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  1. Well that sounds good. How much does he charge per session?
  2. Cheers. Do you revisit periodically or were you treated and never had to go back?
  3. Funny that. I lived in Leeds 20 years ago. The birth is very different south of it I understood. I lived on the n side. I found the people really very straightforward, outgoing, friendly. You mentioned being proud of being from Sheffield. Why?
  4. Where did you go spilldig?
  5. The nice Lidl one was Fronsac. As for non-mentioned ones, i,ve been tbrough many if not all of the red wines of Lidl and Sainsbury's standard ranges for French and Spanish wines. I also drink Chilean, S African and Portuguese from time as well Italian. Australian i find too sweet fromxs cherry notes. At least the ones on offer in the UK. Whites most of the French and Spanish range, some of the Italian, some German from Lidl, Sainsburys, Aldi. Morrisons, waitrose. I also now and them go to wine merchants and try a Montrachet, spending £30 for a wine whuch frankly turns no more characterful than a bottle Entre Deux Mars from Sainsburys. Thus has happened to more than once. Once in Beaune i had a beautiful bottle of Montrachet, it tasted like sunlight on a meadow. I also enjoyed Aligote which was a pleasant poor cousin, (mercifully one can occasionally see it in Sainsburys), a great Pomerol in a restaurant in Norwich (difficult to get in smarkets), most of which merlots are character free, a beautiful buttery Beaune from Waitrose in 1998. Subsequent trials from Waitrose and other smarkets have been cases of over cherried icecream tastes, not the lovely buttery silken taste of that 1998 Beaune.
  6. Grapes yield 12.5%_13% max alc. Above this is only reached thru inclusion of stalks and leaves for the sugar in their sap. Sure the booze rises but the flavour drops.
  7. As i drift round the snoopermarkets and occassional visuts to a vintners and slide in a few bottles of booze, i find my optimistism seldom rewarded. The wines are these days predominantly drowned in one or more of the following flavours: Cherry -nasty sweet notes. If i wanted i lollipop, i'd buy one! Vanilla-sickly sweet notes. If i wanted ice cream, ... Other- bland in the extreme I dont smoke, so i guess my taste buds still function. E.g By sheer luck, in was in Ludl at Christmas and saw a wine there which i had not tried. It was surpringly excellent. Thats probably the 1st bottle of wine ive really enjoyed in years. It tasted of wood and books, characterful. Ive reached the state where i can't be bothered to waste money and my liver drinking ever more bland wines. Has any one else found the same?
  8. My understanding is that to make the best of the delicate flavour of salads, one really shouldnt plsce a book on it. ;-)
  9. On a different nutty subject, i mixed black, camargue, briwn and white rice and use this as my rice stock. It has a v distinctive flavour. Yet having ploughed through its blinking nuttyness for maybe a 8 months now, i'm sick to death of it. It doesnt quite act as a fragrant foil to thai curry for example, whereas basmati does. So nuts schmutz, as i imagine they in new york.
  10. Marmite? Devil food! ---------- Post added 07-02-2018 at 07:36 ---------- A note on pulses. Pulses must be soaked in water. Preferably overnight. I'd recommend 3x the volume of water as weight of pulses. Next morning, pour off water. Rinse-swirl in new water ( a big sieve is useful or a deep saucepan- let the pulses settle before pouring off wash water) Then boil hard 10 mins, before simmering 30-40 mins. The 30-40mins part can be as part of a dish eg stew casserole soup. ---------- Post added 07-02-2018 at 07:44 ---------- My view, have been force fed stew at home when i was young is tgats unbearable. The fat turns to blobs with simmering. With fatty meat... Stew is devil food Better to casserole it, which renders (melts the fat down fully or otherwise crisps it mmm). Same ingredients, just stick in oven gas mark 4/ 180'C.
  11. I like my mum's ;-) Home made custard, the bread, fruit, spices. And a big dollop of whipped fresh cream or custard. Mwuh. Mamma mia!
  12. Maybe. About 3 month ago i was on the road between the m1 and chesterfield. I was following the limit. Bollards cut 2 lanes to 1. At the same point an old fella moved out in front from a layby. He had moved out exceptionally close in front of me, and my mind made a conscious choice between hitting him by braking as hard as poss. Or trying to swerve round him and hope to god there were no hgvs round the bend. So the bollards got it. Went flying. He was untouched. I was extremly lucky. And shaking. I pulled off somewhere to gather my wits before timidly and carefully continuing.
  13. Right Alf thanks thats useful and thanks for the offer. I might just take you up on that yet, althought i need to pick up my kit from home.
  14. Today in Sheffield an unsuspecting public is being sold breadcakes. This so called speciality (read ruin) of the bread world is a spongy tastleless pap mass produced soft bap which easily holds the contents of any filling. But enough of its virtues, what other features characterise the sheffield breadcake (SBC)? Approximately 5 inches wide and 3 high, it swallows a 3 inch wide burger or 2 or 3 slices of bacon with ease. Typically sold without the flavour encumbrance of butter (no rxpense spent), the breadcake more often than not offers a good inch on every side untouched by filling, all the more to delight expectant Sheffield customers, who are reputed by the owner of Sarnlight Sarnies, Stanley Ribsworth to moan orgiastically as they chomp into their SBCs. However he teputes, he might give up his popular comestible emporium as the customers have are grumbling about too much filling in the centre 3 inches ruining the blandness. But what of the poor sandwich shop seller. The ratio of 3 inch burger to 5inch wide SBC at 36% the SBC's area is what keeps him awake at night. He'll be ruined! . Aye the poor loves have to fill their SBCs by as much as up to 36% area! No wonder everyone's turning in to mega lump, sighs Stan. So there we have it ladies and gentleman. The SBC, the wonder of Sheffield. Long may it dominate the tastefree offerings of sandwich shops across Sheffield.
  15. I think it means they'll have to stop making policy pronouncements they just cant fulfil.
  16. Pages from a Cold Point Well alot of views all in all. And thanks to every one for them. And now for my reflections after a little while being here. I walk to work every day. And on the journey, in either direction, i've never seen a single face which looks happy. This is extremely off putting if i'm honezt. Additionally, i,ve not had a single person volunteer a conversation with me. Agaist that, when i have started conversations, i've found the person personable. So my impression is that Sheffield people hide their light under a bushel. As for the city and suburbs, if you're young i guess it could be ok. If you're older and came here alone, i havent found a lot of diversion within the city. I'm not interested in spectator sports or shopping. The peaks are nice, but access is limited to weekends if you want to see them in the daylight. So i guess i'm going to be cursed now, but they're my impressions so far anyway. They may yet change.
  17. Thanks Alf. Woyld you know if they have a league where individuals can offer likewise a game?
  18. Maybe there's a hole in your exhaust. Or maybe the exhaust is fine and its just a high revver (=noisy) and calms down when its off choke (revs drop)- nothing you can do about that. Soemtimes its worth asking a garage how to make your bike a quieter starter-cheaply.
  19. I'd guess either you're the closest or they've had complaints too
  20. It was Britney passing by on a canoe with Elnett, singing Oooweee oooowuuuu, it's toxic x20
  21. Well thanks for the update.. I,LL make a note for Christmas.
  22. Space tends to be 11% and its widely available. Dry, crisp and fresh tasting. ---------- Post added 28-08-2017 at 09:51 ---------- Gruener veltiner might be 11% or there about. It's very nice but £7-8. ---------- Post added 28-08-2017 at 09:53 ---------- Aligote tastes like summer hay smells, it's a beautiful burgundian white. The poor cousin of the Montrachets, but some if the same genes shine through. It's about £8 in Sainsbroids ---------- Post added 28-08-2017 at 09:55 ---------- Was this a dry or sweet version? And if dry, can you recall where you bought it? Thanks
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