UPDATE:
Hi,
There re two salads from Trader Joe’s in one of the fridges. They expired just this week, but if you want them, claim them before 2:30 today, or Laura will toss them.
Thanks!
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That’s awful.
So they replaced the original black cork with a fake cork to hide that they’d infused the wine with MDMA… What do you think was the plan there? Was this an MDMA smuggling operation and she just so happened to get one of the contaminated bottles that the smuggles were going to set aside for extraction?
Whatever weekend summer falls on.
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Russian blowing up nato members. Should be no worries.
Around the middle of August is usually always sunny and it’s when the Edinburgh festival is on that you and dad can enjoy with cheap events and great food and chat.
Temperatures are usually at around 70 and its when most of the school go back so not to many groups around with all the parents out school shopping etc and all in all there’s less midges around. 
I’d say the fringe festival is better than the main shows as you get to see the acts in local pubs and restaurants and it feels more intimate and comfortable if you have to leave.
Some places to visit are…
- Loch Lomond
Cameron House is beautiful but can be expensive, same as the golfing.
- Benmore Country Park and surrounding areas of Argyll
It’s a must
- Oban and Loch Awe areas
https://www.oban.org.uk/blog/lovely-loch-awe-gem-lorns-crown/
https://loch-awe.com/things-do/day-tours-by-car/oban/
- Isle of Arran (its a short ferry ride and worth the stay)
- Campbelltown is 1 folks like to go to, its a long 3/4 hour drive down tight windy
country roads and all in all is a beautiful drive if you are alright doing it.
- St Andrews
University of St Andrews Ranking UK 2023 / 2024 - Complete University Guide is where Price Andrew studied.
as a side note, relieving yourself in the countryside will not encure a penalty.
A must if visiting the area… 
And is reasonably priced.
I hope that things you would do/visit along with the Oban tours and great railway journeys up there travelling in a car to anywhere in Scotland is very easy, a typical short run to a town will take 2 hours from central Edinburgh and 4 hours to the North in Aberdeen and Campbelltown which are generally the longest rides…
Visiting the Isles are much more difficult and require ferry rides on some rough seas or the bridge to the Isle of Skye.
If your in a main city always head to the west side of town as that’s where the best food and pubs are, head east in the city for culture 
That’s our humor/joke anyways but is true, all the towns are OK though. 
All in all I wouldn’t visit other city’s except Edinburgh for food and culture and Glasgow for the music and soul of Scotland.
Stop and ask anyone while you’re here for anything at all and assistance will be provided, we never fail. Wear a Bernie T-shirt and I guarantee you’ll get free drinks. 
Sorry I didn’t reply sooner @suzzer99 Have a blast brother… 
Edit: Whisky Distillery’s are worth the visit too and you’ll find them in the tourist brochures posted above…
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Shoulder seasons (May and September) would be best imo. In May, the weather is just starting to get better (relatively speaking) and in September, you’re experiencing the tail end of that better weather.
If you want to stop in Edinburgh, August is best. Fringe Festival is kickass for visitors. Not so much for people who live there.
Articles like these are so infuriating. How does anybody watch or read anything that CNN creates?
Even if the numbers are occasionally off, it doesn’t change the message delivered. If you look at the US Politics tab, the article and analysis seems devoted to shitting on Bernie. One supposed error is actually proven to be not an error based on the author’s explanation.
The whole story seems like BS and the evidence is weak.
RIP - two Trader Joes salads past their expiration date. Laura doesn’t fuck around.
Awesome - thanks for all that! Bookmarked.
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Pack it up everyone, Bernie Sanders is basically a Trumpian liar and is not fit to be president
But Sanders was incorrect when he said 83% of the benefits of the law “over 10 years” goes to the top 1%.
Sanders would have been accurate, though still leaving out some context, if he had said that 83% of the benefits in 10 years will go to the top 1%.
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From the wine maker’s fact sheet on the incident 
https://www.blackandbianco.com/factsheet/
Earlier this week, the Black & Bianco team was confronted with the fact that a Belgian woman died after drinking “wine” from a bottle of our brand. That happened mid December last year. First of all, we sympathize with the relatives of this woman.
Last week the Belgian police approached us in the context of a criminal investigation; at that time we did not know and we were not told that this was a situation where someone had died.
During the contact with the Belgian police it quickly became apparent that this was a single bottle of RED Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 that had been manipulated. The bottle cork was not an original Black & Bianco cork; it is black in color and with our logo. All our wine bottles also have the distinctive black capsule with a logo on the neck. See photos of the correct packaging / closure and the beige cork found.
In Belgium, the Black & Bianco RED Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 is not sold through stores, but only through one online partner. In the Netherlands, the bottles are available at better restaurants, specialist retailers and online. You can also have received or given this bottle as a promotional gift.
Although there is no reason to do so, all the bottles of the RED Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 in our stock have been checked as a precautionary measure on the basis of the facts and none of the bottles has been found to contain a deviation in the packaging. You can easily check your own stock or bottle (s). If in the unlikely event you find a different cork (not black), or a capsule without our logo on top, please contact the authorities.
Everyone needs a fact sheet. Blind date? Here’s my fact sheet.
I had an old coworker who used to use the term “directionally correct” and I find myself borrowing it every once in a while. It’s for situations in which you know the general idea but don’t have the exact fact at hand.
CNN (and WaPo, and NYT, and all the other so-called liberal fact-checking chodes) have their heads so far up their own asses that a concept like this would be totally foreign to them.
Example: Bernie says “New York City is 200 miles north of Washington DC” and Donald Trump says “New York City is 1,000 miles west of Washington DC” and the media responds (under the headline “Geography: is Sanders as wrong as Trump?”) with the analysis “neither candidate was able to accurately place New York–it is actually 220 miles northeast of Washington DC–therefore both men are factually incorrect.”
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I am a native. Grew up on the Isle of Skye. Pretty sure I know midges.
I can advise some for the west coast (West is Best!). Go in June. That way you avoid most of the midge season of July/Aug and you’re more likely to get sunnier weather (not nec warmer, but gl w that any time). For some reason June has the best combo of drier/sunnnier weather. The island of Islay is great for a visit, even if you don’t like whisky. 2 hr ferry; ferry rides are cool! If you like whisky, you may be in heaven. Flat island, great beaches, fkn cold water tho. The weather comes from the west before rising to rain on the mainland, so being relatively flat it gets better weather. If it rains you just get pished on whisky. Guaranteed great holiday either way.
Argyll is awesome as a rural scenic coastal area.
Taking ferries is an awesome way to get to the islands etc. rent a car in Glasgow, check the ferry schedules and hop around the west coast island to island.
Oban - Mull - Ardnamurchan is great scenic Highland stuff. If you like camping you can wild camp a bunch of places all over. People don’t object unless you’re an arsehole and litter or something. That’s seriously the best way imo.
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Scotland is definitely great for camping for this reason that you can pitch just about anywhere as you say.
Nice, skye is a beautiful place when your from the city like me… 
Can’t speak highly enough of stunning Skye, and easy to get to by car and road from the West of Scotland.
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I have a BIL who grew up on Tiree, which I think is close by. His parents still live there. We are supposed to visit Scotland for two weeks in summer 2022. One week on Tiree and one week on the mainland.