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The Culture Dodge 27 Jun 2011 | 04:45 am
The phenomenon whereby any holiday or long weekend we take has a huge overlap with beer and/or writing (see previous posts on Copenhagen, Essex, Blackpool, Rhyl and Prestatyn - several words you never...
The Morning Advertiser should have asked ME.... 6 Oct 2010 | 07:25 am
One of the many debates at Beer Towers is the Big Party Music Debate. Mr PBBB is self-appointed Important Pants Music Czar and by his own admission is an extreme music snob. Our debate goes somethin...
Booking Marvellous 16 May 2010 | 05:44 am
So there I was, minding my own business, making cakes, small woolly monsters and singing tra la la, when one of those ideas arrived that I knew wouldn't go away. I mentioned it to a couple of people ...
O-Bugger 16 Mar 2010 | 02:51 am
What is it with me and beers in Wales? Since discovering that Wales has more than its fair share of fantastic micro-breweries, I've managed to avoid them with a regularity bordering on obsession. The...
Wonderful, Wonderful Weekend. 24 Feb 2010 | 03:01 am
Mr PBBB took me to Copenhagen this weekend for a belated birthday treat and to mark our 10th anniversary. What a lovely husband he is, sometimes. The decision to take me to the Danish capital may no...
Beer + Cake = Beer Cakes. 10 Feb 2010 | 05:46 am
One whole month without alcohol, sugar, caffeine, wheat, dairy and red meat and the January detox is properly over. However it did what it set out to do: I'm nearly a stone lighter and, more importan...
The Boy Done Good. 28 Jan 2010 | 11:35 am
Mr PBBB went to Brussels yesterday. We all know what happened last time he went. Yes, that's right, Brussels had 'run out of chocolate' and he brought me back a red pointy hat with a bell on it as a...
Writer Injured in Beer-Related Knife Attack! 12 Jan 2010 | 01:35 am
If I was a log-keeping sort of person, yesterday I would have been able to log our first beer-related injury of 2010. I aspire to be a person who keeps logs - I might make it a Newish Year Resolution...
Detoxtastic 10 Jan 2010 | 06:26 am
Well that was a doddle. Only 3 days in and it looks as though the no wheat / dairy / alcohol / caffeine / sugar / red meat regime is working a treat (see below). I also seem to have had my belly-butt...
Wii Fat 4 Jan 2010 | 03:19 am
There's no avoiding it. 2009, a year of book launches, comfort eating and trying to make a dent in Mr PBBB's beer cellar has had a supernatural effect on my wardrobe. All my clothes have shrunk. Even...