Ugh

I feel like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards :-( Starting Friday night I got a cough, which became aching joints and a thumping headache. It could be a bad dose of hay fever, or a cold, or even the dreaded bird flu! (just kidding...)

Whatever it is, I wish it'd go away. I hate staying home from work and watching horrible daytime TV. I'm sure it's all a conspiracy to make daytime TV so brain draining as to force people to go back to work just to get away from it.

Busy weekend ...

A busy weekend of motor racing - V8 Supercars, Gold Coast Champ Cars, MotoGP and A1GP.

The A1GP keeps getting better and better. Good, close, tight, exciting racing that's a pleasure to watch.

And for a bonus, I went playing pool on Saturday with Anthony and some of his friends, which was great. Haven't played pool for years and despite my general lack of skill, managed not to disgrace myself totally :-)

Beer

Well some of the beer that Anthony and I have been brewing is starting to taste pretty good... I think the ginger beer we did is still my favourite, but the "Morgan's Lager" is also pretty good...

Now that we're all set up with the gear and stuff, it's time to start saving some money... Doing that maths, it should be much cheaper making beer rather than buying from a shop.

Buying a carton of beer costs between $35 and $40. This works out to roughly $4 per litre.

Making our own costs around $25 for the ingredients, then say another $5 or so for consumables such as bottle caps, sterilising solution and so on. One batch makes 22.5 litres, which works out to less than $1.50 a litre.