Another pointless thread

I doubt that any of this thread's regulars have!

Agree with you there G, corks only go in a bottle once, after thet they get used to stop sharp things huring you, or hang around hat brims, or get thrown at the birds nicking your veg, or.....

BTW, saw a display in a restaurant window, a glass box full of corks, looking closely they were all new..

......so despite the 'excellent wine list' they had the bottles must have had plastic bungs instead!

More likely they are buying in bulk and bottling on the
premises and then charging the earth by the bottle

Some greasy spoon caffs are like that.... they have a dirty
10 year old Heinz 57 Ketchup bottle that they top up with
cheap stuff from a 5 gal. plastic container

In the 70's there used to be a camera club in Manchester with an
attached restaurant that had some of the pump-action wine
bottle openers that forced the cork out with air pressure...
they had to throw them away after they exploded a few bottles

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Just bought a 'big button' mobile for an elderly relative via Amazon. Was surprised to find they supply a £10 sim card for £6.99.

Whats the catch?, and should I buy a few dozen (that should keep her going for quite a while)- and save a few bob



regards
Bernard

I know it sounds mad, but hey it's me..

....we've just had a walk around the local park here in sunny France and I'm sure there was an alligator watching us!!!

No I haven't been drinking and Mrs HG saw it as well!

No swimming in that pond then....

Oh dear. Honesty, start padding the rooms at home!

I'm off to sunny (or possibly thunderstormy) New York in the morning. I don't think there's much worth photographing but I'm taking the camera anyway.

But I'll be popping in to see how you're getting on without me.

Which is pretty necessary since Mr Honesty is in traction, HG's got the DTs and something is bound to be broken in TT's world.

Where is Gwyn? Has she flown north for the winter.

HEY !!

I don't break stuff



err well not that often

Gareth - If you are going to NYC - have some Junior's Cheese cake - mmmmmmm my idea of heaven.

Photomonk introduced me to it - and he keeps rubbing it in how lovely it is

What`s the point in putting corks in empty bottles.

I spent ages last week looking for the cork as I'd actually left some wine in the third bottle, you can tell it was the third bottle as they all had screw caps

Screw Caps are bad for both the planet and the economy but good for the NHS

1) They will eventually put corkscrew manufacturers out of business
2) All the old corkscrew and modern cork removing implements will get thrown away and end up in a landfill
3)There will be no more accident trying to get a cork out with a cheap army knife.
4) There is a fourth reason but I can't think of one.

What have you done with Alan?

We're in Olonzak, France at the mo, the weather is warm, no sticky and warm, that's better.

The pond where the alligator is also has a large Red Eared Terrapin population.

Now, as neither species is native to France....

Well, a phone call this afternoon from work(!!) advised me that an external candidate had given a storng interview. they intimated that I wasn't getting the post I've been doing for the last 9 Months!!!

so it looks like I'm back on the bike and working shifts again, still...

....I'll earn more money for less work.

Oh phone calls like that when you are on holiday are really not wanted .

They never are when you are at work either


Bad luck HG - I'm sorry.

have a drink or 2 or more tonight

HG I think that they should have told you formally if you had the job. I think intimating in a phone call is very bad practice!

Dave