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Lifelong Pub Run: October 2012
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Because life is one big long pub run. Tuesday, 9 October 2012. Recently I was contacted by a person from PeerIndex. Regarding a promo which is being run by Guinness. It seems quite fun. If you are in certain pubs on a Friday and Saturday night, you can win a one-day drinking session in Dublin, including learning how to pour the black stuff. If that sounds like fun, here is a link to the Guinness facebook page. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Hole in the Wall.
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Beer, walks & history: Stonch's End
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Beer, walks and history. Tuesday, 5 January 2010. Reading the comments on his "last post", by the way, I feel I must respond to "Anonymous" who refers to my son as a "deluded count". Not only are you unable to spell, mate, but you are totally wrong. I assure you that my son has no titled people in his ancestry. 5 January 2010 at 07:10. Thanks for those kind comments. 5 January 2010 at 09:28. Yes, we spent two weeks in Whitby and visited the surrounding areas in the Moors, all which are incredibly beautif...
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Beer, walks & history: October 2008
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Beer, walks and history. Tuesday, 28 October 2008. The absurd media furore over the recent Mountain Marathon event (competitors are. To endure extreme conditions and to spend the night on the mountain) reminded me of the time I took part in it over twenty years ago. My mate Billy advised that we should have "a couple of pints before turning in to help us sleep". After more than a couple, I dossed down around midnight but Billy stayed on "for a nightcap" which lasted until after two in the morning. The la...
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Beer, walks & history: The Keelman's Way
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Beer, walks and history. Sunday, 11 October 2009. A year or two ago (when I felt leaner and fitter) I followed. A cycle track along the south bank of the river from its mouth to West Gateshead, a distance of about eight miles. I passed one or two interesting pubs along the way, including the exotically-named. Elephant on the Tyne. A subject I will write upon in the future. I have read a report in an 1805 copy of. Which records that the publican of the. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). David Bell is an...
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Beer, walks & history: Street people
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Beer, walks and history. Monday, 16 November 2009. One last point I'd like to make about the street people who infest the city of Nice - I saw the best busker I have seen for many a long year there. She was an old lady who sang without any form of amplification in the market place. She was accompanied only by a guy in a beret, who plonked away on string instrument (I'm no good at identifying such things) to very good effect. Labels: working class culture. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The author ha...
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Beer, walks & history: November 2008
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Beer, walks and history. Tuesday, 11 November 2008. How is it I don't know The Queen? During my camping and tramping years of the 1980s, I once spent a night in the High Pennine town of Alston. After pitching my tent (. Permission) at the ruined mill down by the river, I set off on a round of the pubs and ended up at the "top of the town",. He said that he would meet The Queen again there and that each year they had a little chat together. This was all true, by the way, as I. Eventually, the old bloke sp...
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Mouse's Musings: July 2012
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Ideas, thoughts, links, rants, and anything else I can think of. Friday, 20 July 2012. Testing: Editing Tests In-running with Microsoft Test Manager. A couple of weeks ago one of my colleagues here asked if it possible to edit test scripts while you are running them in Microsoft Test Manager. I didn't know, and a quick bit of google-foo resulted in nothing conclusive. So, I reached out to the testing community through the fairly new and excellent SQA Stack Exchange. Here is my original question:. Links t...
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Mouse's Musings: Testing: What Will 2013 Bring?
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Ideas, thoughts, links, rants, and anything else I can think of. Friday, 4 January 2013. Testing: What Will 2013 Bring? I don't make New Year's resolutions. I tried to once and got a stressed and disappointed when I didn't achieve any of them. I think failing at New Year's resolutions is a common occurrence, particularly with the "lose x. Kg in weight", "exercise y. Times per week", or "cut z. Out for a month" ones. There's probably been a study on it and everything! So, I don't make resolutions. Which a...
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Beer, walks & history: Three Days in Paradise
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Beer, walks and history. Wednesday, 13 January 2010. Three Days in Paradise. Apparently the people who turned up at the legendary Tan Hill Inn for a New Year bash were unfortunate enough to get snowed in. They were "stuck" there for three days at the highest pub in Britain and had to make the best of it. The manager charged them ten pounds a night (what a bargain! To doss down in the pub and roaring fires were kept going twenty four hours of the day. The picture shows the fire they keep going in the.
