Re: The YouTube thread [2]

by bungobaggins Sun Sep 13, 2015 11:19 pm

Find Buckie! drunken

by Mrs Figg Mon Sep 14, 2015 12:56 am

ooh getting nostalgia trip now. I used to live in Oxford, so beautiful, heres some of my favourite places to eat, drink and dream.

http://www.thevaultsandgarden.com/

http://www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk/

by halfwise Mon Sep 14, 2015 1:01 am

The cafe looks quite nice. Can you have the afternoon tea in the garden?

by azriel Mon Sep 14, 2015 10:46 am

Oxford certainly has an atmosphere you find hard to get anywhere else. Also, I think, the TV series "Inspector Morse" did a fair amount to endear Oxford to tourists. In the prog it was always a sunny summer, red geraniums, sandy limestone buildings, Barrington Phelungs music Very Happy

( the odd dead body) You can practically smell book pages & Academic gowns.

by Mrs Figg Mon Sep 14, 2015 4:21 pm

halfwise wrote:The cafe looks quite nice. Can you have the afternoon tea in the garden?

yes but its only nice when its not English weather. Very Happy

by Mrs Figg Mon Sep 14, 2015 4:24 pm

azriel wrote:Oxford certainly has an atmosphere you find hard to get anywhere else. Also, I think, the TV series "Inspector Morse" did a fair amount to endear Oxford to tourists. In the prog it was always a sunny summer, red geraniums, sandy limestone buildings, Barrington Phelungs music ( the odd dead body) You can practically smell book pages & Academic gowns.

yeah I love Inspector Morse I love you

it has a special atmosphere. I was truly happy in Oxford, its full of weirdos and I could wear long floppy velvet skirts without anyone sniggering.

by Tinuviel Mon Sep 14, 2015 5:11 pm

I wanted to get a tweed jacket before I went Laughing

But I'll definitely check out those places Figgs! The Botanic Gardens was something already on my list. I LOVE gardens, I've got one here in Bath that's quite nice, but not very botanical!

I will find Buckie. It's on the list of things to try. I might ask one of the English students I know where to find it pub

by halfwise Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:11 pm

Tinuviel wrote:
I will find Buckie. It's on the list of things to try. I might ask one of the English students I know where to find it

We want notes. Starting from when you first sight the bottle on through the next 24 hours or so aftermath.

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:29 pm

I will find Buckie. It's on the list of things to try. I might ask one of the English students I know where to find it- Tinuviel

A local supermarket should have some in the wines and spirits section.
You have decent chance of finding irn-bru in there too in the soft drinks section- but for the real connoisseur its not the can or the plastic bottles you want, but irn-bru in a glass bottle- but a push any one will do (just dont get diet

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by halfwise Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:47 pm

does one mix bucky and Irn-bru like a cocktail? pale

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:51 pm

http://www.cocktailmaking.co.uk/displaycocktail.php/3521-Irn_Buckfaster

by halfwise Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:57 pm

Wait - the Irn-bru is only 1 shot to 4 shots of alcohol? Shocked

What is that stuff?

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:02 pm

Well its luminous orange and quite a few countries ban it from being exported there. Its the only soft drink to outsell coca-cola in Scotland (and that did, and possibly still does, make Scotland the only country in the world where coke isnt the no1 brand of soft drink).

by malickfan Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:12 pm

I've never tried Irn Bru (I think the colour puts me off a little-I end up picturing sugary rust water) and I'm not overkeen on fizzy/energy drinks in general, though in terms of suagary Scots stuff I can vouch forTunnocks Teacakes/Caramel Wafers yum. Brits have certainly perfected the art of sickly sweet addictive sugary ~~good~~badness...

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Sep 14, 2015 9:33 pm

The Caramel wafers are superb but I have to say I think their caramel log the superior-

http://kevssnackreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/tunnocks-caramel-log-wafer-review.html

by azriel Mon Sep 14, 2015 9:59 pm

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Sep 14, 2015 10:30 pm

Brilliant! Laughing

by halfwise Mon Sep 14, 2015 10:31 pm

Well actually, police testimony would normally trump plebian testimony for a parking fine. I know this from sad experience. I think someone just got amused enough to let it go.

by Mrs Figg Mon Sep 14, 2015 11:34 pm

Irn bru is for wimps. Vimto is a proper drink.

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Sep 14, 2015 11:40 pm

Nah they ruined Vimto when they started using sweetners instead of real sugar.

by Mrs Figg Mon Sep 14, 2015 11:58 pm

yeah suppose so. old Vimto used to take the skin off the roof of your mouth.

by azriel Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:31 am

My grandad worked in a Lucozade factory, he swore that it could cure all or kill all Very Happy

I like that as a quick glugging drink when Im thirsty

by bungobaggins Fri Sep 25, 2015 8:24 pm

by azriel Sun Sep 27, 2015 4:02 pm

this is too cute !

by azriel Tue Sep 29, 2015 8:09 pm