Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: romany man
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 02:28 PM

a very good session, though i had to leave early due to lauras hip injury playing her up, a very heartfelt thanks to the bard for his rendition of my what was a poem "wot i wrote", now a song, i think it took the bard to give it life,
VT the poem made you cry, well hun, the song brought a tear to mine.
Thanks again cuz , you did it proud.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 01:35 PM

oops. I was meant to send love to everyone from Girl Friday and Mumblin Len. He is still improving but not yet up to the drive.

I am feeling a wee bit better, but have a stonking great headache. Probably due to no sleep and caffeine withdrawal.

Hope it was a good session.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 03:17 AM

Totally understood, VT, we shall miss your voice and material.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 02:43 AM

OH VT, I was looking forward to hearing you and ?
Hopefully then in March just before I leave.
Al

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 12:38 AM

Sorry I am backing out too. RB I will send a PM telling you why.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: naughtyforty
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 05:52 PM

Won't be there this time due to relatives visiting. Will try and make the March date though.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: growler
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 04:29 PM

Mey not be able to make it, due to fraggled in-law syndrome. But I will try my best.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: GUEST,Pete the Hat
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 03:27 PM

What a Par-larva I have got to work Saturday night because my Team leader at work has fallen off his Peddle bike and strangled the Snake in his pants.
So I will be doing a 13 hour shift before Sundays session. I wont get out of work till 7oclock Sunday Morn,I wont get home till 8.30 and Fisheye is picking me up at 11.00. So if I fall off me chair at the sess or fall asleep in me pint you all now know why. Wake me up when Paddy gets his Banjo out.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 05:09 PM

Good good

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 04:33 PM

Well, It looks as though I'll be there and I'll bring my mate Gordon.

Al

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 06:42 PM

I thought the occupier brought the shirt, or are you telling me different?

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: growler
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 06:02 PM

May be able to make it, aged outlaws permitting. If so will bring The Shirt, Fiddle-bird, Little legs and Steve

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 04:57 PM

Sorry RB to have to report that Keyboard Wizard will be unavailable for the February sesh (force majeure), so you will have to be content with "Wysiwyg" and Poetry Bird.

He says it's definite for March tho'.

See you Sunday
Don T.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 03:16 PM

Fisheye - I couldn't drink Bud.... always made me throw up within minutes. Couldn't drink any beer in the US except tiny bits of Miller Lite and that had to be ice ice cold. I drank Bacardi's Rum and Coke and later on Mike's Hard Lemonade. But still pretty much always felt sick within an hour or two.

RB - I read that review when I googled Kent's Best today. I also read elsewhere that it is the hops that make a beer bitter.

Well I will just have to give it a go and see where it takes me.

Linda - yes a taster session for me during the Sweeps. We might only make 2 days of the Sweeps this year. Only booked one night at the B&B.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 12:17 PM

The Masterbrew is very bitter, the Kent's Best less so. We have been very lucky on the beers so far, the Late Red was lovely and the Burns Special wholly spectacular.

From a review: -

"A medium-bodied and well-balanced cask conditioned ale brewed to the best traditions of premium bitters. Mellow brown, with a rich malt flavour and the distinctive tang of Target and Goldings hops.

Kent's Best Bitter will particularly appeal to cask beer connoisseurs, and is a fine contrast to the more widely-available Master Brew and Spitfire Premium Kentish Ale.

Tasting notes:
An ambient bitter, which successfully merges the biscuity sweetness of English malt with the fruity, floral bitterness of locally grown hops from the Kent countryside, to give a clean, satisfying and moreish drink (to quaff, effortlessly, among friends)."

Tasting notes by Peter Ogie, Famous Beer Writer

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: fisheye
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 08:53 AM

Tam what ever beer you drink here it is
A lot stronger than anything State Side
I could. drink a case of bud and still drive
a truck

Fisheye

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: GUEST,Essex Girl
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 08:42 AM

Tam, next time we're at the Good Intent, come with mw and we'll try small (yes - Small) amounts of each of the beers, then you can decide which ones you like. There are quite a few varieties of hop which change the flavour. Then some have more malted barley than others which gives a rich dark colour and taste. I prefer the light summer ales, often made with American hops.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 08:05 AM

Kent's Best is on the bitter side isn't it? Lots of hops. How does one develop the palate for bitter.

I like sour, I like sweet, and can just about stand dry. It is odd because I like dark bitter chocolate. Well not too dark.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Kev The Clogs
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 07:19 AM

FINGERS!! That should be "Down hearted groan!!"

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Kev The Clogs
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 07:18 AM

Down heaarted grown from Kev :-( What about Early Bird? The Crayford Arms has it!!! Oh well, just have to make up for it with the good company then :-)

Kev

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 05:59 AM

The beer this Sunday is Kent's Best

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 04:43 AM

Sorry to pressure you RB, but when you check with the pub about the next date, can you find out what beer will be available this Sunday? I want to study up on it.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 17 Feb 09 - 02:56 AM

Ah. Yes one has been fixed but it has not appeared in my diary! I will have to check with the pub.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: fisheye
Date: 16 Feb 09 - 04:28 PM

RB: I know this may be a little premature but is there a date fixed
    for March session, as 'The Fare Maiden' would like to join in,
    and she has to pre-book holidays.

    fisheye

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: GUEST,Pete the hat
Date: 16 Feb 09 - 04:15 PM

Hi Richard

Whats all this
....Refresh.....Mar-larki

Its appears several times on lots of threads and Im curious.
does it mean you want to Refresh ie Take a shower? Have a cuppa Tea? or what.

Re Stoke sess. Im quite happy to sit where I was before in the Nags, by the Log basket/if Pissed in the Log basket) but there is ample space for everyone up the other end. It was sugested last time when it got busy down our end and the top end was empty.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Feb 09 - 12:00 PM

bringing it to the top

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: GUEST,Pete the Hat
Date: 15 Feb 09 - 03:29 PM

KUSHTI BOK to you to Romany Man.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 15 Feb 09 - 02:58 PM

Who are you calling "old", voivod?

But nais tuke.

Remember, mashkar le gajende leski shib si le Romenski zar

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: romany man
Date: 15 Feb 09 - 01:25 PM

wot no ssense of adventure ol chap. nah your probably right i guess, see you sunday good luck, kushti bok.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 15 Feb 09 - 11:19 AM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: GUEST,Pete the Hat
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 07:02 PM

Confirmation. Me George and Woodsie will be Arriving for opening time next Sunday in Fisheyes great but little car with an assortment of instuments. Looking forward to it.If we can get out the car.

Great to have met Kev the Cloggs at the Martin Wyndham Read gig at the Crown in Otford.

All the bar staff recoynised me has the chap who guarded the beer tent at the folk weekend last year. The staff wont call me Pete the hat they call me Clint for some strange reason. Great welcome from the pub staff and a terrific evening. See you all at The Nags.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 03:49 PM

Regrettably soakaway appears to think it is a spring.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: GUEST,Pete the hat
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 03:34 PM

Sorry to hear about you flood Richard. If this keep happening no one will insure you surely that will be the case in the long run? Cant you dig yourself a huge soakaway at the end of the garden I done that when I lived in Bedfordshire and it worked. Trouble is it drown the Cat.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 01:15 PM

I thought you were going to say that they were long-defunct cigar manufacturers!

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Dead Horse
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 12:27 PM

I had a Stradivarius and a Turner both destroyed by fire.
But the insurance wouldnt give me more that £25 cos the violin was made by Turner, and the Strad watercolour was pretty awful too!

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 11:03 AM

A friend of mine, a classical cellist, truly had a car accident, and truly had a valuable cello destroyed by the resulting fire. On the advice of his insurance broker (!) he claimed for a much more valuable cello that he also owned but that had not been destroyed in tha tfire. He finished up with a conviction for fraud.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: romany man
Date: 14 Feb 09 - 10:44 AM

dont forget the stradavarius that floated away, hope all goes well ol chap

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 06:45 PM

The buildings loss adjuster arrived yesterday as promised. The contents loss adjuster did not arrive today as promised!

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: melodeonboy
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 05:10 PM

Yes, flippancy aside for a moment, I'm sorry to hear about your problems with flooding, Richard. I hope it can all be resolved relatively painlessly.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 01:20 PM

nope.. unfortunately when it is not in the Medway it is in your house.

How is it going? Any relief, answers, good news I hope?

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 11:54 AM

If it's on the side, whether it's the Kent side or the Kentish side, it's not in the Medway.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: melodeonboy
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 09:17 AM

On the Kentish side?

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: GUEST,Richard Bridge
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 07:05 AM

Please put all of the water back in the Medway...

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 05:38 AM

bumping to the top.

RB is a bit distracted - Coping with Water at the mo...

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Dead Horse
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 09:49 AM

Its the opposite side to the Kentish side of Medway.
I'd a thought that was hobvious :-)

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: melodeonboy
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 03:47 AM

"on the Medway side of Kent"

Eh? Wassat mean?

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: GUEST,Pete the hat
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 07:54 PM

Its Weasaly found, Stoatly diferent from Upnor

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 07:34 PM

22nd at Lower Stoat will, if force majeur doesn't intervene, see the debut of duo "Sic Transit" on the Medway side of Kent.

Richard, I leave it to you to expound, explain, and etc.

Don T.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 06:08 PM

Very gracious of you RM, many thanks - we must get the diaries out and let Auntie Val tell us all what to do to synchronise out efforts - Mmmmm, might be nice, you hold Treacle, I'll hold Obvious.

Subject: RE: Sng/Ssn Lower Stoke Kent UK Sun 22 Feb
From: romany man
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 01:54 PM

CRAYFORD ARMS NOW CANCELED, shame as a lot of effort on the arms behalf has already started to get into gear, if only someone had said it clashed with upnor at the start of the thread oh well its off now. no probs