Adam's Cerebral Spillage

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Castle Crashing

After a few weeks of messed-up sleeping patterns thanks to a face full of new teeth, RAR seems to have settled down over the last few nights. Last night he fell asleep watching his...

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New Music

I toyed with calling this post ‘Newsic’, but it looks stupid, so I didn’t. I was in the gym yesterday (no, seriously) flicking through the music on my phone to find something to work-out...

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This recipe is Stol(l)en

Ok folks, my posting is less-than prolific of late, but there’s one I’ve got to do here – I have to preserve my favourite stollen recipe for posterity. Stollen, for the uninitiated, is a...

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A quick catch-up

It’s been one of those quiet times around here hasn’t it? It’s due to a mixture of not having too much to talk about and being crazy busy with work really, but I still...

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Back On Board

Now that the nights are drawing in at a rate of knots, and RAR is sleeping much, much better than he used to, I’m starting to get a bit of my old life back....

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Birthday Boy

I can hardly believe it, but my little boy is a year old. Where that year has gone, I couldn’t tell you, it’s gone by in a blur. Being the important little man he...

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A mild case of Goblins

Over the weekend I had a frantic few hours of brewing, which were very productive. I had two missions for the afternoon: 1. Bottle the fermented Hobgoblin. 2. Brew up a new batch of...

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Meanwhile, back at the Batcave…

A quick update from the brewcave. I had a few hours on Saturday afternoon, a big load of malt and some hops, so I got a brew done. I had a good Hobgoblin clone...

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Saffron Beer update

A week or so ago I brewed up a batch of light beer for an experiment. I’m trying to recreate the taste and smell of a Cornish Saffron Bun in a beer. Why? I’m...

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Changing of the Guard

I posted a while ago  with my dilemma about what to do with the next generation of games consoles. I’m still umm-ing and ahh-ing and not really sure about anything, but I’m getting closer....