Lucas 3:16

Sunday, 4 January 2009

Birthday Boy and Girl

@ Frankie & Benny's, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

Molly (left, front), 6 - my niece!

Allan (right, front), 27 - my brother!

Menu: Chicken Strips & Spaghetti Bolognese!

Win!
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Saturday, 3 January 2009

Coachmakers Arms - Farmer Rays Ale

Corvedale - Farmer Rays Ale - 4.5%ABV

Orangey and creamy. **/5

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Coachmakers Arms - Ruby Mild

Rudgate - Ruby Mild - 4.4%ABV

Quite Ruby. ***/5

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Woolworths

In the news a lot lately, the financial credit crisis has affected UK retailer Woolworths forcing massive store closures.

Picture: Woolworths in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

A sad state for a company in trading for over 100 years. I hear other Woolworths are doing ok however, but still sad to see. Apparently there's news circulating on BBC and other news outlets that Tesco or some other big company may buy out most of the failing stores.

I would post links but it's not so easy on the iPhone...

This store in particular though might be bought out by Iceland, who would be particularly interested considering the city's redevelopment scheme.

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Emily Proctor & Janel Maloney

Featured in the West Wing, Series 2.

Emily Proctor as Ainsley Hayes (left)
Janel Maloney as Donatella Moss (right)

Just me, or do they look alike?

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Friday, 2 January 2009

Loser and Breaker

I lose and break things all the time. Ask anyone.

This December I amazingly broke my own glasses in anger, and stamped on one pair, and lost another. So today I had to buy a new pair, they are actually designed as sunglasses, hence the size....

Luckily the stamped pair were saved. Joy!

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Analytics for December 2008

Noting that it had only been going for a week, (the analytic side of things), I'm not reading too much into the stats.

It seems there are 18 absolutely unique readers to my blogs, which is not bad for a week I guess!

People from 3 Countries read this blog, which is good to see.

Most people though are generally local to my location, but one goal I'm setting for 2009 is to campaign and expand my readership.

Hopefully with the data being collected over January there will be much more to discuss next month!

Thursday, 1 January 2009

2008 - Memories

September - New York - Great holiday.

Not a great finish to the year, Uni going tough and a scandal in essay marking. But on the plus side met some great new people like Kim!

A quite finish in the Coachmakers and the Unicorn.

Nothing else really to note. But always think of the year gone by.

New Years Resolution?

Remember Number 1. =]

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Wednesday, 31 December 2008

Coachmakers Arms - Titanic Stout

Titanic Stout - 4.5%ABV

***/5. Titanic always works!

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Coachmakers Arms - Winter Solstice

Derventio Brewery - Winter Solstice - 5.0%ABV

Quirky. **/5

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Frankie & Benny's

A "New York" Italian Restaurant. ...

It's really not, check Wikipedia. It originated in Leicester in the 50s and there's not a single Restaurant in NYC with the name.

Fraudsters. Foods ok. Treating Macca and Kim for Christmas. Whey.

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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Not even TangoBurst and M&Ms could keep me awake during this film.

I never seem to stay awake during films in cinemas.

I can add this to my list of films I've fell asleep to while watching in cinema:

The Ramones (in Manchester)
Black Book (in Sarasota) - that was funny, thinking about it.

Yay

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