A nice bit of God Lager

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By Nils Oscar brewery.

The Lightship and The Tardis - Cardiff Bay

A lightship

 

 A badly parked Tardis 

 

A view from Lingfield Race Course

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A quick stay at the Marriott hotel at Lingfield Race course and the view out of the window back in November 2012.

Cardiff Castle - NYE Fireworks 2010 (1)

On New Year's Eve 2010 I ended up in Cardiff.  In the early evening I went to the castle to see this amazing fireworks / pyrotechnic display.  More videos of this to follow.

Cloud Storage for the home - recommendations

So, cloud storage now seems to be taking off since the take up of mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad, android phones and tablets.  Where once upon a time we may have used an 'online disk drive' to store things online and retrieve them from another PC, now we need more, the ability to sync changes to those files across the devices rather than just pull them down for reference for out and about.  And so cloud storage arrives.

There are a few excellent free cloud storage providers out there which will sync a directories on your PC or Mac to your portable devices.  With Apple Store and Google Play apps to download to access your account you are set for always having access to your home PC files.

Here are three that I would recommend which offer a good amount of storage and more importantly the synchronisation ability across the devices.

Sugarsync

5Gb Free Space.  Free sign up.
Offers you the ability to share your files between PC, Mac, Android and iOS devices.
Sugarsync

Dropbox

2Gb free space and free sign up.
Always have your stuff when you need it with @Dropbox.
Again synchronise your files across all your PCs, Mac, Android and iOS devices.
Dropbox

CX.com

Get a whopping 10Gb of free space to start, and begin synchronising across all your devices.
CX.com


All three of these services work in a similar way, and used at the same time can give you a hugh 17Gb of synchronised file space across your devices or for those essential backups.

A visit to the Birling Gap last year.

a very windy day down at the Birling Gap made for some excellent waves coming in on the beach.

More Glue Pot Brews from 2011.

Another great brew from The Glue Pot , Swindon last year.

Whakatu by the Everards Brewery for the Rugby World Cup last year.  Brewed with New Zealand hops.

The New Kings Cross Concourse

A late night shot of the brand new concourse at London Kings Cross station.

Hopefully no more overcrowding whilst waiting for a train on Friday nights.






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Venus Black and treacle stout

An interesting dark and hoppy brew at 5% found at The Prince of Wales near Charing Cross Station, London.
A hopped American Black Ale.



Then moving on to the itchen valley Treacle Stout!




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Up On The Ridgeway

Last summer I would take the opportunity to spend my lunch hour up at Barbary Castle and watch the world go by.    Here is a view from the Ridgeway back towards Swindon and the surrounding area.