New Thread, Fresh Start

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

I've had to take few days off as the old legs and knees and things sort themselves out, but I haven't been idle - I've brewed and bottled two new batches of beer recently. Last week I bottled my new sensation, the RC Almeria Ale, and yesterday I bottled what I like to think of as Sweder Brew's big brother - a potent beast this one; a strong malty stout I call the Two Oceans Mega Stout. I've had to put this one under the house for its secondary fermentation as it was shaking the bottles it's that potent Should be a ripper.

Frustratingly, fellow forumite Luc (ljs) is soon to be within a bee's dick of of being the first other RC-er to taste some of these special RC brews of mine. However, despite being only a bit over an hour's flight away from here in Melbourne, we're not actually going to be able to catch up, and so my very best opportunity to finally meet some fellow RC-ers is tantalisingly just out of reach would have been great to at least catch up for a quick Grolsch, but I guess there'll be another opportunity sometime...

And as if the forum here isn't motivating enough, a really good friend of mine who emigrated to Northern Ireland ( ) many, many years ago, has out of the blue informed me that he is in training for the Belfast marathon in May! He's similar to myself in not having run that kind of distance before, and he has similarly dodgy knees, so I'm really quite fired up to see him getting stuck into it.

There's more I wanted to say but I have to trudge out the door for another day of w*rk.

Hopefully I'll get in a run later this evening and will report back then.

Au revoir my little chickadees. (5 points for anyone who can remember who used that phrase many years ago.)