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Morris Traveller: MT's First Beer Tastings
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Saturday, 3 March 2012. MT's First Beer Tastings. My “first” in that they are the latest, but follow (for the first time) my own guidelines and criteria without regard to tasting notes, reviews or the opinions of others. In no particular order other than as they were tasted since the development of the. The work of my own senses, thus simple, likely to be reviewed and subject to change without notice. Tyne Bank Brewery, Silver Dollar 4.9% - draught. Appearance: Amber. Good white head. Score: 4 (seek out).
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Morris Traveller: Beer Festival Report
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Sunday, 4 March 2012. Report on the Harrogate Round Table 22. Annual Charity Beer Festival. Unlike my only previous visit to the Crown Hotel, Harrogate – on an unremarkable New Year’s Eve circa. 1972 – one of the busiest areas was the 100 square yards or so of car park nearest to the hotel entrance. The reason for this was, of course, the reason most public spaces are busier now than they used to be on evenings: a smoking ban-generated crowd of smokers. A large area next to this overcrowded space, with a...
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Morris Traveller: "Prometheus". A kind of review.
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Saturday, 3 March 2012. Prometheus". A kind of review. December 2011 I went to my first performance of physical theatre: “Prometheus, a river stained with iron”, held at the Pateley Bridge Playhouse. I meant to attempt a review and offer it to the local press, but this ambition faded over time as I realised I had written not a dispassionate review, but a summary of how I experienced the performance and what I thought of it. December this piece sat in my hard drive, forgotten, but is now posted. 8220;Hero...
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Morris Traveller: Writing Progress – Fiction
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Saturday, 5 May 2012. Writing Progress – Fiction. 8220;Ester and the Boggarts” is running along nicely (fiction, fantasy, child/teen/YA) with my research of settings (what filmics call “location”) working for me in terms of personal motivation and familiarity with place. Such are the writing ambitions of my enthusiasm, untempered by reality or recent failure. Good, aren’t they? I mean no arrogance by this. It is a form of. Light-hearted self-motivation that works for me and attracts the Muses.
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Morris Traveller: May 2012
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Saturday, 5 May 2012. Today I have transferred Castlegate Brewery’s sixth brew from fermentation vessel to conditioning tank. A bitter-style of beer based on a recipe for “Everard’s Beacon”, the beer is almost clear, looks and tastes like beer already. Totally flat, of course, but will receive two weeks conditioning before bottling. If all the Brewery products end up like those tasted so far, the directors will be. St Arbeck’s Gold 5.0% (recipe based on Hopback Summer Lightning). Olfactory shortcomings n...
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Morris Traveller: November 2011
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Monday, 28 November 2011. I have a liking for good quotations and tend to quote the most quotable if I remember them. This is as good place as any to do it, so here is the first:. We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompaned by at least one laugh.". Tuesday, 22 November 2011. I’ll start with something unrelated to morris, travelling and beer but it is relevant to writing and the English language:. The “pss...
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Morris Traveller: December 2011
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Thursday, 22 December 2011. Belt Involved in Freak Accident. Back to the design stage, I fear. The Dragons' Den and Patent Office will have to wait a little longer for my Writers’ Utility Belt. The details of the incident need only be sketchy. The prototype WUB let me down in the bathroom two weeks ago when the non buckle end of the belt unravelled from its loops and my camera slipped free to plunge into the WC pan. 1 Smooth, shiny belts lack friction. Abuse of English Update. If so, I mean to fight it.
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Morris Traveller: January 2012
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012. New Evidence on Use of Pop. Okay, I know I said I’d leave “pop” alone and move on to other examples of English abusage, but . . . I was “popped” twice in HSBC today, as:. 8220;You’ve popped the amount in the wrong box . . .” and “after altering, just pop your initials next to it.”. I seem to be encountering a lot more unnecessary popping. This is not the reason I am returning to the example. I am back here because I think I have worked out why. I suggest that the rise of “...
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Morris Traveller: Brewing Progress
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Saturday, 5 May 2012. Today I have transferred Castlegate Brewery’s sixth brew from fermentation vessel to conditioning tank. A bitter-style of beer based on a recipe for “Everard’s Beacon”, the beer is almost clear, looks and tastes like beer already. Totally flat, of course, but will receive two weeks conditioning before bottling. If all the Brewery products end up like those tasted so far, the directors will be. St Arbeck’s Gold 5.0% (recipe based on Hopback Summer Lightning). View my complete profile.
