Time to go

I'm off to play elsewhere for a while. I'll still be tweeting. TTFN *<...

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RIP Brain Selby: How Selectadisc made me a groovy fecker

Sad to hear that Brian Selby, the man behind Nottingham's legendary record shop Selectadisc, has passed away. Along with the NME and John Peel, Selectadisc defined my musical education in the 1980s. I'd hear a band on Peel, see the advert in NME...

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Mussel fritters

Finally, the first in what will no doubt prove to be an interminable series of almost-recipes. The reason being, I tend to buy random stuff and then work out what the hell to do with it. My Twitter followers often pitch in with ideas, I Google a recipe, leave out the bits I haven't got / don't fancy and add in stuff that I like / happens to be in the fridge. So this started out by buying a box of...

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SNAP: Spondon village cricket

Well, the So Needs A Photo series never really took off. So let's kickstart it. Lazy summer evenings watching cricket. Shadows lengthen. Haze plays with the horizon. Wide balls are swatted lazily. And here, at Spondon Cricket Club as they...

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Mosler: Australian GT 2012 update

Here's another belated catch-up with how the Mosler marque is getting on in GT, this time concentrating on the Australian championship.In the season's opener, supporting the Clipsal 500 at Adelaide back in March, sole Mosler entrant John Briggs finished...

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The incomplete A-Z of beer: A will be for...

Attenuation. Thanks to those who've already started answering my random questions on Twitter.  To help me keep track, I've opened up a collaborative document; feel free to paste in links to pdfs, include useful diagrams or jot down your thoughts. I'm particularly interested in hearing from brewers and scientists on the challenges of attenuation, how to control the rate, how to monitor...

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The incomplete A-Z of beer

Time to get this project jump-started. In short: I'm looking for contributions / information / opinion / enlightenment on various beery topics. The idea is that I learn something and share it with the rest of the tinternet. It won't be comprehensive, some parts may be overly-detailed and specialist but that's the way the crumble cookies. The first four topics are: * Attenuation * Brettanomyces *...

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