Anyone up for the challenge?

I'm giving it a go, my wife's response was to laugh out loud, then stare at me and say 'you serious?, then laugh again.

She of little faith.

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Ok...I challenge you.

He who lasts longest is by far the better man.

Unless you win....obviously.

At the moment I am drinking two bottles of Sancerre at weekends and about 15x 500ml bottles of cider in the week. I have a cider belly to lose.

Consider yourself challenged.

Easy win, you wont make it 'til midnight on the 2nd.

By then you will have beaten to death everyone in your village with a crook.

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I'll get it over and done with now, I'm gonna say that you are both better . . . . . . .

One of my clients said " You're a star" at 8:06 this morning from their iPad, I'd finished the tax calc after supping half a bottle of Lidl Mercurey 12.5 alc. . . . last night.

Clearly, another reason, for not knocking the shine off !

Good Luck You guys



"giving up a cup of tea could be harder" Desert Island Discs and all that - You have only one luxury to savour !

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Do I earn any respect, if I say I'm not buying in October ?

The deeper the cuts, the deeper the discounts. I notice that Tesco hit your inboxes yesterday with 4 pages of wines with over 50% off.

If you'd bought any of these in quantity before . . . . . yeah, a sobering issue in itself .

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I'm all stocked up, can't fit anymore in, even Cloudy Bay at £2.20 a bottle could not tempt me to part with my wonga

I've also just bottled another 40 pints of wonderful homebrew, should be conditioned beautifully for the 1st of Nov

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That is a very good plan. At the end of the month you'll be gasping for it.

We've been making end of season tomatoe soup from our own organic fruit. Huge crop this year, a marvellous Indian summer down south has helped our outside growing, and I / we hate those tasteless hot house tomatoes in the stores after October. Vaguely red, watery seedy tasteless things.

Lots of work, over 25 years of composting and wood fire ashes create perfect terroir, but worth it for the very best flavour. Premier cru tomatoes, chez Duncan

Its been a super growing season here.

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Mmmmm...if it's not too spicey, I'll be along with a bucket shortly.

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No added spice. About 94% Tomatoe, very ripe Pomadoro (Italian pumpkin shapes fruits) and Felina, a large beefsteak fleshy variety with higher acidity, 2% onion, fried onion, the milder ones and 4% home grown charentais carrots (short and stubby ones), which don't have that tasteless and solid pale core.

The idea is to make a tomatoe soup that jumps out at you, like a decent plot of tomatoe plants on a warm evening. The best soup was made about two weeks ago when the evenings were warm, and the fruit very pungent.
For perfection and sheer luxury on the palate, the picking and making window is very short.

Ba, I don't blame you for wanting a bucket full

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Just need half a baguette...

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What is a tomatoe ?

That looks like Bachelor's Cuppa Soup for 40p per packet from yer local 3 fa a quid store.

Both of you behave yourselves.

Errrr - Yes, one that is not plural, hopefully Ba can get me out of that. Perhaps old English? As in "Shoppe", will that do ?



The soup colour looks just about right on the pic that Ba posted, particularly at this time of year when the Tomatoes have to be picked a little early because they are cracked, and the early morning dew and recent mists at 6:00 am are creating a botrytis mold on the fruit that we don't actually want.

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Day one, here we go....

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How it gone so far GK?
Only 6 more days to go.... What have you ear marked to break the time off booze ?

I failed. Made it to sixteen days, events took over, a sh1tty day lead to a glass and the dam broke.

Will try again next year

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