Drink of the night

The drink of the night is......

London Pride by Fullers served cool but not chilled it tastes great and is a nice smooth drink. in fact the taste is rather hard to discribe as its rather a complex tasting ale which is one of the reasons that I like to drink it.

The other reason is that its a nice ale to drink and relax with, surely thats the only other reason to drink an ale?

food

food what to have on the last day of the year?

do you go for a curry? fish and chips or a sit down meal or as we are have a hotbuffet meal?

One thing that i can say  and confirm is that anything is better than nothing as at this time I am hungry. 

why are ipad cases expensive?

why are ipad cases so expensive from apple?

i could not belive the cost of a case for the ipad air, 65 quid why?

in the end i found a case that i like complete with a bluetooth keyboard for 25 quid and its leather. I am still trying to work out why the huge mark up from apple.

Things to be said

I have to admit that I seem to write more posts to this blog when I am not at work. I suppose because I have more free time, which allows me time to do something that I don't do enough of and that's to just think random thoughts.

I happen to think that a bit of random thinking does you good it allows your brain to just let go and not worry about things, that must be something that we all need. I am sure that day dreaming is good for you so I shall carry on free thinking or day dreaming when I have the chance.

Drink of the day

The drink of the day today is....

Coffee again and it's nice to have a relaxed cuppa before going out and about.

Last day of the year

So it's the last day of 2013 and I had a lie in again to 0700 am!

I know isn't great!

So I have only a few hours left to blog in this year, luckily I do have things I want to blog about today, so there will be more than one blog post today.

And why not is a day off for me and the weather is not great and there is not that much on the telly and I am not reading any books at this time so why not keep this notebook of mine going?

Reading

In an earlier post I said that I was having trouble reading any of the 17 books in my reading pile.

Well I have to report that today I brought a book and I have read it!

The book is called 1339 facts to make your jaw drop, I can report that it does have facts that will and did make my jaw drop and on more than one occasion.

Reading

Just had a look at my book reading pile and the news is not good I still have 17 books to read. For some reason I just don't seem to pic up a book and read it anymore.

 is it because I need glasses so that I can read the small print?

 Is it because the iPad takes up my free time? 

Is because I am lazy? Is it bacuse there is too much other stuff to do?

I don't know which or all of these is the reason all I do know is that I am not reading as many books as I used to. What's more annoying is that there are some great books in the pile that I do want to read!

Rain and rain

Wow there is a lot of rain today and it's rather cold which is something I really was not expecting but I suppose considering the time of year it should not be a surprise.

 The good news is that finally the nights are starting to get shorter and that is always good in my book.

Spelling

Why is my spelling so bad and I have a spell checker......

Lie in

To day it had a lie to seven in the morning bliss!

End of the year

So the end of the year is approaching and there is very little of 2013 left.

I suppose there will be websites full of looking back at the year why?

Do will all suddenly forget what has just happend?

Rain

Just how much rain is there up in the sky at any one time?

Billion liters ?

I have yet to find an answer to this question.

American pancakes

So what to eat on a Xmas Saturday?

Yes that's right American style pancakes, which I have never made before.

I am happy to report that they turned out well and will have them again.

Games

As you know I have an iPad air the 128Gb model, don't ask but it has a lot to do with composing music and writing books on it.

Anyway as I was saying I play very few games on the iPad mainly due to the fact that I get board or stuck or just plain loose interest in the game.

But one game that I do play is real racing three I am just good enough to get through a level or two, which is nice as getting stuck in a games sucks, I could emanation here that game call candy crush with I got stuck on a level for more than 2 months but I won't as it appears that I am not the only one to get stuck on a level. It also turns out that it's the main reason why people stop playing the game.

Any way back to real racing 3 which I seem to play at some level of competence it's fun and it's nice just to complete a race, wining is always also nice but for me that does not always happen.

I have found that the game is not fair in that to win on some of the events the car really needs to be fully tooled up and that cost game credits that you can win or buy with real cash. It goes without saying that if you don't win then you can't get the credits you need to upgrade your car.

As I moly play the game now and then I have so far not spent any real money, but I have spent hours and hours playing the game.

The other thing that is no about it is that they do updates and some of them have even good for me at the low level I am playing at.

So if you have an iPad. And you are bored why not download it and give it a go its free as long as you don't get greedy and want it all.

Drink of the day

The drink of the day today is.....coffee that's a real surprise not!

I just have to say that the coffee is one of those expensive fine ground instant ones, that have over the last year or so become popular for some reason or other.

I have a horrible feeling that they are really over priced fro what they are but, sadly I have to report they do taste better than the normal cheap instant coffee so may be that use better flavourings or something?

I don't know the answer all I do know is that it tastes nice and that's what I want in my coffee.

Today's meal

Don't normally record what meals I have but today it's cold gammon with homemade chips. This is normally something we have on Boxing Day but as we had our Xmas meal on Boxing Day everything has been shifted a day or so to the right.

Anyway cold home cooked gammon and home made chips are always very nice.

Boxing Day

Boxing Day was fun and the food was good

Year end

So it's nearly the end of the year and I am glad that I don't go to work until 2014!

Drink of the day

The drink of the day today is....

London Prode a real ale that chilled just a bit is rather nice....

Read the reviews on the internet they do a better job than me.

It's just a nice real ale to have and on Xmas eve even better I can chill out.....

I think you need to chill out and as it's been a while since my last holiday why not?

Drink of the day

Today's drink of the day is.... Chocolate Carmel and very nice it is too. It's the first time I have tried such a drink and I like it.

Yesterday's drink of the day

The drink of the day for yesterday is... Old speckled hen which is a real ale, the good news is I brought a 5liter keg of it and it's very nice thank you very much.

Winter solstice

So today is winter solstice this is good news for me as I love light and these dark nights and mornings are doing my head in.

Rain

Rain we have had a lot of that today.

Pantomime time

Have just seen my first pantomime in a few years. And I have to say that it was rather fun.

The panto was at the new Victoria theatre at Woking and the panto is Cinderella we'll work going to just to hear all the kids and adults joining in.

Work

I have for the first time in years been thinking about work while at home, this is not good and I want it to stop.

Drink of the day

The drink of the day today is..... Coffee

 and why not ?

It is good for you first thing in the morning.

Happy

Are you happy is this a question you ask yourself?

Shortest day

I see that the shortest day is not that far away this does make me happy as it means summer is on its way!