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Totally agree. Co-op do 500ml bottles of Czech lager under their own brand and it's brewed in Prague at the Staropramen brewery. Nice stuff it is as well.

Never knew that. Just Googled it and you are right. Brewed in Spain since the 50's though and it's a darned fine beer. Now owned by the Mahou group (Mahou red label is my ultimate favourite Spanish beer but I've never seen it for sale in Blighty). I'll look out for the Filipino version but don't...

Yes I thought Corgi and its successor Gas Safe had rid us all of the cowboy gas installers after those two students died from boiler fumes years ago.

DAB lager (Dortmund Actien Brauerei). Lovely. Only a couple as I'm having an Ollie Reed session on Friday.

Today's new Raleigh bikes aren't proper Raleighs as we knew them. A consortium bought the name when Raleigh, Nottingham packed up (the main Raleigh factory at Crown Island, Nottingham was demolished a few years ago and is now student flats). Modern Raleighs are assembled at a factory in...

Those pods need coming off otherwise he'll be spraying his advertising all over the place. Irresistible to a female in season but stinks to high heaven.

Sounds like he's not being looked after very well if he does have an owner. I'd take him to the vet to check for a chip and if he hasn't got one just adopt him. Good on you. Me and the squaw have fed and adopted countless moggies over the years. We've just found homes for a batch of four kittens...

San Miguel sold in the UK is all brewed under licence by Bulmers. I used to buy the big brown 1 litre bottles of Spanish made San Mig up till about 15 years ago when they disappeared. The Bulmers Ersatz version is boggin. My local offy occasionally gets in tins of the Spanish made stuff but it's...

Good point about Fords earlier. My bro-in-law worked at a Ford dealership in the 80's. Brand new Sierras delivered with non of the hoses connected behind the dashboard all sorts of problems. Literally nailed together. Thank goodness Fords are now German or Spanish. I'm on my second German built...

I was talking about cars with my son (thirty years my junior) and particularly some bad experiences with British Leyland/ Austin Rover/ Rover masterpieces such as Marinas, Allegros, Maestros and the later 214. He thought I was making it up about how unreliable and badly made they were. He said...

I often found air rifles to be much more accurate that air pistols for ratting purposes. You can get assault rifle lookalikes that are pre-charged with C02 and have thirty round magazines (single shot only, not auto). Mind you I wouldn't want to be caught waving one of these around as there'd be...

I physically ejected two aunts (my mothers sister and half-sister) from my mothers house after she died when I found them squabbling over the contents of her wardrobe.

Receipt

Standard fayre from Nose. As usual missed the point and has given himself a smiley face and a thumbs up. Nose presently standing naked in front of the wardrobe mirror doing Arthur Askey impressions chortling to himself. You're as witty as rabies in a dogs home mate. Give it up and put the...

If the builder was 'waisted' (wasted?) and 'wining' maybe that explains the end result.

Postie delivered my TV licence renewal letter today. I don't have to do anything it just politely reminds me how much per month is coming out of my bank account. I turned on the tv this evening and what do I get for Saturday evening prime time viewing? Yet another repeat of Dad's Army. Is...

freezers I mean

If the drum bearings are going the washer will spin unevenly and vibrate excessively. Beko isn't the greatest manufacturer of washing machines to be honest (or fridges, fridges and cookers for that matter.......Turkish made). I'd get the service engineer out under the guarantee. I made the...

Re: the very sound advice from Peanut the reason you should fill the bath with water before you seal is that the bath drops slightly with the weight. If you don't do this, after you have sealed, and someone takes a bath, the bath will drop with the persons bodyweight/ weight of the bath water...

At just under a fiver for a tube of silicone sealant I don't think B & Q is particularly good value. My local DIY shop sells it for £1.40 a tube.