bob's ramblings

This week im going to yet another beer festival. The wandsworth beer festival at le gothique. I shall be there on Thursday.

You may also wish to know what the Bricklayer's in Putney is having a Herefordshire Cider and Perry Festival.

RGL is back as is my email and other things. So yeah if you mailed me anything important recently it may have bounced if it did you can mail me again now :)

also dont forget im having birthday drinks on friday. This has been you week before reminder :)

While drinking tasty beer at the bricklayer's last night it was brought to my attention that they are having a Herefordshire Cider and Perry Festival between the 28th and 31st of October. I thought several of you might want to know that. So there you go.

So, real soon now I get older.

This would normally be a year where I shun human contact on my birthday but since I will be in New Zealand for it next year I suppose I should do something with friends this year. I normally alternate so I only have to herd cats once every two years.

The plan is too drink tasty beer at the Dog & Bell on the 22nd of October.

kake and I will be having lunch in Bethnal Green before hand. So I would expect to be at the pub sometime between 16:00-17:30 if not earlier. Turn up whenever you want.

We might be bringing travel scrabble and travel boggle along if those things excite you. I could also be persuaded to play bar billiards if you twist my arm. :)

As you can see this plan involves very little cat herding or indeed planning. See you there if you want to come but don't feel you have to.

Passport photos

can we all spot why i keep my hair long?

What is also notable is how much more room i take up in each photo.

Somehow its already February. this means theres a few beer festivals imminent.

10-12 February - battersea - http://batterseabeerfestival.org.uk/
25-28 February - bricklayers - http://www.bricklayers-arms.co.uk/?p=295
10-12 March - london drinker - http://www.camranorthlondon.org.uk/ldbf/

I should be there on the thursday of each of them. maybe see you there.

I suppose if I have to clean up my fathers computer there are worse places to do it than the pub. Currently in the Crown on brewer street which has made the good beer guide this year. Some of the beer is really quite cheap for central london. London Pride is £2.50. rgl review to come once kake has uploaded the new gbg data.

So ive been going through my boxes of technology. I seem to have a lot of spare power cables. This calls for a poll.

You have voted havent you? Or you intend to I hope.

For the first time in a while I actually didnt spoil my ballot paper or vote for the Monster Raving Loonies. I may have even voted for a mainstream political party.

Its warm and sunny in spain. Although it is cloudy at the moment. I seem to have tanned quite a lot already.

The trip down was relatively uneventful. We did Godalming to La Mora in just under 18 hours in the car. We actually did the eurotunnel to the french/spanish border in just under 11 hours.

We had 62 confirmed sightings of windsocks[1] in france. We think there were another 2 but didnt see them. One of the ones we missed was on the villau viaduct. which is pretty impressive.

Biggest sign the machines are taking over is that one of the roadsigns told me i was going to fast. It did freak me out a bit.

Finished 1 book so far. House of suns. I had stopped reading this after about 100 pages a few months ago but made an effort to carry on during this holiday and it was worth it. Obviously just a slow start. Now finally reading Executive Orders by Tom Clancy after having owned it for about 5 years. Its been pretty good so far. I get the impression I might be missing stuff by not having read the previous book but I dont feel to out of the loop. A lot of what you need to know gets regurgitated.



[1] Windsocks are an important part of every car journey. honest.