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Off on a very special trip to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary on Sunday. Flying to Aruba tomorrow but having a Brand IPA in the hotel at Schiphol Airport this evening. I’ve tasted worse.

We made a very small batch (5L) of cider last year with 80% Bramley and 20% Katy. The result turned out to be crisp, sharp and very dry which I quite like, but the sharpness is not for everyone that's for sure.

I'm sure a lot of you have seen this GEB brewery tour of St. James's Gate but for those that haven't there are some fascinating insights into the history of producing Guinness, right through to modern processes.

Thank you, I'm still shell shocked. I picked the guitar up as planned yesterday and here it is beside the 2014 Ernie Ball Music Man Classic Stingray I bought simply because I thought it looked pretty close to my original. I wasn't too far away!

Those are really nice guitars Rory. They have a "C" neck profile which suits most players. However the "V" neck is more suited to the style you are looking for, which is mostly available on the '50's reissue models.

I'm blown away by it. I can't describe the shock in seeing it again! It's had a rough old journey by the looks of some of the photos but we've all picked up bumps and bruises over the past 40 years. 😂

I sold this 1977 Music Man Stingray Bass in 1983 not long after my then wife-to-be had paid a local jeweller to engrave my name onto the battery plate on the back. She has never quite forgiven me for selling it so we’ve been looking for this guitar ever since! Well today she found it on...

One of Bernard's absolute gems. athumb.. I called in with another local brewing legend today, our good friends at Hilden Brewery, to see how prep is going for this weekend's Beer and Music Festival. The court yard is looking good!

Finishing this month's Beer 52 box with a decent porter from Arriaca brewery in Spain. It's been a reasonable day here today but as soon as I decided to have a beer outside there was a downpour. :confused.:

A classic Oscar Wilde quote 😂 I love quotes of that ilk. The American country folk singer Todd Snider once described the area of East Nashville where he lives as a small drinking community with a big musician problem. 😂

There's a wee man bathing in your Guinness! 😂

Having a delightful O'Hara's Red Ale before bed. I first had this beer in 2017 at the Harvest Blues Festival in Monaghan. Happy days.

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The Benin Bronzes are quite an incredible sight to see at the British Museum as well.

The Three Greyhounds 🤔 Greek Street. Edit: Sorry I misread I thought it said with a three in it. 😳

After 15 days awaiting delivery of a lifting table from Amazon marketplace, I received a message this morning from the seller saying that they have issued a refund which I should receive within 4 days. 🤔 Heigh ho.

The last reporting I read the business was bought by a private equity firm via a pre-pack administration and all 140 jobs have been saved. Good news for the brewery but not so good for the original creditors I suspect.

I have a feeling that I have posted these pictures before but not in this thread by the looks of it. I have collected quite a few guitars over the past 20 odd years, this is a sample of my collection. I also have a few nice amps , a couple of '80s Music Man RDs, an early 70s Vox AC30 and a...

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That's incredible. We had one previously, he was with us almost 15 years. He had SLEM unfortunately so his back end collapsed pretty early on, but he still went about his business and enjoyed his life and we enjoyed life with him. We waited 7 years before getting Snooky. You forget how...