Posing pouch or a thong - of course!Originally Posted by Marco
Y-fronts or boxers? Don't spoil the illusion!
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Posing pouch or a thong - of course!Y-fronts or boxers? Don't spoil the illusion!
Marco.
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Ok, those delicious summer Rosés....
Sainsbury's currently have a very nice 'Taste the Difference' Côtes de Provence Rosé at £7.99. It comes in the traditional 'skittle'-style bottle, which has a shape that is between an amphora vessel and a bowling pin. Sorry, couldn't find a pic of this particular wine...
It is typically pale in colour and bone-dry on the palate, exhibiting good structure with delicate fruity and floral notes, which marry nicely in combination with white meats, fish, and in particular a lovely Salade Niçoise - enjoy
The other one worth mentioning is Campo de Borja Campaneo Rosado Selección 2009, available from Asda for £6:
This wine is deep salmon-pink in colour and much richer and more full-bodied than the above Côtes de Provence Rosé. It is vibrant and fresh and positively bursts with intense fruit flavours, such as raspberry, cherry and peach.
Try it with some pork chops, infused with fresh rosemary and lemon, grilled on the barbecue, or as we had it on Sunday with Côtes de Porc Vigneronnes - a French classic which is basically pork chops with a mustard-cornichon sauce - yum yum!
Marco.
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Not strictly speaking on the topic, but not unadjacent to it either:
A good few years back, I bought my wife a nice bottle of port for her birthday. She decided that it should be stowed away for a special occasion when we have company.
We went back to our house in Lincolnshire today to attend to some domesticals and chucked a few things in the back of the car. One of them was that bottle (though not actually chucked, I promise).
Out of idle curiousity, tonight back here, I Gurgled it only to find that it's now worth significantly more than what I paid for it back then. Not that any of us would think of selling such a thing.
It's a bottle of Delaforce Vintage 1975
A description:
.............decanted off very little, sludgy sediment. Pale auburn in colour, with a rose rim. Floral honey on the nose, pleasant but not strong. Dusty sweet redcurrant jelly on the tongue, with the tannins showing through as a gentle dusty persistence. Floral and rose-water flavours in the mouth, not a heavyweight, but perfectly pleasant drinking. Nice redcurrant aftertaste, with an enjoyable slight bitterness to the finish. More evolved than you would hope from a 35 year old port, but very pleasant drinking and a decent example of the 1975 vintage. 85/100. Drunk 12 May 2010 after 30 minutes decanting.
However, the stopper in our bottle remains firmly in place for now!
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Last chance for the Tesco offers
The half price offers on the 2009 Dino, both the Pinot Grigio Valdadige (delle Venezie) as well as the Sangiovese, also the 2002 Marqués de Caranó, Gran Reserva and the 2008 Promenade Plan de Dieu, Côtes du Rhône Villages, ends on the 1st June.
Hurry down to Tesco tomorrow, you might be lucky and find some bottles left.
I bought a few more bottles of the Pinot Grigio - it's an excellent summer white.
Regards
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Not so much a recipe as a stand alone delicious thing!
Wild Boar & Pear sausages - to die for!
No Idea where you're gonna get 'em though.Mine came from a fantastic butcher in Bedale!
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Only get propar snap in YorkshireNot so much a recipe as a stand alone delicious thing!
Wild Boar & Pear sausages - to die for!
No Idea where you're gonna get 'em though.
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Word!Only get propar snap in Yorkshire
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ari mizu-no tsuki
Though it be be broken -
broken again - still it's there:
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- Choshu.
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Damn tootin' - I bloody lurve Yorkshire! Del and I are going back to the Star Inn again in Harome, in July, after attending Flatpopely's bake-off
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Aye stars a real nice place
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Yup - it's not just the Star though, dude - there are loads of lovely pubs all over the place in quaint little villages, and the countryside is truly beautiful!
People go for holidays in the lakes - a nice but vastly overrated area of the country, IMO. Yorkshire is far more diverse and interesting, and it's not stupidly commercialised and overcrowded with tourists and walkers getting in your bloody way!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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