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Its halloween tonight and although we don't do it like our american brothers and sister I kind of think we give it good go. Although the brits tend to dress up like tarts and get pissed we decided to take a more family approach by dressing up the kids cutting out some pumpkins (not our home grown ones unfortunately) eating cake and drinking pumpkin beer. Halloween is surely there for the kids and as our nieces and nephews get older I'm sure I will be trying to scare the bjesus out of um more and more. Next come bommie night and you should see the size of my rocket! Oo err.
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The food is always good in casa and the wine not too bad if a little watered down so after a few peroni's its time for home at what I think a reasonable hour. Tenbellies will be impressed and ill not be feeling too bad for thud in the morning.
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Back from waterloo with a bottle of cask we hit casa italia which to most true scousers is the only italian restaurant in the city. Big bottle of house wine to go ...
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We left the canteen and walked back up towards waterloo station after a few games of rummy. We walked past the boozer pictured but can't remember the name and talked all about all that's wrong with education and then walked on, I had a manns bitter. We visited the raven just down from the station we had done full circle and started on wine... Half 5 start in mind..
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So on to the train to crosby for a fine ale at the volunteer canteen which is supposed to pour a fine pint. When reaching crosby and after a 20 minute back we find the pub next to waterloo station...planning is everything
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After a trip to home bargain we went in here and then walked straight back out .... Shit hole next pub the old bank.
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Ok I'm out today with friends after lovely weekend with family which ill chat about later. But instead of a pub crawl around the pool we took to buying a save away ticket touring merseyside. So first stop after a glass of wine on the train is stamps in waterloo, an apricot haze real ale that's rather cloudy mmmm...it begins ohh and acdc paying in the background can't be bad
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I had a rather ropey start to the week with man flu and other ailments best kept to the toilet but when I finally got well enough I went into liverpool to see the biennial which I found to be rather good. Having not seen it before I could not rate it to last year but as there are some fine arty bits knocking around the pool like the richard wilson that I love it seems to have me converted to a point. Pics here are of two installation pieces which I liked a lot and tend to favour rather than your painting bollox, it still sort of get me a bit to understand that people do this for a job. Ah well not for much long as I can't see the cuts sparing much of these soap dodgers.
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Well the big cut was released yesterday and as the build up made out it came quite dramatically so much so I slept through the hype last night and read about it on the train to work this morning. Though there are some major cuts and yes people will loose their jobs, benefits will be cut for those who can but we all must sit and think for one minute. When our last shower shit was in charge of the house they threw our money about gave it to every tom with a heartbeat ran our poor country into the ground and put us in the running with greece as major fuck ups so... How else do we get out of this mess? Lovely sun rise this morning.
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At the weekend I took one of works slr's home to take a few pictures and so that I could have a go at developing my very own prints. I thought it would be kind of cool and while the boss is still away sick myself and a few others thought we would take this opportunity to learn a few more skills. So I returned today with camera full of what I thought would be some cracking pictures only to find that I hadn't loaded the film correctly. Bugger!
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We stood looking at the veggie patch this afternoon and as I dug up the last of the potatoes thud and I planned the next step in growing our own. More potatoes, more onions, not so many beetroot and maybe a better go at the carrots but for our first go it certainly went down well and for a lot less work than we thought.
Now with the elderberry wine safely tucked away I'm gonna try making plum woo woo watch this space.
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i know iv been away and very lazy with the posts lately and the stick i have received from folk has been plenty but i have been a little busy. this past week i have been watching in excitement the first part of the fermentation stage of ThudMonkey elderberry wine. picked from the castle over the water, we got quite a harvest and I'm pretty sure that the gallon that i have made could have easily been 2 or 3. If you remember we brewed sloe gin last year and after a gathering of friends at thuds recently it proved a very nice tipple. so now its the elderberry wine and i wonder if its a contender for napa next year? hmmmm we will have to see.


stripping the berries

after soaking a little squeeze

the yeast is working away

not a bad colour

Another brew and spooks, yeah
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I have not blogged for a while and lots have gone on too much to go back over but all very very good. I'm hoping to get back into blogging a bit more with short and sweet posts, as you can see iv joined twitter just to see what all the fuss is about but mostly to post on the go. Anywhoo watch this space if your still out there.
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