Empty Handed

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“I just snuck up behind him and eventually I went for the big grab and I fluked it and got him,” Kerkhof told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

I’ve never been shark fishing, but if I did, this is how I would do it. Definitely. You’ve got to love Australians.

I’ve been re-stocking the old Whisky recently, and thought I should share a rather good Whisky offer with you. Booths are doing two bottles for 30 GBP on Aberlour, Bowmore, Old Pulteney and Jura. Any one of those is a great buy for 15 quid a piece, and I can highly recommend the Old Pulteney at that price. Collect all four!

I’ll post details of the collection once the Christmas presents have been reeled in - I can usually count on one or two bottles at this time of year…

Out on a whisky hunt and came across a good offer in ASDA, yesterday. The Macallan 10 year old, 15GBP. Bargain. Not quite the bargain they had from a couple of months ago, 18 yo Glenlivet, 18 quid - usually £35 (and on sale at that price in Asda today). Still kicking myself for only buying 2…

It’s never worth paying full price for a single malt in a supermarket - If I “need” some, you can usually find a decent offer on one of the popular singles in one of the supermarkets, particularly Asda, Sainsbury’s and Booths. I tend to keep an eye out and buy them when I see them. Laphroaig, for example, comes up at £17 quite a lot, but at the moment is £24 in all of the supermarket’s I frequent (which are those 3 above, basically). For god’s sake, don’t ever pay £24 for a bottle of standard Laphroaig 10 yo!

So, it was my cousin Tim’s wedding on Saturday, held at Moreton Morrell Hall, which is in England, as fine a country as any to have such an affair.

This fine dandy, sporting an excellent, and, I suspect, real, beard, was young Timmy’s best man. Tim took the precaution of having two best men, and I can whole-heartedly recommend carrying at least one spare of everything you may need to rely on. In the end, they both got to do a turn, and quite excellent they were too (the er, second best man was Tim’s brother, Steve).

Being a best man is something I have recent experience of, and I may post a few words about it at some point. Not now though, beers and bed await. I’ll probably add a few more notes and stuff about this wedding also, but, right now, I just wanted to share Tony with you.

More pics from the wedding on my Flickr account.