Cider Making

A few months ago I got together with a few of the Village people to make cider.  I made some last year using and breaking my electric juicer.

This time without the juicer we used 3 pillow cases, a small hand juicer and a sledge hammer.  Needless to say it was a long and arduous task.

After about 3 hours of grating and sieving the apples through the pillow cases we managed to produce about 20 pints of juice.

Since then it has been fermenting into cider, about 8% proof.  The 2nd tasting will be very soon, the first tasted of mud and grass with a hint of apple.

Rich's poem for Gilly

Saturday

After a few birthday pints with my best man Slim, it was back to watch the X-Factor. I can't believe how all they did was ruin each song, singing or shouting off key and generally being bloody annoying.

Funday Friday

Fridays are traditionally fun, so today we went for a brunch before having my hair cut in to a military style and another trip to the doctors, how much more fun can you have!

Tonight we have friends over so it is soon time to get up and start tidying, hopefully I will be having a bit of booze.

One thing I am getting used to is the amount of poo Gilly can produce.  So far today he has made 4 nappies worth, which I use as fire lighters.  Eco friendly however I hope it doesn't create a shitty atmosphere later.

Thursday

First venture out today.  We went to see a potential new house in Bath, a great project however it will take a lot of money and work.
Good news, I have now lined up Friday, Saturday and Sunday  for some much missed boozing.  My medication doesn't recommend it, but I'm sure a few wont hurt.

Jen has been trying out her milk expressing and managed to get a fair amount out for me to feed Gilly.

Gilly wee'd and poo'd on me in one go, that is a real talent, I am very proud of him.

I think it will be just two weeks until the village cider we made will be ready for it's first tasting, get in!

All the best and much love

Bloody Hell

Bloody Hell!  It's been a hellish few weeks, I managed to get myself two slipped disks just to add to Jens work load.
She has now had  to deal with two lots of bed bathing, although I have managed to use a bottle to wee in rather than a nappy.
Right! the next stage in my Blog is to invite a few of my very funny and clever fellow Dads to add a blog to my blog.
They have all recently become dads, so I ask them to write one or two of their funniest moments to date.  Thanks Guys

What a start!

Not the best start to fatherhood.  All went well with the Birth and we got little Gilbert home. Sleeping and feeding well. During this time I had a stiff back, niggling at me for weeks before. It developed into intense pain and after a few visits to the Doctors I ended up in hospital on my back with a slipped disk. I have now been in bed for 5 days awaiting my MRI scan this Thursday. Jen has been bloody brilliant looking after both of us, what a star xx