BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Scrump
Date: 05 Feb 07 - 03:32 PM

Just tapwater please. Had a heavy weekend.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Mingulay
Date: 05 Feb 07 - 04:50 PM

It's a pint of Tetley's for Scrump then lol.

Passes Geoff an Owd Roger, cheers mate.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Scrump
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 10:31 AM

Tapwater? I must be mad. I could have had the most expensive poncey mineral water from some foreign country, flown here at great expense.

Ah well, at least I was doing my bit for the environment.

Tell yer what - I'll have a pint of the original Ruddles County, from Rutland, 5% abv, vintage 1975 or thereabouts. Not to be confused with the stuff sold by Greene King under that name, which bears absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to the original stuff, apart from the sadly abused name, which is an insult to a great beer.

...ahhhhhhhhhhh, that's good stuff, just as I remember it. I'll have to try a few more of these ales from yesteryear.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: MMario
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 10:32 AM

GEOFF! SF books biting the dust? that is disastrous!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 11:35 AM

Scrump - I'll join you in a few pints of proper County (sighs heavily) a lovely little brewery in a lovely little village with a lovely samplng bar. The best pint of County you could get. Living not far from Langham I managed to make several visits.

I wouldn't mind a few more pints of Melbourne's from Stamford while we're digging up long dead beers.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: MMario
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 11:39 AM

someone toss another bodrhan on the fire, please - it's COLD out!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: lady penelope
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 04:52 PM

Pint of Glayva over here. It's for medicinal purposes you know.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 05:06 PM

Does that count as solid food? I'm off solid food at the moment... don't ask.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Joe_F
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 09:10 PM

This scene bears a certain resemblance to the mucking of Geordie's byre.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Scrump
Date: 07 Feb 07 - 10:33 AM

"I wouldn't mind a few more pints of Melbourne's from Stamford while we're digging up long dead beers. "

GUEST,Mingulay at work - good idea mate, I'll join you.

Cheers!

...And for the next round I think I'll have a 1970s pint of Young's Special, before they tampered with the recipe and 'dumbed it down', to make it appeal to a wider market, thereby losing nearly all its character. And of course, more recently, they've stopped making it altogether (the stuff you get now is brewed in Bedford, and rebadged as Young's- yuk!)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Feb 07 - 05:29 PM

Well, the UK is all settled in for a blizzard tonight - we've already had dire warnings of distress from the train companies. I've done all my ironing, scraped a table out from under the piles of paper and assorted crap, cleared the litter tray and finally found an address I've been needing since last December. We've sorted the spare room so MudGuard has somewhre to sleep tomorrow without having to share with a box of teddy bears and the Christmas decorations. I think it's time to settle back into a comfy chair with a bottle of something and the cross stitch I'm attempting to finish before my birthday.

Make it une bootey de Pineau de Charentes silver plate!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Scrump
Date: 07 Feb 07 - 05:32 PM

Hope there are plenty of winter ales in the cellar.

I'll start with a pint of Brickwood's Winter Royal, 1960s vintage.

Cheers!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Scrump
Date: 07 Feb 07 - 05:33 PM

Agh! I meant Brickwood's Pompey Royal. I was getting mixed up with Wethered's Winter Royal (1970s). Tell yer what - I'll have a pint of each, please!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 05:52 AM

The book damage isn't as bad as first feared, about 30 totally trashed, but only a couple which wouldn't be replaceable. The one which made most impact is one called Fury, by Henry Kuttner, but I've just checked on Amazon and it's available so I may be in a position to sort out a new old copy.
I'll have a pint of Riggwelter to celebrate. Cheers.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Scrump
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 08:07 AM

As it's still snowing, I'm gonna have a pint of original 1970s Young's Winter Warmer (not the feeble rubbish made in Bedford today).

Cheers!... ah, that's warmed me up already.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 03:24 PM

I don't believe it.. you spend days sorting out and cleaning a room and the bloody guest goes and gets snowed out!

Ah well, time for a non-alcoholic beverage before he gets here.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Alec
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 03:28 PM

It's not snowing up here so I think I'll have a Rum Collins to get me in a summery mood.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Schantieman
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 03:45 PM

No snow to speak of here. :-(

"I've done all my ironing" Liz - you'll have to explain that concept to me.   And clearing the table as well, come to think of it.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 07:41 PM

They are fairly new concepts and now of course, my drawers don't shut. I don't think I've ever had ALL of my clothes (except the ones I'm actually wearing now) clean and ironed all at the same time.

Clearing the table is easy... clearing the stuff off the sofa isn't.

Another hour or so and my recalcitrant guest will be here so line me up a pinot for then!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: JennyO
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 09:18 PM

Liz, before your guest arrives, could I have a glass of that Pineau De Charentes you mentioned earlier? It's lovely stuff - nectar of the gods!

I first had some when visiting my brother in France. Unfortunately it's very hard to come by down here in the Antipodes :-( he brought a couple of bottles when he visited in July, but - well- that was July.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Scrump
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 09:43 AM

my drawers don't shut

Ooerr, LTS - too much information! :D

As it's a Friday afternoon, I might start early. Let's see now, how about a pint of the original, real, genuine Hartleys XB from Ulverston (not the Robinson's stuff they flog nowadays).

...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. What a pint. Cheers!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 09:54 AM

Liz, maybe we should hire the squid to come in and clear out clutter for us? All of those arms should allow for effective multi-tasking. I have a couch and a table that are the match of what you describe. (Clean laundry dumped on the couch for folding, table has accumulation of mail and unread newspapers).

Let's start the weekend early--I'll order a tray of something savory and a California zinfandel to wash it down. I wonder if MMario is cooking up anything out back?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: MMario
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 10:01 AM

It's spring cleaning time in the tavern kitchen as well. There's a big pot of soup/stew simmering; and a casserole or ten in the oven. If someone's a bit peckish I can reheat the brontosaurus ribs, but I don't think there's any sauce left to go with them.

And I had to toss the elasmosaurus. It was definately "off"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Scrump
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 11:18 AM

Hey, I hadn't thought of retro food as well as ales.

Is there any of that curried mammoth left? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: MMario
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 11:20 AM

It's still frozen, Scrump.

Extinct Epicurean delights are the 'specialitie de maison' as it were.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: GUEST,Geoff the Duck
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 03:48 PM

MMario, old chap.
This weekend on British Telly there is a new "adventure" programme starting. It is called Primeval and would appear to based around a rift in time letting dinosaurs and the like escape into modern day England.
It's not the result of your "shopping" trips is it?

If not, would you like to forward us a list of beasts you would like to try, and I'll keep an eye out for them...
Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: MMario
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 03:51 PM

I don't *think* so, Geoff.

Of course there was that unfortunate incident of the Pterydactyl that followed me back to Warwickshire, but that was in 1586 and it ran afoul of a herd of wild hay bales.

NO one noticed it except the ratcatcher. And he was drunk, so no one paid him never mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Alec
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 04:19 AM

The rain is coming sideways & Spring seems a long way away.
I believe I shall have the full English & a double espresso to cheer myself up.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: lady penelope
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 11:45 AM

Oooh, my leg and ankle are smarting from the trip to the osteopath....need mucle relaxant..... Oh hurrah! there's still some heather ale.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 03:01 PM

I dunno... a few days away and no-one bothers to do anything here!

Squiddy ~ saw a relative of yours in the Portaferry aquarium. She would have sent her love but she was busy pressing her bottom against the glass.

Never did get to open the Pinot - picked up a 6'4" Bavarian at 1.15am and got him to bed at about 2am. As we left at 8.30am later that morning, we didn't get time to drink it. I will rectify that shortly.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: MMario
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 03:05 PM

wow, Liz! You're stronger then I thought. Or the bavarian is a light-weight.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 05:09 PM

I come up to his armpit - I used the car!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Gizmo
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 05:18 PM

I think I'll have some Fecking Whiskey - just pour it in.

Fecking EEC rules stated that I could not take the Fecking whiskey into Fecking England, via duty free airport. Fecking rules and fecking country and fecking EEC for that too.

Fecking whiskey here - right fecking now!

GTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 05:23 PM

Not a brand I know - is it single malt or blended?
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 06:19 PM

Who the feck knows?!

It's available in Ireland but not made it across the water yet, possibly because it contravenes several Health and Safety rules, breaks the Geneva convention governing hazardous waste and makes your guitar break out in shiny spots.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Gizmo
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 06:47 PM

...And accordians.

GTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 04:04 AM

Ah yes... the Iron Lung got a touch, didn't it.

Off to the museum in a bit so pass me the Icelandic 'Black Death'.... if you can find who snaffled the bottle!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 05:15 AM

I thought that the Geneva convention was that you had to put juniper berries in everything!
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 01:54 PM

No, that's the Jenever convention.

Besides, cranberries are tastier.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:00 AM

LtS, how do you KNOW it was her BOTTOM??? Such knowledge is normally confined to other cephalopods and the (very) odd marine biologist.

Psssttt!!! wanna see some squid porn?

By the way is there any of that Pussies Rum left?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:04 AM

A hot buttered rum and hot ruttered bum, please. It's cold here.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Scrump
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 10:04 AM

A bottle of vintage 1977 Thomas Hardy Ale, please. It's a bit early, but what the hell. You only live once. Unless you're a cat of course. Which I'm not. At least, if I am, how come I don't have a tail? I'm not from the Isle of Man. That's the only island I know that proves that know-all Donne wrong.

Ah... lovely stuff. Ta!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 11:06 AM

I'll have one of what Rapaire is having. It's cold here, also. Geez, I'm getting tired of this. Why bother living in Texas if the weather is just like Idaho? Brrrr!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:28 PM

Squiddy - her eyes were at the other end.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Mingulay
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 02:42 PM

Scrump

You now have me drooling big time. I was once the proud owner of 2 dozen Hardy Ales and not one of them opened. They disappeared in a move 20 years ago and would have been nicely matured by now.

Still reduces me to tears. Just have to settle for a pint of Batemens XXXB instead.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 04:44 PM

Mingulay... we have a matched pair in our cellar...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: MAG
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:36 PM

My shoulder's out (of where it should be), I've had the painkillers and the acupuncturist, my little band is supposed to play for a school, tomorrow, and I'm gonna open this here NPR (National Public Radio) show recommended La Boca chardonnay, and chill for awhile ...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Scrump
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 10:01 AM

Mingulay... we have a matched pair in our cellar...

Put them both into a pint glass please LTS. I believe a new crate is being delivered as we speak.

Cheers!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Mingulay
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 03:20 PM

Lts, how much do you want for the house..............













...............and contents?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Mingulay
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 03:23 PM

Oooooooooooonnnnnneeeeeeeeeee huuuuuuuunnnddddrrrreeeedddddddddddd.

Bloody squid just slithered over my keyboard.