Any cheerful news today? (Nothing negative please! 🙂) (Part 1)

Yes, the inflatable spas do suffer if you fold them. If you’re very careful where you fold them though, and make sure they’re 100% dry inside the jet/bubble chambers then it’s not really a problem. Mine is a semi rigid which isn’t inflated and has separate inner and outer which makes it much easier to fold and store. It does fold in half and then goes under one of the beds inside a king size duvet cover.

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17C in my pond at the moment, just back from 2 coffee shops and a walk by the river. Lovely. :joy:

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My Ducati got its CT for 5 years yesterday. Now to get the Norton together. Also got my shipment of Bunderberg ginger beer as well.

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Now that is seriously good news! Where from? I’ve been appalled by French ginger beer although Shweppes is now doing one with quite a nice bite to it.

Make it yourself! Super easy :slightly_smiling_face:

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What model do you have? I used to have a 900GTS and then a 900SS bevel black and gold.

It has been on my list of things to start a thread about as I remember a couple of you saying that!

Great mountain bike ride today - 40km with just under 1100m climb, 2200 calories burnt and some very technical rocky areas. As the years go by seem to be getting less inhibited - surely it should be the other way around??? :grinning: regardless, having alot of fun in the meantime.

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Funny you mention it as have just opened a bottle and it really does have a ginger kick to it. Must get some more

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Fevertree Ginger Ale can be found. Also their wonderful tonics. SuperU, for one. The price 
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Canada Dry was “the” ginger ale till Feverfew but unfortunately the recipe seems to vary by country as does Schweppes, they both seem quite flaccid here.

Next time I’m back in the UK I’ll probably grab aome Fentimans in Waitrose which was a fairly proper ginger beer. And Aldi there carries Fevertree for a reasonable price quite often.

I remember sitting on my Dad’s knee, I must have been about 7, in the pub on Piel Island drinking Schweppe’s ginger beer.
The opening hours were very flexible as you could only get there by boat and there was always a warning if the police were trying to get across.

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Yes I had that once, a friend got it for me. Yes it was nice but refuse to spend that on fizzy drink!!

Nearly cried with how bad it was when I tried that one!!!

Big difference between ginger ale and ginger beer. Ginger ale became fairly well-known in France as a new and exciting alternative to alcohol, Canada Dry had a popular ad campaign which was on in cinemas and television when I was a child, pitching it as looking like alcohol but not being alcohol. So you find it next to lemonade at the supermarket.

Ginger beer was unknown and is still a very exotic niche specially-imported-for-foreigners delicacy, which is why you find it in the exotic grocery bit of the supermarket along with really weird things like marshmallow slime in a jar and salad cream.

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I must admit I don’t really understand the difference between them!

And tunnocks tea cakes. And caramel wafers. Nearly fainted when I saw them in Leclerc.

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Ginger ale- amber coloured clear not very gingery, non lemony, not hugely sweet fizzy drink usually sold as a mixer.

Ginger beer - whitish coloured often slightly opaque for authenticity ginger lemonade, can be very gingery :heart: (the gingerier the better :heart_eyes:)

Ooh thought of another difference: beer and ginger beer is a delicious ginger beer shandy, beer and ginger ale? Don’t.

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FOOD OF THE GODS ( you never see snowballs though).

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Today’s trivia fact: “Ginger Beer” in Greek is “tsitsibira”. :slight_smile:

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Oh wow
 I shall have to take a trip to our local Leclerc to see if they have them too.

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I look forward to them carrying the dark chocolate version. Though I was mildly amused that the ones I saw appear to come from Ireland rather than Scotland.

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