Merry Christmas

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and looking forward to a great 2007!
Take care, x

Download free music!

After much hassle and annoyingly niggling problems I've finally managed to properly upload the latest Satchel Blue EP to last.fm and have made all five tracks available as mp3 downloads.

Visit the Satchel Blue - The Bristol Sessions page if you're interested.

Although varying in quality I've also uploaded all previous recordings under the Satchel Blue name and made some of the better songs available as mp3 downloads as well - so even more free music, woo!

For those of you that have ended up on this website looking for cider related content - and I know that there are quite a few of you from the stats - then please spare a second to check out the music and get back to me with some comments on what you think. All comments, critical or complimentary, will be very much appreciated.

Right... now back to uploading a few more random photos to my Flickr account and finally getting around to finishing the website for this year's Fun In The Sun party.
[note] Fun In The Sun now updated with 2006 winners and photos.

Damn it's busy at this time of year!

Well I never!!

I know I shouldn't really be surprised when a photo I email to a website eventually finds its' way onto the website in question, but I was definitely slightly taken aback to visit the Singapore section of the Guardian's recently re-launched travel section to see my photo fill the frame.

I guess I should attempt to remember where, when and to whom I email my photos in future. Hmm, but where's the fun in that!

You can also see the photo on Flickr.

Taffy Apples and Twareg the Marsh Warrior

This is more like it, a cider with a properly stupid name and a ridiculous label to boot.

Sadly I couldn't understand what the picture on the front was about until someone explained to me the story of William Tell. Later, on looking at the rear label on the bottle, it became even clearer... I quote ""William Flippin Who" laughed Twareg the Marsh Warrior snatching the apple from the kids head, I'll have that for my Taffy Apples."

(Punctutation and grammar was taken straight from the bottle so don't go pointing out the mistakes to me!)

This imaginative medieval tale made me increase my label score from 2 to 3 and, quite frankly, the label was the only thing holding this cider back. Fabulous in all other areas (albeit a tad orangey in colour) this is definitely worthy of a high place on the leaderboard.

Name: Taffy Apples, (6%)
Label: 3/5
Looks: 4/5
Flavour: 5/5
Texture: 4/5
Total: 16/20

Here's the league table of full results so far.

Incidentally, the only mention I could find of Twareg elsewhere on the web was a car called the Twareg Special... definitely no marsh warriors in sight.