The other story this weekend.

A midweek posting - mainly to catch up with the other story from last weekend; Ian, his gourmand cousin Joe and I went to the mini real ale and cider festival held at the Brent working men's club in Dartford last Friday night. It turned out to be as much about food as drink - there were artisan cheeses and locally sourced breads, local pickles, home cured meats and all sorts of other nice things to eat, as you can see from the photos above. A good time was had by all and I will definitely go again next year. Apologies for the small size and somewhat dodgy, grainy quality of the photos above. Ian took the shots with his mobile telephone and they are OK for a non dedicated device, but not up to scratch compared with a proper digital camera.

I strongly recommend you read the following article - I wish I had written it, as I so agree with its' sentiments. The Ten Movie Going Commandments. Quality! Do feed back below and let me know what you think.

Two days, two gigs.

The second gig of the weekend, and my second blog posting; Ian's band Xenon played at the decidedly less than packed to the rafters Erith Working Men's Club. Still, they got paid anyway. A great set and nice to see them showcasing some new material. Their Myspace page is here (warning loud music). You can see the entire portfolio of their gig photographs again at my Flickr site here.

I have just found out that my local area of Erith and Slade Green is heavily polluted with industrial asbestos. On top of the horrendous air pollution I have previously discussed, this is just another environmental disaster. You can read about the pollution here.

I have found someone who is a person after my own heart in respect of values and life experience - even if he does not really exist - see what I mean here.

I have had several readers of the Maggot Sandwich enquire as to why I have not shown the infamous and widely discussed spoof Chav hunting video. My initial response was that I did not wish to be seen jumping on the media bandwagon. It would appear that many readers have still not seen the video in question, so I feel it is my public duty to comply. Comments below if you please.

FarnFest 2007.

What a great Saturday night. I went to FarnFest 2007 - the annual charity festival, held in the Kent village of Farnborough. Ian brought along his on stage alter ego "The ReV" and played with established local band Oxide; he was brought in as a last minute replacement for their normal singer, who had to attend a wedding (rock and roll - woo!) As always Ian did a brilliant job, and none of the audience of several hundred could believe it was his first time on stage with the band. John, the drummer of Ian's regular band Xenon even turned up - he's the guy above in the red and white shirt clutching the bottle of Newcastle Brown. Oxide headlined the Saturday evening slot and a great time was had by all. Click on any photo above for a much larger version.

You can view other photos from the evening on my Flickr site here. I have upgraded my account to Pro status (thanks to the current condition of the US Dollar, it only cost me a measly £12.95 to subscribe for a year). I can now upload and share virtually limitless numbers of my photographs. Do take a look and see what you think.