Andrew Denny has a post on his blog GrannyButtons about blogs and links. Basically he’d commented in his blog about a post on another blog about a new Marina development. As you’d expect he had included links to the original blog entry in his blog. The writer of that blog seemed to take offence at […]
Well its a week since the Mythe Works which produces all our drinking water shutdown after being flooded. Severn Trent’s contingency plans involving a few hundred bowsers is a “logistical nightmare” (a direct quote from Severn Trent) with tankers being “too big to fit down the narrow streets” (another direct quote from Severn Trent). In […]
It wasn’t fun getting home on Friday – although the middle of the trip was OK the start of it (from Hanley Swan to Upton) was pretty bad due to serious flooding on the Hanley Road near Hanley Castle and the end of it (from Pitville Gates to Imjin Road) was extremely nasty. Wyman’s Brook […]
Well yesterday was a most excellent and enjoyable day. Met Nick at the bottom of the road and we headed off to the Cheltenham Friends of the Samaritans beer festival at the Old Patesians Rugby Club. They had about 26 beers, mainly from local breweries, and a pig roast for when you got hungry. We […]
Here are a few pictures from Bude: The Falcon Hotel Situated right down by the canal on the edge of town – a 3 star hotel with a good restaurant and wifi (£5 for 24 hours) and with its own bar and a pub right next door what more could you ask for? The Canal […]
Well its going to be a bit of a mad weekend. On Saturday Nick, myself and a few friends are off to the ‘Second’ Cheltenham Beer Festival’ which is run by the Friends of the Samaritans as a way of raising funds. Running from 12 noon on Saturday till 11pm they are promising to have […]
Last Saturday (23rd June) morning we headed down to Bude for a couple of days. Leaving Cheltenham just after 7am might have seemed mad but it worked extremely well and, including a stop at Bridgewater Services (which I wouldn’t advise) we arrived outside the Falcon Hotel at about 10:20am. As we couldn’t check in until […]
So its the weekend – those two days when you don’t go to work, those two days when you relax and don’t do the things that last week you said you’d do this weekend. Ahh – if that was only the case. I headed into work at 6:30am yesterday morning, worked through lunch and got […]
Well it has to be said that yesterday was a good day… Due to a slight miscalculation on timings Nick and I nearly missed the train but after a mad dash we made it to the station… just to find that the train was late. Richard turned up as did Mike and Paul and, after […]
Today Pub Night Council are off on a pub crawl round Gloucester. We are only planning to do a handful of pubs, but those we have picked have a wide range of ales – which is more important than the number of pubs as far as we are concerned.