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Roast beef, rare, with horseradish sauce.

Ooh so close! The correct answer was:

Roast beef, rare, with English mustard.

English mustard. The only condiment in that world that gives you a nosebleed

 

 

All part of the fun.

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english mustard is rank

 

Better than Welsh mustard!  :P

 

 

you've been had, that really wasn't mustard 

 

actually, I just looked it up and there are people claiming to make Welsh mustard, I suspect it's English mustard with red colouring

 

whole grain dijon is the only mustard I'll eat or include as an ingredient, I absolutely load it into cauliflower cheese when I make that

proper mature cheddar and whole grain dijon, luvverly

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That's right, it's based around the Eighth Air Force, focusing I think, on the Germany bombing missions rather than the Pacific.

Hmmm. Could be great, provided they use proper aeroplanes. If it's heavy on the CGI I will be avoiding it.
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Wilko Johnson says he is 'cancer free'

 
Wilko Johnson said it was 'hard to come to terms' with the fact he is not going to die imminently

Former Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson has said he has been "cured" of the terminal pancreatic cancer with which he was diagnosed in 2012.

The 67-year-old was initially given 10 months to live after rejecting chemotherapy, but had radical surgery to remove the tumour earlier this year.

"It was an 11-hour operation," he said at the Q Awards in London.

"This tumour weighed 3kg - that's the size of a baby," he continued. "Anyway, they got it all. They cured me."

The guitarist went on his "farewell tour" in 2013 and recorded an album with The Who's Roger Daltrey.

"I thought that was going to be the last thing I ever did," he told BBC News entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson after the ceremony on Wednesday.

'Calmly accepted' fate

Then, at the end of last year, a doctor got in touch and said "something strange" was going on because he was still alive.

Johnson went to see a cancer specialist at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and it was discovered that he had a rare form of tumour. He then had the surgery in April.

After the initial diagnosis, he was "absolutely convinced that this thing would kill me," Johnson said. "I accepted it. I didn't lose a minute's sleep about that."

The musician said he had spent a year "calmly accepting the idea that I was going to die".

He said: "I decided that was the way to deal with it - not to curse it or fight it or anything like that. Just try and enjoy the time left, which I'd done.

'It's gone'

"In order to do that, you have to accept, yes you're going to die, which in itself was quite an experience because it gives you a whole different way of looking at things.

"And then for someone to come up and say 'We can fix it'... When they first said they could operate, I was thinking, 'What are they saying? They may be offering me two or three more months life?'

"But no they weren't, they were saying they could get rid of the tumour, and that's what they did. And it's gone. And I don't have cancer.

"It's so weird and so strange that it's kind of hard to come to terms with it in my mind. Now, I'm spending my time gradually coming to terms with the idea that my death is not imminent, that I am going to live on."

He said he was still recovering from the operation. When asked what he would do next, he replied: "I don't know really."

Johnson's declaration came as he accepted the Icon Award at the Grosvenor House ceremony on Wednesday.

Johnson's operation also involved the removal of his pancreas, spleen part of his stomach, small and large intestines and the removal and reconstruction of blood vessels relating to the liver.

 

BBC

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Hearing that the insurance have caved in after the silly fool who decided to reverse out onto a main road and into my front end.  The other party isn't admitting liability but my no claims are protected and they will waive my excess due to him either having not responded or having problems with his insurance policy.  Job done but it took them ages for what must be a clear cut case.  Ah well, I suppose I'll treat the car to either a resprayed front end or new panels on the front (the damage is cosmetic, and there's not much of it).  

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