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Peter-are you referring to Birdland, a neighbourhood in Hamilton? I live a couple of blocks away from there. Unfortunately you left here half a decade before I was born!

Howard, luckily we missed the rain here, 2" fell in 2 hours 10 miles away and not a drop here. The hail was so bad there that all the fish keepers lost the Koi in their ponds (literally stoned to death). Also luckily I had a gig on the Saturday as otherwise I would have been at the biker rally that was at Helmsley. 60 bikers were air lifted out and 9 swept away (but found safe later) all the bikes, tents, marquees, etc. were lost. Had it been the previous day there would have been 5000 bikers in that valley but the rally had just finished and all but 200-300 had left before the rain came.

Glad you missed it all, Peter. I had visions of you in a rowboat using a Rick for a paddle! Very bad luck for the 'fishies' and bikers, though.

Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

No...Tasmanian Devils do NOT do that spinning thing. No...we do not ride kangaroos to work (Actually I, like Hollis Brown, live of the outskirts of town. My hillside abode overlooks our fine city, and neighbours a national park. As a result, we have kangaroos and wallabys on my lawn almost every night, yet am 5-10 mins from the CBD)

Tell 'em about the great pubs and restaurants, Andrew. I used to go to Launceston at least once a month on business. Used to stay at the Penny Royal. As I was working at the airport, the 'Clarendon Arms' at Evandale was always a good lunch.

I live up the road from the Penny Royal, in Trevallyn

The Clarendon Arms is a nice pub, for sure!

...and we have one of the worlds finest domestic beers - Boags Draught!

I SINCEREY HOPE you're joking!! If you could buy it before it passed through the panther it mightn't be so bad, Andrew. Sorry, but that stuff sucks!! I'd rather drink Adelaide water!!

Parochialism is all very well, but.....

Boags Premium? Now that's a different story.......

Sounds to me like you need some good old 4th of July Sam Adams.... or maybe some Killians.

You should get yourself over here Howard, we have the best beers in the world in here in Yorkshire. (Although I must own up to being a Guinness drinker myself!). I recently had an American friend here (who claimed to be a heavyweight drinker) and he passed out after one an a half pints of "Old Peculiar"

Old Peculiar....lovely.
Don't know where it's from, but 'Doombar' is a tasty pint!

I'm a Guinness drinker myself, Peter, but I tend to partake in pubs rather that at home - much better out if the tap! I had a few(?) pints in York in 2002 in a pub just across the road from the Viking centre - down a small lane - can't remember the name of the pub. Funnily enough I met a couple from Tasmania there - small world!!

I'll try anything once, chaps!!

"I SINCEREY HOPE you're joking!! If you could buy it before it passed through the panther it mightn't be so bad, Andrew. Sorry, but that stuff sucks!! I'd rather drink Adelaide water!!"

Howard, Howard, Howard! I'm suprised you can type so well with a crack-pipe in your hand!

There must be something seriously wrong wiht your palette if you think that - you mustn't be a beer drinker! BD regularly wins the best Australasian beer titles in Domestic categories, and hads a good shake at overall. I'd love to know what domestic beer you would call better...VB?? XXXX?? Swan??Mb??

This is not a parochial call - I'm a Hobart Boy, so should be a Cascade lover

None of those you mentioned, Andrew. It's only my opinion and palate - I just don't like it! Then again, I've only had the canned variety, not out of the tap. I guess I'm not giving it a fair go, am I?

I usually have either Boag's Premium, Cascade Premium or Crown Lager in the fridge. At a pinch, I'd stock Carlton Draught and perhaps Cooper's Sparkling (speaking of Adelaide water!).

"wiht your palette" - captain Dyslexia strikes again!

I shouldn't have been so harsh... I still get up every morning, look out over my balcony to make sure the Boags Brewery is still there (and thank the good laawd that it is!). Out of hte tap, It's a different ballgame. I can't think of a canned beer I like.

Coopers Sparkling I think is a great, great beer. How they do it with their water I'll never know. Carlton Draught? Yech! Horses for courses, eh?