So, Christmas Eve is upon us. What do you guys have planned? We aren't hosting this year so no visit to the butchers required. Just got a few jobs to do here and there and will take Toby for a walk before heading to a local pub and restaurant for a meal with the family. A pint of Guinness awaits

Tonight, a glass of 25 year old Balblair Whisky will go down nicely with a mince pie and a movie.  LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
LOT (Lord of Time) - University of Gallifrey

Talking of whiskies, I rarely drink spirits these days apart from the occasional Laphroaig Malt so yesterday I was going through the drinks cabinet having a clearout. I came across a bottle of Green Chartreuse with the price in francs. France adopted the euro in 1999 and I think that this bottle is much older than that. Given that it's 55% alc it might be more useful now as a fuel additive, having tasted it I think it would do wonders cleaning out an EGR valve. So what is your oldest bottle?

 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

Shocked when at my local someone bought a pint of Guinness (this new fangled way of the glass on some sort of vibrating pad) £4.65 there again my pint of shandy (driving) was £3.00. No wonder pubs are empty.

A couple of pints on the way home from work and you are talking the best part of £50/week. MY 09 GS manual in Lago Grey, Wood Co arm rest and side bumper strips - now sold.

MY 15 SD4 SE Auto Orkney Grey with colour coded Bumper Door Mouldings

Got the family coming round in about an hour for nibbles and stuff then they are all going home later but leaving the mother in law here until we return her to them on Boxing Day. Then, son and girlfriend are going out locally tonight so are staying over (we've got to look after the Granddog for them this evening) then tomorrow it's me the wife, the MIL, son and girlfriend, daughter and boyfriend for lunch. Son and girlfriend staying over again then after Boxing Day we have one day to ourselves and then we are going away for a week over the new year to a house we have rented in Devon. 14 of us, 8 cocker spaniels, a retriever and a ridgeback! Should be fun as this house has its own cinema and indoor pool and we plan to swim with our dogs! Past: FL2 TD4 HSE Auto
Evoque SD4 Dynamic Lux Auto
Present: Audi A3 S Line.

I have the flu (not bird kind) so Lemsip for me.

Ho, , Ho! Everyone can spread it - Anyone can catch it. Stay home - the life you save can be your own!

Just finished making a kilo of pigs in blankets.
Apparently you are supposed to have turkey to?

dorsetfreelander wrote:

Talking of whiskies, I rarely drink spirits these days apart from the occasional Laphroaig Malt so yesterday I was going through the drinks cabinet having a clearout. I came across a bottle of Green Chartreuse with the price in francs. France adopted the euro in 1999 and I think that this bottle is much older than that. Given that it's 55% alc it might be more useful now as a fuel additive, having tasted it I think it would do wonders cleaning out an EGR valve. So what is your oldest bottle?

I got a very large and expensive bottle of Champagne (as a prize from a lease company) in 1999. Having no other use for it, I put in in the cupboard awaiting my new born's 18th birthday, in 2017. It was only a few years ago that I learned that champagne only has a shelf life of about 4 years!
It's still in the cupboard now....

that green stuff brings back memories of chasing it during a college pub crawl. I forget the rest but we did put a girls hair in the mangle and leave her until she got really angry  At work
At home

"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

Tigger wrote:

It was only a few years ago that I learned that champagne only has a shelf life of about 4 years!
It's still in the cupboard now....

My mother in law had six unopened large Bollinger champagne bottles at the back of her cupboard which have been there for years so we decided to open one, it was flat so we opened another and then another and so on..... All 6 had gone off. They had all been stored on their sides so it wasn't that the corks had dried out. We couldn't find any dates on the bottles but I am guessing at least 20 + years. I too thought this stuff lasted for years!  3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

I'm going to spend the afternoon sitting sadly in front of a screen looking at Land Rover forums (fora?). Otherwise I'll have to go downstairs and listen to the wife's mother. Might have a beer in a bit. And then I'll cook the evening meal - she can't stay long in the kitchen because I moved all the seats out.
Bah Humbug. Ex AA Series III LWB Safari - Gone
300TDi Disco (bought new - terrible car) sent back after 18 months
Freelander 1 Estate - leased, given back at end of lease
200TDi Disco (bought from a mate with 100,000 on the clock) - Gone
Disco 2 TD5 - sold and exported to France
FR2 TD4 GS - Gone
FR2 SD4 HSE - Now changed for a DS
New model ex-demo Evoque S 180 in white
Unable to order a new DS, so gave up. Now have a Volvo S90 Recharge.

Do you want to mod over Xmas

Tigger wrote:

It was only a few years ago that I learned that champagne only has a shelf life of about 4 years!

taztastic wrote:

Do you want to mod over Xmas

Probly too drunk to do that.
I'd delete all the wrong things.  Ex AA Series III LWB Safari - Gone
300TDi Disco (bought new - terrible car) sent back after 18 months
Freelander 1 Estate - leased, given back at end of lease
200TDi Disco (bought from a mate with 100,000 on the clock) - Gone
Disco 2 TD5 - sold and exported to France
FR2 TD4 GS - Gone
FR2 SD4 HSE - Now changed for a DS
New model ex-demo Evoque S 180 in white
Unable to order a new DS, so gave up. Now have a Volvo S90 Recharge.

" . . . plus la meme chose.!" Everyone can spread it - Anyone can catch it. Stay home - the life you save can be your own!

It's got worse. They're watching the Sound of Music now. I'm running out of Land Rover forums. Ex AA Series III LWB Safari - Gone
300TDi Disco (bought new - terrible car) sent back after 18 months
Freelander 1 Estate - leased, given back at end of lease
200TDi Disco (bought from a mate with 100,000 on the clock) - Gone
Disco 2 TD5 - sold and exported to France
FR2 TD4 GS - Gone
FR2 SD4 HSE - Now changed for a DS
New model ex-demo Evoque S 180 in white
Unable to order a new DS, so gave up. Now have a Volvo S90 Recharge.