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20250308 Prelude mb02 Hereford March 2025
Well, for reasons mainly. It’s good to be back in Hereford and Plus One. The Knee is nearly nominal again. I have a money off voucher for the Beer House and The Spoons Spring Beer Festival is on. All that and a warm dry weather forecast.
20250215 Prelude mb01 Chippenham February 2025
My first Mini Beano since Late Summer Bank Holiday 2024. The M4 was horrible but the Guest Ales in The Bridge House are £1.99 a Pint.
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20240329 Prelude mb05 Gloucester March 24
The cold, Good Friday mini beano but at least the journey up was light, even if the clocks go forward over the weekend. Quicktime Player and a 1.45GB short, well that’s not good.
The journey up was much lighter than I thought it would be but not forecast, it rained all the way. With some very heavy rain on the M5. Costa’s website didn’t say that it would have later opening on Good Friday. Sainsbury’s opened as normal on a Friday and its website confirmed that.
Breakfast was in Spoons, not Costa therefore and it was cheaper too. Gloucester Brewery, The Pelican and The Hop kettle throughout the weekend.
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20240309 Prelude mb04 Chippenham March 24
There’s me hoping it will be a mostly light journey to Chippenham and then the weather forecast tells me that it will be wet. Ah! Spring. Still, another year around the Sun.
The Plan, stock up with food for tea. Costa for a Coffee and Bacon Roll, Spoons for the Festival Ales and then The Prince of Wales for Craft Ales. Simple but effective.
20240223 Prelude mb03 Hereford February 24
In a week of rain and now rain and cold. It’s only Beanos that keep me going. The A40 eastbound has now reopened, albeit just one lane. A later start means, travelling in daylight and not really missing out on much.
Big roadworks in Monmouth but no one seemed to be working. Dry until I parked up in Hereford and then it started to rain. Sainsbury, Costa and Cask Ale and Filled Rolls in The Orange Tree. All going to plan.
20240217 Prelude mb02 Portishead February 24
So it starts with new hardware for the Unplugged video. From Windows to Mac and 720 to 1080. The weather forecast says there may be fog on the way down and a Yellow Warning of Rain from 15:00.
Light rain and drizzle with just the odd hint of mist on the way down. It immediately become light as I got of The Severn Bridge and came into England. It’s mild and semi sunny, at least for now.
In The Posset Cup, all you can drink Coffee until the bar opens at 09:00. Going well.
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20240106 Prelude mb01 Portishead January 24
Minus 0.8c and a frosty start. Double hot water bottle on the dash and plenty of deicing fluid on the windscreen. A slow, even for Wales, journey to the M4. Sometimes, you follow really slow drivers. A nice, gentle drive from there in and it was just getting light as I arrived in Portishead. No frost either.
The Posset Cup to start and the afternoon in The Siren Calling. Wall to wall podcasts.
20231104 Prelude mb14 Chippenham November 23
Cold, dark and wet to start with a 40mph poor driving conditions warning on the M4. It did actually get light by the time I arrived in Chippenham. The Travelodge is nicely sited and The Prince of Wales micro pub is just across the railway line (via the bridge). Costa Bacon Roll and Coffee to start.
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