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Drops v Cream

09/04/2023 Leave a comment

A rather fresh start to mb04 Day 02. A pile of Apple updates and my right eye is runny again. Spoons, the place to update your mobile Apple devices. Then, a fresh on Spoons Fest Ale and it was the best so far. Yates, where Jugs with Handles are preeminent. Supply problems for Infected Eye drops in Boots. Toots from CSB about the Polish Shop next to The Hereford Beer House. Tiddly Easter Saturday.

Chubbles 53° North

For Saturday 08 April 2023

08/04/2023 Leave a comment

The Saturday Wrap for 08 April 2023. Bloodshot,Chip, YouGov, Radish, Umbrel Sats, Feed and Weed, New Start, Tubers, Frost, lost Podcast, Conjunctivitis, AI, mb04, Fountain and more Apple updates. #SaturdayWrap #April2023 #Hereford

Looking over my shoulder

20230407 mb04 Day 01 Wrap

08/04/2023 Leave a comment

A frosty, clear and hot water bottle start. A clear sky meant a mostly light journey to Hereford. The Prelude was missing a video from Detail Duo, mostly my fault. My right eye was watery but my blocked ear seems to be getting better. Frosty in Hereford too.

I didn’t fancy the Cask at The Kings Fee, mostly old Fest Ales. So after the fruit based start, it was straight on the bottled Craft. Lunch was local cask ale and filled rolls in The Orange Tree. The Beer house didn’t open until 16:00, so it was extra time in The Orange Tree. However, superb beers on tap at Beer House.

Runny Eye Wrap

Easter Hereford Therapy

08/04/2023 Leave a comment

You really need a Beano when you have conjunctivitis in both eyes, a blocked ear and issues with your right shin and arm. Frosty, double hot water bottle on the dash start. A mostly light journey up. Craft not Cask in The Kings Fee. Filled Rolls and Cask in The Orange Tree, where their card reader was having problems. Then on to the Beer House and how good it was. Really glad I have another two days in Hereford.

Filled Rolls Easter Friday

For Saturday 01 April 2023

01/04/2023 Leave a comment

The Saturday Wrap for 01 April 2023. Bottlepay, Wallet of Satoshi, Bitcoin Mag transfer, BST, Compost Bag Filling, More Apple Updates, 16 Tubers, Bday Meal, Octopus price cut, Algbra, New Spoons Mag.  #SaturdayWrap #March2023 #Bedwas

The Saturday Wrap with no April Fools Jokes

For Saturday 25 March 2023

25/03/2023 Leave a comment

The Saturday Wrap for 25 March 2023. Slid, more cancelled buses, Prepping for Potatoes, First mowing of the year, Sats, Damus, salads are back, 6A update, Buss Pass, Spoons Spring Beer Fest and 1000 Sats.  #SaturdayWrap  #March2023 #Bedwas

For Saturday 25 March 2023

Spoons Spring Beer Festival 2023

22/03/2023 Leave a comment

So it must be Spring as we have gone past both the St David’s Day and The Spring Equinox, however the weather is still like February. What makes it really Spring is The Wetherspoon’s Spring Beer Festival and that starts on 22 March 2023. So it’s off to Cardiff for the maximum number of Wetherspoons. Plus my Oldies Bus Pass has arrived.

Starting with Freddy Export

After a Costa Bacon Roll and Coffee, it was straight in to The Gatekeeper. That Belgian Flag was calling me and straight off it was a B++ and 1 Sat per minute on the Fountain App.

Freddy gently settling

Then along comes Spring Break from Greene King and who knew, a really rather nice fruity, malty Golden Ale

Spring Break – Greene King – 4.4% ABV

Moving on to The Central Bar, where people go for a Full English in Cardiff. Strangely the Fest Ales are unmarked and just look like standard Guest Ales.

Very Springlike
B+ and bit

Vincent and Blind Jack. The Central Bar is sessionable central.

Just across the bridge
Lady Brewers are quality Brewers

And then it got all Old School and Swiss. It’s been a long time since I have been to the Ernest Willows.

Booth 13

Reeds Ale from Sudwerk in Switzerland, brewed at Adnams in Suffolk. All really malty

Cheaper here too

And to finish the day.

A B++

20230311 mb03 Day 01 Wrap

12/03/2023 Leave a comment

Looking out of the window to see frost on the car windscreens. So it was a two water bottles on the dash day.  Some light snow flurries on the journey up and it was mostly light from Monmouth onwards.  Costa Coffee and Bacon Rolls to start, then a Fruit based drink while The Prelude uploaded. Happy Birthday from Cloudwater in The Hereford Beer House. Exchanging a Bag for Life in Tesco and then the Beano is over. 

More Green

Flurries and a Voucher

12/03/2023 Leave a comment

We are well it to March and it is still Winter. Frost, hot water bottles on the dash and snow flurries on the journey up. Nicely light from from Monmouth onwards but still at 0c when I arrived at Hereford. CAMRA vouchers at the ready. Steamy windows in the Beer House and yet again I wish it was more than one Day. Post video listening to Talk Sport.

Mostly

20230311 Prelude mb03 Hereford Mar 23

11/03/2023 Leave a comment

A light frost and snow flurries start to mb03 and a chance to bring my count number up to the month number. It was light from Monmouth onwards and what a joy that was. Apart from that it’s the standard Hereford one day plan but with a £5.00 discount voucher for The Hereford Beer House.

Where exactly is Spring?