Wonderful, wonderful hops. Where would we be with out hops in our beer? Why we’d be drinking sweet malted beers flavored with dandelion, burdock, ivy or heather. Instead we get the chance to drink deep, rich complex beers. Tweet
Spring is finally here…
It’s been a long, cold and wet winter in the Northwest. However a few days ago the rain stopped, there were glimpses of blue sky and life stirred in the garden. My Japanese Maples have made it through the winter and have started to bud. I am overly excited about this, there are plants I’ve not killed! Happy Easter, I hope yours was as good…
G is for Glasvegas
A Scottish band with a small but rather loyal following here.Played a great show in a small Seattle club last summer. Just scratching the surface of a very rich, and world renown Seattle music scene. Tweet
F is for Formula 1
Perhaps a little predicable this one, but here is Vitaly Petrov in the black and gold Renault. Tweet
E is for EMP
The Experience Music Project houses a wonderful collection, but the building itself is quite stunning Frank Gehry design. Tweet
D is for Design
When done well it’s a place where form and function come together seamlessly. Tweet
C is for Creme Egg…
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B is for British
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A is for Authentic…
Today is the first day of the A-Z challenge, the idea is to spend April working your way through the alphabet from A to Z. There are many hundreds of blogs signed up for this, everyone doing it slightly differently. I’ve spent may too many hours typing over the last couple of months and this will be told with pictures, some from my archive, some…
My car history – Part-1
Last Friday one of the things we were making fun of was our various car histories. Now I’ve owned some truly poor cars, not necessarily the condition, and when I say British cars from the 70’s were some of the poorest ever made. And here I talk from a place of authority, I owned some of them. Austin Allegro – This was the first generation…