Alex

Adam Johnson's not exactly been setting the league alight since his move either.

Shame it's not Claire, you might've seen her at Weight Watchers.

Dorries basically penning her resignation letter there.

As are CT's one-liners

The aspirational / weekend millionaire culture prevalent on the soi-disant "Diamond Strip" is depressing.

Howay man, he's just a nurse.

I know it's not in Town but if you check out Nexus a load of their Metro car parks are free atm and the others are cheap anyway: http://www.nexus.org.uk/metro/park-and-ride Not sure if that's any good to you like.

Indeed. Cheers, Paddock Lad.

Got the recipe at home, I'll try and think on and post it up on here though.

He's not black [/Fop]

Martin, that top man!

Seemed daft not to when they were growing nearby though. You've got to be careful where you pick them though, as you don't want ones where they can be splashed by rainwater hitting the ground, spray off road traffic or pissed on by dogs etc. The liqueur's spot on like. Goes nice with sparkling wine, a bit like a Kir Royale.

I thought about making some fruit jam but we rarely eat it so it seemed a bit pointless. I have however just recently made some homemade bbq sauce, Tex-Mex salsa, sweet chilli jam, onion marmalade and autumn tomato chutney. Probably going to give some as Xmas presents as well. They all turned out to be really nice, even if I do say so myself, and I like cooking and shit anyway.

I would also add another mutual mate was extremely cynical about the whole thing, finding it particularly fishy that this lad was fine and well when he was taking Gary Abbletts and smoking loads of dope at university but suddenly developed the condition within weeks of getting a job with the DSS

My fault for not making myself clear but take this lass (just guessing, I don't know her), or a mate of mine. They probably needed a rocket up their arse years ago instead of being spoilt as a kid, put it that way. That doesn't take away from the fact he had a very real period of serious clinical depression but I do think his childhood was probably a factor given he was absolutely ruined. He's a mental health nurse now as it happens.

Self-medication is the way forward.

I find the proper butch ones really funny for some reason. That short hair, DMs, piercings, drainpipe jeans, lumberjack-shirt look. Especially when they're both dressed like that.

Not taking the piss (for a change) but I have a lot of admiration for people who do work like you do.

Made a few home-made infusions myself lately. Recent ones include Vanilla vodka (using pods rather than extract) Strawberry vodka (using real fruit) a home-made coffee liqueur (with a brandy base) and a blackberry liqueur (vodka-based and made with some blackberries I picked myself). I've also made some home-made chutneys of late. I Gemmill would say it's probably about time to hand my balls in.

Made a rather nice Dry Martini last night using Edinburgh Gin* and Noilly Prat *Highly recommended.

<Insert Gemmill/Blue Oyster Bar quip here>

That tout from Thomas Cook looked like he'd be good mates with Mr Wynn.

Fwiw wyki seems like a good lad to me but I wouldn't sign up as a Samaritan if I was him.

There's a pair of lesbians moved into my street. Not only that but one of them is canny smart. I thought they only existed in films going off the ones in the pink triangle in the Toon.