What are you drinking tonight?

[Sasquatch]

Are You sure that you are English, Cornwall was a Celtic country and a Welsh language was spoken through out Cornwall until only a short time ago in history being compressed into the end of the peninsular only 200 years before we were born. Could be that you are Cornish but may be of Brittonic or heredity unless an invader or migrant from other parts that could be from England Breton France Norse, Norse Irish.

Welsh was also spoken in The Lake district Cumbria, I can still remember farmers of the Lakeland counting sheep in Welsh that was in my life time and the Strathclyde area of Scotland spoke a form of Welsh also not sure when that stopped. If we open up a map there are many references to the Welsh Language throughout England, Scotland and Wales.

I do not think of myself as anything. Born in England but but even recent genealogy shows as it does in many, a more diverse ancestry than we might at first imagine. My sir name is Scots but my ancestry has many inputs along the way and few of us can go back very much more than a few hundred years at most.

Enjoy your tea without dunking the latter not my way of enjoying a drink either. I miss tea but may never regain the taste for it.

Dumnonia - Wikipedia

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Cornish language - Wikipedia

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I'm ethnically a Breton-Celt, can trace my lineage back over 550 years.

I'm also English by the simple expedient of politics and geography and have no issues with the label, although I'm not Anglo-Saxon (or whatever.)

 

[JumpShip]

 

[twotone2]

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Better than Champagne

 

[Drive Wayne]

Not wanting to be outdone by our Walsallian neighbours, @garyp1969 , we too went to our new local Lidelles and found a 2019 Rioja for less than £6.
It's quite drinkabubble surprisingly!
The new Lidl is quite good for parking, and bread, and veggies,
but that's about it..
We'll stick to the Morrison thank you..

 

[JumpShip]

Some more of this

 

[Andy McCannick]

 

[Sackmycook]

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The Guy Fawkes, Scotton, up the road from Knaresborough CAMC.

I like the way it gets more blurred as yiu work your way down the list !

 

[Bav]

I like the way it gets more blurred as yiu work your way down the list !

So did @CAB

 

[CAB]

So did @CAB

 

[CAB]

Brakspear Oxford Gold, in The Old Bell, Henley-on-Thames.

 

[JumpShip]

We were in henley last week but in the Argyll instead of the bell .

 

[CAB]

We were in henley last week but in the Argyll instead of the bell .

At the Angel instead, moved on to the Gravity.

 

[Kind of Blue]

At the Angel instead, moved on to the Gravity.

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Gravity in terms of delivery? Llantony Priory was the last place that i supped gravity fed Draught Bitter.

Staying at Llanthony Priory - Hotel in Abergavenny, Abergavenny

Llanthony Priory has recently been taken over, and it is planned for accommodation to be provided from Spring 2025.

www.visitmonmouthshire.com

The absolutely tiny pub tucked away in one of Wales' most beautiful ruins

What a place

www.walesonline.co.uk

llantony priory at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

Beautiful surroundings, very romantic on a late hot summers evening Sit amongst the ruins lie out on the grass sit down in the crypt where the Bar is. I last visited many years ago and the beer was delivered by gravity and very good it was too. have been on a few occasions drank in the bar and under the ruins the latter was magical at the time. My sister and husband stayed in the hotel pat and where nonplussed so the they must be sole-lees or just accustomed to multiple star hotels. So its a wonderful part of the world good walks and visionary thrills roads are very narrow and one has to pass at passing places which can be a bind at busy time of the year. I believe that the locals at the head of the valley illegally put up signs saying road closed. I have driven through and there where no impediments at all only road closure signs. there was no such announcement on line so I guess use initiative or obey it is narrow and other roads bypass it all but I really think that some here would enjoy a visit and perhaps find somewhere to camp. I believe that their are some sites not far away but I am a wild camper and tend to shun organised sites generally.

Exception to that Sligachan Isle of Sky pub plus campsite. I always wild camped across the old bridge their for many years but I believe that the owner of facility make life difficult for anyone camped up near but not in or on. So according to camp warden but its not too bad and allows one to have a decent drink without concern.

 

[garyp1969]

 

[CAB]

Gravity in terms of delivery? Llantony Priory was the last place that i supped gravity fed Draught Bitter.

Staying at Llanthony Priory - Hotel in Abergavenny, Abergavenny

Llanthony Priory has recently been taken over, and it is planned for accommodation to be provided from Spring 2025.

www.visitmonmouthshire.com

The absolutely tiny pub tucked away in one of Wales' most beautiful ruins

What a place

www.walesonline.co.uk

llantony priory at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

Beautiful surroundings, very romantic on a late hot summers evening Sit amongst the ruins lie out on the grass sit down in the crypt where the Bar is. I last visited many years ago and the beer was delivered by gravity and very good it was too. have been on a few occasions drank in the bar and under the ruins the latter was magical at the time. My sister and husband stayed in the hotel pat and where nonplussed so the they must be sole-lees or just accustomed to multiple star hotels. So its a wonderful part of the world good walks and visionary thrills roads are very narrow and one has to pass at passing places which can be a bind at busy time of the year. I believe that the locals at the head of the valley illegally put up signs saying road closed. I have driven through and there where no impediments at all only road closure signs. there was no such announcement on line so I guess use initiative or obey it is narrow and other roads bypass it all but I really think that some here would enjoy a visit and perhaps find somewhere to camp. I believe that their are some sites not far away but I am a wild camper and tend to shun organised sites generally.

Exception to that Sligachan Isle of Sky pub plus campsite. I always wild camped across the old bridge their for many years but I believe that the owner of facility make life difficult for anyone camped up near but not in or on. So according to camp warden but its not too bad and allows one to have a decent drink without concern.

Gravity as in

Gravity - Brakspear Beers

Gravity Amber with malt flavour and bitter sweet fruity finish ABV: 3.4% on draught Hops: Fuggles & Goldings Malt: Pale, Crystal & Chocolate Bottle: 500ml Cask: yes

www.brakspear-beers.co.uk

Previously the Bitter.

Lovely stuff, only 3.4% but full of flavour.

Last time I had gavity fed beer in Wales was some remote pub in the vicinity of the Devil's Bridge, where all the ales and ciders were at the end of the room, and you poured your own pint. Fantastic place, but it was nearly 40 years ago!

 

[doncarlyon]

Death by Zombies - it's an 8% stout

 

[Kind of Blue]

Gravity as in

Gravity - Brakspear Beers

Gravity Amber with malt flavour and bitter sweet fruity finish ABV: 3.4% on draught Hops: Fuggles & Goldings Malt: Pale, Crystal & Chocolate Bottle: 500ml Cask: yes

www.brakspear-beers.co.uk

Previously the Bitter.

Lovely stuff, only 3.4% but full of flavour.

Last time I had gavity fed beer in Wales was some remote pub in the vicinity of the Devil's Bridge, where all the ales and ciders were at the end of the room, and you poured your own pint. Fantastic place, but it was nearly 40 years ago!

40 years ago umm so many pubs now have unfortunately closed now. It is a real shame. Many have been changed into dwellings only. Its a shame on many counts. Firstly as a local community hub and second way of finding out about a place to intertwine with locals if it is somewhere one visits often. Socially important in country areas especially the more remote were one can meet others where otherwise can be very lonely for some who may feel very isolated. I think that pubs in those areas are good for mental health.

 

[Paul Sussex]

My birthday was Friday and all the kids and grandkids came from different places for the day, issues at work so spent the day on the drive in the van working on reports and budgets (too noisy in the house) - which was kind of nice in my own little space with the diesel heater on.

Sorted now, alll gone back today so cracked open one of the presents.

Fitting a new house interior door tomorrow (no idea why I said I could do that - bl00dy YouTube, that scares me more than driving with the old H4 headlights.

 

[Kind of Blue]

Who's buying?

 

[CAB]

We were in henley last week but in the Argyll instead of the bell .

Swift half in the Argyll while Mrs CAB was in the 50% boot sale shop.