Aaaaaaaaaagh! Nothing worse.

I have got dozens of knackered hard drives. Years ago I rented my laptop so at least repair bills have become redundant.

it was in the days before 'outside' hard drives as back ups...


i'm with you the Talisker is lovely....i've been to their distillery and was on crutches, instead of doing the tour they got me a chair and gave me about a pint of their different whiskeys to try...it was interesting trying to get back to the car....

can i just put in a word for Oak Smoked Wensleydale with those tiny vine ripened tomatoes....mmmmmm

it may go some way to explain my reluctance to start one now....

I know someone intimately involved in the world of whisky (in a business way ) who was asked to do a presentation on a trip to a particular group of distilleries he organised. He still hasn't done it 7 years later as he hasn't a clue what he did for the week other than he fell down a flight of stairs - at about 11 in the morning - the lens cap was left on during the whole of one visit, and what pics there are were clearly in sympathy with the blurred vision.

Is there a name for a group of distilleries - a grin? a collapse?
Over to you Fink ...

a barrel?

that sounds disturbingly familiar....

A pistillery!

Not tried that - I'm not a Wensleydale fan. Haven't a clue why, it's something to do with the consistency I think, can't decide whether to be a dry curd cheese or a wet cheddar.
I'll hunt some down and give it a try though - the dog will like it if I don't

sounds french!

That'll do nicely

the proper wheels from the creamery taste completely different to the weird stuff you get in supermarkets....

The Creamery in Hawes is a Shrine of Cheese
they are very generous with the taster plates

I was particularly taken with how you continued the theme by quoting a completely different post to the one you were replying to.
Water with that?

You will know to back up every stage of the way now. Get cracking.


A shot? Or a headache?

an hallucination of distilleries?

You've been at the pistis!

That's been mentioned to me before, and I'd forgotten all about it. Haven't been up that way for years - used to stay at the YMCA in Settle, within a mile of the wonderful train viaduct.
And yes, before anyone says it, it's fun to stay there.

A different pist?

Beautiful countryside, the big corporation who owned it closed it then the workers bought it and ran it themselves....*power to the people punch to the air*.....

is ti wrong to admit a fondness for the Ribblehead Viaduct

funny you should say that i had a phone call tonight from someone i hadn't spoken to for...20 years who is writing their third book and trying to persuade me ....they said "now you have an editor" hehehehehe

My last recollection of Danger Moose is her climbing into a cupboard with a bottle of vodka. And come to think of it that was two months ago and I haven't seen her since. Do you think we should check on her? I think the pickling process should be done by now.

i am typing in the dark thus the many many typos one day i will have one of those lighty uppy keyboards....

Wouldn't have thought so.
In the days of the (fairly) young Sensible, I wrote a passage praising it after being handed a petition sheet to fill in while on a Settle-Carlisle day trip, and ended up with it being used in the evidence at the enquiry to decide whether to keep it open.
That was the second time I'd been there, and we were lucky enough to be able to walk the line across the viaduct early in the morning as there were only two trains a day.

I love it, but can never decide if it's a monument to bravery, stupidity or plain Victorian stubborness to get the job done at any cost.

that was before the move....maybe she's still stuck there all alone.....

I think you're right there ...
was it only 2 months ago!!!

She made a fleeting reappearance a couple of weeks ago and then fled back into the cupboard.