I am not sure this this will get past security but very handy when you forgot your own bottle opener, maybe.
Because you can quit anytime you want
* Black t-shirt with a bottle opening robot attached
* Stolen prototype from the year 2998
* For responsible meatbags aged 21+
anyway if are still drunk and think it’s a great idea then you can buy them here
As you know my other site, loves a great pub shed but if you have the room in your garden but are mad enough not to own a shed to convert then the next best option is to spend the money (which you may have more than sense) on an Inflatable pub.
I can see if you hire it out you could get the money back but I would stick to a few bottles of ale in my shed.
They come in various sizes from the largest and most expensive
The Hogshead Inflatable Pub
for £27,815.00!
Fully inflatable with graphic panels for roof, walls and gables
• High quality PVC materials
• Requires support frame
• Can be erected in less than 10 minutes by 4 adults
• Can be installed on any flat surface
• Features 2 fire places
• Internal artwork includes dart board
• Holds 20-50 people
to something more manageable but still a lot of cash
The Barrel Inflatable Pub £12,580.00
Ideal for any occasion from a large private party to a small event, it can be quickly set up, set down and transported. Featuring artistic brick walls, tiled roof, chimney pots and fire place, this has been designed to create an authentic pub, just don’t lean on the walls!
I managed to only get an hour down the Cardiff bay food & drink festival on the Saturday, but luckily went back with the mrs on the Sunday for the whole afternoon and got home in time for the Football.
Some great food and drink to be had, we managed a glass of one of the new Neath brewery ales – Green Bullet which was a 6% IPA that was very drinkable on a hot day.
Otley were there in force again this year & I really enjoyed their new O7 Weissen style beer, was lucky to have half on the saturday, as it had sold out by the my return on the Sunday..
The other beer I had from the Ponty brwer was the O5 which I have not had before, but seen it all over the shop and the O-garden went down well with my better half, hopefully they will have more of the Weissen at their Golden Ale festival this weekend.
I also had a taste of new brewers Untapped and their lovely Eclipse which I may get a few bottles in to add to my Dark collection.
Also had some tasters of the excellent Gwatkin Cider (and bought a bottle of Norman to take home) but not sure about their bar staff 😉 anyway ArfurD has a more in depth review of the beer and brewers that were in attendance.
of course the day was not just about Drinking (boo) but we had plenty of free samples of food and managed to spend a bomb on things such as a Wensleydale & cranberry Scotch Eggs
Cockles from penclawdd and other seafood
some great value Venison sausages and the best pastry on any pie I have had in a long time and two massive cakes.
The atmosphere was great and of course this was helped by the brilliant weather, some great music (which I can’t remember what they were called)
On that Twitter ,Brand Manager for S.A Brain & Co Ltd, Ian Beattie tweeted about the labels for the new Brains IPA in bottles.
Brains do an IPA smooth which is not the first on my list to drink when I pop into one of their pubs, back in the day I used to drink Crown Brewery CPA (Club Pale Ale) with my grandfather I wonder if it’s based on that recipe 😉
Hopefully Brains will do well with this IPA as most people like a light but hoppy brew Iam looking forward to tasting a few, wonder if I can get an invite to the launch 😉
At the moment they do the following Bottles, SA, SA Gold, the wonderful Dark & Rev James, so this is a good fit in the inventory.
Amazon today I think starting selling grocery’s but more importantly they are selling Bottled beer & Cider
some great ones as well, including great Welsh Beers & Cider from Otley
the Otley ones are being sold by their offshoot REALBEERBOX and also offer 10 & 20 Litre boxes of beer as well, great to see them selling on a big selling wossname as Amazon
good luck to the otley’s and other local suppliers i hope the delivery price is the same if you buy in bulk as the 20 Litre of 08 has my name on it
I have the week off work for shedweek (next week!) so thought I would take the chance if the weather holds to go out and take some photos of Garden Sheds on allotments and the like.
One of my things to do before Iam 45 ( 6 years time) is to create a shed photo book (what you say it’s been done before! 😉 which gets published (even If I have to do it myself), yea it’s not going to happen is it.
But to get my creative juices flowing (what the hell does that mean really), I have rented a half decent wide angle lens after using robs Sigma the other week at the Beer festival.
I have got it from Lens pimp only just heard about them and never used them before but they delivered it very quickly and well packed, so happy to start with.
It’s a Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
With its effective focal length range of approximately 16-35mm in 35mm format, the EF-S 10-22mm f/3
5-4 5 USM is a remarkable lens with outstanding image quality that will take your photography into new dimensions and areas of dramatic expression
The super-wide zoom not only gives you the freedom to get exactly what you want in the shot, it dramatically alters perspective to allow for dynamic expression
The lens allows you to get extremely close to subjects, exaggerating the difference in size between a near object and its background
Creative photographers can use this phenomenon to create excellent separation between subject and background for a strong sense of presence, or for a pan-focus effect with everything from foreground to background sharply in focus
Normally they retail for about £600 which is totally out of my league but i have rented it for 6 days for £29.00 plus insurance & delivery.
This wont be a review of the lens (you can find that elsewhere) just showing some photos I took with it
I will test it out more as these are just some quick shots hand held but they do have some great lenses on the site so I think the next few months will try out a few wide lens before I decide which one to save for.
I know mrsunlcewilco will say Iam to old to get one of these (Yoda was 900 years old for goodness sake) , she wont let me have a storm trooper outfit, so I may have to go to the rebel side- I want a Star Wars Jedi Dressing Gown (on sale at the moment!)
# The Jedi Dressing Gown has a Jedi logo embroidered on the front
# This bathrobe is made of 100% cotton velour and is machine washable on a cool wash
# It has 2 front pockets and a cotton belt
# The dressing gown is 1 size and will fit adults. This is quite large so will fit men’s sizes medium to extra large
# The bath robe is approx 144 cm long with a 68 cm chest (when measured across the front)
# Sleeve length 62 cm
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Iam not a MASSIVE fan of techo/dance music but the BBC Radiophonic Workshop were the pioneers of techo before it was the thing with the youngsters 🙂 so this remake of classic Ron Grainer theme is allowed
and as the curernt Dr Matt Smith is on the ivorys then great… Iam warming to him… the last two episodes were very good…
Myself and the Mrs went to the Maltsters in Llandaff last week.
It’s one of the Cardiff brewery Brains, modern pubs which they have changed a lot over the last year from the no nonsense pub I remember from my youth (ok 20s) to a open plan pub that serves good food, and for the better, maybe its a middle age thing, but sometimes you do want to have a good pint of ale and a good meal, They say they try and source a lot of the ingredients locally “Changing daily, our menu offers great, honest pub food where quality rules over fanciness!”
As it was an early tea, I had a couple of pints of the excellent Brains Up and Over which is well worth getting in bottles if you can not get to a Brains Pub to have it on tap.
anyway down to the food.
The Mrs had asparagus, chicken and date terrine to start, which was very moist and served on a bit of slate as the style is nowadays.
I did not have a starter as I was keeping room for the pudding.
For main course she has Poached salmon, rocket and dill salad, which was massive and the salmon was dressed with creme fraiche, it was very tasty.
I had a welsh rip eye steak and great homemade chips (looked overcooked but were not, not fat not thin but very moorish) served with a poncy little jar of bearnaise sauce.
It’s strange that I have tend to have steak when I go out as there were some great things on the every changing menu, Iam a good cook myself but rarely cook steak at home, maybe its my chef training in my youth that I like to see how good a place is, by the quality of the steak, and I was not disappointed its was a lovely cut and a big chunk and good to perfection (Medium rare).
For pudding we shared a Basil and raspberry creme brulee, that is another dish I tend to favour , it can from range from the wonderful to the stodgy, well not quite being the latter it was the only disappointed of the meal, it was just over powered by the basil taste, and even after a Greek lager later in the evening I was still getting basil aftertaste.
anyway if you are in Llandaff or in Cardiff then pop over it’s a great pub
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Flight Control TARDIS – not as big inside as expected.
Now you can control your very own TARDIS with this nine inch electronic toy TARDIS which is in scale with the Doctor Who action figure range. It includes eight motion activated interactive sound effects, flashing TARDIS Lantern, opening front doors and telephone door. Requires 3 x AAA batteries.