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Stockport Beer and Cider Festival

How time flies when you’re pissed. This time last year I travelled with my flatmate to the Stockport Beer Festival at Stockport’s Edgeley Park. We went on a Thursday night last year, knowing full well that work would prove difficult the next day. Sure enough, as you can tell from my account of the evening, it all went off as expected.

This year the Stockport Beer and Cider Festival rears its drunken head once again between Thursday May 29th - Saturday May 31st. I’ll be going again, only this time I’m taking the Friday off work. No more trekking around Stockport at 4:00am when I have to get up 3 hours later for work.

If you’re going, I’ll see you there. If you’re unsure of the times I’ve pasted them below, seeing as I only just got the leaflet from the Bear in work. Why wasn’t I sent one? I’m so jealous.

Anyway, the times are:

Thursday 29th May
5:30pm - 11:00pm (admission £2)

Friday 30th May
11:30am - 3:30pm (admission FREE)
5:30pm - 11:00pm (admission £4)

Saturday 31st May
11:30am - 4:00pm (admission £2)
6:30pm - 11:00pm (admission £2)

Obviously it’s FREE entry to Camra members… I really should sign up this year.

Tags: General by MrDaz
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Climb every mountain

I received a text message on Friday from my flatmate containing the following picture of a lone figure up a mountain. It was accompanied by the message that he’d just climbed some peak in some bad weather.

The thing is, he was meant to be in work Friday… so I assumed he was joking. He wasn’t. When I got home that night I found him knackered claiming he’d learned three very important lessons.

Paulie up a Mountain

  1. Don’t take paper maps with you
  2. Wear waterproof trousers
  3. Get some proper hiking shoes

He said the weather turned very sharply, causing his maps to get soaked. Lucky he had his compass with him. Wasn’t he supposed to be working?

Well yes, but when he woke up Friday morning he thought ’sod this, I’m going up a mountain’.

Paulie up a Mountain

He does keep saying he wants me to go up there too… hmm, tempting as that sounds, I think not. I’m all for Jeremy Clarkson’s idea of mountaineering when he ‘climbed’ a Scottish mountain in a Landrover, but as for actually getting out of the car and walking… no thanks.

While this scenery may be very nice, I can still enjoy it in photographs, and unless I can turn round and see a well stocked bar in front of me, it can stay where it is.

Paulie up a Mountain

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What a morning!

Wow, this has been some morning.

Firstly, Direct Line phoned up and apologised for paying out the wrong person when my car was stolen in 2006 and said they’d compensate me for it being off the road for a year as a direct result of their actions. Incredible.

Then, the Child Support Agency phoned and said they’d made a mistake and realised that actually, yes, I had been paying for my ex-wife’s house between January 07 - January 08, therefore I wasn’t actually in arrears. They’re going to refund all of the money they’ve incorrectly taken from me.

Then, and this too good to be true, BT phoned…. and the person was ENGLISH! He said that they were sorry for debiting me twice in August, and for quoting me £33 for broadband, only to then charge me £68.

But wait, there’s more. Royal & SunAlliance then phoned and said they were sorry for delaying repairing my car for a year and would be sending me a full written apology.

I need to go and have a lay down. This has all been too much this morning.

Tags: British Telecom, CSA, Direct Line Insurance, General, Royal & SunAlliance by MrDaz
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Win a Nokia 500 Auto Navigation

If you’d like a chance to win a new Nokia 500 Auto Navigation then watch this video and pay attention at the end.