Midweek Mirth

Seems reasonable..

Memories

The recent warm weather in the UK reminded me of our trip earlier in the year to South Africa. Such a colourful and diverse place, we had a really great time there and ticked quite a few of our (retirement) bucket list items. I leave you with the view from our hotel room at our first stop Cape Town, it's the back of the famous Table Mountain which dominates the skyline of the city and provides a magnificent backdrop to the place. We vowed that we would return (kerosene availability permitting!) sometime in the next few years, being firmly in the Southern Hemisphere it's a great place to escape the grey, cold Northern Hemisphere months of January and February providing a welcome shot of Vitamin D and a boost to the old immune system when you need it most!!

New old beer

Soundwave is one of the original Siren beers (founded in 2013), I first came across it back in 2014 and at that time it tasted new and interesting as well as bloody delicious! Now Siren has reinvented the beer using bang up to date hop products and adjuncts, some of these include Columbus Cryo, Terpenes and various hop extracts. This translates into a light, dry, crisp and flavoursome beer, this one will be an absolute killer on a hot Summer day IMO, citrus fruits, dank, decent bitterness and a delicious grapefruit backbone running through it, I like it (still!)

Sunny Sharks

My second "garden beer" of the season and it's not even May yet! I must say this sunny spell we're having in the UK at the moment is most welcome, life seems to hold so many more possibilities when it isn't cold and chucking it down with rain. For those that are interested this is a beer from my favourite producer, Verdant down in Penryn, Cornwall. It's called "Even Sharks Need Water" and one that I've had a few times before over the years, never gets old, always tastes absolutely banging!

Friday Smirk

The lads pointing out that praying to a rock in a box is about as effective as praying to an imaginary deity, stuff seems to work roughly as frequently as you'd expect by pure chance..

Interesting

Thought this chart was interesting (if true), the more Trump bangs on about NATO the more I think he's either lying (normal) or simply ignorant (likely) or both (the possibility that he might have a point never really comes up). The US military budget applies to the whole globe and is allocated as such, the proportion dedicated  to the North Atlantic (or more accurately Europe) is probably completely commensurate with the fact that most of the population of the USA is living around the "North Atlantic" and expect a state defense strategy. Ah Americans, can't live with them, can't steal their resources and shoot them in the face..

Emergencies

I always used to find this work avoidance strategy worked particularly well with salesmen, especially on Friday afternoons when they were trying to position their total lack of planning and foresight as a great "opportunity" (aka "emergency") for you that weekend.

Midweek Analysis

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