I recently reviewed a couple of books for FLOSSUK, formerly the UK UNIX Users Group for their Spetember Newsletter. The books were CoffeeScript 2nd Edition by Trevor Burnham and Data Science from Scratch by Joel Grus. You can read both reviews in the September newsletter which ought to be embedded …

Nor and I recently had a little daytrip out to Milletts Farm, which is a sort of strange family-friendly theme-farm/garden centre/petting zoo near Frilford, Oxfordshire where Nor used to go as a kid. Like any self-respecting farm shop, the one …

I am pretty excited to try this cider out. I had mentioned some time ago to my work colleague Pete that I thought Ciderniks made some pretty ace ciders and bless him, he bought me a few bottles for a birthday treat.This year I am trying to be effi …

Cornish cider (or should that be cyder?). It isn’t something that I have reviewed much in the past, so I leapt at the chance of acquiring a bottle of this rather classy cider.The producers, Healeys, have been in business for 25 yea …

I tried a couple of cracking dry ciders over my new year sojourn — Rich’s Cider Scrumpy and Burrow Hill Sparkling Dry Kingston Black. So, I thought it appropriate to have a crack at something less dry. In this case a single variety c …

This year I was celebrating the new year on the beach. So obviously I needed a cider that was a bit special as an accompaniment to the celebrations.I picked up a bottle of Burrow Hill Kingston Black Dry cider at th …

I have been spending new year 2015 in Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset. Clearly one ought not ever to be in Somerset without sampling a little bit of the cider. And so, of course, I did.Rich’s cider is as local to Burnham as it gets. It comes from …

My pal Mike got hold of a 10 litre box of Crossman’s prime farmhouse cider for me a while back. I am only now getting round to reviewing it. My tardiness may perhaps be related to having a such large supply of cider …

My colleague Pete recently got hold of some Chucklehead cider from the interwebs. He kindly shared a bottle with me so that I could have a try. Chucklehead is a Devon cider, made by Michael and Liz Dinnage on their small family farm near Tiverton since 1 …

It has been a while since my last cider review. Serendipitously one of my colleagues bought in a bottle of Rogers’ Hedgelayer Cyder for me to sample this week. It is seldom the case that I am known to turn down an opportunity to drink some cider, let this be n excepption to that …