An amazing concert full of energy and great music. Thats all that needs to be said. Support bands were all of an interesting kind. Matt and Kim were fairly unique but made good sounds. Charley Marley had good energy. Fall Out boy were simply amazing.
Charley Marley
Matt and Kim SSE London
Fall out boy SSE Wembley 2015
Fall out boy SSE Wembley 2015
Fall out boy SSE Wembley 2015
English vineyards are making something of a resurgence now. Their major issue is the size of most vineyards being so small that wine amounts tend to be too small from most vineyards to be commercially sold to supermarket chains. A few years ago, one of the best UK vineyards, Three Choirs , in fact sold their whole annual wine crop to Eurostar, meaning that the only way to taste the wine was to have a 187ml bottle on the train.
Denbies vineyard is in Dorking and Painshill is a park in Cobham with a vineyard as part of the park. A few photographs to tempt you to sample English wine.
Painshill Park Cobham Grapes
Denbies is a wine estate or perhaps better termed, vineyard in Dorking, surrey established in 1986.The vineyards of Denbies Estate are situated on the North Downs with its famous chalky soil, in a protected valley of south facing slopes. In size it is the largest in the UK with 627 acres of land of which 265 acres have been planted representing more than 10 per cent of the plantings in the whole of the United Kingdom. This makes it three times the size of any other in the UK and the largest independent vineyard in Europe. Around 65% of the wine is sold at the visitor centre. From a good harvest around 400,000 bottles can be produced of different types from the 18 varieties of grape grown. The main grapes grown include : seyval blanc, reichensteiner, Muller-Thurgau, Bacchus, Ortega, Chardonnay, Pinot noir and Dornfelder.
Painshill Park Cobham Grapes
Painshill Park Cobham Grapes
Denbies Vineyard. Dorking
Denbies Vineyard. Dorking
Denbies Vineyard. Dorking
Denbies Vineyard. Dorking
Swan at Painshill Park. Copyright Chris Bushe 2015
Swan at Painshill Park. Copyright Chris Bushe 2015
messy Swan at Painshill Park. Copyright Chris Bushe 2015
There is only one real car park in Hersham and this is where this caterpillar decided to try and cross, luckily saved from a squashing demise by the good eyesight of a 15 year old. Rescued and placed on a leaf. These humble I Phone photos try and capture the brave if impulsive caterpillar.
Hersham Caterpillar
Hersham Caterpillar
Just a few flowers from the garden shot with a macro lens. Everyone needs a macro lens.
Wild crocus
Wild crocus
Wild crocus
Wild crocus
After the farcical events of the last month we need to briefly recap.
What has gone wrong? Last season the fans were all together as a unit. Crowds were growing. The ground was sold out most games. Away travelling fans increased in numbers. This season that is all in reverse with 126 fans travelling to Middlesboro for a midweek game. My own view is this. The results have been poor but the performances poorer. A definite lack of tempo compared to last season ( this translates in my language to lack of effort), lack of leadership on the field. Would any away fan during the game be able to spot who the captain was? The quality of the play has been poor. The new players have mostly failed to be as good as the departing ones and certainly not better. And the defence has got worse, and frankly it was bad last year. Brentford are regularly conceding two or more goals each game.
So we need this
Anyone who thinks we are immune from relegation please think again. We have beaten only two of the poorest sides in the division so far and lost to sides that frankly are mediocre. But importantly we need to see something from the players. management team and board that we as fans can identify as an explanation for what has happened. We need to be able to get behind the team again and give them support. This is not easy when we have no clue what is going on.
Putting out the fires at Griffin Park?
Putting out the fires at Griffin Park?
The sun going down on Brentford dreams?
Supermoon 2015 UK Copyright Chris Bushe
Supermoon 2015 UK Copyright Chris Bushe
One single plant has produced around £100 worth of redcurrants this year. I was somewhat amazed to find a few more the other day at the tail end of September. Tasted amazing. Thoroughly recommend a redcurrant plant for 2016.
Redcurrants from surrey
Redcurrants from surrey
Redcurrants from surrey
Redcurrants from surrey
Redcurrants from surrey
An excellent forum was held where all questions were answered as best as reasonably they could. The only difficult moment was a late question again about Mark Warburton and his departure. The fans were given good updates on all aspects of the club. These were maybe the main points:
In attendance answering questions were
As a small bit of background Rasmus ankersen and Phil Giles are the co-directors of football at Brentford, Cliff Crown the chairman, Mark Devlin CEO and Marinus Dijkhuizen the manager.
Marinus Dijkhuizen and Cliff Crown at Bees Forum 2015 Sept
Cliff Crown at Bees Forum 2015 Sept
Marinus Dijkhuizen at Bees Forum 2015 Sept
Marinus Dijkhuizen at Bees Forum 2015 Sept
Rasmus Ankersen at Bees Forum 2015 Sept
Mark Devlin CEO Brentford FC at Bees Forum 2015 Sept
Rasmus Ankersen and Phil Giles at Bees Forum 2015 Sept
Rasmus Ankersen at Bees Forum 2015 Sept
Marinus Dijkhuizen at Bees Forum 2015 Sept
Rasmus Ankersen at Bees Forum 2015 Sept
Rasmus Ankersen at Bees Forum 2015 Sept
The first thing that seems unusual was the postbox inviting love letters only. What kind of people live here? The second thing was the selection of items for sale at the airport. Now to give context the area where the items were for sale were only for flights to either Moscow or London. The massive selection of flip flops was an interesting item for sale with no evidence of any takers. The food selection was just wrong. Finally, why would anyone, in Frankfurt or anywhere else for that matter buy these snow domes? Surely no-one hates someone enough to buy them one or even two?
chris1957
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