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My experience of whisky is pretty much limited to .... Teachers, Cutty Sark... long ago. and as a student .. a concoction called Clan Dew. I mostly recall my throat burning as an aftertaste. However, pre Christmas I was looking for ideas for presents for my sister and brother-in-law. I'd had an idea for whisky marmalade, but in searching around, online, found this... https://www.cococaramel.co.uk/ They're chocolates with single malts inside. I bought some for them, and a small pack for me. They tasted great. The result was that I quite fancy having a go at some single malt on it's own. Would welcome a pointer towards something decent, not outrageously expensive, that a beginner would appreciate.

Increases for Eco 7 customers...... I received notification of this about a fortnight prior to when it took effect on 1st January. ( Octopus Energy ). Their email was worded in such a way that the message that came through was that they had no choice but to do it, it was out of their hands. This from the BBC says something rather different. Octopus, and the other suppliers, very much did have a choice. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64332617 Very slithery.

As mentioned elsewhere on P&B, IIRC....., Ford, Vauxhall, Citroen, Peugeot are disposable cars. Also steer clear of any and all combinations of small engine, turbo-charged, and diesels. Suggest, in descending order of preference.... A Toyota, Honda or Mazda.

Violet Elizabeth would be proud of you.

Tbf..., not quite in the same league as tracks about groupies having sex with mudsharks, or this....

If you're getting these light/codes coming up, perhaps what's needed is more attention to how regularly you service the car

Learned any lessons from all this ?

Presumably your comment is intended to divert from the fact that Russia has been systematically stripping and looting the museums in the occupied occupied areas of Ukraine.

Right wing libertarian think tank drifts off into meandering, yes, drivel.

I've eaten so many of these in the past 5 weeks, plus their 'Brown Butter with Cognac' companions, that I can hardly waddle to the cupboard to get another one.

Bit unusual for you to be doing the ..." Nothing to see here, move along now..." bit when it comes to capitalists doing what capitalists do.

Not really, It's a massive failure of policy. The remit of the regulator from the very beginning, was to make it very easy to become an 'energy supplier' to retail customers. What that came down to was, among others, rather a lot of outfits comprised of little more than a couple of bods, with a laptop, and a website. It only took a supplier of significant size, Bulb, to fail..., for the limitations of the policy remit to be fully exposed. The people who've come out of this laughing, is not Bulb, not their customers, not the regulator, not the government, not the taxpayers. Octopus Energy, though, must be ecstatic. They've acquired Bulb, and it's 1.5 Million customers for a figure estimated to be around £100 Million. That's chickenfeed. Meanwhile, taxpayers have to absorb the £4.5 to £6 Billion that the Westminster government incurred in taking over Bulb when it went bust. So it's a policy failure. Privatisation of the profits. Socialisation of the losses.

I seem to recall that just about everything Scargill said about the then government, their intentions for his industry, and his predictions for the future ..., were accurate, and came true.

To me, that defines someone as a bit of a twat. Some way from being a c*nt. If someone is being banned for some trumped up reason that really comes down to twattishness, I'm not really OK with that.

You must be joking. Police are, and always have been, neds in a uniform.

I remember this well. I was at my sisters's place in Yorkshire, getting ready to spend Christmas with her and her family. That evening, the news began to come through on the TV. And in the days afterward, the descriptions. The body of a baby, or young boy hanging across railings in a Lockerbie street, that lay there for days pending forensic examination. Houses, families... vapourised. At the time, my main hobby was flying gliders. Nine months after Lockerbie, one of my gliding instructors, a man called Tony Norrie, was killed when UTA Flight 772 was blown up over the Sahara desert. Not really a joking matter for me, Sergeant W..... it all seemed a horrible way to go. A long way from dying peacefully, surrounded by your family. This second guy does look rather like another patsy being set up.

Phew..., never saw that coming..., blow me down with a feather... etc, etc.

Asking for a friend ... ?

Just received my £10 DWP Christmas bonus. I've been doing so much cost-cutting, scrutinising every KwH of electricity, and general worthiness. Time for enjoyments. Ordered some artisan chocolates infused with single malt whisky.

Totally, er, gobsmacked if Stranraer could have been paying Christian the kind of money that would cover the PCP payments...

Tbf...., he would say that. His company has £52Bn of debt to pay off.

^^^^^^ Moaning again...

Not really. A common practice in the industry, certainly prior to energy price guarantees etc, was to give a DD quote on comparison sites to attract a customer in. Then a few weeks later announce to the new customer that after reviewing usage figures etc, the DD would in fact be substantially higher. Basically, customers money was being used to build the supplier a cash buffer.

Well, one of those sides is going to lose, so there isn't much balancing of influence in that direction. The subject is rather like someone who votes for an honest, upright, progressive political party here, but places a bet on the Conservatives, or Labour, to win.

US businesses/corporations donating to both sides is something I read years ago was not at all uncommon. Capitalism in the raw.