Drought!!

We invested in 5 110liter water butts last autumn, they're full and when, if, we get a hosepipe ban they will come into play.

In the mean time they're a breading ground for mossies, which the local swifts and swallows love.

As for personal hydration...


Cheers
HG

All our green waste goes into 2 Dalek composters, at year end the bottom is
opened and enough for a winter top dressing pulled out.

Same again in spring. Mrs HG is the gardener at HG Folly,
all I do is fill the composters and supervise with a pint of homebrew.

HG

What a great week, sun's been out and it's not been too cold.

Just back from a break at Barnard Castle where we camped for 3 nights, walked around 28 miles and just lay back.

Hope all's well out there.

When will banks learn...

A text arrived, supposedly from Barclays, saying a dodgy transaction was on my Visa card.
Could be anybody, but turns out they do this, all you do is answer yes or no..

..I answered no and almost immediately a call from a number my phone said was a possible scam number.
To compound worries the nice lad had a strong Asian accent.

I closed the call down politely and called the number on the back of my card..
... for it to be answered by a lovely lad with a west Indian type accent...

Turns out my card has been compromised and now stopped.

The thing is all contact was correct and all from Barclays but..

..can't they realise that FRAUD calls need to be dealt with by operatives with a BRITISH accent!!

Well that's xmas over, a lot of interesting beers drunk and all the family together.

Next few days will be spent eating leftovers and getting ready for next year..

I think I need a beer at the thought of that...

Salt Beer Factory are only a couple of miles from me.

Good beers..

Northern Monk are a Leeds brewery, and the beers are tempting at the best of times..

... unlike Tetleys.

The original firm was a Leeds brewery, but was swallowed up by a multi-national and the brewery closed!

Their 'Yorkshire bitter' is now brewed in Stoke AFAK!

different water, lousy taste and a beer I no longer drink, having grown up on the original.

As an aside, Black Sheep Brewery in Masham is in trouble, anybody fancy taking it over?

Apples?

We finally cut down the two in our garden, they were over 40 years old and didn't fruit, indeed one was dead anyway.
Shame, as now there's no height as such other than the shed and bar behind it..

.. and talking about the bar, Saltaire Brewery has been taken over and stopped doing my fav beer,,
,,, not a problem as Northern Monk do a nice one called Faith.

Cheers
HG

Bit late, but this sums up the welsh trip..










.. next stop Sweden for a month..

HG

Well, that's me sorted and off to Bala for a couple of days enjoying the welsh scenery and narrow gauge railways.

I may post an image or two when I get back, they'll be on this thread as I'll be using a phone/ Nikon pocket cam.

HG