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Christmas (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Troubador
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Very best wishes to everyone who visits Bird Forum. Have a happy Christmas and a healthy new year! o
Lee
Thank you Lee and the same to you and Troubadoris!o
If Santa comes late this year I hope he brings me a new Leica 7x35 Trinovid!:king:
Bob
Merry Christmas to all.
Rich
Rich
Stephen Mark
Well-known member
Merry Christmas Lee and everyone else on Bird Forum. Have gear so asked for books for Christmas including Bill Coks bino book. Lee very much looking forward to coming reviews and posts in 2018 from you. So good birding to all even you silly Swaro types (hey I had to pull someones chain).
Steve
Steve
What are you getting me for Christmas? A new Leica Trinovid 7x35 would be nice. It would certainly aid British American relations.Very best wishes to everyone who visits Bird Forum. Have a happy Christmas and a healthy new year! o
Lee
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What are you getting me for Christmas? A new Leica Trinovid 7x35 would be nice. It would certainly aid British American relations.
Hi Dennis
If only you had mentioned this a couple of weeks ago when we still had a few coins left in the Piggy Bank! Unfortunately I went and blew the last funds on a Microsoft Surface Pro4 with a docking station!
Next time you are in the UK I will buy you a coffee at our local coffee and tea-merchant's cafe. It will make you weak at the knees and put Anglo-American relations on the right footing.
Lee
I think a dark english ale would be more refreshing.
Well, I don't need my arm twisting to agree with you. Adnams bitter from our south-eastern county of Suffolk is probably my favourite although Marston's Pedigree is right up there too, as is Theakston's Bitter. In fact for a winter drink Theakston's Old Peculier is fantastic while in the summer a chilled Newcastle Brown is just the ticket.
When are you coming?
Lee
Thanks Lee! And Dennis, old buddy...how are you? Hope you and C have an excellent Christmas. Incidentally, I've moved on from the English ales to what our English neighbours call 'iPA'...India Pale Ale. No idea where the name comes from, but lovely stuff. I'll have one in your (and C's) honour on the day.
Sancho
When our not so delightful Empire-building ancestors got tired of kicking the Irish about they went and 'conquered India' and needed something to drink for the troops that would mean they didn't have to rely on local water all of the time and would not go 'off' on the voyage to India or for a few months after arrival. To do this they upped the alcoholic content of not too strongly hopped pale beer and it worked nicely. Hence it was no longer just Pale Ale, but India Pale Ale. At least this was the explanation I read in the 1980's when got into 'studying' beer as well as drinking it.
Nowadays IPA comes with a host of different flavours and strengths.
You are welcome to join me and Dennis for a few when he flies in on Airforce 99.
Cheers/Slainte/Kipis/Prosit
Lee
During my long ago brief stay in the UK as a tourist, I would simply ask for "a pint of your best bitter".
It (at that time) cost from 50p upwards, and was invariably delicious.
I have no clue what any of them was.
