This is the Stella Zeppelin. Click on any photo to view a larger version. This airship has been flying over my house several times a day for the last three or so weeks. It is nice to see an old fashioned form of transport back in regular use, even if the tourist flights are prohibitively expensive to book as a passenger, and it has been hijacked by the advertising brigade to promote the odious, mass produced Stella Artois additive laced fizzy lager. It is the almost exclusive preserve of the local scrotes, Chavs and dog on a string brigade; I suppose that they drink it because it does not actually taste of very much, and it is relatively strong at 5.2% alcohol. I think that painting an airship to promote the drink is a bit of a waste of time, as the numpties will pour the muck down their necks with reckless abandon without any need for external encouragement or prompting. Stella are preaching to the converted when flying over Erith.
The Zeppelin is due to finish its' tour in a couple of weeks and is then off around Europe. You can see some more photos of it, along with all of my other photos online on my Flickr site.
I am currently imbibing a cool pint of Whitstable Bay Organic Ale from the Shepherd Neame brewery. Bottled, it is nothing special at all, but in draught form it is light, flavoursome and aromatic, and an ideal accompaniment to a summer pub lunch. Nice to have it served in a proper dimpled pint jug too (you can tell where I am Blogging from, can't you!) I have the elderly Linux laptop running, playing an old episode of Round the Horne though mini earphones whilst I sit in the corner of the pub, writing away. I have come to the conclusion that Shepherd Neame are rubbish at bottling their beers; draught they are absolutely wonderful, but with the exception of Bishop's Finger, their bottled versions are rather poor. I am visiting their Faversham headquarters, home of the oldest brewery in the UK at the beginning of October, and I will certainly bring the issue up with the Head Brewer, should the opportunity arise.
I am hoping to purchase a new mini laptop running Linux soon – primarily to aid my mobile blogging efforts; the Asus EE PC 901 Linux edition is a favourite right now, though the model is notoriously difficult to locate right now, as it would seem everyone is after the model at present. If I can locate one, it would be much easier to Blog on the move with a mini notebook PC, rather than the full sized behemoth I lug around for the moment. The Asus is about the size of a paperback book, and will fit into a pocket; at present I have to take a laptop case with me to the pub.
The Zeppelin is due to finish its' tour in a couple of weeks and is then off around Europe. You can see some more photos of it, along with all of my other photos online on my Flickr site.
I am currently imbibing a cool pint of Whitstable Bay Organic Ale from the Shepherd Neame brewery. Bottled, it is nothing special at all, but in draught form it is light, flavoursome and aromatic, and an ideal accompaniment to a summer pub lunch. Nice to have it served in a proper dimpled pint jug too (you can tell where I am Blogging from, can't you!) I have the elderly Linux laptop running, playing an old episode of Round the Horne though mini earphones whilst I sit in the corner of the pub, writing away. I have come to the conclusion that Shepherd Neame are rubbish at bottling their beers; draught they are absolutely wonderful, but with the exception of Bishop's Finger, their bottled versions are rather poor. I am visiting their Faversham headquarters, home of the oldest brewery in the UK at the beginning of October, and I will certainly bring the issue up with the Head Brewer, should the opportunity arise.
I am hoping to purchase a new mini laptop running Linux soon – primarily to aid my mobile blogging efforts; the Asus EE PC 901 Linux edition is a favourite right now, though the model is notoriously difficult to locate right now, as it would seem everyone is after the model at present. If I can locate one, it would be much easier to Blog on the move with a mini notebook PC, rather than the full sized behemoth I lug around for the moment. The Asus is about the size of a paperback book, and will fit into a pocket; at present I have to take a laptop case with me to the pub.
At work, I have a number of bottles of hot chilli sauce on my desk in a cardboard "sauce garage". Anyone from my team is welcome to use the sauces to give their lunch a bit of kick; I have just encountered a new addition to the garage - Dilita Green Habanero hot sauce. Please feel free to add a comment using the link below if you have any suggestions as to other chilli sauces you can recommend.
Local radio station WNKR are celebrating their 21st birthday in a couple of weeks; they started transmitting to South East London and North Kent back in 1987, and they are still going strong.
Since my last moan about how banning activities tends to encourage them, I have taken special note this week of drivers using mobile phones whilst on the move; I would say that a quarter of people I have watched behind the wheel are also using a mobile telephone - something that is supposed to be punishable with up to a £1000 fine - as you can read here. In reality it does not stop offenders, as they have an almost zero chance of being caught. The same holds true for those low lives who continue to drink alcohol on public transport. Unless the authorities can provide Police to patrol on the buses and trains on a regular basis there is no way to stop this illegal activity. It also seems in almost all cases, the scrotes are getting a skin full of Stella Artois, which is exactly where we came in. Who says I don't plan these things!
To finish, a video clip from another kind of Zeppelin.
