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Good morning chaps! I too am working, 05:00hrs-14:00hrs. Then i am going for a BBQ and beer+cider, followed by some shooting of rabbits and woodys. I think i'll then try my chances with mrswizard....
the weather is quite good here, hope it holds/.......
the weather is quite good here, hope it holds/.......
Edited by GingerWizard on Saturday 17th July 09:42
Morning all....
Am - laze about with the kids... currently I hear a DS, a keyboard being played and someone making a Pokemon card!!
PM - out and about for some fresh air in the countryside with kids, wife, dog, find a pub for lunch and generally muck about..
Maybe wash the car - generally potter I think!
Am - laze about with the kids... currently I hear a DS, a keyboard being played and someone making a Pokemon card!!
PM - out and about for some fresh air in the countryside with kids, wife, dog, find a pub for lunch and generally muck about..
Maybe wash the car - generally potter I think!
Go and buy a front grill for my car, which some scrot rocket managed to steal.
Plan a few more days for my up coming trip to Asia.
Put some more things onto eBay.
Relax this evening before working a night shift in Wakefield station , then off to see the ball and chain for a few days.
Plan a few more days for my up coming trip to Asia.
Put some more things onto eBay.
Relax this evening before working a night shift in Wakefield station , then off to see the ball and chain for a few days.
Off to the Bromsgrove Beer Festival - 12pm start.....
Pity they don't have much to sample
Beer
Batham (Brierley Hill, West Midlands): Mild 3.5% Bewdley (Bewdley, Worcestershire): Brew 100 5% Bewdley (Bewdley, Worcestershire): Worcestershire Way 3.6% Birds (Bromsgrove, Worcestershire): Firebird 4.8% Birds (Bromsgrove, Worcestershire): Thunderbird 3.8% Black Country (Dudley, West Midlands): Bradleys Finest Golden (BFG) 4.2% Black Country (Dudley, West Midlands): English Summer 4.1% Cannon Royall (Uphampton, Worcestershire): Bromsgrove Quartet 3.6% Cannon Royall (Uphampton, Worcestershire): IPA 4.6% Creative (Knightwick, Worcestershire): Creation 4.4% Enville (Kinver, Staffordshire): Ale 4.5% Enville (Kinver, Staffordshire): Cherry Blonde 4% Highgate (Walsall, West Midlands): Dark Mild 3.4% Highgate (Walsall, West Midlands): Englands Glory 4.3% Holdens (Woodsetton, West Midlands): Black Country Mild 3.7% Holdens (Woodsetton, West Midlands): XB 4.1% JHS (Hanley Broadheath, Worcestershire): Snooty Fox 4.1% Kinver (Kinver, Staffordshire): Decapitated 8% Kinver (Kinver, Staffordshire): Maybug 4.8% Malvern Hills (Great Malvern, Worcestershire): Priessnitz Pilsen 4.3% Olde Swan (Netherton, West Midlands): Original 3.5% Purity (Great Alne, Warwickshire): Mad Goose 4.2% Purity (Great Alne, Warwickshire): Pure Gold 3.8% Sarah Hughes (Sedgley, West Midlands): Pale Amber 4% St Georges (Callow End, Worcestershire): Order of the Garter 3.8% Teme Valley (Knightwick, Worcestershire): Talbot Blonde 4.4% Teme Valley (Knightwick, Worcestershire): Wotever Next 5% Toll End (Tipton, West Midlands): Ocker Ale 4% Weatheroak (Studley, Warwickshire): Three Catherines 4% Weatheroak Hill (Weatheroak, Worcestershire): Icknield Export Ale 5% Weatheroak Hill (Weatheroak, Worcestershire): Icknield Pale Ale 3.8% Windsor Castle (Lye, West Midlands): Brickmaker's Bitter 5.2% Windsor Castle (Lye, West Midlands): Sundown 3.9% Wyre Piddle (Peopleton, Worcestershire): Piddle in the Pub 4.1% All Gates (Wigan, Greater Manchester): Reverand Ray 4.6% Amber (Ripley, Derbyshire): Chocolate Orange Stout 4% Bank Top (Bolton, Lancashire): Barley to Beer 3.6% Bartrams (Rougham, Suffolk): Green Man 4% Bateman (Wainfleet, Lincolnshire): Salem Porter 4.7% Bazens (Salford, Greater Manchester): Zebra Best Bitter 4.3% Beartown (Congleton, Cheshire): Bruins Ruin 5% Beeston (Beeston, Norfolk): Worth the Wait 4.2% Beowulf (Brownhills, Staffordshire): Gold Work 5.1% Black Hole (Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire): Milky Way 6% Bob's (Ossett, West Yorkshire): Yakima Pale Ale 4.2% Brampton (Chesterfield, Derbyshire): Wasps Nest 5% Brancaster (Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk): Oystercatcher 4.2% Brown Cow (Selby, North Yorkshire): Suddaby`s Double Chance 3.8% Buffy's (Tivetshall St. Mary, Norfolk): Pollys Folly 4.6% Bull Mastiff (Cardiff, Glamorgan): Son of a b
h 6% Burton Bridge (Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire): Bramble Stout 5% Cairngorm (Aviemore, Scotland): Tradewinds 4.3% Cambridge Moonshine (Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire): Pig's Ear Porter 4.5% Celt Experience (Caerphilly, South Wales): Bleddyn 6% Church End (Nuneaton, Warwickshire): Gravediggers 3.8% Coach House (Warrington, Cheshire): Dick Turpin 4.2% Country Life (Bideford, Devon): Pot Wallop 4.4% Downton (Downton, Wiltshire): Elder Quad 3.9% Nethergate (Pentlow, Essex): Sheeps Eye 4.1% Elland (Elland, West Yorkshire): Bargee 3.8% Elveden (Thetford, Norfolk): Ale 5.2% Falstaff (Derby, Derbyshire): A Fist Full of Hops 4.5% Fox (Heachum, Norfolk): Best Bitter 4.2% Glentworth (Doncaster, South Yorkshire): Light Year 3.9% Greene King (Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk): Hardy and Hansons Bitter 3.9% Greene King (Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk): Sundance 4.1% Harwich Town (Harwich, Essex): Milton Dionysus 3.6% Hobsons (Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire): Mild 3.2% Humpty Dumpty (Reedham, Norfolk): Lemon and Ginger 4% Iceni (Ickburgh, Norfolk): Fine Soft Day 4% Iceni (Ickburgh, Norfolk): Pride of Norfolk 4% Ilkley (Ilkley, West Yorkshire): Olicana Best 4% Ironbridge (Telford, Shropshire): Steam Beer 4.7% Kings Head (Ipswich, Suffolk): Landlady 4% Little Valley (Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire,): Cragg Vale Bitter 4.2% Ludlow (Ludlow, Shropshire): Gold 4.2% Lymestone (Stone, Staffordshire): Ein Stein 5% Mallinsons (Huddersfield, West Yorkshire): Robin Hood's Well 4.5% Morton (Essington, Staffordshire): Scottish Maiden 4.6% Nottingham (Nottingham, Nottinghamshire): Cock and Hoop 4.3% Ole Slewfoot (Norwich, Norfolk): Fox on the Run 4.8% Ossett (Ossett, West Yorkshire): Silver Link 4.6% Otley (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan): O3 Boss 4.4% Outstanding (Bury, Lancashire): Standing Out 5.5% Phoenix (Heywood, Greater Manchester): West Coast IPA 4.6% Pictish (Rochdale, Lancashire ): Alchemist Ale 4.3% Prospect (Wigan, Lancashire): Big Brew 4.1% Quartz (Bromley, Staffordshire): Heart 4.6% RCH (West Hewish, Somerset): East Street Cream 5% Rhymney (Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil): Export 5% Shardlow (Cavendish Bridge, Leicestershire): Whistle Stop 5% Shugborough (Milford, Staffordshire): Lordships Own 5% Thornbridge (Bakewell, Derbyshire): Wild Swan 3.5% Thorne (Thorne, South Yorkshire): Pale Ale 4.2% Titanic (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire): Captain Smith 5.2% Breconshire (Brecon, Powys): Cribyn 4.5% Uncle Stuarts (Norwich, Norfolk): Pack Lane 4% White Horse (Stanford-in-the-Vale, Oxfordshire): Village Idiot 4.1% White Rose (Sheffield, South Yorkshire): El Geko 4.2% Wolf (Attleborough, Norfolk): Granny Wouldn’t Like It 4.8% Wye Valley (Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire): Dorothy Goodbody's Golden Ale 4.2% Wye Valley (Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire): Dorothy Goodbody's Golden Summertime 4.2% Abbeydale (Sheffield, South Yorkshire): Absolution 5.3%
Cider and Perry
Barkers (Hallow, Worcestershire): Best Cyder Barkers (Hallow, Worcestershire): Best Cyder Barkers (Hallow, Worcestershire): Perry Biddenden (Biddenden, Kent ): Cider Border Orchards (Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire ): Cider Broadoak (Clutton, Somerset): Old Bristolian Cider Broadoak (Clutton, Somerset): Perry Brook Farm (Wigmore, Herefordshire): Rum Cask Cider Crones (Kenninghall, Norfolk): Organic Norfolk Perry Crones (Kenninghall, Norfolk): User Friendly Cider Green Valley (Clyst St George, Devon): Cider Gwatkin (Abbey-Dore, Herefordshire): Oldfield Perry Malvern Magic (Ledbury, Herefordshire ): Perry Gwatkin (Abbey-Dore, Herefordshire): Thorn Perry Gwatkin (Abbey-Dore, Herefordshire): Stoke Red Cider Gwynt Y Ddraig (Llantwit Fradre, Glamorgan): Black Dragon Cider Gwynt Y Ddraig (Llantwit Fradre, Glamorgan): Two Trees Perry Hecks (Leigh Street, Somerset): Port Wine of Glastonbury Cider Hogans (Haselor, Warwickshire): Cider Kennford (Exeter, Devon): Cider Ralphs (New Radnor, Radnorshire): Cider Malvern Magic (Ledbury, Herefordshire ): Cider Meare Farm (Glastonbury, Somerset): Farmhouse Cider Merrylegs (Gloucester, Gloucestershire): Fred Perry Moore Brothers (Upton St. Leonard’s, Gloucestershire): Cider Moore Brothers (Upton St. Leonard’s, Gloucestershire): Perry Naish (Glastonbury, Somerset): Cider Rathays (Sutton Saint Nicholas, Herefordshire): Painted Lady Perry Rich's (Watchfield, Somerset): Cider Rous (Evesham, Worcestershire): Cider Rous (Evesham, Worcestershire): Pyder Sandford Orchards (Crediton, Devon): Devon Scrumpy Cider Swallowfields (Hope Mansell, Herefordshire): Painted Lady Perry Tardebigge (Tutnall, Worcestershire): Cider Tardebigge (Tutnall, Worcestershire): Cider Thatchers (Sandford, Somerset): Cheddar Valley Cider Three Cats (Morley, Derbyshire ): Cider Titlark (Himbleton, Worcestershire): Cider West Croft (Highbridge, Somerset): Janet's Jungle Juice Cider Wilkins (Mudgley, Somerset): Cider Wilkins (Mudgley, Somerset): Perry Wiscombe (Colyton, Devon): Suicider Cider
Stocking up with bacon butties as I speak. Today is going to be a big day, and I fear that some of our number will not be coming back.
Think I will state my first pint intentions with a shufty of 'Decapitated'
Pity they don't have much to sample
Beer
Batham (Brierley Hill, West Midlands): Mild 3.5% Bewdley (Bewdley, Worcestershire): Brew 100 5% Bewdley (Bewdley, Worcestershire): Worcestershire Way 3.6% Birds (Bromsgrove, Worcestershire): Firebird 4.8% Birds (Bromsgrove, Worcestershire): Thunderbird 3.8% Black Country (Dudley, West Midlands): Bradleys Finest Golden (BFG) 4.2% Black Country (Dudley, West Midlands): English Summer 4.1% Cannon Royall (Uphampton, Worcestershire): Bromsgrove Quartet 3.6% Cannon Royall (Uphampton, Worcestershire): IPA 4.6% Creative (Knightwick, Worcestershire): Creation 4.4% Enville (Kinver, Staffordshire): Ale 4.5% Enville (Kinver, Staffordshire): Cherry Blonde 4% Highgate (Walsall, West Midlands): Dark Mild 3.4% Highgate (Walsall, West Midlands): Englands Glory 4.3% Holdens (Woodsetton, West Midlands): Black Country Mild 3.7% Holdens (Woodsetton, West Midlands): XB 4.1% JHS (Hanley Broadheath, Worcestershire): Snooty Fox 4.1% Kinver (Kinver, Staffordshire): Decapitated 8% Kinver (Kinver, Staffordshire): Maybug 4.8% Malvern Hills (Great Malvern, Worcestershire): Priessnitz Pilsen 4.3% Olde Swan (Netherton, West Midlands): Original 3.5% Purity (Great Alne, Warwickshire): Mad Goose 4.2% Purity (Great Alne, Warwickshire): Pure Gold 3.8% Sarah Hughes (Sedgley, West Midlands): Pale Amber 4% St Georges (Callow End, Worcestershire): Order of the Garter 3.8% Teme Valley (Knightwick, Worcestershire): Talbot Blonde 4.4% Teme Valley (Knightwick, Worcestershire): Wotever Next 5% Toll End (Tipton, West Midlands): Ocker Ale 4% Weatheroak (Studley, Warwickshire): Three Catherines 4% Weatheroak Hill (Weatheroak, Worcestershire): Icknield Export Ale 5% Weatheroak Hill (Weatheroak, Worcestershire): Icknield Pale Ale 3.8% Windsor Castle (Lye, West Midlands): Brickmaker's Bitter 5.2% Windsor Castle (Lye, West Midlands): Sundown 3.9% Wyre Piddle (Peopleton, Worcestershire): Piddle in the Pub 4.1% All Gates (Wigan, Greater Manchester): Reverand Ray 4.6% Amber (Ripley, Derbyshire): Chocolate Orange Stout 4% Bank Top (Bolton, Lancashire): Barley to Beer 3.6% Bartrams (Rougham, Suffolk): Green Man 4% Bateman (Wainfleet, Lincolnshire): Salem Porter 4.7% Bazens (Salford, Greater Manchester): Zebra Best Bitter 4.3% Beartown (Congleton, Cheshire): Bruins Ruin 5% Beeston (Beeston, Norfolk): Worth the Wait 4.2% Beowulf (Brownhills, Staffordshire): Gold Work 5.1% Black Hole (Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire): Milky Way 6% Bob's (Ossett, West Yorkshire): Yakima Pale Ale 4.2% Brampton (Chesterfield, Derbyshire): Wasps Nest 5% Brancaster (Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk): Oystercatcher 4.2% Brown Cow (Selby, North Yorkshire): Suddaby`s Double Chance 3.8% Buffy's (Tivetshall St. Mary, Norfolk): Pollys Folly 4.6% Bull Mastiff (Cardiff, Glamorgan): Son of a b
h 6% Burton Bridge (Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire): Bramble Stout 5% Cairngorm (Aviemore, Scotland): Tradewinds 4.3% Cambridge Moonshine (Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire): Pig's Ear Porter 4.5% Celt Experience (Caerphilly, South Wales): Bleddyn 6% Church End (Nuneaton, Warwickshire): Gravediggers 3.8% Coach House (Warrington, Cheshire): Dick Turpin 4.2% Country Life (Bideford, Devon): Pot Wallop 4.4% Downton (Downton, Wiltshire): Elder Quad 3.9% Nethergate (Pentlow, Essex): Sheeps Eye 4.1% Elland (Elland, West Yorkshire): Bargee 3.8% Elveden (Thetford, Norfolk): Ale 5.2% Falstaff (Derby, Derbyshire): A Fist Full of Hops 4.5% Fox (Heachum, Norfolk): Best Bitter 4.2% Glentworth (Doncaster, South Yorkshire): Light Year 3.9% Greene King (Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk): Hardy and Hansons Bitter 3.9% Greene King (Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk): Sundance 4.1% Harwich Town (Harwich, Essex): Milton Dionysus 3.6% Hobsons (Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire): Mild 3.2% Humpty Dumpty (Reedham, Norfolk): Lemon and Ginger 4% Iceni (Ickburgh, Norfolk): Fine Soft Day 4% Iceni (Ickburgh, Norfolk): Pride of Norfolk 4% Ilkley (Ilkley, West Yorkshire): Olicana Best 4% Ironbridge (Telford, Shropshire): Steam Beer 4.7% Kings Head (Ipswich, Suffolk): Landlady 4% Little Valley (Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire,): Cragg Vale Bitter 4.2% Ludlow (Ludlow, Shropshire): Gold 4.2% Lymestone (Stone, Staffordshire): Ein Stein 5% Mallinsons (Huddersfield, West Yorkshire): Robin Hood's Well 4.5% Morton (Essington, Staffordshire): Scottish Maiden 4.6% Nottingham (Nottingham, Nottinghamshire): Cock and Hoop 4.3% Ole Slewfoot (Norwich, Norfolk): Fox on the Run 4.8% Ossett (Ossett, West Yorkshire): Silver Link 4.6% Otley (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan): O3 Boss 4.4% Outstanding (Bury, Lancashire): Standing Out 5.5% Phoenix (Heywood, Greater Manchester): West Coast IPA 4.6% Pictish (Rochdale, Lancashire ): Alchemist Ale 4.3% Prospect (Wigan, Lancashire): Big Brew 4.1% Quartz (Bromley, Staffordshire): Heart 4.6% RCH (West Hewish, Somerset): East Street Cream 5% Rhymney (Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil): Export 5% Shardlow (Cavendish Bridge, Leicestershire): Whistle Stop 5% Shugborough (Milford, Staffordshire): Lordships Own 5% Thornbridge (Bakewell, Derbyshire): Wild Swan 3.5% Thorne (Thorne, South Yorkshire): Pale Ale 4.2% Titanic (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire): Captain Smith 5.2% Breconshire (Brecon, Powys): Cribyn 4.5% Uncle Stuarts (Norwich, Norfolk): Pack Lane 4% White Horse (Stanford-in-the-Vale, Oxfordshire): Village Idiot 4.1% White Rose (Sheffield, South Yorkshire): El Geko 4.2% Wolf (Attleborough, Norfolk): Granny Wouldn’t Like It 4.8% Wye Valley (Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire): Dorothy Goodbody's Golden Ale 4.2% Wye Valley (Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire): Dorothy Goodbody's Golden Summertime 4.2% Abbeydale (Sheffield, South Yorkshire): Absolution 5.3%Cider and Perry
Barkers (Hallow, Worcestershire): Best Cyder Barkers (Hallow, Worcestershire): Best Cyder Barkers (Hallow, Worcestershire): Perry Biddenden (Biddenden, Kent ): Cider Border Orchards (Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire ): Cider Broadoak (Clutton, Somerset): Old Bristolian Cider Broadoak (Clutton, Somerset): Perry Brook Farm (Wigmore, Herefordshire): Rum Cask Cider Crones (Kenninghall, Norfolk): Organic Norfolk Perry Crones (Kenninghall, Norfolk): User Friendly Cider Green Valley (Clyst St George, Devon): Cider Gwatkin (Abbey-Dore, Herefordshire): Oldfield Perry Malvern Magic (Ledbury, Herefordshire ): Perry Gwatkin (Abbey-Dore, Herefordshire): Thorn Perry Gwatkin (Abbey-Dore, Herefordshire): Stoke Red Cider Gwynt Y Ddraig (Llantwit Fradre, Glamorgan): Black Dragon Cider Gwynt Y Ddraig (Llantwit Fradre, Glamorgan): Two Trees Perry Hecks (Leigh Street, Somerset): Port Wine of Glastonbury Cider Hogans (Haselor, Warwickshire): Cider Kennford (Exeter, Devon): Cider Ralphs (New Radnor, Radnorshire): Cider Malvern Magic (Ledbury, Herefordshire ): Cider Meare Farm (Glastonbury, Somerset): Farmhouse Cider Merrylegs (Gloucester, Gloucestershire): Fred Perry Moore Brothers (Upton St. Leonard’s, Gloucestershire): Cider Moore Brothers (Upton St. Leonard’s, Gloucestershire): Perry Naish (Glastonbury, Somerset): Cider Rathays (Sutton Saint Nicholas, Herefordshire): Painted Lady Perry Rich's (Watchfield, Somerset): Cider Rous (Evesham, Worcestershire): Cider Rous (Evesham, Worcestershire): Pyder Sandford Orchards (Crediton, Devon): Devon Scrumpy Cider Swallowfields (Hope Mansell, Herefordshire): Painted Lady Perry Tardebigge (Tutnall, Worcestershire): Cider Tardebigge (Tutnall, Worcestershire): Cider Thatchers (Sandford, Somerset): Cheddar Valley Cider Three Cats (Morley, Derbyshire ): Cider Titlark (Himbleton, Worcestershire): Cider West Croft (Highbridge, Somerset): Janet's Jungle Juice Cider Wilkins (Mudgley, Somerset): Cider Wilkins (Mudgley, Somerset): Perry Wiscombe (Colyton, Devon): Suicider Cider
Stocking up with bacon butties as I speak. Today is going to be a big day, and I fear that some of our number will not be coming back.
Think I will state my first pint intentions with a shufty of 'Decapitated'
Working till 1pm then drive the Tiv to Henley for the Thames Traditional boat show, have a look at some superb boats some random classic cars, buy some useles piece of junk from the boat-jumble then a couple of pints of Loddon Bitter followed by a spot of supper at the Rising Sun - perfick !
Rower
Rower
A quick nod round the garden and greenhouse, a pinch here and a bit of feeding there. Take the roof off the car and whisk daughter #2 to her drama school then off to the theatre to run the lighting for a matinee and evening performance.
Electricity and me, never a good mix. It's all white man voodoo as far as I'm concerned.
Electricity and me, never a good mix. It's all white man voodoo as far as I'm concerned.
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