Hope you had a great holiday Brick.

Well done to the Lions...:ok: A tough game and they certainly dominated the 'Boks. Not our best lineup but still world class rugby and a determined win by the visitors.

SRT, the Lions played well, not just this last game but the entire test.

The Boks however, played progressively worse.

I'd rather our side loose knowing they played well rather than the scrap I observed the past two weeks. (I'd rather they win hands down, of course)

How does a side like the Boks loose so many balls in a loose ruck, own line outs, scrums and penalties?

Shocking.

That aside, I need to seek forgiveness tonight.

Wife insisted we go to friends; I insisted on briging steak along for myself.

Had to become a temporary GASSER in order to cook my steak.

Is there a way to seek redemption for this act?

Agreed. Lions were more consistent. 'Boks started OK and just wound down as they went along. Too much dicking around by the halfwit coach.

You may redeem yourself by building a fire on the ground outside using ironwood. Nick the metal grid from the oven and balance it on four bricks over the coals once they're glowing nicely. Scrape a few coals to one side for the potjie. Squat around the braai with a beer in one hand and discuss rugby. Steak, chops and boerewors are the only things allowed on the braai unless you can find a snoek somewhere. Chicken curry in the potjie.

Actually, many of our microbrews are outstanding. It's the mass-market brews like Budweiser that are crap.

Without mentioning the Test Match, VB have started a new ad campaign :cool:








Plus a sneak photo of BEagle's offerings ;)

http://www.australianbeers.com/beers/vb/frozenvb.jpg

I wondered how long it would be before someone mentioned the Ashes...!

...please note that they did not use Gas to make them!


..

Maybe an early 19th Century gas BBQ :E


What Ashes? Oh, these ashes? :p

Picked up some more beer from Mr Majestic today - pleased to find that the VB is still 4.8% ABV!!

Grabbed a case of Franziskaner Hefe Weissbier whilst I was there - should go well with the next Boche-nosh barbi'! 5.0% ABV and it comes in 500 ml bottles rather than 375 ml stubbies....:ok:

Just need some summer weather now. Forecast is a bit of a joke for this weekend; hope the Tin Triangle makes it to Fairford OK!

Jeez BEagle, are you into self-abuse by still drinking that p155? As we get older our faculties decay: being incontinent and drinking VB probably seems normal; but they go hand in hand.

Arced up the beloved last night in anticipation of the rugby. Gorgeous non-GAS lamb, from a butcher who knows how to prepare a joint - honey and rosemary; special clients only. And we bloody well lost. Cricket is a disaster as well. However, credit where it's due, and as much as it pains me, well done the POMS.

Maybe we can pinch the British Open. And there's another dilemma - as much as I want to see Goggin do well, I want to see the old man take it out.

One thing the POMS do well is the British Open. It leaves all the other tournaments for dead.

Personally, my opinion of golf is right up there with Mark Twain and Jeremy Clarkson......

A way of ruining a good walk. Whilst wearing trousers made from old office carpets and/or American suitcase material. "Whack...f**k", then endless boring comments about a tight eleventh at...:zzz:

Lamb sounded good! But rosemary without garlic? Dear me, no. Sounds a bit...gas?

Yes, after following advice from a certain aged Hunter QFI, I have to admit to a liking for VB. Not quite the same as the Franziskaner Hefeweissbier I quaffed last night with a Boche-nosh barbi', of course - but absolutely fine with bits of various barbi'd beast on other occasions!

BEagle

Golf - how right you are. The following may amuse you...............:ok:

There are some things that are so uncool they become, in a strange way, cool, but golfing is not one of them. Golf is so irretrievably uncool that it comes with its own anti-fashion, including sun visors, horrendous shoes, and shirts with insurance company logos on them. For men, a devotion to golf often indicates a wholesale embrace of middle age, the putting aside of childish things like not being fat or caring about what sort of jumpers you put on. For women, a sudden devotion to golf is often a sign that you have, for reasons best known to yourself, married someone much older than you. Having established that golf is transcendentally uncool, we must concede that it is popular nevertheless. For non-golfers the point of the game has always been a bit of a mystery. It doesn't, on the face of it, look like much fun. It is not, as any non player who has visited a golf course will testify, generally played by the sort of people one wants to hang out with. And yet still people succumb to it. We may conclude from this that golf is in some way addictive. The evidence is certainly there: a staggering proportion of the game's celebrity adherents have been sequestered for addiction treatment in the past. It's astonishingly popular among party-animal rockers who, through no fault of their own, have accidentally lived past 30. Add to this the fact that it’s on a par with darts in terms of physical exertion, and you have a perfect sport for a whole generation of people who forgot to die in a hotel room in the 1980s, and are consequently at a loose end. It would be a harmless way of keeping them out of the way if only it weren’t such an inefficient use of space. If we could only get them interested in deck quoits, then we could house the lot of them in a space the size of a tennis court.:)

Isn’t golf the thinking nGUs sport ? :hmm:
I use the word “thinking” lightly in this context.

They wear a glove, thus scraping only one knuckle at a time.:rolleyes:

Could it be that the 3rd day of the English 3 day summer might finally have arrived?

Just in case, I've been checking over the faithful blackfellow. Alarmed to discover that signs of age are there now - the odd crack is beginning to appear in the kettle and the front leg retainer is getting rather wobbly....

Perhaps Aradlite might effect a cure? Otherwise it might mean that this summer could be its last and a new one will be ordered for next year. But without any gas faggotry, of course!

But still, there'll be some 'flu-free pork cremated tonight - washed down with some VB, of course!

Oh, better think of an aviation link before AIDU or one of his attempted nom-de-PPRuNes crawls out of the woodwork.....

Just watched a C-17 flying a high speed arrival. Hardly elegant, but looked rather like fun...:ok:

Just got back from the pub where the landlord sells VB on tap. He gave me a VB by mistake instead of the ordered Budvar. Jesus - how do you Aussies drink that p!ss?

Beagle, try some JB Weld instead of Araldite, it works a treat. Or just pop it down to the local engineer shop, they may weld up the problems for a slab of beer.

Although you may want to get the new version with the ash collector and variable flame thingy.

Beagle, if you want it welded, just bring it along on your next visit to the delights of XM655 at Wellesbourne.

Sooty

That's most kind of you, sooty655, if I can dismantle it sufficiently to fit in the boot of my teutonic tourer, I may well take you up on your kind offer!

Have you now managed to convince RR that 655's engines are all fine?

Not sure whether I'll be able to make it for Members' Day as work might have to take priority....:hmm:

Just typical, nGUs trying to fix it with glue when the correct tool is a gas-axe :E


Definition of gas-axe :rolleyes:: An oxyacetylene cutting torch. So called because it runs on gas, and is useful for chopping things off quickly (albeit none too neatly).

Dan Winterland, a potentially perspicacious observation, except for one thing. Any discerning Aussie doesn't 'drink that p!ss.'

Vomit Beer (VB) is the total pits and as an Australian I totally disown it.

The biggest worry is that POMS, who have much finer stuff, actually drink this sh!t. I think you have a growing mental health problem over there if people think that this stuff is drinkable.

Anyway, we are looking forward to waxing your asses at The Oval. Also, we are coming out of winter shortly and you'll be plunging back into the cold and 1600 darkness - good luck.

Relevance - the Weber has frozen through winter, although used a couple of times before the Rugby, and said 'I'm ready to go; your faithful, non-GAS server is primed to cater for another cricket season.' What a faithful warrior (now 23 yrs old) - no GAS-induced, prissy, limp-wristed, 'let's watch the ballet' response.

kluge, in comparison, is probably grilling macro-biotic fish on his abomination, with steamed vegetables, before going off to a meeting of the local theatre society; where they do kissy-kissy and dress-up.

As regards the POMMY selectors, who must be all GAS users, are you guys really thinking of recruiting Mark Ramprakash??

Read his letter to his mum at:

Remember me as a proud Ramprakash | The Australian

kluge, no gasaxe needed - just a couple of spots with a MiG (or is it a TiG?) electric chap should do the biz.

Ideally I'd have it bead blasted, the rust removed and new metal welded in, then rubbed down, primed, etched and oven enamelled.

But that's going a bit too far, even for me. Just need something to firm up the wobbly bits.

By the way, walkabout, a couple of stubbies of VB were just the job last night! Fine English ale is for quaffing slowly in quiet pubs - whereas Vicky B* sits nicely on the lips at a barbi'!

*Those who watch 'Fifth Gear' will understand.....:E