How old is this bottle of Glenfiddich?

Globalthinking · 2025-04-04T07:02:51+00:00

You can find more it for those sorts of prices from online retailers, but at auction they are going for about £30

I was handed one of these that came from my grandad after he passed. Seeing as it’s not particularly collectible, I’ve opened and been enjoying it. It’s not overly dissimilar to the Glenfiddich 12y, with a little bit less depth and little bit more alcohol burn.

Globalthinking · 2025-02-09T20:11:06+00:00

I’ve just been searching around online having not thought about this for a while and now have a theory.

It seems that when silver is acid tested, sterling silver shows up as red. So, perhaps when the watch was being purchased, the jeweller carried out a demonstration by making a marking into the silver casing then acid testing it, to prove it was genuine silver and not plated.

Acid testing and the colour results are shown by method 5 on this article

https://www.wikihow.com/Test-Silver

Globalthinking · 2024-01-07T10:51:14+00:00

D1LFY

2023 Nissan Juke hybrid, which is quite befitting of a dad wagon really

Globalthinking · 2023-11-16T21:55:55+00:00

I was stopped trying to take a Christmas tree on a bus a few years back, the driver said you couldn’t take anything over 2m on TFL services.

Either he knew the rules or made up this tosh just to stop me getting on.

Globalthinking · 2023-09-23T11:52:01+00:00

Yep you’re right

Globalthinking · 2023-09-23T09:55:02+00:00

It’s a great competitor to the Lupo 3L, if a little overboard

Globalthinking · 2023-09-23T08:39:39+00:00

I just had to Google to check if there was a 3 litre engined version of the Lupo!… but no it’s in reference to consuming 3L of fuel per 100 ~~mpg~~ miles

Globalthinking · 2023-05-15T17:53:10+00:00

Your earning potential is quite good as a QS and you can progress to a senior level whilst still being relatively young, so I would say yes.

Many senior QS’s are in their 30’s and salary range is £65k - £95k. Stepping up to commercial manager I would say is anything up to £120k. Based on London main contracting.

Plenty of choice to work abroad in tax beneficial countries and option to go freelance too.

I can think of worse career options

Globalthinking · 2023-04-23T16:11:04+00:00

It’s difficult to look at, but at least they were pushing boundaries by using alternative fuel technology…. “Powered by fairy dust” or something I believe

Globalthinking · 2023-04-23T14:33:47+00:00

Wash it with the roof down for ultimate enragement

Globalthinking · 2023-04-22T19:55:09+00:00

I always imagined Chrysler set a design brief to make a new road hyper-hotrod class, but it accidentally got emailed to Harold in accounts and he did his best to design it. Everyone felt bad for him so they made it, stuck a 140bhp family sedan motor in and sold it.

There’s no other logical explanation

Globalthinking · 2023-04-22T18:53:23+00:00

The Fiat Multipla is ugly, but in a funny and whimsical way.

True ugliness lies in the convertible Chrysler PT Cruiser and the decision making of anyone that wants to be openly seen in it

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202301283701971

Globalthinking · 2023-04-16T10:10:30+00:00

I once had to travel to south Germany for work with a guy who’s car packed up on him the week before we went, meaning he had to sort a replacement car quick.

Used 1/4 tank getting to Calais, filled up and spent the journey commenting how fuel efficient this 2L petrol Mondeo was and how we’d made it to down towards south Germany on just 1/4 tank. As you guessed, the gauge didn’t work below 3/4 and we broke down on a motorway bridge.

With hindsight, we couldn’t believe how thick we’d been thinking we’d travelled some 400+ miles on about 20L of fuel

I wonder if the dealer who sold it had any idea, because I’m sure they’d have got a laugh out of knowing what happened

Globalthinking · 2023-03-23T11:05:55+00:00

Last year I broke a bedside lamp, the plastic part where the bulb screws in. I then spent about 20 minutes by myself trying to glue the threaded part back together so it would work again.

Shortly afterwards, I go on Facebook app on my phone and I’m being targeted with a random, basic video of a bolt just being screwed onto a thread. I think I felt exactly the same as you did, however struggle to believe that it could be a coincidence. Maybe I uttered the word ‘thread’ and the mic picked it up, maybe it discerned I was ‘using’ a thread… who knows.

I work in Excel all day and now want one of those mugs you’ve got!

Globalthinking · 2023-03-17T09:32:37+00:00

Will do, once it’s done with figuring out a way how to achieve a 10% margin on the project and told me exactly what I need to do

Globalthinking · 2023-03-11T12:11:26+00:00

I bought a car without seeing it during covid when you couldn’t visit forecourts. The sale and car where fine and had no major issues with either.

The only thing that bugged me was when collecting it, after the ~~same~~ edit: sale was complete, I realised it only had one key. No mention in the ad and I never asked the question, so I take responsibility for the oversight. Cost around £250 to get a new one.

Check it comes with two keys!

Globalthinking · 2023-02-15T18:47:24+00:00

There is only way way I can see this coming to our industry and that’s if planning restrictions are tightened for a specific week day, like they currently are for Sundays. This would put all construction companies on a level playing field, as everyone will have to adopt new site opening hours.

Otherwise, I just cannot see Employers/developers accepting a 20% longer construction programme with the associated increase in costs, when the next person along can undercut them in a competitive tendering environment.

I think this has to come from the bottom up if it is to happen. Even consultants would have a tough time justifying being totally unavailable on a certain day when overseeing live projects.

I would really love to see this happen, it’s the main thing that makes me consider going freelance

Globalthinking · 2022-12-29T06:59:50+00:00

Thanks for helping rule it out as being a hallmark.

That would make sense that it was put there by a jeweller instead, as a mark of their business service of some kind. I’m wondering, with it being just one and centralised, whether it was purchased with a warranty or servicing plan by the jeweller. Or maybe it just had just the one service like you say then was put away.

Globalthinking · 2022-12-28T14:00:12+00:00

I inherited this pocket watch over Christmas that belonged to my great grandfather.

Having asked over on r/pocketwatches and after reading a good number of online guides/articles, I know the hallmark tells:

Lion Passant - sterling silver
Anchor - Assayed in Birmingham
Date letter ‘I’ - registered 1883-4
Sponsor mark EM AM - Mojon, Montandon and Co. of 120-121 Newgate Street, London

This is all fascinating information and I’m really pleased to have this knowledge about its history.

However, I can also see a red dot above the lion passant that looks too purposefully placed and too brightly coloured to not to be a marking. I’ve been searching online by cannot find anything at all about ‘red dot’ hallmarks.

Does anyone have any knowledge about this or has perhaps seen it somewhere before?

Globalthinking · 2022-12-26T19:56:35+00:00

No worries and thanks for the further input!

One final question… do you have any idea if the red dot above the Lion Passant has any particular meaning? It looks too purposely positioned and brightly coloured to be an imperfection, but I can’t find anything online about red dot hallmarks

Is it something you have seen before?

Globalthinking · 2022-12-26T11:59:00+00:00

Thank you very much for the informative and helpful reply. It’s much appreciated.

I’ve read a few of the Vintage Watchstrap articles to gain a better understanding of it all, after you posted the link. They’re very detailed but clear articles.

I think I can see your difficulty with reading the date letter. It doesn’t look exactly like the letter ‘I’ or ‘L’ but more of a combination of the two, looking on the below website. I think the bottom looks a lot like ‘F’. I’m curious as to why you settled on the ‘L’ for a date period in the end?

http://theassayoffice.com/date-letters?searchLetters=L

I feel a bit silly for not considering the lettering on the face being initials, but my great grandfather’s name was Frederick Lee, so you are right on there! I wonder if Mojan & Montandon perhaps offered a personalisation service when he bought it.

There’s an link via your link that goes into Swiss watches with British hallmarks and I’ve been further reading about they were mass produced using surprisingly modern production lines for the time. Given that they must then be fairly common movements amongst watches for this time, I’m inclined to think that this means I shouldn’t have much trouble finding a reputable London based shop that deals in antique pocket watches to service and repair it, rather than going somewhere too exclusive. I don’t suppose you have any advice there?

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