Can I just say that the Tesco's 'Three Bean Salad' represents excellent value for money? The one I just ate contained more like two hundred beans in it rather than just three.

Whereas I just had Thousand Island dressing on my salad and there wasn't a single island in it as far as I could tell.

[SMs] Skim-reading I thought Sierra Mike had quadruple-posted! But you both made me smile.

Hello there. I'm occasionally finding that this site doesn't load - I get a 'cannot connect to the website' message (or 'connection refused'), despite the fact that as far as I know, the server is running properly at the remote end. This has happened to me from two different networks, so I'd be interested to know if anyone else is experiencing this before I investigate further. It's quite sporadic, so you may not notice anything amiss.

I'm seeing it. About 15% of the time, at a guess.

Me too.

Right - that points to some kind of server problem.

I've seen it as well, in the last week.

Me too, occasionally, recently.

Support tell me it should now be fixed. Let me know if it happens again.

No problem this morning. I'm here, aren't I?

I've got a bottle of Angostura bitters. With roughly four dashes used so far, which leaves about a millennium's supply remaining. Does anyone actually use this stuff?? If so, what for? And how often? I'm wondering if Mr Angostura and company have a real racket going here, or if they're actually doing themselves a disservice by selling their customers centuries worth of their product in a single hit. Perhaps their sales would be better if they sold it in the same size bottle as, say, Tabasco or something. Just idle speculation as the chat here seems otherwise quiet…

(SM) It's like pepper. Get a jar of it and it lasts for ever. I had a girlfriend who was very keen on the said bitters whereas I preferred bitter. I had a sip of her drink once - it was vile.