Yearly Archives: 2011

It’s the end of the year as we know it

Posted at 3:22 pm, Saturday December 31, 2011 by rich

So that means numbers.

1163 miles ridden
1 bike bought
30 Blu-rays and 13 DVDs bought (I subscribed to Lovefilm this year)
13 gigs attended
12 CDs bought
2 cameras bought
9847 photos taken, 1138 uploaded to Flickr

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Christmas

Posted at 9:46 am, Wednesday December 28, 2011 by rich

Lots of presents, lots of food, lots of drink. Shame it’s all over now.

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It’s Christmas Eve

Posted at 12:01 am, Saturday December 24, 2011 by rich

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A Christmas Carol

Posted at 9:31 pm, Sunday December 18, 2011 by rich

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Levellers – O2 Academy, Leicester

Posted at 11:10 pm, Friday December 16, 2011 by rich

Traffic problems on the way up, and an unannounced change to an 6pm start meant that we arrived too late to see Back To The Planet, which I’m not happy about.

Despite that letdown, Dreadzone were good, and the Levellers were on good form, although they did manage to mess up The Riverflow by forgetting the lyrics.

An annoyingly early finish of 22:15 meant we were home early, still bitter about missing Back To The Planet.

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Apparently it’s nearly Christmas

Posted at 11:51 am, Saturday December 10, 2011 by rich

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I think I have a problem

Posted at 9:08 pm, Thursday December 8, 2011 by rich

Contents:
2x 700x25mm Continental GP4000s
4x 700x32mm Kenda Small Block 8
2x 700x25mm Bontrager Race X Lite Hardcase
2x 700x28mm Bontrager Race Lite Hardcase
1x 26×2.35 Bontrager Jones ACX
1x 26×2.2 Bontrager Jones ACX
1x 26×2.2 Bontrager XR4

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Gmail go slow

Posted at 8:05 pm, Thursday December 8, 2011 by rich

Received: by 10.229.67.154 with SMTP id r26cs124180qci; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:42:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.177.212 with SMTP id d62mr23938wem.0.1323297151417; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:32:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from hemlock.kill-9.org.uk (hemlock.kill-9.org.uk. [212.110.185.130]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id fj5si1725890wbb.91.2011.12.07.14.32.31; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:32:31 -0800 (PST)

21 hours to move between two gmail servers? That’s a bit shit.

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Bellowhead – Cheese and Grain, Frome

Posted at 11:55 pm, Friday November 25, 2011 by rich

My last trip to the Cheese and Grain a couple of years ago was co-incidentally also the last time I saw Bellowhead.

Support tonight came from Ahab who were good, but sounded a bit too “busy” for my liking. Too many singers all singing at the same time. Bellowhead were superb as always, and actually manage to sound decent at the Cheese and Grain which is usually sounds a bit muddy. They played for getting on for two hours finishing off with two encores.

Setlist:
Yarmouth Town
Whisky is the Life of Man
Cold Blows the Wind
Cross-Eyed and Chinless
Broomfield Hill
10000 miles away
Trip to Bucharest / The Flight of the Folk Mutants Parts, 1 & 2
Hand Weaver and the Factory Maid
Haul Away
Fire Marengo
Captain Wedderburn
Betsy Baker
Hudson’s Hornpipe / Parson’s Farewell
Little Sally Racket
Rochdale Coconut Dance
Sloe Gin
New York Girls