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Today spent the day in London going round the rather good London Aquarium (in the old County Hall building) – and following this, we took a trip down to Borough, and landed up taking in a few pints in the Market Porter in my first trip down there. Having heard all the reviews, we weren’t disappointed by the real ales down there.

We managed to try: Loddon’s “Hoppit”, Anglo-Dutch’s “God’s Own Ale”, Milestone’s “Crusader” and Church End’s “Grave Digger’s Ale”. All highly recommended (probably my favourite was the Church End, which was much like a dark mild, even though not described as such. The Anglo-Dutch was also very tasty with a lovely toffee flavour to it).

There were another 8 beers on that we didn’t manage to try, though here’s to hoping we get to be in the area at some point in the not too distant future…

Saw this circumzenithal arc on Friday 15th from Abingdon. Looks much like an upside down rainbow above the sun (which needs to be lower than 33 degrees or so for this to occur) – it occurs due to horizontally orientated ice crystals high in the upper atmosphere.

Only had the camera on my phone so the image is a bit ropey, but hopefully clear enough…

Whilst the girls had a marathon Prime Suspect watching session, I hid away and got another brew on to start building up the stocks again. The Hobgoblin is very good to drink now, but not a session beer as such. I’m hoping to get back to some good results after the unknown quantity that is the London Pride clone I brewed a few weeks back (more later).

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In the past I have used (many times) Photobox to get prints from digital photos, and they have been very good – the prints are generally very good, even given my lack of photographic ability.

However, recently (June ish?) they have “upgraded” their website, and all seems to have gone to pot for me since. It started off last Friday (25th July) when I was trying to get some pictures from my albums like this: Read the rest of this entry »