One of the things we can surely agree on, S. - the village bakers must make stotties...and..?

No! No!! No!!! No!!!! FFS, WAV - how long have you been living here? Here's the Golden Rule: Only Greggs can make Stotties. Simple. On my trips to Tyneside I bring a few back & freeze them, although we've given up having bread in the house of late. Out & about I must confess to finding Lancastrian barmcakes the equal of any stottie. My ideal picnic these days is half a chicken and bag of barmcakes from the Abingdon Barbecue in Blackpool then off along to the sun lounge on the North Pier to make up sarnies.   

So - we'll have stotties & barmcakes shipped in and leave the village bakers to less specialised pies, breads & cakes. On our recent Devon jaunt I got seriously into the bread pudding in the village bakers in Great Torrington - and on a jaunt across the border to Bude we stumbled on the perfect Cornish pasty. Mindblowing.

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Great film suggestions, you chaps. Forgot about the Glover link between Kes & Alien 3; one of the greats; much loved, much missed.

How about a Shane Meadows season?