Sticky Mess - It sprayed all over the place

One to share here - a land rover driving, pasty munching, country bumpkin has posted a set of detailed instructions about how to make elderflower champagne or "fizz".

It appears to be really easy requiring only a few elderflower heads, water, two lemons a bag of sugar and some wine vinegar - mix together, leave for a full day and bottle - job done.

What's the catch? Beware of explosions

Weeeelll it seems that elderflower pop is notoriously volatile and you will read many accounts of glass bottles blowing up, corks popping and plastic (pet) bottles exploding all resulting in one hell of a sticky mess.

Its all very well these rural folks spreading the delights of farmhouse recipes, nonchalantly laughing off the BOOM factor and resulting sticky mess, but what saving is there if the odd explosion wrecks a pair of new curtains and creates a sticky mess that needs cleaning.

It seems the over excitement and excessive effervescence of the drink is due to fermentation - the natural yeast on the elderflower reacts with the sugar to make carbon dioxide and alcohol.

Could this be a new method of making biofuel? I read about a landrover being driven on banana oil for thousands of miles see wiki landrover "history" (it must therefore be true) so it wouldn't be so extraordinary if we see elderflower gas coming to a filling station near you?

Filthy Dirty Land Rovers

Land rovers drivers wallow in their own mud.

Forums such as the mud club, mud flapper, dirtland, flithy dirty, deep down dirty all sing praise to the glory of mud. Why have the ultimate all terrain vehicle if you can't "chuck some muck" on it every now and then?

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Goodbye, Farewell, Ta Ta Land Rover

All good things must come to an end and so the final curtain falls for troubled British Vehicle Manufacturer Land Rover. The last nails are being hammered into the coffin. After a painful time being "run" by US car giant Ford, Land Rover is changing hands to the Indian Joke Car Company Tata - they who make the "cheapest, smallest, crapest cars in the world" - some boast.

So farewell Landy - the boys on the Land Rover Forum have created this video of the land rover defender going "off Road" and even begun a call to action on the BBC - BBC Action land Rover Best of British.

It only takes a vscan through the pages of Land Rover's Magazine to see the passion that enthusiasts have for this All Terrain Superstar.

If you want to own your very own landy check out the available models of land rovers but beware these models were probably made in China

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The CO₂ emissions of all new Land Rover vehicles sold in the UK are offset for the first 45,000 miles of use. Managed by Climate Care our New Vehicle Offset Programme invests in a specific range of Land Rover-funded alternative energy projects around the world including: Hydropower Tajikistan and Wind energy in China. The new vehicle programme is now being expanded to customers in other countries initially including Norway, Sweden and Belgium.

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