKIP leader said that population growth had resulted in a snarled-up M4 motorway that made the journey take far longer than expected.

He has been accused of a lack of professionalism after failing to attend the "Meet Nigel Farage" evening in Port Talbot.

"It took me six hours and 15 minutes to get here – it should have taken three-and-a-half to four," he told BBC's Sunday Politics Wales.

"That has nothing to do with professionalism, what it does have to do with is a country in which the population is going through the roof chiefly because of open-door immigration and the fact that the M4 is not as navigable as it used to be."

You bin on the M25 lately Haystack?

Come on Carl.

Foggy for me to win it, too. :-)

They are all bloody Welsh in Port Talbot. Damn the b, foreigners.

When the knew Farage was coming somebody must have change the road signs around.

MAX,

Under which administration were the records lost?

He was talking about the M4. And I have been on both the M25 and M4 recently. It has nothing to do with immigration. The roads have become congested at a far higher rate than immigration. It. Is always the same. When you build new roads, the capacity gets used up and traffic patterns change.

I'd like Fogarty to win, but I suspect that the other guy will win. Is his name Jake or something?

No, it's not Luke, so it definitely must be Something.

:-)

Well done to Carl. One of the best series, no the best. Great team.

Point taken Fred.


They're all in toghether.

Could be haze and Manuel.

Tom Kerridge
i see there's a stack of his yuletide recipes in today's guardian
i confess that none of them appealed much

meanwhile, his new so-called tapas bar/pub has just opened in marlow - it seats just 45
it looks very nice, but i suspect that your bill there will come as a bit of a shock .... nevertheless, i'll give it a whirl early in the new year (prob not before) as it is within walking distance

glad to see that TK has also lost about 5 stone in recent months - good job as he was assuredly "morbidly obese"!