Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

Here's something else I think we should worry about: if we keep Flitzing off our patinas and starting over, how long till we dissolve our blades like the seax of Grendel's dam?


Yup: Rose Beast, from Jack Black.

:D :thumbsup:

Looks like an interesting read, Jack. Just about anyone in the tactical knife world knows the reverse Tanto. I like that in a tactical, but agreed this isn’t a Lamb Foot. Perhaps the market is to appeal to those wanting to dip their toes in the traditional world.

Good Morning Guardians. 1-XL
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I hope so Harvey, I've read many of the same author's books, and always found them fascinating :) I wondered if the design had come about because it was considered useful or effective in some way, but I guess it could just be down to appearance. From what I know (and I spent a couple of years posting in Prac-Tac), many of those knives are rarely actually used, simply carried. Wonderful photo of a stunning knife my friend, those bolsters really are something :) :thumbsup:

Thank you Jack, Kermit did turn out OK. IIRC the reasons Kermit was in @meako 's give away was his anemic color and both blades were locked up pretty tight, nothing to do with the pattern AFAIK.

Fair enough, thanks for the reply :) :thumbsup:
 
Very nice stag David! :thumbsup: I’m sure my wife would like to have that recipe my friend! ;) :D

Sorry for my tardiness Ron, I've been having bother with the forum again.
The oatcake recipe I got from this:

I used raisins cos I was being lazy and wanted something sweet. I was going to do some savoury ones for lunch today but ended up with pie instead. :) Anyway we've chives in the back garden and wild garlic grows in perfusion round here (but has all mostly died back now).
Oh and of course what we call porridge you chaps call....oatmeal?

Phenomenal pic of your preeminent stag HHB, David! :thumbsup::cool::thumbsup:
- GT

Thanks GT.:thumbsup:

Very true :D I think that may be because, with a Lambsfoot, particularly the angular type, you can see precisely where the tip of the blade is, when viewed from above :thumbsup:

Ahh that'll be it then. I know I can certainly hold a better line than I can with other blade profiles.

Good Morning Guardians, it's taken me a good long while to catch up! :cool: Hope everyone had a reasonable weekend, and that those of you who are heading into work today have a tolerable week :) Stay safe folks :thumbsup:

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Great shot. They have (or had) a fair few Listers in the Powerhall at Manchester Science Museum.

Thanks, David. Certainly a bleak outlook, but I hope many of those breweries were/are able to adapt and pull through. Just thinking about it has made me realized I should hit up a few of the places I like around here and spend some money on some beer.

Excellent drinking vessel! :D :thumbsup:

Aye that's what I'm doing, and I'll keep throwing the little guys my money for a lot longer yet. Putting my money where my mouth is so to speak.:thumbsup:
The tankard is horn but I'm not sure if the company is still going. Which is bizarre as AFAIK their the ones who made many of the horn tankards for the TV series Game of Thrones.


My eyes! My eyes! :eek: :D

I get up at 4:30 every day... without an alarm.
My back won't usually let me sleep any later than that, but I enjoy the quiet mornings.

Early starts is something I don't miss anymore. I'd much rather work lates than earlies.
Sorry to hear about your back John, I'm still having bother with mine. Hope you heal up quick. :thumbsup:

I remember you saying John. Sorry to hear it's due to discomfort with your back :( I enjoy the quiet mornings too, particularly in the summer :) Here's the traders in Leeds market setting up their stalls at 5.00am. At one time there would have been an awful lot more of them :thumbsup:

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Crikey! Was it a picture I saw of that or an artists rendition? I can't remember but it's one more reason not to visit Leeds city centre. :(

Good morning Guardians. I'm proud to introduce y'all to my newest Lambsfoot. :) This one is a G. Butler & Co, Sheffield. Here's a link to a brief history on the company. The blade stamp is faint in places, "Lamb Foot Knife". It is a large model, measuring right at 4-1/4". The handles are rumored to be "Bois Durci". I really don't know for sure maybe Jack will help us on that. The age was also stated as 1900, I don't know for sure, again maybe Jack will shed some light on that matter. I would have hoped for some fine stag or other natural material, but I take what I can get. ;) The knife is in really fine condition. It has excellent walk and talk, with a half stop. It is tight as a drum. The only thing I have really found is a couple of small places on the blade towards the tip. Now to rub a little more with some mineral oil and microfiber cloth. As always I'm extremely happy to add another Lambsfoot to my collection! :) :thumbsup:

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You have all the luck Ron don't you. An excellent example; and the blade is in no worse nick than my HHB was after I left it in the car last winter. :rolleyes:

'Compressed fibre' was used for Army clasp knife handles, and is EXTREMELY tough. It also warps like that, when it gets wet or damp (for long periods) I think. I had one knife, where the fibre had warped, to the extent it had lifted the Bird's Eye rivet, and bent the pivot pin, which I think shows how tough it is. The checkering was part of the production process. I think the areas around the pins are another indication that they are fibre, rather than a plastic like Bexoid, for example. It can be difficult to identify if you've not seen it before. If the handles are 'compressed fibre', it has fared pretty well, like the rest of the knife :thumbsup:

That's interesting Jack. I guess the moisture issue wasn't an issue for army knives that were probably not expected to last particularly long before being replaced.

While searching, I also came across this article about a plan to redesign of one of the market’s other entrances to look like this:

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And that's a second reason not to visit Leeds city centre. :(
What the blazes are they doing to that beautiful old market? :mad::rolleyes:

Just spotted this Chinese-made Gerber Straightlace slipjoint. Not remotely traditional, so I've cropped the pic. Gerber are calling the blade a Sheepsfoot, which it certainly isn't. Certainly not a Lambsfoot either, but it's interesting to see how many similar blade shapes are appearing (sometimes called a 'Reverse Tanto').

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My eyes! My eyes! :eek::D

Not oatcakes. :)
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Sorry to hear about your back John, I'm still having bother with mine. Hope you heal up quick. :thumbsup:
It will never heal, 3 herniated discs and sciatic nerve damage. I've been living with it for 30+years.
 
Sausage!
And asparagus... I miss asparagus, nobody else in my family likes 'em.

I'd never had asparagus until I was an adult. When I was a kid, it was expensive here, and just for the rich (probably different in country areas)! :D Mind you, in the 1960's and 70's, most fruit and vegetables were considered exotic in Yorkshire! :rolleyes: Even as late as the mid 80's, I remember going to a small corner shop to buy a green pepper, and the woman behind the counter treated me as if I'd asked for caviar! "Oh no luv, it's all beans 'n' chips round 'ere." o_O :rolleyes:

Jack Black Jack Black - Thank you Jack. Bon appétit!

Thanks Harvey :) :thumbsup:

You should liven that plate up with some brawn :eek:. We call it head cheese over here. Just kidding, I wouldn’t eat that stuff myself.

Me neither! :eek: My granddad would, but he'd eat anything! :D :thumbsup:

Great shot. They have (or had) a fair few Listers in the Powerhall at Manchester Science Museum.

Thanks David, my mate exhibits one at steam rallies. I've always liked Listers, as they're very easy to work on, and I spent a lot of time on them as an apprentice. I still find it kind of weird that they're sought after, as they were 10 a penny in the 70's :thumbsup:

Crikey! Was it a picture I saw of that or an artists rendition? I can't remember but it's one more reason not to visit Leeds city centre. :(

It's had a very negative impact on Leeds city centre :( The place is absolutely empty too, I don't know anyone whose even been inside. They even had the cheek to close off the main road (which it isn't even ON) when it was opening o_O As you can see the queue was HUGE! :p

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That's interesting Jack. I guess the moisture issue wasn't an issue for army knives that were probably not expected to last particularly long before being replaced.

I guess not David, I think they must have to get pretty damp for the fibre to warp like that though, as I have several more which are fine. In fact, now I think of it, I have this Milner Lambsfoot with fibre scales :thumbsup:

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And that's a second reason not to visit Leeds city centre. :(
What the blazes are they doing to that beautiful old market? :mad::rolleyes:

Isn't it hideous? It's proposed for the opposite side to the Victoria Arcade, so probably designed to decrease numbers going into the market o_O


Not oatcakes. :)
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Very nice :) I was just settling down with a beer and a book, but then I got a bunch of work in, so I'm going to have to forego any more beer o_O

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It will never heal, 3 herniated discs and sciatic nerve damage. I've been living with it for 30+years.

Sorry to hear that John :( Is it from your Buckaroo days? :eek:
 
Mind you, in the 1960's and 70's, most fruit and vegetables were considered exotic in Yorkshire!
I guess I'm kind of spoiled living in California, lots and lots of fresh fruits and vegetables to be had.

Sorry to hear that John :( Is it from your Buckaroo days?
Nope, I did it when I was working for Pepsi Cola.
Little know fact about Pepsi, since you guys like odd historical facts...
In the late 1980s, Russia's initial agreement to serve Pepsi in their country was about to expire...So, the Russians did what any country would do in desperate times: They traded Pepsi a fleet of subs and boats for a whole lot of soda. The new agreement included 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer. The historical exchange caused Pepsi to become the 6th most powerful military in the world.

I wonder if me working for them at that time constitutes military service? :D

And since I ran completely off the rails with all this, here's some Lambsfoot content...
 
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Good old Jake out
On a stake-out! ;):cool::thumbsup:

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Maybe if they had chocolate on! :D ;) This is the sort of thing that gets called a cookie here, a "fancy biscuit" :D ;) :thumbsup:

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Cookies are something I might take camping with me, or buy once or twice a year, but I deliberately don't buy them more frequently, otherwise I might just abandon cooking altogether, and sit there eating cookies! :D :thumbsup:
THOSE are my favorite kind of cookies! :thumbsup::thumbsup::cool: I usually buy packages of Keebler's Chips Deluxe (either Original or Chocolate Chunk); each cookie is about 2" in diameter. I used to keep a package in my office, but I had to stop that because I'd often eat at least 6 cookies per day. But I have them at home and seem able to restrict myself to one cookie after each of my 3 daily meals.

One of my neighbours has been putting a street bread order in to a bakery in York during the lockdown here, for which I've been very grateful. When I go to pick up my bread, I always take something with me as a thank you gift, and tonight I grabbed a posh packet of biscuits I thought she and her husband would enjoy. As I was walking down the road, I noticed they were 'Quadruple Chocolate Cookies' (I think I got them in at Christmas), and thought I should have taken a pic for the thread, but handing my neighbour an opened pack of cookies, just so I could get a Lambsfoot pic might have been something beyond her comprehension :rolleyes: :D ...
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Last weekend- fixing some blocks around the pool area with my trusty Ironwood JB sfo.
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Yesterday- 95 F and the pool is open! Good times are in store.;)
More JB -2019 Ironwood . :thumbsup:
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Thanks Gary! Good to see you my friend! Yes, finally back to 100% after about 60 days.:eek: Thanks for thinking of me and stay safe!
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Nice pics of your ironwood as a pool tool, Mark! :thumbsup::thumbsup::cool: Looks like you got the pool ready just in time, and I see some youngsters in the background who seem to be appreciating your efforts! ;) Glad to read that you finally beat whatever knocked you down for 2 months! :eek::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Good Morning Guardians
It's the official last day of the school year... Let the Summer begin!!!
Congrats on completing another year, John; I hope it was a successful one! Handsome lambsfoot and sheath! :thumbsup::cool::thumbsup:

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Speaking of public-spiritedness, it isn't very well rewarded around these parts. I cut myself a torus out of 1/4" plywood, fixed lambsfoots around its outer circumference pointing outwards, and hung it at hula-hoop height from a shoulder harness. Obviously it can't fully twirl, but I can refine the deployment of the blades by bumping and grinding.
I was barely out of the parking ramp when some cop started hassling me about it.

No, officer, you have correctly divined my attitude towards my fellow-citizens.
I enjoyed the vivid word picture you created, Jer! ;):cool::cool: Did your device really include a torus, or was it an annulus?

The chair recognizes the senior Senator from Illinois! :thumbsup::cool::cool:

There's something wrong with this batch of Jammie Dodgers. :D
Are they topless?!!? :eek::eek: This is a family forum, John! :p:D

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Reminds me of a song...
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I'd never heard that song, Dennis; very cool! :cool::thumbsup::cool:

I enjoy seeing your relatively-rare jigged bone lambsfoot, José! :thumbsup::thumbsup::cool:

Good morning y’all! Hope you’re all well this morning. I’m going with Ebony since it’s Friday! :) :thumbsup:

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Captivating knife, Ron! :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup:

All this talk of cookies is making my blood sugar go up. :p Going for a healthy snack myself.
Great stag lambsfoot, Les! :thumbsup::cool::thumbsup:
I never noticed your signature before. Does it relate to Newton, the brothers Bernoulli, and the brachistochrone?

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Despite the poor weather, I had quite a nice walk :) A couple of deer crossed my path on my way back (at this point I was about a mile and a half from the centre of Leeds). I might have got a photo had I been on my own (instead of with my girlfriend, who just stood pointing, and shouting "Deer!") :rolleyes: I also saw a couple of llamas, but they were on a local farm :D Some strange fruit growing on the trees roundabouts :confused:

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Nice pics of your walk, Jack! :cool::cool::thumbsup: I don't suppose there's a llamasfoot blade, is there?;)

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Both the new walkers and the Lamb Foot have a lotta soul.
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Looking good, Harvey! :thumbsup::cool::cool: I need to get some new summer-weight walking shoes, but I'm hoping to get by with just a little bit of soul. ;)

Glad to read that it all turned out well, Dan; congrats to your daughter, and to the whole family! :cool::cool::)

Memorable knife and photo, José! :cool::thumbsup::cool:

Yes, shoddy affair describes it perfectly:thumbsup:. Salvaged the knife and I'm more happy with it for sure. Razor sharp and ready for action:D
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Glad you're happy with it, Bill; thanks for showing us how it turned out! :thumbsup::thumbsup::cool:

Union Jack is my lambsfoot this week:
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- GT
 
Carrying this today for stag Saturday thanks again Jack Black Jack Black .

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Did someone say "Stag Saturday"?
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Thank you GT. Your Man Jack looks mantastic.
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Good Afternoon Guardians.
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Right now I’m relaxing enjoying a nice wee sambar lambsfoot. :) :thumbsup:

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Randy, Vince, Harvey, and Ron: thanks for posting the stellar stag examples! :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Good Friday morning Guardians!
Thanks Jack, It was a good trip, we have a small inexpensive vacation home (hopefully soon to be our retirement home:)) 5 hours north of here. This time of year we try to get up there once a month.
Pile side showing off the best of it's bone.
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Lambfoot content for the day, had to crop a blasphemous sheepfoot out of this recycled photo from an old stag Saturday post ;)

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donn donn David I stumbled upon a fellow who lives near Sheffield who has this group in his possession, unfortunately I've not been successful prying a few out of his hands:( but I will continue to stay in touch in case he changes his mind:thumbsup: I'm really in love with the 3rd from left:)

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Rob, you're posting such superlative knives lately!! :thumbsup::cool::thumbsup:

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For those who are game, please complete this sentence: "A lambsfoot wouldn't be a lambsfoot without..." by mentioning one aspect that you personally find as either the most defining or most prized aspect of a lambsfoot.
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I enjoyed your question and the responses, Greg! ;):thumbsup::thumbsup: I'd give priority to the non-parallel edge/spine relationship.

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It sounds as if you live in a well-read community Gary :) :thumbsup:

Same here, I post in very few threads these days. I got so far behind in the Old Knives thread that I've been frightened to even look at it for 18 months! :eek:

Nice to see the return of Man Jack ;) :thumbsup:

Thank you for the kind words my friend :) That's great you're still managing to get 6-8 miles in, I'm afraid I'm not covering anything like my usual regular mileage. I'm afraid the days of quiet roads are already a distant memory here, even the small side-streets are busy again :(
I wonder how much use those little lawn libraries have?
It's sad that we're not as "widely-active" as previously.
Man Jack returns, like clockwork, every 7 weeks, I guess! ;)
I walked 5 miles yesterday to an "emergency" appointment with a retinal specialist, and then walked 5 miles home. That turned out to be a bit more walking than I was used to! :eek:

Yes, my students did the same thing. They texted or emailed me pictures of their homework and tests.
I sent them back their grades but not the marked up samples. They never get their tests back because I don't need the answers floating around. I usually pass them back, we discuss them, and then I collect them up again. I don't trust high school students. ;):D
I had some illicit collaboration on my first online test, so I had to figure out a better method of "proctoring" subsequent tests. I had hoped I could institute an "honor system", but no dice.:(

It's not a particularly good morning or a particularly bad morning here in Northeast California but I'll tell you guys and gals one thing - it's snowing !!!!!:eek: That's right. It's June 7, 2020 and snowing. And it's not just a flake or two - it's coming down. I'll post a picture of a Lambfoot knife later but for now I'm just shaking my head.
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This year just gets more and more strange! :eek:o_O

Yes, I've read Chesterton, incluing the title you mentioned. I think his most famous book is Orthodoxy. But my favourites are his books (sometimes available in one volume) on St. Francis of Assisi and St. Thomas Aquinas, two of the most fascinating individuals in history.

I never could get used to algebraic. I like seeing the board relatively. You know, some of the battles of the Civil War have different names, depending on whether you were Union or Confederate. Chess is war, after all! :D
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Thanks for mentioning some of your favorites from Chesterton, Vince. Maybe I can get some reading in this summer.
Algebraic or descriptive, seems a matter of taste. Whichever notation is used, I wish I could get better at mentally visualizing the board instead of having to depend on diagrams (or a real chess set that I use to follow a game).


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Cheers GT. I wished I looked good doing nothing to. :D

Now there what we'd call a 'sieve'.
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It's possible that everyone in our house was confused as to the right words for these things. We did have a "flour sifter" with a handle on the side that you turned to move a couple of wire "blades". :confused: But if you couldn't find it, you could use a sieve by tapping against your palm to sift the flour.

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I've used the phrase "Leaks like a sieve" all my life, but actually calling something a sieve has been uncommon for me. I guess I've applied the word to a wide short cylinder with a flat mesh bottom, and I suppose "sifter" is a synonym for "sieve" (probably from the same root word).
Rachel, did that colander ever have handles? I have one without handles, but it still has 2 pairs of rivets near the rim where the handles originally were fastened. The hole pattern on yours is identical to the larger one I have.

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Great to see that William Rodgers again Ron :thumbsup:
Thanks Jack! :) :thumbsup:

You have all the luck Ron don't you. An excellent example; and the blade is in no worse nick than my HHB was after I left it in the car last winter. :rolleyes:
Thanks for the compliment and the recipe link David. :) I wouldn’t say I have all the luck! ;) There’s several here that have been acquiring some nice older Lambsfoot knives! :) :thumbsup:

Captivating knife, Ron! :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Thanks Gary! :)

Randy, Vince, Harvey, and Ron: thanks for posting the stellar stag examples! :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Thanks Gary! :)
 
Congrats on completing another year, John; I hope it was a successful one!
My passing rate in the Fourth Quarter was down about 20% due to Distance Learning. :(

Are they topless?!!? :eek::eek: This is a family forum, John! :p:D
Worse... They're inside-out. :eek:

Lovely photo of UJ, GT. :):thumbsup:

I had hoped I could institute an "honor system", but no dice.
That's a tough one. Hope you figured it out.
I ended up posting Projects and Performance Tasks for their assessments.
I'm sure many still collaborated, but it was the best I could do given the situation.
 
Rachel, did that colander ever have handles? I have one without handles, but it still has 2 pairs of rivets near the rim where the handles originally were fastened. The hole pattern on yours is identical to the larger one I have.
No, Gary, I don't see any signs of it having had handles.
While it looks just like the kind we had when I was a kid, I don't know where that colander came from. I'm sure I didn't pack the family colander when I went off to college to live in a dorm. There were years of student co-ops and roommates after that, though. It's the kind of kitchen utensil that just seems to have always been there.
 
Great stag lambsfoot, Les! :thumbsup::cool::thumbsup:
I never noticed your signature before. Does it relate to Newton, the brothers Bernoulli, and the brachistochrone?

Thanks! I recently changed the signature and you are correct about it relating to Newton. :D
 
Yes, it's an incredibly beautiful building Barrett, which is why they want to transform it into a bijou mall, with art galleries, restaurants, and vegan candle stalls, something which is already well underway unfortunately, with the original market-traders, some of whom have been there generations, being kicked out o_O I didn't realise they'd gone public with that ridiculous eye-sore yet, but some moron has been handed a great deal of money for designing it. The smell of corruption is all over the project :mad:

Yes, it is, maybe every British city will have a stupid car-park one day! :rolleyes:

Sorry, Jack, that really is disappointing. :(

Just having this Plum Porter before I have an early night with a good book ;) :thumbsup:

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Sounds interesting. How was it? (I’m guessing, like Sam Smith’s Chocolate Stout, it’s not one you’d want to drink several pints of.)

The tankard is horn but I'm not sure if the company is still going. Which is bizarre as AFAIK their the ones who made many of the horn tankards for the TV series Game of Thrones.

I actually noticed those tankards in GOT, and looked up that company at the time, but I never bought one. Definitely seems more practical than a traditional pointed drinking horn… at least you can set it down! :D
 
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