Got to be the most misleading title for a film ever. Though Peter Cushing appears as Van Helsing in this 1960 Hammer film, Dracula doesn't appear at all and David Peel makes for an insipid Baron Meinster vampire. Terribly miscast. It's a good Hammer film apart from that but it's got nothing to do with 'Dracula'. Christopher Lee wouldn't return to play Dracula for another 6 years after this film (in the 1966 follow up to the 1958 Dracula.)

Time for some more WOMENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN once again.

The unforgettable Fay Wray

Wish she would just get those big knockers out and stop teasing all the time. It's getting boring now.

I think that's probably nonsense. 1 beer from Britain and ZERO from Germany? Come on, Germany and Britain are two of the best places anywhere in the world for beer. I've been all over the world so I know from personal experience. 37 American beers and 0 from Germany? Something is wrong there. That's just insane.

American beer has the same reputation as British food. Both are unfairly criticised by outsiders. When you actually sift through the good stuff you'll be surprised.

Yes it really exists and it's no joke. I have only had it one time when it was a guest ale in a pub in London (Kingston I think). I doubt you can get it in America. I haven't see it since. It's probably a very localised brew that isn't seen much outside the Midlands area.

Anyone ever tried a Stairway To Heaven ale? I have. Had it a few years back in London. Very nice. http://www.burtonbridgebrewery.co.uk/Bridge/Beers/Stairway.shtml Comes from the Burton Bridge Brewery in West Midlands. Same general area as Planty and Bonzo.

I was probably a bit harsh. I mean I have drunk it but I just meant that it's not the best. Bass is alrright. John Smiths and Tetleys are also similar. Big brand brews that (I think)are exported. I like John Smith's Extra Smooth and Tetleys Smoothflow. But again they aren't as nice as the brews you will get in the pubs here. I like Guiness too and I've found Labatts and Budweiser to be alright. I guess I will just drink anything. Yuenling sounds Chinese LOL. I could only find the Group A beers on that site.

Boddingtons is the so so ale we like to export. I don't really care for it. We keep the best ales for ourselves. If you ever visit an English pub (a proper English pub that is, not a touristy one or some inner city dive) then you'll have far better ales to choose from than Boddingtons. The old pubs out in the countryside usually have some great local brews.

Goddard's Ducks Folly: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anotherpintplease/4604149492/sizes/l/

More Maritza.She's got curves in places I didn't even think curves existed!

To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee. Those aren't curves. THESE are curves.

Rainy and mild (for this time of year). I yearn for the days when ground frost was the norm. Now there is just mud everywhere.

Already? I'm leaving my tree up until next weekend.

I was happy that the rain stopped just before I hung the washing out. Now my bastard socks can dry properly.

Thanks but shit load to me is a foot at least. A few inches is meh! Still, better than nothing..............which is what I have. Agreed. I like to have a proper all four season year. It's already kicked in though Dan. That's why it makes such headlines when it does snow. Snow used to be ten a penny up to two decades ago. Now it's such a rare event that when there is a day or two of snow everyone gets worried, can't handle it and don't know what to do in it. Climate change is turning Brits into softies with snow coz we just aren't used to it much these days.

Wish I had some snow and wish it was colder. I like winter, me, but don't get to experience much of it where I live.

Lucky lucky lucky!!! Snow makes me want to get on my hiking gear and fleeces and go walking.

Anything from my local brewery: http://www.goddards-brewery.co.uk/beers.php

What kind of a dopey statement is that supposed to be? If I'd said that in America Peter Grant fitted right in with all the other fatties over there I'm sure it wouldn't go down well. Talk about idiotic stereotyping.

Howdy Big Dan. Hehe, very funny. My grandfather was in the South Wales Borderers and served with 6th battalion in Burma during WW2, fighting the Japanese. That's how I have my Zulu history. At the time of the Zulu War it wasn't a Welsh regiment yet and was called the 2nd Warwickshire. There were 2 battalions and only the 2nd battalion were based in Brecon, Wales since the 1870s. Most of the troops were still English though. The 1st battalion were separate from the 2nd battalion and had been abroad for a decade and had been in South Africa for years. The vast majority of 1st battalion were also English. It was the 1st battalion that was wiped out at Isandlwana, with only 1 company of the 2nd battalion. The rest of the 2nd battalion was out with Lord Chelmsford ten miles away looking for the main Zulu impi. There was also one company of 2nd battalion standing guard at Rorke's Drift. It's a fascinating battle due to the mistakes and wrong doings (in hindsite) that lead to the defeat and at one point the outcome hung in the balance. I completely believe that if the firing line wasn't so far away from the camp and so spread out that the Zulus probably wouldn't have won. After all closed in proper defences stopped the massed Zulu attacks at Rorke's Drift and Khambula

Just finished "Isandlwana" by Adrian Greaves and now I'm reading "How Can Man Die Better:The Secrets of Isandlwana Revealed" by Colonel Mike Snook. Isandlwana is one of the most fascinating battles in history. Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 for those who don't know.