What have you been doing today?

[conny]

Would that cover Laphroaig? I was in my local several years ago and a friend had one bought for him. He found it hard going, and let me sniff the glass. It smelt horrible, like something industrial. I prefer mellow, easy drinking whiskies. Someone bought me a Monkey Shoulder and I'm now converted from JD. Even my brother who isn't big on whisky will easily drink a couple of doubles. I'm really a brandy person though.

Laphroaig is a lovely, smooth peaty whisky. Thats what started me off on it and, if it's still on promotion, you get to own a pice of land in Scotland for the rest of your life! (It cannot be bequeathed or transferred. It is solely for your use).
I've had a few others, Talisker is quite smoky, (nice). Islay is peaty with a hint of smoke. Just trying a Welsh one, Penderyn single malt, which is not bad but doesn't match the Scottish ones.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Laphroaig is a lovely, smooth peaty whisky. Thats what started me off on it and, if it's still on promotion, you get to own a pice of land in Scotland for the rest of your life! (It cannot be bequeathed or transferred. It is solely for your use).

They did something similar at the Jack Daniels distillery. When we visited I signed the visitors book and some time after returning home I received a very nice certificate saying I had been chosen to be a Tennessee Squire and now own a plot in Tennessee. The others who were with me were a bit miffed that they missed out. I realise it's a bit of marketing fun, but I enjoy the regular letters I get updating me on my 'plot'. If it really exists, it will probably only be big enough to grow a blade of grass. Nice thought though to be a squire of my favourite US state.

Not my actual deed, but I have one the same.

Tennesse Squire.jpg

• ReganAndCarter
• 14 Dec 2022

 

[Mottie]

Went out for a meal with our daughter and her husband tonight over North London to celebrate my birthday. They insisted on paying and wouldn’t have it when I tried to give them half. She also got me a present. She had asked Mrs Mottie what I would like and was told that I wanted a frost heater for my greenhouse over the allotment. She got me a really nice one. Only trouble it was electric and we don’t have electric over the allotment! She's sending it back and sending me a link for the place so that I can can choose a Parrafin one.

Hooray - a Parrafin heater at last! Just gotta get me some Parrafin. What time does the Esso Blue man come round these days?

She won’t be doing that when it’s running!

 

[crystal ball]

Boom boom boom boom Esso Blue

 

[Mottie]

 

[conny]

They did something similar at the Jack Daniels distillery. When we visited I signed the visitors book and some time after returning home I received a very nice certificate saying I had been chosen to be a Tennessee Squire and now own a plot in Tennessee. The others who were with me were a bit miffed that they missed out. I realise it's a bit of marketing fun, but I enjoy the regular letters I get updating me on my 'plot'. If it really exists, it will probably only be big enough to grow a blade of grass. Nice thought though to be a squire of my favourite US state.

Not my actual deed, but I have one the same.

Tennesse Squire.jpg

• ReganAndCarter
• 14 Dec 2022

Nice certificate.

My plot is 1' x 1' and, should I decide to visit, they will provide me with the appropriate PPE which will consist of the following;
1 x pair size 12 wellingtons, (approx 1' long),
Headgear to protect against low flying geese,
A short length of string to secure trouser legs against inquisitive stoats.
1 x anchor so you don't get blown out to sea if, (when), it is windy.

 

[Mottie]

Nice certificate.

My plot is 1' x 1' and, should I decide to visit, they will provide me with the appropriate PPE which will consist of the following;
1 x pair size 12 wellingtons, (approx 1' long),
Headgear to protect against low flying geese,
A short length of string to secure trouser legs against inquisitive stoats.
1 x anchor so you don't get blown out to sea if, (when), it is windy.

Pah, I’ll see your 1’x1’ plot of land on this planet and raise you a whole star that I bought from the international star registry and named it after Mrs Mottie. Dunno when we'll get to visit though…….

 

[conny]

The trouble with stars is, they can tell you it's XXX by YYY sq million miles across and you have to trust them.
At least I can walk round my plot and measure it with each welly!

 

[Ihavenojob]

Pah, I’ll see your 1’x1’ plot of land on this planet and raise you a whole star that I bought from the international star registry and named it after Mrs Mottie. Dunno when we'll get to visit though…….

It may not exist any more.

 

[Mottie]

It may not exist any more.

Damn! That’s fifty quid I’ll never see again. I thought it was cheap for a whole star. If it’s too good to be true…..

 

[conny]

There's also the chance your star has been sold to countless others who have called it something different.

 

[securespark]

Laphroaig is absolutely gorgeous, but then again, I adore Stilton and that's another acquired taste!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I took the dog for a walk, to the local pet shop, to buy her a bone. They had none, just lots of fancy and very expensive chews. I then thought to try the local butchers, and they had none either. One very disappointed dog on the way home.

 

[JonathanM]

I'm begging @Mottie's forbearance, I'm not trying to derail another of your threads. But I used to be really confused by Scotch whisky terminology, and I wondered if anyone would find my go at explaining it helpful.

Scotch whisky can be made from barley, wheat or maize.

If it’s made from barley, it’s called malt whisky. And if it comes solely from one distillery, it is a single malt.

If it’s made from wheat or maize, it’s called grain whisky.

A traditional blended whisky is made by mixing several, different single malts, with some grain whisky. Usually at least a dozen different single malts, but it can be many more, as many as fifty are used I think in premium blends.

A newer innovation is blended malt whisky, which for a time they tried to label “pure malt”, and that is several single malts, without any grain whisky.

Recently there have been a small number of single grain whiskies, but I think that’s more of a novelty.

 

[Brigadier]

I took the dog for a walk, to the local pet shop, to buy her a bone. They had none, just lots of fancy and very expensive chews. I then thought to try the local butchers, and they had none either. One very disappointed dog on the way home.

A Black Country man went to a local sculptor, to have his recently-deceased and much-loved dog memorialised in a gold statue.
He showed the artist a photo of his beloved pooch, to get an idea of the likeness and pose to recreate.
"18 carat?", the sculptor asked.

"Nah," the bloke replied. "Chewin' a boon!"