I'm off up the Lake District next week. :rubshands:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I'm going to walk up some f**k off hills and eat f**k off ploughman's lunches, and I can't wait.

What happened to my youth? :-(

[7evens]

Take some deet :-/

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Midges can bite my arse.

Oh.

There weren't any midges in October...

[Berni]

dinner - life doesn't have much more to offer, does it?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

What happened, b? :-(

The glw is mad for afternoon tea. I don't really understand afternoon tea. I don't want sandwiches, cream cakes or tea in the middle of the afternoon.

[Berni]

a drink at all. Don't understand it.

I never understand people who go to tearooms, either. It's one of those things about the English I'll just never get.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

On these occasions it is invariably 'a' glass of Champagne, which is no good whatsoever to a chap.

[Jake]

That'll make you feel all youthful.

[Luis Anaconda]

Your actual English midges get stuck in and show real commitment to the cause *












* I should stop this now

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

They'll have to send a helicopter and I bet the *******s would charge me for it.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Who'd have thought it?

[Berni]

[IUFG]

http://www.thomasgreens.nl/media/extra_9.png

not overly strong, but similar to the bedwetting quality of Old Peculiar

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Isn't bottled beer awfully gassy stuff? You know the problems I have with bloating.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

It was our 10th wedding anniversary and a quite lovely hotel.
All terribly fancy and nice.

As the waiter brought the assorted fancies I asked him to get me a pint of Guinness.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Had my pint, then another pint then left and went round the corner to Doheny & Nesbit.

I recall the same waiter then serving me in the lounge after dinner and laughing as he asked me if I “was enjoying my stay”.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Tea and sandwiches have their place.

Give me some time to ponder and I'll work out when that is.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Has a steam train. Some pub served me a massive lobster for 15 quid. Wossitcalled?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I don't really change physically, sw, I just wear the clothes and make up.

[Monty91]

[IUFG]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I will never again darken the door of any establishment with more than one Michelin star.

It's going to be pub grub for me on this trip. Mainly mixed grills.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Monty91]

May I recommend the Drunken Duck Inn. Fine food and they serve a beer tasting menu with about five different craft beers in leeeeetle glasses, which is probably a **** idea but the kind of thing that cretinous, wide-eyed tourists like me love.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Then I paid over 700 euros for two, for the privilege of feeling like a foie gras goose.

Said Duck has been highly recommended to me and is close by where I'm staying, i believe. Thank you.

[Berni]

have been simple affairs.

Besides, few things offer the potential for disappointment that a really high-end meal does.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Bloody good lobster, that.

[Berni]

What manner of c**t would even consider such a thing? For shame.

Ale is to be quaffed in a minimum of pints. It is not to be tasted, sniffed at and savoured. It is to slake a manly thirst. That means a minimum over a decent lunch of four pints.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I have also been able to enjoy the theatrical elements of 3 star cooking. I just feel I've had enough; perhaps I have simply overdone it recently.

[Berni]

He couldn't find a light though, bless him. :hehe:

Less amusingly, it was where thon chap started his shooting rampage a few years back.

*Not him out of Led Zeppelin.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I like a nice cag.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Jesus f**king christ.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It says Berghaus on them.

If I'm honest, we also have matching waterproof overtrousers :-(

We look a right pair of c**ts all dressed up, and no mistake.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Berghaus was once quite sought after, especially the Trango.


Sadly if you are going for the double matching head to toe ensemble you are simply channeling the utter bell-end look.

Not cool for SS 2015.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Not that that helps, of course.

[Berni]

'Yeah, but it's just food at the end of the day, isn't it?'

I don't mean that from a philistinic point of view. As you know, I love my grub to a fault. It's simply that food is really too commonplace and fundamental to our existence ever to truly transcend the quotidien. This for me is why there is something innately ridiculous about food****ery.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Don't ask me to defend you.

[Monty91]

I mean, it can obviously be very nice indeed, but never *quite* lives up to the fantasy, does it.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

absolutely have transcended the quotidien. I've just had to sit through far too many courses of 'this is bloody good grub' and paid far too much money in between.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

That's not what you said at the time.

[Monty91]

in particular when it coms to tasting menus.

When presented with a delicious dish, if I know it's going to be gone in just a few mouthfuls, the disappointment almost negates the fleeting pleasure.

This is why steaks are so good. You can always order one big enough to mitigate The Fear.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Greedy sod.

[Monty91]

'arrival'

That's no fun for anyone.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

than a 12-course tasting menu, you mean? Because both are not about what we think we should have or like, but actually just about what our bodies crave?

[Berni]

[Berni]

Indeed, I might go so far as to describe you as ever so slightly fey. :-(

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I don't know how I live with myself sometimes.

[Ashberto]

[Classic Jorge]

What IS it with you and wildling fanny?

[Ashberto]

And it looked like 1952 when I visited.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]