When going for beer the other night I was confronted by two different offers as shown in the photos. Suddenly the questions came thick and fast:
Did I want a “draught beer” or a “draft beer”?
When you leave the door ajar do you let in a “draft” or a “draught”?
Before you finish writing a document is it a “draught document” or a “draft document”?
And is it a “rough draft” or a “ruff draught”?
Are detailed technical drawings done by a “draughtsman” or a “draftsman”?
Do I play a game of “drafts” or “draughts”?
Am I "drafted" or "draughted" to the army?
How deep in the water is a ship's "draught" or a ship's "draft"?

I think I will settle this over a bottle of stout!

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Whether its the Yorkshire Dales or the Lancashire Plain there are some odd characters who come from the North of England (see picture above). In the North they call a spade a spade and they are proud of it. They have a good mild'n bitter beer and the fish and chips are better than in the South.

Normally they like sausages but obviously the man in the post below (see Czech Menu 2 - Dins) has had enough!

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Here is a special delicacy of country regions, particularly popular in Moravia and North Bohemia. These are Flippers served with jam, fruit and cream. They are best finished of with a double measure of Plum Brandy (known locally as “Slivovice”) to avoid indigestion!

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I would hate to regurgitate an old belief but I just assumed that it was common knowledge that the smell of tar was therapeutic and had some mild medicinal benefit. In other words breathing deeply when passing a roadworks where the smell of tar was strong was “good for the lungs”!

Now I find out that not everybody is convinced of this, and horror of horrors, I am not sure myself that it is true. I simply always believed it.

However with the benefit of the ubiquitous internet searching for “therapeutic smell of tar” reveals that tar is used in all sorts of things from shampoo to sweets and candies, that there are different types of tar anyway; and unlike me, most of the entiries I read were concerning people who thought the smell obnoxious at best, while admitting that the fumes were harmless.

And today we have asphalt. Perhaps that just stinks!

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