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Kitchen tongs! I friend of mine bought me some after I burnt my fingers turning sausages on the grill, but they are just generally useful! Every kitchen should have some.

My alarm clock has not gone off yet and I have already tidied and cleaned my kitchen. Damn this whole daylight savings thing! Mornings are usually a rushed affair and thus I slack and drink instant coffee (oh, shoot me, see if I care 😉 ). Usually I drink Douwe Egberts Continental Dark, but in…

This week promises to be busy. is away on holiday so I’ll be holding the fort. Already the SSL tunnel to Iran has borked, but has now be patched with some host routes. Pittsburgh did its best to drop off the map but I saved it in time (somehow I feel it would have been…

Mynydd Du rocked! Well, it mainly rooted but there were rocks too. Its such a brilliant natural downhill course and you can’t help but smile like a giddy school kid in a sweet shop at the bottom. Lets hope we get to go back there before the Forestry Commission clear fell there. The whole clock…

*sniff* My Hope DH4s which have served me well for 4 years are finally being retired. I tried emergency surgery but time has taken to great a toll (see for yourselves). My Cove’s E4s will have to cope with Mynydd Du and I’ll have to fix my melted Hayes for the next time. Oddly I…

Its 1 in the morning, but on the bright side the bike is back looking like a bike – just needs some fluid in the brakes. I guess I’m going to find out if E4 pots work in DH4 calipers when I hit Mynydd Du on tomorrow morning. I have spare brakes in case…

Bah, its Thursday and I have done nothing that I was meaning to do all bloomin’ week. No pub for me tonight, washing up, laundry, bike fettling and a general cleaning about the flat absolutely positively most definitely must be done! *sigh*

Last weekend Beer Festival was muchly good. Friday and Saturday evenings for maximum tasting time 😉 The Wickwar brewery continues to produce fine stouts and porters, yumyumyum. Spent much of Sunday in the pub, just chatting away with amigos and forgetting about all of lifes stresses. I need to do this more often. Monday was…

Just to tidy up a couple of lose ends…. Yesterday’s Shakeaway post, if you visited their website and read their bizarrely entertaining history you’ll have caught onto the Eccles cake theme and the sad news that on Oct 5th this year Eccles cake milkshakes were sadly removed from the menu. Well, today I took for…

introduced me to Shakeaway this week. For those that don’t know it is a small milkshake chain that have a sillily vast array of flavours, basically consisting of some base milk product plus X-random-flavor chucked into a blender. I had Dime bar on Tuesday, which was nice. Today I had Crunchie and was disappointed; it…