Ding dong merrily on high!

Talisker is always welcome - I've never tried Highland Park. Locke's is good.

I had a very nice, peaty Laphroig or three in the pub the other evening while MC'ing the Brighton Acoustic Session. The MC'ing went well - as did the driving home, 'cos I was in the back seat!

There's a lovely shop in Bakewell, Derbyshire, called The Malt Shop, which - as the name implies - sells mainly malts (from all over the place, including a prize-winning one from Japan) and glasses, etc. There used to be a similar one in Brighton, but it closed for some reason.