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FYI I’m not connected to the brewery, I just like their beer…

****************    CRONDALL BREWERY NEWS            ************

Brewery Opening Times:	Friday 3.00pm - 7.00pm
			Saturday 10.00am - 4.30pm

We find a lot of people call us within these hours, you can call about
general beer enquires and to take party orders throughout the working week.

11 December 2008

Hello all,

**** CRONDALL'S STOCKING FILLER 5.5% NOW AVAILABLE ****

Last week saw the launch of Crondall's Stocking Filler.  It is a very
seasonal tasting beer and has already proved popular.  We have taken quite a
lot of orders for this beer already.  If you wish to come along and have a
taste, please call into the brewery during our opening times for your free
taster.

CRONDALL BREWERY GIFT ITEMS

We have in stock our very own pint glasses displaying our logo.  We also
have embroidered T-Shirts, Woolie Beanie Hats and bottle opener key rings.
We have just taken delivery of a further supply of the Beanie Hats as last
week they were so popular and we didn't want to run short.

FANTASY FUDGE

Fantasy Fudge is a local company run by Karen Newman. Karen is a chef by
trade and runs a company based near Basingstoke.  Karen displays the
requisite Food Hygiene Certificate and here premises are are registered with
the Local Authority Enviromental health Food Safety Team.

Karen has supplied us with Fudge, Christmas Puddings, Champagne Truffles and
Violet and Rose Creams.

You may have seen her products around locally, and we can say they are
delicious.  A real treat for Christmas.

LOCAL HONEY

As you know local honey is in decline.  We have a plentiful supply of Surrey
and Hampshire honey from bee hives which are kept on the Farm and very close
by in Dora's Green Lane.

We also have a supply of honey gift sets which contain a honey marmalade, a
runny honey and a set one and are a snip at only £10.00.

CHRISTMAS OPENING HOURS

As usual our opening hours are increased to cover the holiday season and
these are set out below:-

Friday 	        19 December			3.00pm - 7.00pm
Saturday 	20 December			10.00am - 4.30pm
Sunday    	21 December			Closed
Monday 	        22 December			10.00am- 4.30pm
Tuesday 	23 December			10.00am - 4.30pm
Wednesday       24 December			10.00am - 3.00pm
Christmas Day and Boxing Day 			Closed
Saturday 	27 December			10.00am - 4.30pm
Sunday 	        28 December			Closed
Monday 	        29 December			Closed
Tuesday 	30 December 			10.00am - 2.00pm
Wednesday       31 December			10.00am - 2.00pm
****   2009  ****
Friday 	        2 January 2009			3.00pm - 7.00pm
Saturday 	3 January 2009			10.00am - 4.30pm
Friday 	        9 January 2009			Closed
Saturday 	10 January 2009			Closed
Friday 	        16 January 2009			3.00pm - 7.00pm
Saturday 	17 January 2009			10.00am - 4.30pm

FRESH FREE RANGE EGGS

Due to the increased demand in fresh free range eggs, we have recently taken
on a local supplier of fresh free range eggs to ensure that we have a
plentiful supply to last the whole weekend.

BEERS AVAILABLE THIS WEEKEND

Crondall's Best 4.0%
Sober as a Judge 4.0%
Harvest Gold 4.5%
Rocket Fuel 4.5%
*** Crondall's Stocking Filler 5.5% ****

BACON, SAUSAGEMEAT ETC.

As you are probably aware, although we sell the produce from the farm, we
are in fact a separate business and we have no control over the available
stock.

Claire has advised that she has a full supply of sausages, bacon,
sausagemeat and chippolatas available.

Have a good weekend and hope to see you soon.

Best Wishes

David & Chrissy Taraszek

The Crondall Brewing Co. Ltd
Lower Old Park Farm
Dora's Green Lane
Crondall
GU10 5DX
Tel: 01252 319000

email: crondallbrewery@btinternet.com

**********************    CRONDALL BREWERY NEWS            ************

Brewery Opening Times:	Friday 3.00pm - 7.00pm
			Saturday 10.00am - 4.30pm

We find a lot of people call us within these hours, you can call about
general beer enquires and to take party orders throughout the working week.

20 November 2008

Hello all,

Rocket Fuel is really popular and well liked again this year.  If you still
haven’t tried it, please feel free to come in and ask for a taster.  It is
really pleasant to drink whilst sitting around the fireside on these dark
evenings.  It also accompanies delicious stews and makes a good steak and
ale pie!

The Harvest Gold is also a favourite of the hoppy beer lovers and we have
recently put the last of it into barrels and it is likely to only last
another 3 weeks. We are trying to see that these two seasonal beers last
until December when our Christmas beer will be ready.

CHRISTMAS ORDERS

We are now taking orders for Christmas.   The advantage of ordering your
beer is to ensure that your beer is ready and awaiting your collection, thus
saving you time in having to wait in a queue.  Last year we ran out of some
of the beers and although we have increased production significantly this
year, we wouldn’t like any of our customers to be disappointed.

The Party 9’s make great presents, especially when they are gift wrapped.
We have a couple of them on display at the brewery to wet your appetite.
Should you want your gift to look amazing, then just let us know and we will
have it wrapped for you.

The brewery opening times over the festive season are as follows:-

Friday 	        19 December			3.00pm - 7.00pm
Saturday 	20 December			10.00am - 4.30pm
Sunday 	        21 December			Closed
Monday 	        22 December			10.00am- 4.30pm
Tuesday 	23 December			10.00am - 4.30pm
Wednesday       24 December			10.00am - 3.00pm
Christmas Day and Boxing Day 			Closed
Saturday 	27 December			10.00am - 4.30pm
Sunday 	        28 December			Closed
Monday 	        29 December			Closed
Tuesday 	30 December 			10.00am - 2.00pm
Wednesday       31 December			10.00am - 2.00pm
****   2009  ****
Friday 	         2 January 2009			3.00pm - 7.00pm
Saturday 	 3 January 2009			10.00am - 4.30pm
Friday 	         9 January 2009			Closed
Saturday 	10 January 2009			Closed
Friday 	        16 January 2009			3.00pm - 7.00pm
Saturday 	17 January 2009			10.00am - 4.30pm

FRESH FREE RANGE EGGS

Due to the increased demand in fresh free range eggs, we have recently taken
on a local supplier of fresh free range eggs to ensure that we have a
plentiful supply to last the whole weekend.

PARTY DELIVERY SERVICE

This service goes from strength to strength and is really popular.  So many
people like the idea of having the beer delivered at a time to coincide with
the arrival of their guests.  We also can design bespoke pumpclips for that
special occasion, if you want to have your own beer clip, please let us know
and we will arrange something for you.  Orders can be processed by
telephoning us on 01252 319000.

Beers available this weekend:

Crondall’s Best 4.0%
Sober as a Judge 4.0%
Harvest Gold 4.5%
Rocket Fuel 4.5%

Have a good weekend and hope to see you soon.

Best Wishes

David & Chrissy Taraszek

The Crondall Brewing Co. Ltd
Lower Old Park Farm
Dora’s Green Lane
Crondall
GU10 5DX
Tel: 01252 319000

email: crondallbrewery@btinternet.com

went there last night - two good presentations. beer/food…

• a tool to  display system configuration in a sort of graphical manner, it just proves that parsing unstable command line output is fraught with uncertainty - of course is there a stable way to do this ?
• a presentation on FUSE - File system in USErland .  which is a generic filesystem shim and a library  that talks to the shim and you implement all the vfsop type  function in userland eg read/write/stat/open/sync… you only need to implement the ones you need. The presentor had a “hello world” filesystem that had one file and you can guess its contents - took 20 lines of code. Its not fast but very useful… demo’ed ntfs on solaris.

losug

Virtualbox  installed like a dream on my linux eeepc.  I had problems with  opensolaris’s pkg command getting into a swapping frenzy due to only 512Mb memory  during a image-upgrade.. so down pcworld for a 2gb SODIMM for 30 pounds took 5 minutes to fit once I found an anti static wrist strap.

Now virtualbox can have 1gb and linux 1gb - all seems to work fine I now have a snv_101 image running after downloading the dvd image. I now have two widgets telling me the battery level ! networking just worked… once I installed the virtualbox client addons the windowing system even adjusted to the slightly odd eeepc resolution of 1024×600..

**********************    CRONDALL BREWERY NEWS            ************

Brewery Opening Times:	Friday 3.00pm - 7.00pm
			Saturday 10.00am - 4.30pm

31 October 2008

Hello all,

* * * ROCKET FUEL * * * NOW AVAILABLE

Our new seasonal beer Rocket Fuel is now available for drinking.  Rocket
Fuel is a significant beer for this time of the year as it accompanies
Bonfire Parties very well.  Come along to the brewery for your taster.

Other beers available this weekend:

Crondall's Best 4.0%
Sober as a Judge 4.0%
Mitchell's Dream 4.5%
Harvest Gold 4.5%
Rocket Fuel 4.5%

Best Wishes

David & Chrissy Taraszek

The Crondall Brewing Co. Ltd
Lower Old Park Farm
Dora's Green Lane
Crondall
GU10 5DX
Tel: 01252 319000

email: crondallbrewery@btinternet.com

Its too cold now for the wormery to live outside, the worms were becoming very sluggish. The wheelie bin is half full and there are millions of worms of all different sizes. And the bin is filling up with what looks to be lovely compost.

I have cured the problem of fruit flies by covering the top of the bin with a sheet of old mosquito netting fastened with elastic. Just need something to keep the compost smell in next !

I am being either brave or really foolish changing to a new job in the current economic state. Its one of those things you have to do when you find yourself thinking about it. I am going to join Matt working in the Quality office which is a part of Sun’s Engineering organisation. Its farewell to Customer Services after many many years and off to a group that do reactive work for hot customer issues and proactive work trying to make things better. Starting date is Thursday….

So they agree that the window cracked due to heat buildup between the cushion and the window. But their customer services folks were adamant that that was my fault even though the documentation doesn’t say “dont put soft things near the window”. Clearly a case of unfit for purpose.. But the sad thing is without taking them to court there is nothing I can do other than this… So I paid for another company to replace the window.

Now who shall I get a quote for my new conservatory from ??? damn right not ANGLIAN…

Anglian did a really good job of our garage conversion, their men worked hard and everything went well, they even finished earlier than expected, I was really pleased.

But they have really let themselves down when I rang to report a window had suddenly cracked and would they come replace it as it had only been in for 18 months and we had a 10 year guarantee ..“Sorry Sir the window is over a year old so it couldn’t have been faulty, may I send you a quote for us to replace it..”.     WHAT!!!!!!!

Turns out that there was a cushion against the glass and the heat built up between the glass and the cushion caused a thermal stress and the window suddenly cracked and imploded. I can’t see in the documentation any words saying “don’t let anything soft touch the window in case it suddenly breaks”.. ( if there is and I didn’t see it then its my fault and send me the quote!) .

The annoying thing is that you get a 10 year guarantee - nowhere does it say they will ignore that after a year.. I sent them an email earlier but it wasn’t acknowledged so I sent them another just now with those “fit for purpose” words in it , lets see what they do.

here you can see the cracks in the window..

The worms are back from their summer holiday’s  ( thanks Matt!) and are currently eating a pile of old toilet roll tubes and the vegetable remains from yesterday’s Sunday dinner. We have lots of different sized worms so they are still breeding away.  The wheelie bin is now about  a third full or what feels like really good compost, maybe we can feed them a bit more… They do seem to be a bit slow in the mornings now as it cools down, time to move them into the utility room soon..