Happiness Ratings

[Guest]

I don't know how happy the rest of you are. The average for the ethnic group/stage of life or whatever which includes the lady wife and myself appears to be 7.5. All I can say is that, when we took part in the survey, they had to provide us with a special meter that went up to 11.

[Anna]

I don't know how happy the rest of you are. The average for the ethnic group/stage of life or whatever which includes the lady wife and myself appears to be 7.5. All I can say is that, when we took part in the survey, they had to provide us with a special meter that went up to 11.

Did you mean to provide a link so we can all test how happy/miserable we are and compare our depths of depression/joy?

[Nick Armstrong]

Did you mean to provide a link so we can all test how happy/miserable we are and compare our depths of depression/joy?

You need some of ferret's Cheery Cake (see bread board )

[scottycelt]

You need some of ferret's Cheery Cake (see bread board )

Ever so slightly on a similar topic, I would strongly advise a powerful medicinal tonic in the form of a very large Islay Bruichladdich Malt ...

Haven't the 'happy-index' government idiots yet realised that it's not just digging up a peat bog through heavy mist and driving rain that makes these Hebridean islanders appear so irritatingly happy?

[Anna]

Ever so slightly on a similar topic, I would strongly advise a powerful medicinal tonic in the form of a very large Islay Bruichladdich Malt ...

A few tears back, at Christmas, Mine Host produced about 25 bottles of various 15, 20 and 25 year old blends. Some of them, to be honest, tasted so much of iodine that you could imagine yourself in intensive care having a wound dressed with seaweed. I admire the Scottish malt industry but how you acquire a taste for it must surely involve years of training.

[scottycelt]

A few tears back, at Christmas, Mine Host produced about 25 bottles of various 15, 20 and 25 year old blends. Some of them, to be honest, tasted so much of iodine that you could imagine yourself in intensive care having a wound dressed with seaweed. I admire the Scottish malt industry but how you acquire a taste for it must surely involve years of training.

Yes, you're right, Anna ... the 'intensive' training never really ends ... it's a real challenge, but one day I hope to fully quaffify

[Anna]

Yes, you're right, Anna ... the 'intensive' training never really ends ... it's a real challenge, but one day I hope to fully quaffify

Good for you scotty. I think I may dip out on this learning curve.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I admire the Scottish malt industry but how you acquire a taste for it must surely involve years of training.

Love at first tipple in my case!

[Anna]

Love at first tipple in my case!

But, it tastes, vile, Like, dead seaweed? And, they like to to, I dunno, think this loadsa load something is worth paying £75 a bottle for? For something that tastes of, peat and water? Does it really, like, have, supernatural powers, this malt whiskey>

[scottycelt]

But, it tastes, vile, Like, dead seaweed? And, they like to to, I dunno, think this loadsa load something is worth paying £75 a bottle for? For something that tastes of, peat and water? Does it really, like, have, supernatural powers, this malt whiskey>

Whiskey is Irish, Anna, and they have some great stuff too ... and, when it comes to supernatural powers, whisky or whiskey is probably the nearest secular liquid to Holy Water?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But, it tastes, vile, Like, dead seaweed?

I like Bara Lawr, too!

And, they like to to, I dunno, think this loadsa load something is worth paying £75 a bottle for? For something that tastes of, peat and water? Does it really, like, have, supernatural powers, this malt whiskey>

A single sip, and time and the world backs off just a little.

And there's at least one very good Welsh whisky, too: Penderyn - a bit like a ten-year-old Macallen, with lovely almond flavours and an evening-long warm glow.

[french frank]

Quite a coincidence as I sit here with a small tot of Highland Park at me elbow. Not one I usually choose but it was £6 off at the Coopie.

I learned the trade in the 18th Hole in Torry . Can't find any mention of it - has it closed down?

Oops! I think it might have been the 19th Hole Still can't find it though.

[amateur51]

Quite a coincidence as I sit here with a small tot of Highland Park at me elbow. Not one I usually choose but it was £6 off at the Coopie.

I learned the trade in the 18th Hole in Torry . Can't find any mention of it - has it closed down?

Oops! I think it might have been the 19th Hole Still can't find it though.

Is this an acknowledged treatment for the eponymous bursistis resulting from tennis, french frank?

[aeolium]

And there's at least one very good Welsh whisky, too: Penderyn - a bit like a ten-year-old Macallen, with lovely almond flavours and an evening-long warm glow.

I quite like Danzy Jones Wysgi Licor, fhg, based on a late C19 recipe of a Welsh journeyman stonemason and sold by The Celtic Spirit Company.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I quite like Danzy Jones Wysgi Licor, fhg, based on a late C19 recipe of a Welsh journeyman stonemason and sold by The Celtic Spirit Company.

Cheers, aeoly!

Have you sampled the "Twelve-year-old Celtic Whisky" at all?