Cherry

So there is cherry blossoms out and it all looks good and it is nice to see again.

Green

So I have just noticed that the grass around here is just starting to change to that light green colour that I love as it means spring is here

Spring

So spring has started and so far the weather has been better than the last few weeks. So with spring now happing it's time to start looking for the spring flowers to start appearing. Today I noticed Daisy's, dandelions not sure if they are early or late in appearing at this time. It goes without saying that the daffodils are now out in force and it's great to see them and when they are in great clumps they are very pretty.

Nothing

It's strange that have not had much to say for lots of days I don't know why but I know have lots to say which was not the case several days ago.

Wow

Wow sunshine and some blue sky at last....

Not much to say

There has been not that much to say just lately.

Snow

Well I guess it had to happen that as it's winter at some point it's going to snow and that is just what it did today, not fun driving in it.

Cold

It's cold here today as it is about-4 which I know for some is not cold but for us is cold, not the coldest it's been but it's certainly not tee shirt weather if you know what I mean.

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.

The food was okay but the menu choices for me were a bit restrictive but that's me not the fault of Bills.

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.

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 etc. 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 etc..

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.

Update 29/03/2025

So this blog post dates back to 2015!

A lot has happened and there are now more books on hops for the more casual reader, but none in the way that I was talking about here in this blog post.

It goes without saying that in 2025 you could use the different AI system to help with the creation of this books.

Question is do you give credit to the AI systems that you use to help create the book?

Is it like traditional research where you list all your references?

I don't know the answer to that question

Perhaps I should ask an AI!!!!!

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?

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.

Work

Just want to record here that I am just a bit overloaded at work.

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.

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.

Work

Only second day back at work and it already feels like I have been back at work forever.