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Music This Month – July 2015

31/07/2015 Leave a comment

Mystery Train (Live) – UFO
Sympathy For the Devil – Rolling Stones
Me and Bobby McGee – Janis Joplin
Ghost (feat. Ian Astbury) – Slash
The Avengers – The Laurie Johnson Orchestra
Betty – The Lascivious Biddies

July 2015

31/07/2015 Leave a comment

The month of:-

8.4
Heat and Power Cut
Hudl update
No Raspberries and Seaside breeze
Sweat and TV Trains
No exchange and nearly brown
Trains, check ins and nearly bumped Aeroplanes
Broken plastic
The Hopbunker
Prime and strapping
Cider Fest
French Chicken
DT League
Garden 2015 – Chips and Summer Onions
Half a remote
Pepper planting
Soundtracking no more
100K Waze
Cider Weekend
Attic
Bins
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DITH temp suspend
OnePlus Two
Couldn’t turn
And Moto two
Three 4G in Bedwas

 

Coming in August 2015

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Cardiff Brewfest

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Cosford – To The Cold War Hall

26/07/2015 Leave a comment

On Saturday 25 July 2015

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The main gate, at least one of them.   Welcome.
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Gate Guardian –

Hawker Siddeley Hunter F6A XG225.

  And looking towards the gate.
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The Cold War Hall in the distance.   Bristol Britannia.
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And head on.  

Nimrod R.Mk.1 XV249.

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Dutch  Lockheed SP-2H Neptune.   Nimrod from behind.
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The Cold War Hall.   The entrance.

 

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All Three V Bombers

26/07/2015 Leave a comment

Cold War Museum – RAF Cosford

Vulcan, Victor and Valiant

Antwerp on a Really Hot Saturday

21/07/2015 2 comments

On Saturday 04th July 2015

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Healthy Ibis breakfast.   Ibis Full Belgian.
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Waiting for my train at the Gare du Midi.   Antwerp Central.
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Antwerp Central, more like a Cathedral than a Station.   Protecting from the sun.
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And from the other side.   Bier Central – a stone’s throw from the station.
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Inside Bier Central.   Also inside Bier Central.
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Gueuze 1882 – Girardin – 5.0% ABV.   Chapeau Abricot – De Troch – 3.5% ABV.
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Bourgogne des Flanders – Timmermans – 5.0% ABV.   Framboise – Girardin – 5.0% ABV.
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Oude Gueuze – Hanssens – 6.0% ABV.   Emergency Flemish Burger & Chips.
     
     
     
     

 

Bier Central is 100m from the Central Railway Station
Bier Central is 100m from the Central Railway Station

Cooling Belgian Seaside Breeze

21/07/2015 Leave a comment

Friday 03 July 2015. Ostend, Flanders, Belgium.

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The Belgians love the Seaside too.   Their trains have locomotives.
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Their stations have bikes.   And Trawlers.
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And Cafe Botteltje.   With pumps.
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And bottles and glasses.   Helleketelbier – Brouwerij de Bie – 7.0% ABV.
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Framboise 1882 – Brouwerij Girardin – 5.0% ABV.   Lichtervelds Blond – Brouwerij De Dolle Brouwers – 9.0% ABV.
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Oude Gueuze Tilquin a l’Ancienne – Gueuzeerie Tilquin – 6.4% ABV.   Cafe Manuscript.
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Massive Manuscripting.   Oud Bruin – Vanderghinste – 5.5% ABV
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Cuvee des Jacobins – B Bocknor – 5.5% ABV   Local cuisine.
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And back (well morning shot).   The bus station under the Gare du Midi.

 

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Turkey Beef and Cider

20/07/2015 Leave a comment

If you are going to a Cider Fest

You will need a Sunday Roast to soak it up.

Belgium Tricky Journey Home

12/07/2015 Leave a comment

What you worry about doesn’t happen

Everything else does though

Garden – July 2015

12/07/2015 Leave a comment

More weeding

Less eating needed

Cider Without The Cider

12/07/2015 Leave a comment

Spoons Cider Fest is On

I only seemed to be drinking Real ales

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