Archive for October, 2008

Night photography

Tonight I decided to try some night photography so I drove up past Milnrow to a little private road which goes over the M62. It was a little windy, so my pictures of Rochdale itself weren’t so great;…

Cursed weather and Toasta bags

I woke up this morning but I won’t use that as an excuse to make this post sound like a Blues song, you’ll undoubtably be relieved to read. Specifically, I woke up early this morning – for a Saturday. Up…

Wine fermentation – the revenge

Today is day 8 of the great wine making experiment – so it was time to move on from stage one fermentation (the bucket stage) to stage two.

This is what the wine in potentia looked at the end of…

Birthdays are snow joke

Another week has passed – which means tomorrow is the day I move my wine to stage two fermentation. Meanwhile I’ve had a busy weekend.

Friday was Paul’s birthday celebration at The Hellfire

Wine – in the mix

After day one’s anti-climax I was eager to set my wine off on day two, and that I have done. Sanitised all the equipment, rinsed it thoroughly and then it was on to mixing the ingredients.

Adding the toasted oak