Gloucester Saint

Also, picked up some of this yesterday having lunch at Dunkerton’s just outside Cheltenham https://www.hooky.co.uk/product/pheonix-4-5/ A can of this https://stroudbrewery.com/products/alederflower-cans and this https://atticbrewco.com/products/rollin-waves-pale-4-8?srsltid=AfmBOopEeHB-wP8rHeh4kS0wdWA2DiQjtAvmLpOhw7uol1Dmfe0YzS-c

Titanic Plum Porter is good in the bottle but different league on draft. I have some Hobson’s Damson Porter in storage for Xmas. Best Plum Porter I’ve ever had was Elgood’s Plum Porter. Worst was St Peter’s - tasted like Dr Pepper.

Second lot of cancer - recovering from surgery. I read a lot of different accounts of what’s he’s like but clearly unpleasant if you meet him on the wrong day. Mind you, scoring runs in middle age against Holding, Marshall, Lillee and Thomson (not in his 74-77 pomp when he was as fast as there’s been but still as quick as Mark Wood was this summer post-shoulder op) shows a high class player.

Don’t know what’s happened to Theakstons? Last couple of pints I’ve had in the Dales have been well off - yet switched to Black Sheep in the same pubs which was fine. Love Black Sheep’s Riggwelter but a one pint only beer! Wensleydale good stuff, and Saltaire excellent. I love their Triple Choc Stout but appreciate its not for everybody. York Brewery is good stuff, been on their brewery tour. Rudgate are in York as well, their Ruby Porter has won Champion Beer of the Year a while back. Used to like Daleside, especially their Morocco ale made for Levens Hall in Cumbria and I think they are now owned by Roosters which has always been great stuff. Roosters Yankee was one of the first beers to use Cascade hops from the Pacific Northwest. Copper Dragon - that is great stuff, Golden Pippin one of the best golden ales I’ve had anywhere. Hambleton Nightmare a great dark beer. I see Harrogate has its own microbrewery and tap - will look out for that next time I’m up that way.

Whilst I like the attacking cricket overall - not keen to go back to Rory Burns and Dom Sibley opening - yesterday was just reckless, rudderless and didn’t respect Sri Lanka. They’re lucky Pope got a much needed ton otherwise they’d be behind. One definite positive is the return from the Fletcher era of picking potential rather than bog average pros bowling at 80mph tops cashing in on green tops and tired batters in the volume not quality county scene. Hull looks like another gem and Atkinson proof that what it takes internationally and domestically are different and makes England better overseas. Trescothick, Vaughan, Harmison were similar examples in that era of selecting on potential.

Thanks The Cat, really good summary and realising that I’ve only been to Butchers Hook, Brewhouse, Dancing Man and Platform. Last time was a few years back for a best friends’ stag do and enjoyed it but also had one eye on keeping him and the party on the straight and narrow. Which was fine until his cousin joined after work, the ale stopped for him and the Sambuca came out…. Time I selected a less popular Saints home game where I might get a ticket and had a long weekend in the city of my birth. Those top four options you mention I’ve not been to at all. Olaf’s Tun my friends rave about and has been on the long-term to-do list, I’m from Woolston originally and one of my best friends lives in the street there where I grew up. I also understand that the Guildhall square area looks very different to when I was last in the area? This gives me a great idea of where to try when I get that arranged,

Will Smallbone as effective for RoI as he’s been for Saints this season. Needs to hit the gym and weights big time, Declan Rice is hard to deal with anyway but 10 stone dripping wet doesn’t cut it. Get on the protein shakes as well.

Surprising that he didn’t answer Ireland’s call. Free header given away at the first corner.

Tanglefoot is a classic. Wicked Wyvern was in Morrisons and Tescos but seem to have stopped doing it. Very good beer on cask or keg. Never tried Shapwick Monster. Mont Blanc La Rousse is a good stuff. Alpine cycling trip sounds amazing. I’m a fairly moderate drinker - 5-6 units a week but really enjoy what I have. If I’m going to a beer festival I’ll leave off the stuff a few days beforehand. Walking in the local Cotswold Hills keeps me trim. Lots of cyclists around here, there’s a few steep hills to keep the more handy cyclists interested but nothing on a par with the Dales (Fleet Moss, Park Rash) and Lakes (Hardknott, Honister and Kirkstone).

At the Southampton Beer Festival at the Guildhall early 00s there was a stand full of anti-EU/Brexit merchandise including that t-shirt which had a bulldog cocking its leg all over the EU stars😀 I do have beard these days but far more of a striped shirt kind of guy. Politics is generally off the menu because we’re all too busy enjoying the ale. The beer festival which sticks out in my mind is the National Great British Beer Festival, again early 00s at the former Earls Court, when it was still mostly blokes (about 50/50 on festival attendance with gender these days) and by early evening there wasn’t enough men’s toilets. The queue for the blokes toilets was so huge that by the time I left being a dozens of blokes around the perimeter urinating up the interior walls of Earls Court! You watching Harrogate at Cheltenham on Sky Sports+? Crap game it has to be said. The travelling supporters (50 or so) will be able to give the whippets a run out in nearby Pitville Park before they head north.

We have an optical illusion. It looks for all of the world like a pale ale, or IPA, but no, this is Stroud Brewery’s enigmatic Arctic Cat White Stout. The nose has coffee, the palate more coffee, quite significant vanilla notes and some chocolate discerned. I did pick up some bitterness from hop but very much a walk on part. Enjoyed this whilst watching Gloucestershire beat Birmingham Bears in a thrilling T20 QF at Edgbaston. As Hampshire are out, I hope my adopted county prevail in Finals Day next Saturday. Now I need to select a different beer to watch Cheltenham v Harrogate with tomorrow.

This was on the front page of the ‘I’ today. When it does eventually come in it will push food prices up considerably for most shoppers and more needless Brexit red tape https://www.politico.eu/article/united-kingdom-brexit-border-food-checks-delay-inflation/

Thanks for sharing, really interesting to hear an account from that period seeing the aftermath and some of the clues as to sequence of the tragic events. There seemed to be a lot of industrial unrest in BEA at the time. It sounds like the pilot and co-pilot were trying to do different things to recover the first stall with the end result nobody really controlling it, with the very experienced pilot’s medical emergency a major exacerbating factor. There were reports before the flight that he’d had an heated altercation with some other BEA crew about industrial relations matters.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89wneepgj3o

Think that was this one, very experienced pilot had a massive heart attack IIRC and the co-pilot was quite green? https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/staines-air-crash-50-years-on/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_European_Airways_Flight_548

Taxi for Picard please 🤦‍♂️

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-hayes-gobsmacked-by-trumps-rambling-response-thats-the-quality-of-the-brains-right-now/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-weave-speech-rally-election-b2606293.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-trumps-rambling-getting-worse-104018148.html https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-age-harris-ramble-rcna168979

And suggested that if it ever happened, it would happen under UN supervision. No way that the ‘no surrender to the IRA’ brigade would have tolerated that. It would have needed another £10bn to send even a handful of rejected refugee claimants and tax rises to pay for it, which the same bankrupt (bar the Mail) non dom owned tabloid outfits would have screamed about. Pity about that £40bn economic black hole that a hard Brexit causes.

What I think will happen is that this will be in effect an interim appointment followed by another heavy defeat, and then the more serious candidates start to emerge. If Trump loses, whoever the members select will already look as up to date as an Artex ceiling. Plus the tabloids and members are still in populist, shouty, culture war mode, and need to get it out of their system with a Badenoch or Jenryck. By 2029 or 2030 there will also be some structural changes amongst the newspapers. I’m not sure Reach can afford to keep the Express on life support when it’s bleeding cash and the Sun has taken a turn away from party politics. Telegraph’s future is still unclear and also in serious financial difficulty so the main shouting might from the Mail by then. Also, new MPs will have joined, especially the likes of Andy Street who isn’t tainted like the rest of the former cabinet.

Another article on that site from polling shows Patel, Cleverley and Badenoch were the only ones more than 50% of respondents who voted Tory in July could identify and Jenrick is regarded as ‘smug’, ‘slimy’ and ‘wooden’. https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/voters-are-beginning-to-view-tories-as-weird-382193/

I like the colour of Anderlecht’s shirts but the sponsor and design let it down a bit. Hope Samuel has a good spell there and adds some of the end product missing from his time at SFC so far. Are Anderlecht in European competition this year?

It isn’t difficult, Jan and Jack need to concentrate on finding one of the CMs and sometimes hitting a more direct ball to BBD/Cornet or AA if it’s on to stop the opposition getting set. It doesn’t mean we have to go back to the Branfoot era (God forbid). If there’s a danger situation and there’s no out ball then the opposition can’t score from a throw in. We just need to grow into games and gain confidence, and that’s not happening whilst the opposition are waiting for a trigger movement to mug Jan, Jack, THB or the deepest lying CM. The manager’s reward if he keeps us up longer-term is to upgrade in those positions where people are more comfortable building from the back all of the time but that’s not where we are. I like Russell Martin but this heavily possession based style didn’t entirely work last season and it 100% isn’t this. Happy if he changes to be more pragmatic but SR will pull the trigger sooner rather than later if he doesn’t and the 2-3 gifts per game keep happening.

Another GM gem, along with the predictions on Deutsche Bank, numerous elections etc. Difference was that this was in particularly poor taste when he posted it.

One bit of learning from the Post Office Enquiry is that it shouldn’t be taking anywhere near as long as it does to make corporate manslaughter and other serious charges stick, especially when there’s just been a lengthy public enquiry. To say that the Met and CPS are needing to go through the enquiry evidence for a further 2-3 years simply doesn’t cut it. It’s just giving some of the parties a window to escape to somewhere without extradition treaties with their illegal earnings. Get the assets frozen.