ABERLOUR & MANNOCHMORE

Nice surprise this morning  - got to the workshop to find that the SMWS, having dissolved their Netherlands branch, are much more efficient at dispatching their orders from Scotland... I placed the order on Friday & these gentlemen arrived yesterday. The Dutch cowboys used to take a couple of weeks!

Also waiting for me was a card postmarked Tyneside featuring a Sally Army band playing traditional instruments with dewdrops under their noses & robins perched on their hats! Thank you Phoebs! Here in Brussels they're likely to be playing banjos & accordions accompanying a saxophone. The dewdrops are de rigueur!

We never eat fruitcake because it has rum.
And one little bit makes a man like a bum.
Now can you imagine a sorrier sight
Than a man eating fruitcake until he gets tight?
    Away, away with rum, by gum.....

We never eat cookies because they have yeast,
And one little crumb makes a man like a beast.
Now can you imagine a greater disgrace
Than a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face?
    Away, away with rum, by gum.....


Remember that?