the engagement prayer shower thing has been postponed as a lot of people couldn't make it. shall let you know when we rearrange it for.

hello all. should anybody still read this, kate and i are having a belated engagement prayer shower type thing. so if any of you are predisposed to prayer & prophecy, come to kate's house on the evening of thursday 8th of march at, i dunno, 8pm or something.
cheerio chaps
dan & kate

a proper petition for once!

If you drive a car, please read -
>>
>>Sarah Kennedy was talking about this proposed car tax scheme on Radio 2.
>>Apparently there is only one month left to register your objection to the
>>'Pay As You Go' road tax.
>>
>>The petition is on the 10 Downing St website but they didn't tell anybody
>>about it. Therefore at the time of Sarah's comments only 250,000 people
>>had signed it and 750,000 signatures are required for the government to
>>at least take any notice.
>>
>>Once you've given your details (you don't have to give your full address,
>>just house number and postcode will do), they will send you an email with
>>a link in it. Once you click on that link, you'll have signed the
>>petition.
>>
>>The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having
>>to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to
>>use it. The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by
>>the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for
>>a delivery driver. A non working mother who used the car to take the kids
>>to school paid £86 in one month.
>>
>>On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will

>>know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have
>>been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit in time
>>you can probably expect a Notice of Intended Prosecution with your monthly

>>bill.
>>
>>If you are concerned about this Orwellian plan and want to stop the
>>constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's
>>new website (link below) and pass this on to as many people as possible.
>>Sign up if you value your freedom and democratic rights -
>>
>> http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax

boys night out/ kaiserfest preliminaries

so then, the proposal is a regular (once a month maybe) boys only trip to a pub of collective choice as a way of sampling the many real ale and european beer delights that sheffield has to offer beer drinkers who like to try a few alternatives.

seeing as i'm starting it, we can start at the red deer just off mappin street.... date, i'm not so sure on - saturday would seem logical, but for the issue of pubs being crowded and a bit nasty. an alternative would be maybe a monday or even a sunday, but this runs into school night drinking problems.

future nominations of pub to include hillsboro hotel (obviously), cask and cutler, dev cat (bit boring tho), fat cat, harlequin (near where i work and amazing selection!), new barrack tavern, gardners rest, the annual beer festivals, the bath hotel (so pete can come without feeling guilty), the washington even, if people are feeling brave.... could even branch out further afield in the summer and head over to chesterfield to one of hodgsons little favourite brewery pubs.... and of course munich, germany...
which leads nicely on to kaiserfest, what my 30th birthday bash/ excuse for a few of us to go to germany and experience the german beer halls, the 1 liter steins, the multitude of wheat beers so many of us are fond of, was dubbed way back in the broomhill tavern some time ago.
indeed i turn 30 this year, and have been wanting to go to germany for ages and several others expressed an interest.

so this post has two purposes:
1 - are people wanting to do a regular beer tasting outing in and around sheffield? is so, what days would people prefer? saturday, sunday or monday?
2 - who's interested in coming to germany sometime later this year, anytime really that people are free - outside school term would be cheaper, maybe even around oktoberfest time (altho that might be a bit expensive, and hodgson tells me its a bit touristy)?

comment up.

jolly happy new year everyone

Pub

Saturday. Bath. 8pm. Need I say more? Come on, just give it a try...

Gig

Hello. I got me a gig down at the Green Room this wednesday. Would love to see you down there. Starts 8pm.

Pete

Pub

Will be in the Bath Hotel again this saturday night, 8pm. Feel free to join us.

party again

just to let you know we'll be in the hillsborough hotel from 8pm on saturday for our angagement party. there might even be a financial prize to the person who eats the most crisps.