Meenzer

Can't remember if this has been posted before elsewhere, but it's a heck of a tale: http://www.utsalumni.org/news/how-one-man-escaped-from-a-north-korean-prison-camp-3549/

Someone in WH Smith isn't a fan.

Murderer.

Had never really investigated The The, other than his/their occasional forays into chartland back when I was a TOTP aficionado. Gave "Dusk" a Spotify spin last night and I'll definitely be back for more.

Tom Waits is the daddy. But John Darnielle (Mountain Goats) runs him close.

Worked my way through a duty-free bottle of Jura Diurach's Own (with a friend!) over four nights on holiday. Very, very nice indeed. Easy drinking. http://www.aspiringgentleman.com/scotch/scotch-reviews/isle-of-jura-diurachs-own-16-years/

Aww, that's just brilliant.

I'm a traditionalist. If it's not pear then it's not Kopparberg, no matter how much they try to besmirch the brand with such variants.

The obvious pun machine was obstructed by several days of holiday. Normal service will now be resumed.

If that's what you need to make it taste like pear cider, there's something very wrong in your brewing process somewhere.

No need to be rude, it was an honest question

Just got back from four days on, in and around the Swiss end of Lake Maggiore. Lovely part of the world and not a bad place to kick back with a beer and just relax (if you can ignore the Swissness of it all).

Still in the spare room at my parents' place, still basically working. Not entirely sure why (on either count).

Magnificent

I was in Lincoln for the first time the other weekend, thought it seemed really quite nice. But aye, I can see how you'd grow out of it.

Been better - just been woken by a text telling me that my flight's been cancelled. They've rebooked me but it means losing the first daytime of a four-day holiday. Oh well. Must think happy thoughts about the wine at the other end.

Oh, I don't know... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl7UpnEh7H4

I really need to get some image editing software that isn't from 1998.

I'd forgotten about that

Ee, I'd forgotten about her. When she was on the show, one of the tabloids mass-messaged all of us who'd been to the same school on Friends Reunited (speaking of "where are they now"...) to fish for gossip. I should have made something up.

"And parmesan's meant to be a powder!"

At least he's familiar with the concept of keeping things shrink-wrapped for safety.

And, since we're in that territory, the aforementioned "bum"

That's where he... caught your eye?

Can't see him hacking it abroad on a personal level like, he can barely cope with being a few hours from Tyneside by car.