Where I am today

[gaza the instructor]

Cheers ED, use your new phones today and make someone happy.

[Mash]

... eating through an imperial f**k tonne (as opposed to a metric sh*t load) of xmas goodies.

You have still got your sense of humour! That made me chuckle.

I am a bit late to the party, but we did miss you! Welcome back, and s tray with us. We are all getting closer to a fekingret* party.

*Verb: large alcohol fueled gathering or more than 6 people, hugging & dancing. Gets messy. Typically after a pandemic and leads to a population spike.

[Easydrinker]

The observant will have noticed that I have been offline for a few days.
Sadly, my new mediication seems to be messing with my head to the extent that I now have to pre-oritise my priorities.
I hope not to go too far from this site, and indeed not to stray until we have found someone else to step up to a management position.
My days here may be numberered.
If you feel that You can do this work, please contact anyone on the managment team.
I have put blood, sweat and tears into keeping this site alive.
I would hate to see such a resource die.
It is that simples for me.
I cannot explain the blackhole that I currently swim in.
It is black, and it is the biggest hole that you ever saw.


Robert

[Mash]

I had, and my thoughts are with you. Have you explained this to the prescribing doctor ?

[Easydrinker]

I have a neurology consultation on the 30th.
I hope that we can sort something out, today was a day that I don't want to repeat.
But FFS I don't think I have Covid, so life isn't all bad.

Robert.

[Mash]

Fingers crossed for you. Does there come a point when it is better to pause the meds, if the side effects are worse than the condition.

[phantom]

The observant will have noticed that I have been offline for a few days.
Sadly, my new mediication seems to be messing with my head to the extent that I now have to pre-oritise my priorities.
I hope not to go too far from this site, and indeed not to stray until we have found someone else to step up to a management position.
My days here may be numberered.
If you feel that You can do this work, please contact anyone on the managment team.
I have put blood, sweat and tears into keeping this site alive.
I would hate to see such a resource die.
It is that simples for me.
I cannot explain the blackhole that I currently swim in.
It is black, and it is the biggest hole that you ever saw.


Robert

Well just stick with it as much as you can matey. Change of medication can play havoc (I originally had an oesophageal legion, so that meant a short course of stomach ulcer meds i.e. 12 months. Finished with the services and after a few years, symptoms return, new meds that worked well, then request by doc to try the original stuff as it was cheaper, but damn it didn't work a second time, so now back on the newer stuff likely for life).

If life gets worse, at least pop up and let someone know as it sucks big time when friends (who'd be titled "good friends" IRL) stop posting. I have 2 chums in the US that I know well as you can online, but I can't honestly say I know enough about them to track down what might have happened (my friend Keith is in Oklahoma, we'd chat a couple of times a week, then he just disappeared for 3 or 4 months, turned out previous health issues had returned and he'd be hospitalised and had some major treatment i.e. heart, type 2, various other symptoms that made the first 2 worse etc - luckily he reconnected when it was possible).....

So just stay well matey, you're in my thoughts

[Jennysgin]

It should improve as they get the balance right ED.
We'll be thinking of you in the meantime x

[Easydrinker]

Sorrry to have dragged this thread into maudlin territory.
I have also known a couple of users from the old site die, one of cancer, he was cheerful to the end, only I (from the site), knew his problem.
Myself, I now/today consider (mostly) sorted.
Sure, life is a bitch, I can't drive for 12 months.
But I can drink and I can make booze.
And I can use a keyboard.
More than 70,000 dead people in the UK would swap places with me today.

I'll try and make you all smile now.
Big boy pants,- I don't own any.
I buy my underwear from the Tesco boys' range for 13 - 14 year olds.
I am not a midget, but they fit just fine.
With no VAT.

Robert.

[Mash]

Welcome back. You sound like you are feeling better. Not sure we need to discuss young boys underwear though! Is there a Admin in the house

[gaza the instructor]

But you are not shoe size 6 just to avoid paying VAT at 20% ED.
They are a little tight when you walk??
Then try with the tongue out !!!

PS Do your shoes have animal tracks on the sole or a compass
under the left heal???
And they have never been raced or rallied??

[Windoe]

I knocked up some of ED’s Apple Pie today. Unfortunately a bit too sweet for me, but the boss liked it, I was going to drop it around to the grandkids to knock themselves out on this New Year’s Eve but the boss gave me a Mk1 for encouraging underage teenage drinking. After my dressing down, I wandered into the garage to see what I still had bottled in there for the new years eve party of two. (Tier 4 - that won’t mean much when viewed on the way back machine in ten years time!)

I find labelling things a bit of a faff, now I am older I have the memory of a goldfish.

Where was I?

I was looking for some barley wine I made from an out of date kit gifted to me on freebay a year ago. It tasted poor when bottled but improved six months later.

So its a bit of a lucky dip on the bottled beer. I don’t know about anyone else but I sometime bottle the contents of half a beer barrel when I need it for a new batch. It’s a half a barrel because it’s not very good but I think it might improve. 99 times out of a hundred it does not improve.

Tonight I hit the mother load, no idea when this was done, but opened a scabby looking bottle with a gold cap and was rewarded with a fantastic perfectly carbonated crystal clear pint of cider with no off taste and perfect level of sweetness. I think it may have come from a kit I made two years ago and tasted like c**p in the barrel.

Fortunately I was given 10,000 crown caps, in batches of 100, by an old boy who gave up brewing a few years ago. Each batch is a different design (almost). Counting up there are ten bottles with gold caps - Happy New Year Everybody see you on the other side!

[phantom]

{snip}
I have also known a couple of users from the old site die, one of cancer, he was cheerful to the end, only I (from the site), knew his problem.
{/snip}

Having been over at the old site longer than many, can you recall the usernames? as I'm curious as to whether I knew them (and it aggravates the hell out of me when good peeps drop off the face of the (online) planet.

The very specific (and socially fractured) way we chat etc can make things mega frustrating.........

[Easydrinker]

I'll PM you phantom.

And I know just what you mean Windoe, I have had beers sit in the shed for almost 12 months before tasting good.

Shoes with animal tracks on the sole and a 'hidden' compass? Yes, I was there.

Let's forget the pant story, I must have been one over the eight!

Robert.

[Easydrinker]

I may be borrowing a word from Roald Dhal here, but my life has become fractiously busy.
After a lazy xmas season of feeling generally grotty, today I started work again, knocking 300 year old mortar off a wall, to replace it with something better.
Physical tiredness meant that I fell asleep, at laptop , 4 hours ago.
Have just re-lit fire, and while it gets going, I tap this.
Then, I can stoke the fire and see if the cat wants to be snuggled up to.
Next week I may get to check mole traps set before chrimbo, when the snow fell and the ground froze.
Happy Lockdown everybody.
Life goes on.
Just in a different way.

Robert.

[Mash]

Happy Lockdown everybody.
Life goes on.
Just in a different way.

That sums us up quite well, the gate is closed again, but life goes on.

Much nicer when the sun shines and that has got me thinking about these sunshine light things (sad lamps)

[Windoe]

I have just discovered Italian gin and tonic. I found the recipe online a couple of days ago but only got around to trying it tonight.
2oz gin
1/2 oz Campari (found almost a full bottle in the garage as I can’t stand it, especially with soda)
1/2 oz sweet vermouth (only had Cinzano Bianco, SWIMBO used to drink it 30 years ago - Full bottle!)
Tonic to taste

Far too nice, had to repeat and repeat and........
4ltrs of gin should see off the Campari.

[Easydrinker]

A friend that I gifted a SAD lamp to a year ago claims to feel benefits from it.

That is an interesting G&T Windoe!

Robert.

[DorsetScott]

I have just discovered Italian gin and tonic. I found the recipe online a couple of days ago but only got around to trying it tonight.
2oz gin
1/2 oz Campari (found almost a full bottle in the garage as I can’t stand it, especially with soda)
1/2 oz sweet vermouth (only had Cinzano Bianco, SWIMBO used to drink it 30 years ago - Full bottle!)
Tonic to taste

Far too nice, had to repeat and repeat and........
4ltrs of gin should see off the Campari.

Equal amounts of gin, campari and sweet vermouth and you've got a negroni. Which is up there in my top 3 cocktails. (I actually prefer the boulvadier which is bourbon instead of gin, but it's all close )

I find labelling things a bit of a faff, now I am older I have the memory of a goldfish.

I'm the same, so each batch has a different colour cap and I write down what the cap colours are.

[Easydrinker]

America.
WTF?

Robert.

[Easydrinker]

I have just discovered Italian gin and tonic. I found the recipe online a couple of days ago but only got around to trying it tonight.
2oz gin
1/2 oz Campari (found almost a full bottle in the garage as I can’t stand it, especially with soda)
1/2 oz sweet vermouth (only had Cinzano Bianco, SWIMBO used to drink it 30 years ago - Full bottle!)
Tonic to taste

Far too nice, had to repeat and repeat and........
4ltrs of gin should see off the Campari.

Equal amounts of gin, campari and sweet vermouth and you've got a negroni. Which is up there in my top 3 cocktails. (I actually prefer the boulvadier which is bourbon instead of gin, but it's all close )

I find labelling things a bit of a faff, now I am older I have the memory of a goldfish.

I'm the same, so each batch has a different colour cap and I write down what the cap colours are.

There are only so many cap colours.
And sometimes my scraps of paper, put in crates, disappear.
When you re-use caps, you are FCUK'D.
When I come up with a system for sad old people, I will share it.

Robert.

[Mash]

Bulldog clips on the crates. Old business cards or card about that side is the order of the day in my shed. Card withstands the damp / cold better.

[DorsetScott]

I find labelling things a bit of a faff, now I am older I have the memory of a goldfish.

I'm the same, so each batch has a different colour cap and I write down what the cap colours are.

There are only so many cap colours.
And sometimes my scraps of paper, put in crates, disappear.
When you re-use caps, you are FCUK'D.
When I come up with a system for sad old people, I will share it.

Robert.

I think I found about 10 colours fairly easily, and then if I stick a mark on the top with a permanent marker that means 20 variations. Doubt I'll have more than 20 different types bottled at the same time.
I have a whiteboard in the "brewshed" which they get written on so I don't lose paper etc.

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Can't help with re-using though.

[gaza the instructor]

DS that is a beer menu!! All you need is a topless M Munroe type
to open and serve, ok for the Girls Tom Cruise and we have
paradise. I am not allowed a drop ATM therefore I am just dreaming.

[DorsetScott]

Yeah, that was me going crazy during the first lockdown. Some of them are gone now, a couple of new ones have replaced them but I also started kegging a few months back, so that is something else to play with

Is it the alcohol or the hostess you're dreaming of more right now?!