| Walkies! |
[Sep. 23rd, 2009|03:34 pm] |
On Friday, three hairy blokes will be mostly doing a 50-odd mile charity pub-crawl walk from Tonbridge Wells to Shoreham-by-Sea for Multiple Sclerosis.
Feel free to join us for evening beers and/or sponsor us!
Beery Hikers
Just Giving
K thx.
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| Berlin Weekend in Brief |
[Jan. 28th, 2009|12:32 pm] |
Saturday- Checked into Agon hotel - great value, clean, nice breakfast, handy for K17 and cheaper than Dark Hostel
- Decided not see Red SKy Coven cos tickets were £20 and we really wanted to see Berlin
- Had dinner in a typically German restaurant near Schönhauser Allee
- Took in a few drinks at Last Cathedral, which was kinda fun but disney-Goth, shared a text based toast to Rabby with some very expensive Laphroag.
- Went onto K17, which is a large goth and metal club set on 4 floors (and courtyard) of an old office building on the outskirts of East Berlin. Metal floors weren't as popular as the gothier ones. Much, much better than Slimes, and much cleaner too!
SundayMonday- Nursed hangover at breakfast
- Went to Classic Bike, Berlin's only Harley dealer, but didn't buy anything cos exchange rates didn't help prices much!
- Off to KaDeWe for shopping and nice, but bloody expensive lunch of stir fry pork.
- Next on to XtraX but not much took our fancy, I'm not that keen on off-the-shelf goth, but did buy a t-shirt and a cheap scarf (it's bloody cold in Berlin in January).
- Slightly overpriced meal in revolving restaurant of the amazing cold war TV Tower, nice bottle of Marckischer Landmann though.
- Drinks at Rock-und Wikingbar, yep, it's a viking themed metal bar, and why not eh?
- Taxi across town to the more bikery Wild at Heart.
- Back to Paule's Metal Eck for a couple more...
Tuesday
- Nursed hangover at breakfast
- Checked out of the excellent hotel
- Looked at more dirty goffick clothes at Dark Store, bought some black bog roll!
- Got our best food of the holdiay at Nante-Eck on Unter-der-Linden
- Expensive cab back to ariport
Great holiday, but looking back at what we've done, I can see why I'm still dog-tired after a so-called break! If you haven't been to Berlin, I'd thoroughly recommend it, there's loads to do and the people are really helpful and friendly.
Thanks as usual to http://www.metaltravelguide.com for great information.
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| Brighton Bike Night - set list |
[Jan. 5th, 2009|11:56 am] |
Seems that Bike Night's turning into a bit of a stoner blues rock night whilst the weather's cold. This is what Timmeh and I (and Loz a bit) played. Spot the bit in the middle where we played 'link the words'. No apologies for playing loads of Kamchatka, especially since Monty from The Damned came up to ask what we were playing (he thought they sounded a lot like Cream and indeed they do sometimes).
1 - Who Wants To Rock? - Clutch
2 - Big News I - Clutch
3 - Big News II - Clutch
4 - Mnemosyne Waltz - Kamchatka
5 - Mixed Emotions - Kamchatka
6 - Ice Pick Freek - Atomic Bitchwax, The
7 - Stormbringer - Deep Purple
8 - La Grange - ZZ Top
9 - Road runner - Aerosmith
10 - Feel Like Making Love - Bad Company
11 - Wishing Well - Gary Moore
12 - Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
13 - Treat Yo Mama - John Butler
14 - Black Horse and the Cherry Tree - K.T. Tunstall
15 - Lay Down - Priestess
16 - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer - Queens of The Stone Age
17 - Breakout - Foo Fighters
18 - Discovery Channel - Bloodhound Gang
19 - Fever For The Flava - Hot Action Cop
20 - Electrifying - Spoiler
21 - Gimme Gimme Gimme - Yngwie Malmsteen
22 - Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue
23 - Breaking The Law - Judas Priest
24 - Burn - Deep Purple
25 - Love Walked In - Thunder
26 - Dream On - Aerosmith
27 - She Talks To Angels - Black Crowes, The
28 - Too Much Too Young - Little Angels
29 - Touch Too Much - AC/DC
30 - Muchas Veces - Clutch
31 - Highway Star - Deep Purple
32 - I Am The Highway - Audioslave
33 - Am I Evil? - Metallica
34 - Lady Evil - Black Sabbath
35 - Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix
36 - Foxy Foxy - Rob Zombie
37 - Zombie - Breed 77
38 - Zombie Eaters - Faith No More
39 - I Don't Love You Anymore - Quireboys
40 - More Than A Feeling - Boston
41 - Feeling Good - Muse
42 - No - Kamchatka
43 - Born Under a Bad Sign - Cream
44 - Oh Pretty Woman - Gary Moore
45 - She's Not There - Carlos Santana
46 - Bleachin' Bones - Five Horse Johnson
47 - Little Red Rooster - Howlin' Wolf
48 - Click Clack - Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band
49 - Memphis Water - Answer, The
50 - Boogie Chillum - Hooker, John Lee
51 - Lightning When I Need - Five Horse Johnson
52 - Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf
53 - Never Too Late - Answer, The
54 - 10,000 Witnesses - Clutch
55 - Wrong End - Kamchatka
56 - Shame,shame,shame - Aerosmith
57 - Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin
58 - Good Times are out to Get You - Infectious Grooves
59 - Baby,please don't go - Aerosmith
60 - Superstition - Stevie Wonder
61 - Pink - Aerosmith |
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| Poor excuse for an update... |
[Dec. 22nd, 2008|12:10 pm] |
Recently I have:
-Not really had a Cheese Night cos Pete was busy and Moo was otherwise engaged
+Enjoyed the non-Cheese Cheese night despite this
-Not been bad Santa at Ampwitch, although I promise to next year
+Booked a trip to Berlin for January
+Fixed the bike rear light and Yola's front forks
-Not taken my bike to CyberDog even though it is CyberDog-themed
+Enjoyed Black Stone Cherry (despite the drum solos)
-Been in bad mood at Rock Night for no apparent reason apart from bad beer and rude people
+Enjoyed Sunday club Crimbo dinner
+Enjoyed The Damned very much - they've aged with dignity
Hope everyone has a festive yule, come along to our New Year's Day Bike Night on Thursday 1st! |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 10th, 2008|08:52 am] |
On the twelfth day of Christmas,  mattydesade sent to me... Twelve emmelinemays drumming Eleven black books piping Ten bikes a-leaping Nine bauhaus dancing Eight tattoos a-clubbing Seven bats a-piercing Six piercings a-motorcycling Five bi-i-i-ike rallies Four tori amos Three bill hicks Two hanoi rocks ...and a propaganda in a sisters of mercy. |
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| Hell Freezeth Over |
[Nov. 18th, 2008|10:43 am] |
Well not quite, but I was at the traffic lights yesterday on the pushbike, in the red advanced stop line area.
A 4x4 entered into the ASL.
I turned my head and gave them the full Paddington hard stare.
The car reversed out of the ASL!
Win! |
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| Bikes, Boats and Shanks's Pony |
[Oct. 22nd, 2008|02:38 pm] |
Well hello there LJ world, I'm back from me travels.
Here's a brief journal of the last 10 days:
Sunday 12th
Brightona - "Yet another biker convention" as ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) liz_lowlife puts it. :-) But hey, we had over 4,000 bikes, some hotrods, a brilliant custom bike show and over 20 bands. The £23,000 profit will go to the Sussex Heart Charity. Good to see Liz and Andy briefly and teatagg arriving under his own, erm, electricity. After 12 hours on me feet, making sure everything ran smoothly, I was on the Ferry to Caen.
Monday 13th
Arrive in Caen, ride through the rush hour in the dark and meet up with Chicken for lunch in Le Mans. Then off to the gite near Rennes. Gites is quiet and comfortable and owners are friendly and their English is worse than our French! Laugh at Cotton Eyed Dave's thermal leggings! Dinner at a pizza place in Vitré.
Tuesday 14th
Ride through the murkiness to Carnac where we see many, many standing stones. It's like they've grown there like big growing stone type things. Crepes in Chateauborg for dinner.
Wednesday 15th
Off to Manoir de l'Automobile de Lohéac, which is either a work of genius or obsessive compulsive collecting madness depending on whether or not you think having a huge sprawling museum of rally cars, sports cars, lorries, motorcycles, carriages, tools, lights, posters, signs, bloody everything ever is a good thing. Like Beaulieu but just more so. If you like cars and in you're in Brittany, you'd be mad not to go, especially for a fiver!
Thursday 16th
Travel to Mont-Saint-Michel in the rain. You can see it from miles of because of the surrounding fen-like flat. Very touristy and very expensive to eat once you're there. Captive audience I guess. Ride back much better. Dinner at Le Pekin, in Rennes, a chinese restaurant in an ancient prison in the old part of town. Good solid chinese food, they actually put prawns on the prawn toast.
Friday 17th
Travel home day, great ride 'off-piste' through to the ferry. Dull daytime crossing. F*ckwit cycle club (remember I use pushbikes too) decide that the whole club can push into the passsport queue ahead of Dave and me. Grrr! Get home just gone midnight.
Saturday 18th
Lie in bed. Watch footie. Eat food.
Sunday 19th
Lift to outside Guildford where we start our charity walk. Lunch at Cranley Hotel, beer and food OK. Quick beer in Alford. Arrive just before dark at Muddy Duck. 15 miles walked. Decent food and good clean lodging.
Monday 20th
Walk from Rudgwick, food and nice pint in the Bax Castle. White Horse Inn at Maplehurst closed. Pub at Copsale closed down. Stop at Cowfold in pouring rain for a beer before walking into dark and getting lost in a field en route to a warm welcome at Frylands 16th century B&B. Picked up by friends for a nice trout ploughmans in the Royal Oak at Wineham, very old unspoilt pub with nice atmosphere. 17miles walked. Feet hurt a bit.
Tuesday 21st
Set off towards Henfield and realise that hazeii is just round the corner so we pop in for coffee. Good to catch up and thanks for the kind donation! The nutter has done the South Downs round trip on a single speed bike now! Get beer and food at the Cat and Canary in Henfield. Great pint of Doombar. Stop for swift half and foot repairs at the Fox in Small Dole, feels like home is close but still a long way away! Struggle through to Shepherd and Dog and it feels like we're back in Brighton (bunch of weirdos in the pub!) Decide that we're not actually back in Brighton so can't get a cab home and therefore have to walk up the looming downs. Beer, nurofen and glucose get us there and we wander down to the Hangleton Manor, which is really busy so we get a cab to The Eclipse seeing as the Guildford to Hove mission has been accomplished. Another 15 miles, making about 47 in total.
Raised £560 + gift aid + matching from our workplaces, so hopefully we'll be pushing a grand by the time it's all in. Thanks to those who have donated, and it's not too late if you still want to. |
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| If you loved me you would... |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|05:10 pm] |
We're doing another charidee walk back to Brighton from somewhere far away type walk thing. This time it's from Guildford. It'd be smashing if you could find your way to putting in a few pennies...
Thanks! |
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| Set list for last Friday |
[Oct. 6th, 2008|01:40 pm] |
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In no particular but probably vaguely right order: Do you think I’m sexy?
2-4-6-8-Motorway
Two Pints of Lager
Stray Cat Strut
Tiger Feet
Don't Stop Me Now
So Lonely
D.i.s.c.o
Sweet home Alabama
That’s the way I like it
It’s raining men
Funky town
Good times
I love to love
Rasputin
Blame it on the boogie
Superstition
Now that we've found love
I will survive
I'm Every Woman
Crocodile rock
Cuba
Boogie nights
Music and Light
Pick up the Pieces
Lady Marmalade
Groove is the Heart
Waterloo
The Hustle
Stomp
The Bump
Le Freak
Play that funky music
Love is in the air
Tainted Love
Celebration
Love train
Car Wash
December 63
I feel love
Love will break our heart
Suspicious Minds
Jamaica
Rock the Kasbah
Rain
Inbetween Days
Kitchen at Parties
Baby One More Time
Upside Down
9-5
Fame
God Save the Queen
Stars on 45 Abba medley
Moog Cookbook medley
Bill Bailey's cockney medley
and probably a few more too but I got a bit drunk and it was my sister's 40th Birthday party....
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| I'm know I'm from the Fens but I'm not *that* keen on tractors |
[Sep. 24th, 2008|11:49 am] |
Sorry to get your hopes up Amazone Ltd, but my frequent visits to your site are only because muscle memory in my fingers seems to always want to add an 'e' on the end of Amazon, and not because I want to buy a tractor.
http://www.amazone.co.uk/
I if were in the market to buy a tractor, you would be first port of call, well, after Caterpillar because me Dad used to work for them ,well not actually them, but the company they bought up: Perkins Engines, who were a great rival of Cummins. |
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| Brains eh? What *are* they like? |
[Sep. 1st, 2008|03:23 pm] |
Sitting a work, writing a bit of code and me brain flashed up an image of the bus station at Douglas, Isle of Man.
It's kinda like whilst I'm working on something, my sub-conscious goes, start slideshow, show random image from memory.
Anyone else get this? The phenemona, not the image if Douglas bus station. |
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| Polish-ed off the plate... |
[Sep. 1st, 2008|10:19 am] |
Went to Hove's new traditional Polish restaurant opposite the King Alfred on Saturday night.
It's very traditional, with tiled floors and Polish TV on satellite it felt like being there.
Started with a bowl of zurek for everyone, then had a hearty main of breaded chicken filled with mushroms, with potatoes, salad and cabbage. Very tasty, but definitely about 4 points on the hearty side of my official hearty-poncey scale (where the market diner is +5 hearty and One Paston Place is +5 poncey). Yol had the same, Timmeh the pork and Loz had bigos and pierogi.
Washed down with a couple of very large bottles of Lech beer and a vodka to finish, leaving us completely stuffed!
So how much for 4 bowls of soup, 4 main courses, 5 x 500ml bottles of beer, a glass of wine and 3 vodkas?
£45!
We left a ten pound tip cos we didn't feel we'd paid enough! |
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| The Bread and Stew Poll |
[Aug. 20th, 2008|12:51 pm] |
I always thought that the most difficult biggest dilemma I'd heard was "Would you rather your partner slept with someone else and thought of you, or slept with you and thought of someone else". But no, the biggest dilemma in modern life is this:
Poll #1245138 The Very Important Bread and Stew Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10Is is better to run out of bread first and face scraping the stew onto a spoon, or run out of stew and be left with dry bread? |
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| Bike Night Yeah! |
[Aug. 8th, 2008|10:47 am] |
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Well we had a great turn out for out third Bike Night at The Caroline of Brsunswick.
Here's a list of the bikes that turned up - hopefully next time there'll be too many to list!
Harley Night Train - Matty
Harley Night Train - Marcus
Pink Harley Sportster - Helen
Kawasaki ZRX 1100- Solo
Suzuki Marauder - Julie
Harley - 2Quid
Harley Heritage Softail - Jerry
Harley FXR - Des
Bronze Sportster
Other Harley
Vespa - Tony
Lambretta
42 Harley - Cosmo
Ninja - Dr Dougal
Yam Chop - Nick
VMax - Nicki
Triumph Speed Triple - Mike
Ness Custom Dyna
Nightster
Wildstar - Sog
Wildstar Chop - Owen
Softail Custom Bobber
Street Bob
French Guzzi
+ a few in cars or on foot... |
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| Brighton Bike Night |
[Aug. 5th, 2008|10:15 pm] |
Come along, drink beer (a bit only if you're riding), listen to great rock choons! |
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| Yum! |
[Jul. 30th, 2008|02:15 pm] |
Wouldn't it be nice to have a restaurant in Brighton serving some stuff like this?:
Starters
Mains
I had the Five Spice Chinese Sirloin with Truffle Wasabi Boniato Potato Mash, Haricot Vert in Bordelese Sauce. It was fantastic!
Unfortunately this is in NYC so they have the population to support some variation in asian cuisine.
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| That Was The Weekend That Was and Pub Review Type Post |
[Jul. 15th, 2008|10:36 am] |
Friday
Train up to that fancy London, to see Yngwie Malmsteen (or Mingly Old Steine as he'd be called if he was from Brighton). Jolly good guitar widdliness in a 80s-tastic mullet and satin bomber jacket styley. Won't mention that if we'd been 24 or 48 hours late in woulda been The Nef we were watching. Sniff. Got back in time for a quick beer in the new venture from smogo</lj> smogo and blonde_venus, think they're on to another winner there.
Saturday
Up to The Piltdown Man Pub near Uckfield for the Annwn's Custom Bike Show where I won Best American for the Harley - I was well chuffed as there were some smart bikes there. The venue was shared between the 50 or so bikers and the 30 'straight's having an Anniversary party, we got given the cake at the end. smogo and blonde_venusshould really consider buying a country pub with a field out back next. We can then arrange mini-festivals all summer long. People will drink more if they only have to stagger 100 yards to a tent!
Sunday
Drop the bike off at home, get in car for Anniversary lunch at the Georgian Restaurant in Harrods. It's a posh Sunday roast eat-all-you-like buffet for £33 quid! The starters buffet is fantastic as is the roast beef!
Monday
Anniversay day off work and bimble round London. Start off at the Wallace Collection, which Yola loves cos it has inspired much of Vivienne Westwood's clothing. Beautiful building and classic art with a lovely new atrium and restaurant a la British Museum but on a more initimate scale.
Would have eaten there had we not already been booked into No5 Cavendish Square, which offered a two-course set menu for £17.50. We both have the duck with a strawberry jus (yum) followed by guinea fowl (yummier). The food was simply but perfectly cooked, portions veering towards +2 on the hearty side my soon-to-be-patented Poncy Hearty Scale. The staff attentive but not in your face. Overall a superb dining experience.
Next we started off on our Northern Line Goth and Rock Pub Crawl.
First off was the Crobar, friendly and scruffy, no 'real' beer, but a fantastic selection of whiskies, bourbon and rum.
Up to Camden for The Dev, the only discernable difference since the Hobgoblin akeover being the really quite good Wychwood Left Back ale. Lightish and hoppy. Toilets worse than the Engine Room.
Next off at Mornington Crescent to the Purple Turtle, poor selection of beer, youngish metal band from Leeds were actually quite good. Won't ever make it though cos the singer was a bit tubby - harsh, but that's the music industry for ya.
Intrepid Fox; next, moody punk barmaid didn't say please or thank you. I know you're a punk love, but if you really don't people, just f*ck off out of the people business. Shit beer too. Toilets OK.
So we went back to The Crobar for a last beer before not getting a train back and staying in Ealing with the in-laws instead.
Brighton people, enjoy "The CasBar", it's better than any of the alternative pubs in London, better staff, better decor, better toilets, better drink - although they could get a light hoppy ale on. *
* It is now an old tradition or charter or something that everytime I mention or talk about beer in reference to the Caroline, I have to mention that they "could get a light hoppy ale on". ;-) |
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