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Ten-inch Wheels: 300

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Despite local legend, there's no record of Titus being teetotal. Saltaire's original lack of a pub (there are now three) is down to Salt's professed dislike of 'beerhouses' and the fact that many of his staff were Methodists. I wonder what the epically-bearded patriarch. Would think about the 2011 Bradford Beer Festival being held in his sumptuous Victoria Hall? A visitor from the Czech Republic. Grand Ridge Bitter. Floral, light and fruity (and hazy) Allendale Wagtail. Firstly - ...

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Ten-inch Wheels: Bunting High And Low

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Thursday, May 5, 2011. Bunting High And Low. The Fox's guest was the Yorkshire Dales Brewery's Nappa Scar, and we took a couple of pints out front to watch chartered accountants wobble past on their Harleys. On our last encounter. With an unsparkled Nappa Scar, I thought it smelled like a farmyard. Here it was all hops, billowing facefuls and huge mouthfuls of the stuff. I don't know much about IBUs - but I bet this wasn't far off the Stone Ruination. May 5, 2011 at 7:00 PM. I think Upper Wharfedale and ...

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Ten-inch Wheels: November 2010

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Some pictures from a foot-stampingly cold tour around part of the Olympic site's perimeter on the Stratford/Bow frontier. It doesn't look it, but Europe's biggest building site is nearly finished, ahead of schedule and under budget. I've not always been kind about Stratford. Leytonstone's neighbour. According to our enthusiastic Blue Badge. Monday, November 29, 2010. Wednesday, November 24, 2010. And a grizzled CAMRA vet in a faded beer festival shirt stretched over an impress...

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Ten-inch Wheels: Those We Have Loved

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Those We Have Loved. I'm a photographer who loves beer, so I've often got my camera with me in the pub. I've had nothing much to blog about just recently, so I hope you don't mind me sharing some images of beer that i've enjoyed over the last year or so. Apologies if some of the captions read like an optician's wall chart - It's times like this when I wish i'd chosen Wordpress over Blogger. Bush Inn, Morwenstow. The Lamb, Bloomsbury. San Sebastian, Spain. Bad Toelz, Bavaria.

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Ten-inch Wheels: American Friends

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Thursday, January 13, 2011. Mrs TIW's uncle and auntie are spending their retirement touring the US in a Fifth Wheel. Or the world's poshest caravan, as it's also known. You can read about their escapades here. They've got an uncanny knack of bringing me over some superb and fairly hard-to-find American beers, like this Stone Ruination IPA. Honourable exception: Hartland Beers at the White Hart, Bideford. Yes definitely one of my favourites. Extreme-but I like it that way! January 21, 2011 at 5:28 PM.

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Ten-inch Wheels: February 2011

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Wednesday, February 16, 2011. TIW favourite The Harp. Has been voted CAMRA's pub of the year. The first time ever for a London pub. Is it the best pub in Britain? Pictured here on one of the rare occasions we've managed to bag one of the window seats. Monday, February 14, 2011. Art Is For Lovers. Leytonstone. A flower shop. It's St Valentine's day. Aar much are these 'ere roses? Four pounds per stem, sir. It will be very nicely wrapped.". Monday, February 7, 2011. This being a Waltham Forest Council proj...

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Ten-inch Wheels: Sets Neat Prints Into The Snow

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Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Sets Neat Prints Into The Snow. Royal Wedding Day, Upper Wharfedale. Union Jacks flutter with Yorkshire flags in the late spring sun. Trestle tables are being set up on village greens, cakes brought out from ovens in ancient stone cottages. You couldn't have asked for better weather, everyone said. We found what we were looking for. And settled in Bexleyheath, where he still lives. Assisted by several locals, Joe built the memorial to his comrades over three days in 1972, camping ...

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Ten-inch Wheels: December 2010

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Friday, December 24, 2010. A Deep And Dark December. Looking at the ghostly, frozen valley below us. Nothing moved except woodsmoke lazily curling up from chimneys, and a group of kids sledging down an iron-hard field. Happy Christmas, and many thanks for reading my humble blog - see you next year! Wednesday, December 15, 2010. This is amazing. A tube map showing the real-time positions of actual tube trains. Wednesday, December 8, 2010. Monday, December 6, 2010. They currently produce about 12 regular b...

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My Grappa Hell: April 2012

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Italy An interesting, infuriating place to live as a gin-raddled expat. Some notes and observations. Sunday, 15 April 2012. My Lack of Faith. This evening the local choir in which I drink sang at the ordination ceremony of a new priest. Young chap from one of the many parishes in this rather large diocese that almost stretches down to the sea in Liguria. Interestingly he is Italian. Even more interesting (or predictable) is that now there are no more young Italian nuns (damn! Wednesday, 4 April 2012.