Kimbo

Back in the early seventies, they used to do a fantastic big crusty cheese and onion batch at the Green Man at the bottom of Hall Green Road. Sadly the Brew XI didn't quite match up. Remember that pub? My local at the time as we backed onto it.

I isn't 'from' incleh me duck. Consider yersen 'picked up' (ooer) agin.

Tamm means Oak. Ski would be a very odd ending to a surname in a country with a Finno-Ugric language TBF. (I'm half Estonian BTW, although I'm not sure which half ).

Have you seen swede called rutabaga in Cov then? I never have. Mind you, whatever you call it, it should be placed straight in the bin to cut out the middleman

It's now 20 months since I touched a drop. I can't honestly say I feel any better for it, and certainly didn't lose weight (although I'm one of those that only has to breathe in the vicinity of a Mars Bar to but a pound on. Always have been). However, I'm sure my liver thanks me, and it's nice not to wake up feeling like scheisse after a big session, so definitely worth it. On the subject of alcohol-free beers, I started off by drinking a few of them, but now I can't really be bothered and tend to drink more tea and coffee. In fact we're five weeks into a tour of France and I still have a coolbag half full of them in the moho's 'garage'. I think I've probably drunk five or six (mostly Beavertown Lazer Crush and Brooklyn Special Effects, both of which I really like, but I really have to be in the mood to even bother nowadays). It really does get easier the longer you go on - but my daughters still ask if I dropped it for health reasons! No. Not really, but I suppose that's a genuine benefit - I hope...

Cornish Pirates averaged 1435. Edit: Apologies, their home average was 1550. The 1435 is their averaged away games attendance.

I've no idea what they're described as - it just looks like a versatile, nicely balanced, well-made little knife. TBH, I get fed up sharpening her Wüsthof knives (did them yet again yesterday), so I'm just hoping for an improvement.

It's probably the alleged 'Samurai' thing! Madame bought it to keep in the motorhome, apparently. I've insisted she buys the optional leather scabbard for it if that's the case...

'er indoors bought this the other day. Seems promising.

Yeah. Same steel, but wood fibre handle as opposed to the wholly-steel construction of the Culinar. Probably a better grip with yours - ours maybe a bit more durable.

I'm just not sure about Wüsthof knives. We bought a block of them about 20 years ago (Culinar, forged, not the cheaper stamped ones they also do) and have never been over impressed by their edge-retention, especially considering the eye-watering price. You can probably put it down to 'very good yet not very special' steel compared to some of the Japanese varieties, but I really don't think they're quite there. The breadknife, however, is excellent, which makes the rest of them seem even more disappointing.