a swift one...: Local Festival Dates

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Local Festival Dates

With thanks to Dave Litton, the man from Hull we are able to publish a list of forthcoming local festivals.

The Star Spring Festival.
Wed 24th, Thurs 25th March 2010, 5pm till 11pm
Fri 26th - Sun 28th 12noon till 11pm

The Nook, Holmfirth
Thurs 25th March 2010- Sunday 28th March 2010

The Swan, Crimble
Thurs 6th May 2010 5pm- 11pm
Fri 7th - Sun 9th may 12noon till close

Rose & Crown, Thurstonland
Fri 23rd July 2010 - Sun 25th July 2010

Rat & Ratchet Mild, Cider & Perry Festival
Sat 1st May 2010 - Sun 2nd May 2010

Sun Inn, Flockton
'Flockstock', a beer and music festival, 28th May 2010 - 31st May 2010

At least we know when to plan our holidays now !!!

3 comments:

ArcticFox said...: Brilliant - I am always happy to see lists of beer festivals - am also very glad to see that the beer festival calendar has been updated again too - HUZZAH for beery calendars!!; 27 February 2010 10:09
Neil Harvey said...: Yes, have to agree that this is great to see, but the previous weekend sees Leeds CAMRA festival, and festivals at the Fat Cat and New Barrack Tavern, both in Sheffield. Do these count as "local festivals"?; 2 March 2010 10:51
Timbo said...: The list was not meant to be comprehensive, just to give give an idea of when the usual festivals around the town were happening; 4 March 2010 07:21

some famous beer quotes...

I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.–Frank Sinatra

The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober.–William Butler Yeats

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.–Ernest Hemingway

"Some miners (in the town where he started his journalism career) would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to 18 or 19 pints." -- Michael Jackson

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.–Ernest Hemingway

You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.–Dean Martin

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or as good as drink.–G.K. Chesterton

Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time.–Catherine Zandonella

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.–Ambrose Bierce

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol.–Anonymous

"I love the smell of hops in the morning. It smells like victory. " -- Nick Floyd, Three Floyds Brewing, Hammond, Ind.

Drinking provides a beautiful excuse to pursue the one activity that truly gives me pleasure, hooking up with fat hairy girls.– Ross Levy

A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?–W.C. Fields

Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.–Anonymous

If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.–David Daye

"Here's to beer, so amber and pure. Not as sweet as a woman's lips, But a damn sight more sincere." -- Old Irish Toast

"They didn't trademark everything back then. Now someone farts and they put a TM after it. Even Miller Lite says 'A Fine Pilsener Beer' on the label. It is a crime." -- Michael Jackson

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.–Oscar Wilde

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.–Henry Youngman

Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life.–Michelle Mastrolacasa

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.–Tom Waits

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?–Stephen Wright

When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep.When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let’s all get drunk, and go to heaven…–Brian O’Rourke

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.–Frank Zappa

Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.–Winston Churchill

He was a wise man who invented beer.–Plato

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.–Benjamin Franklin

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.–Deep Thought Jack Handy

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.–Dave Barry

"Beer made from corn, rice, or wheat is about as much beer as butter made from beef scraping...or sugar made from old rags." - The Milwaukee News, 1878

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.–Humphrey Bogart

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.–Kaiser Wilhelm

I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.–Homer Simpson

I drink to make other people interesting.–George Jean Nathan

All right, brain, I don’t like you and you don’t like me - so let’s just do this and I’ll get back to killing you with beer.–Homer Simpson