@DrFrancisYoung The thing with Orval is that it improves greatly if you can manage to leave it to age (approx 18 months) in the bottle. (Just in time I worked out not to write c.18 - that would just have confused you, and suggested an even longer time)
@bunsenbernerbmd Hope the Bunsen family see this - my English Springer Henry had a very similar-sounding watery sac thing years ago. Surgery fixed it. Hope the same for the big guy.
@bunsenbernerbmd Just wanted to say that my English Springer Henry had something very similar-sounding - a strange fluid-filled sac in his abdomen. And the good news was that surgery sorted it out. So here’s hoping for the big guy!
Lots of orchestras ditching evening dress these days. Funny how decades of debate about how to make concert attire more engaging, modern etc has resulted in everyone dressed in all-over black, as if they're stagehands trying to be invisible, or are going to a minimalist funeral.
"Their horses also are swifter than leopards."
"Neither delighteth he in any man's legs."
"O soft self-wounding pelican."
What are the weirdest things we sing?
(No points for suggesting Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb. It's too obvious.)