The food was okay but the menu choices for me were a bit restrictive but that's me not the fault of Bills.
18 January, 2015
Eating out
So eating out today and tried a new place to eat in Guildford called Bills. The food is okay but the seating was such that there was little room between tables. They must be doing something thing right as there was a lot of people waiting to get a table when we went.
Ideas
Where do ideas come from?
As one minute they are not there and the next they are. Sometimes times it's only seconds or even less for them to appear. You have no idea how they appear but that's what they do just appear out of nowhere, you have no incling as to what they are going to be other than when they have turned up. Strange that!
Reading
The great news is that I have finished the book that I was reading by Stephen Baxter and as I said in my blog before the start is a bit slow the pay off at the end is I suppose worth it. I think that the editor should have been a bit more thorough and that would have made the book a much better book but i suppose that if you are Stephen Baxter then perhaps you don't get edited as much as a new author would.
13 January, 2015
Hop Book
The hop book idea
I have done some quick research and so far I have found that there are only really two books on hops. Both are aimed at the serious brewer with recipes ect and one goes through all the known varieties, so perhaps my book could have place as it's not being aimed at brewers but at interested drinkers ect.
I think I will have to carry out more research as one book was 300 pages and the other was 130 so my book would have to be some where in between these sizes.
12 January, 2015
Blood
Just to record the fact I gave my 131st unit of blood today, I am pleased to have managed so many donations, I just hope I have helped someone with by donations over the years.
Book ideas Hops The Hop Book
I did have an idea on Sunday for a book I don't think it would be a very large book. The idea and I am sure that it's been done before is to do a book on Hops you know the stuff that goes into beer or ales.
So my book idea is not to have a technical tome but to have a book that is of interest to the casual user, eg there you are on a summers day enjoying sitting in the sun and drinking a beer when you notice on the bottle a list of what's in the bottle and one of the ingredients is say Challanger Hops. Now you have no clue what Challanger hops are but you want to know, yes you can surf the net and eventually you will find something on it. Wouldn't it be great if there was a book that told you about all the differant type of hops a bit of history of where they came from and also a list of say the top 50 real ales in the UK and what hops were used in making them? Maybe a picture or two of the differant types of hops?
It's a nice idea not sure who big a book it would be, or how easy it would be to collect the information for it also how big an audience it would be for, I suspect that it would not be a huge audience, but it would be a great little project.
I am going to have think about it a bit more.
Paris 2
Looked on the TV at the events on Sunday in Paris it's nice to see all the rallies ect but how are things going to change to stop these sad events happening agin, what's gone wrong for this sort of thing to happen?
09 January, 2015
Paris
I really don't know what to say about the events in Paris, other than its a very sad time for the family's effected.
08 January, 2015
Mum
My mum is 81 which to some is not a great age but what you don't know is that she is now 20 years post throat cancer which also stole her voice, at the time she was expected to die from either the surgery or the cancer, so how and with luck that is not what happend.
Sadly the cancer is back and is getting the better of her, but she is living life how she wants.
06 January, 2015
2000th Post
This is my 2000th post, its taken a while to get to it but I am pleased that I have got to it.
04 January, 2015
Podcasting software
I like to listen to the odd podcast or more actually it's four or five that I listen to most of the time. I use my I Pad which is what I carry with me every where as I don't have an iPhone as they don't have enough storage and Apple for some commercial reason don't want you to be able to plug in memory cards and increase your storage so I am stuck with the iPad with the largest memory capacity device they currently sell.
On the iPad Apple give you free there pod-casting software which lets you download you casts, but I have had a problem with it now and in the past where for some reason or another it forgets to download and episode or even worse to decides for no reason to delete and episode that you are half way through listening to, which is not good especially if you are trying to listen to the podcast on a car journey and you have no WiFi!
So it goes without saying that I have had a go at finding other apps that do the podcast thing, so far I think I have tried at least four or more apps.
By try, I mean used for several weeks at a time, so far I have yet to find an app that I like 100%, but it has not stopped me from having a good look around, I am still using apples app as I am having a rest from looking around for another app.
03 January, 2015
Sound cloud
I have a sound cloud account in fact at that time I write this I have some 30 tracks on the site under the artist name Citrus Dreams now I am not doing anything to advertise that I am an artist and that I have tracks on the site, so it a bit of a surprise to see that somehow or other the old track has been listed to by someone, luckily the number of listens is very low so I don't think I am in damage of ever being penalised for band width.
You may ask why put the tracks on the site in the first place and the simple answer is I wanted to store some tracks else where in the world, if somehow I get the odd person finding the tracks I can live with that, I also think I have more fun creating the tracks than the final result, if that makes any kind of sense.
Raspberry PI
Still having fun with my model b+ raspberry PI it's working well I have found out how to get the is to expand in the Sd card I have installed. I have found out how to update it and also how to turn charge it a bit, not so much just a bit and it has made a differance to how it works.
I have not yet decided what I want to do with it apart from learn who to use it so far, I have done a bit of programming on it mainly Python which is okay but as I am using a small media keyboard doing a lot of typing on it really is not on, and do I want to spend money on yet another keyboard that will only clutter up the badly cluttered house?
So the PI is easy to get going and play with I just need to decided what I want to do with it.
Wet
Just a small note to me from me!
It's wet not cold at this time which is good I like wet over cold any day, well most of the time I do.
01 January, 2015
Blossom
Just a note to me but have just noticed two things. The first is that the bulbs are growing and I have seen several that are now showing green shoots.
The second is that I have now seen several cherry trees flowering type with blossom a lovely pink colour but in January isit a bit early for that sort of thing?
First post
My first post of 2015 wonder how many posts I shall make this year, have I or will I have a lot to say, only time will tell.
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