Noswaith dda!......... from a wet and windy Wales.

[Lesley Jones]

Please don't start me on the single malt. I'm down to one bottle of Laphroaig a year and Christmas is still a long way off.

Welcome Pat - you're definitely going to fit in well here. I used to use my dear old Mum to take delivery of my rescued teddy bears. She would wrap them up with a bundle of used plastic carrier bags when we went to visit for dinner. (We have a zoo you see - you can never have too much old newspaper or used plastic bags). The teds would be smuggled into the display cabinet when my husband was busy elsewhere, so I know just how you feel

 

[Brian Moore]

Did someone mention Laphroaig? Er,...can I have one?

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Welcome to the mad house Pat - glad that you found us

 

[Pat Reehal]

Thank you again. What a nice bunch of folks.

To answer some points/questions:

Paul never! The Fujiva Convention states clearly that Name,Rank and Number is all that is required unless a dram or two is wafted under your nose. That is torture. Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO it is then.

Adam/Darren The valley is the Vyrnwy which even to this Irishman of no fixed country is as close to heaven as being head taster on Islay whilst billeted at a Convent for Wayward Young Ladies.

Larry agreed. Best done from a distance though after lighting blue touch paper.

Lesley zoo or not you need to get out and replen the drinks cabinet pronto. I have bribed my courier driver, a dutchman called Hertz Van Rental, and he waits until my trusty Rotweiller does a cursory bark, and then gently guides him to our secret parcel hiding place. The COS will never find it as it is a box marked, " Pat's Very Interesting Collection of Old Army Socks." No woman has ever opened it.

Brian buy your own Malts! Are you sure you are a Moore and not a member of Clan McMoore, revered throughout Scotland as the originators of that most popular of Scottish pastimes, 'Looking for lost coins in the Heather'? They have famously never ever bought a round and have perfected the art of ' must go to the bathroom', nano-seconds before its their turn to pay. You fit the MO.

Slàinte mhath!

 

[Pete Askew]

Brian does take quite a few photos of liquor stores (many after dark). I had thought it mere coincidence but maybe, given your inference, these could well be part of the reconnaissance for an 'after hours' visit. He even takes an accomplice!

 

[Brian Moore]

Brian buy your own Malts! Are you sure you are a Moore and not a member of Clan McMoore, revered throughout Scotland as the originators of that most popular of Scottish pastimes, 'Looking for lost coins in the Heather'? They have famously never ever bought a round and have perfected the art of ' must go to the bathroom', nano-seconds before its their turn to pay. You fit the MO.

lol! Guilty as charged, ocifer! Hic,...

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Brian does take quite a few photos of liquor stores (many after dark). I had thought it mere coincidence but maybe, given your inference, these could well be part of the reconnaissance for an 'after hours' visit. He even takes an accomplice!

Its all in the name of R&D Pete! hic,...