burton on trent

I see the swear filter is still working!

 

Yes but everything that breathes is trying to eat you, sting you, poison you, mame you or burn you.

 

I might just show her this reply.
You'll be in soooo much trouble!

 

Sorry to break it to you, but this is how ordinary folks around the world are. You know , people who don't live and work in a warm cozy, government funded bubble.

 

Thanks. I understand now. That puts everything into perspective.

 

@Dicky It wasn't until I was 13/14 that I found out Burnton on Trent was an actual place, up until then Burton on Trent was cockney rhyming slang for your rent money, when I was a kid I remember my auntie telling my mum that my uncle had done the "Burton" on the horses,

 

The Trent at Burton makes really good beer. Something about the water quality. So loads of beer came from there and going for a Burton crept into the language as meaning a going for a drink .

In the war, when One of our pilots ditched in the sea, they went for a Burton.....meaning in the drink. Hence 'he's gone for a Burton'. Fabulous facts 22011

 

still about the greatest single brewery town and of course who can forget the nations favourite marmite
though not far away is the National Memorial Arboretum well worth a visit

 

I don't think that river Trent water would be much good for beer!

The brewing water around Burton comes from artesian wells whose water has seeped through layers of gypsum over decades to produce a hard water ideal for making pale ales.

 

You can see the yotties if you look hard to the right of Hurst Castle.
This confused us when we visited the "Hearst Castle" just up the hill from the Pacific Coast Highway. Somebody cant spell..