Where I am today

[DorsetScott]

Yup, I'd read it as disagreement.
Had I thought about flocculation I would have twigged.

Still reckon it makes a good curse

[gaza the instructor]

Unlike Worthington White Shield Ehhh Mash!!!

[Mash]

Blimey. I bet after brewing our own that would be a tough one to swallow.

[Easydrinker]

Yup, I'd read it as disagreement.
Had I thought about flocculation I would have twigged.

Still reckon it makes a good curse

We could nominate Mash as the Cursemaster General for the site.

Robert.

[Easydrinker]

Now, not bigging up the town of my birth, but if you want a yeast to stubbornly sit on the bottom of a bottle conditioned beer, and not rise up...
Nottingham yeast!

It has taken me 60 years to discover that it existed.
I now use it weekly.

TDS_LALBREW_PREM_NOTTINGHAM_ENGLISH_DIGITAL.pdf

Robert.

[Mash]

While we are on the subject.. Why is beer yeast x3 the price of wine yeast?

[Easydrinker]

Because mugs buy it?
I now routinely re-use a beer yeast for six brews, (unless I think it "iffy"), before starting a new batch.
Wine yeast spends so long in prmary fermentation I would not attempt that.

Robert.

[Mash]

I used to reuse. May very well do again.

Been trying crossmyloof English ale I do like they're hops, so it's makes any easy purchase, but difficult to judge, but might try safale again.

[Windoe]

Now, not bigging up the town of my birth

In no particular order: Snenton, West Bridgeford, Carlton and Bilborough were all part of my life growing up. I used to drink in The Trip, Royal Children, Salutation and a few more whose name escapes me. Before that I remember sitting in corridors of pubs no longer standing with my bottle of fizzy orange and my dad propping up the bar, most likely ‘chatting up birds’ squire!

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe’s book reminds me of those times.

Visited The Trip a couple of years ago and it was like a time warp transporting me back almost 40 years, drank too much OP and had to book a hotel for the night!

[buffalobob]

You should have kipped in a hedge bottom really windoe, you would have got the full time warp effect then

[Windoe]

Sadly I would have got on my Honda CB200 and rode home in those days! It seemed like half my time was spent paying respects at funerals and visiting my cohort with broken limbs in hospital. Fortunately when I got a car I stopped being so stupid.

[Easydrinker]

I have spent a few nights sleeping in hedgebottoms.
I recall getting up one morning in the rosebed of a posh hotel on the Cote d'Azur.
As I straightened my necktie, I glanced into a hotel window, straght into the shocked face of a lady guest.

Robert.

[Easydrinker]

Today has been highlighted by the birds, 8 chucks have managed to hatch 20 chicks between them.
And are living natural/feral.
Two Pea chicks, hatched two days ago on a neighbours land, caused commotion this evening, when he arrived with his dog.
All is currrently quiet, but I feel that we are currently fox feeding station number one!

Robert.

[buffalobob]

Poor chicks, do you have much hassle from foxes? I can't remember the last time I saw one..apart from occasional road kill. Thankfully wild life has had a reprieve lately with less traffic taking its toll. Not good news for your birds though.
Hedge bottoms eh, I reckon most of us have got carried away and spent a night or two there . Being young and reckless was ace but I wouldn't want to go through that again

[Mash]

Saw one yesterday. Its like a flipping wildlife park here.

[buffalobob]

I live 25 miles from anywhere, all rural here, see deer badgers etc all the time but not foxy loxys, they must be particularly sneaky round here

[gaza the instructor]

Only critters we have around here are Seagulls,Foxes and Cyclists.

[Easydrinker]

Unjust, I know, but cyclists mostly get rrrright up my nose.
There are some that pull over and wave you past, and those, mostly wearing new shiney lycra, that think that they "possess" the road, and want you to travel at their speed.
Worse than effing foxes, and I would shoot those.

Robert.

PS, As someone who has road cycled in the USA, I do see this from a couple of points of view.

[gaza the instructor]

No feed the foxes, well the wife does and shoot the Cyclists.
They won't miss a few , there are millions of the shiny law
breaking want to be healthy twats around here. Most are
Accountants or Office wallers of some sort, shoot 'em.

[buffalobob]

No need to shoot any pushbikelists Gaza. They normally come to their senses after coming off on manhole covers or hitting pot holes. I saw one go through the back window of a broken down car on the A1, he was time trialing, head down going for it. I don't think he would have been so keen after that. Each to their own though eh.

[DorsetScott]

There are lots of cyclists who are arseholes.
There are lots of drivers who are arseholes.
There are lots of arseholes who neither drive nor cycle.

[buffalobob]

I think I might be one of them

[gaza the instructor]

I am a Lert. this country needs lerts. It said on T.V.
Be A Lert Control The Virus Save Lives.
And tomorrow is the 6th day of my birth month and
to celebrate this men throughout the land will go
into The Pubs specially open for this event for the
consumption of large quantities of Beer.

[gaza the instructor]

Anyway John Wayne what a legend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Ms-OspceM
And you can't argue with a leg, so to stay safe;-
Don't wear lycra or shiny jump suits and stay away
from "L" cars and Jags.


Can we have more of these silly thingys please

[buffalobob]

I just nearly choked cos of you Gaza. It was that smirk from big John right at the end that did it