The best ever 69….

….sleeps before Glastonbury 2009 that is.

If you followed this link for any other reason then please accept my most humble apologies for I was only Glastobating.

The healthy way to get pissed…

Having been a worshiper at the Temple of Stella since I was weaned off the breast I decided late last year that it wasn’t very good for my health.

My solution?

To only drink bottles of Becks or Peroni and JD with Diet Coke. Somehow in my head I’ve resolved that this is much better for me than Artois. Time will tell!

Notable exceptions to my new rule will come during the summer months at Glastonbury and Leeds festivals. Any experienced campaigners will know that when it comes to festivals cider is best. Unlike larger and beer, cider remains palatable even when warm, and with a nice 2 litre box of Weston’s Organic you are guaranteed a good day.

Long time

Been over a year since I graced these pages. How some things have changed. Equally others have not.

Does life begin at 30? Well mine does! but …

(music+sport+beer) = life

As always.

Derby 1 – Sunderland 2

Haven’t posted for a while about The Lads, but now we’re winning things might be a bit different.  Typical fickle football supporter!!

• What a differnce a few weeks makes. 
• New manager – Roy ‘Keano’ Keane. 
• New signings – too numerous to mention.
• 2 victories on the bounce. 
• H’way the lads!!

C’mon, back off out on the piss to celebarate!!

Supergroup in the making?

It is with horror that I read Docherty (Pete), Hawkins (Justin) and Chaplin (Cherub) are all currently undergoing rehab for various drug/drink/combo addictions, my hope is that they are not all under the same roof, imagine the bastard child of music that would be spawned if they decided in the name of comradeship to collaborate.  It’s too scary to think about.

Men drinking cider!?!

Everywhere you look there’s blokes drinking cider.  What the fuck is going on?!?

Admittedly, we’re not talking halves of Woodpecker here.  The tipple of choice seems to be Magners, which comes in a mammoth size bottle and is poured over a glass of ice.  Be discreet but I can tell you now, that for the purposes of market research, thebeermat himself has indulged and can tell you that on a nice summers day, sitting in a beer garden with the sun beaming down on you, it makes a refreshing alternative.

However, the key words here are sun, summer and beer garden.  Once October/November hits and we’re all back inside seeking any form of heat form we can find, it’ll be OK once again to point and laugh at the guy in the corner sipping his cider!!

What’s all this about then?

I’ve just set up this account so it stands to reason that I’m going to get carried away for the first few days and actually post things.  The test will be in a weeks time (I have a very short attention span) if I am still blogging then.

Anyway, how did I get here?  Well, it’s Saturday night and I should be out visiting my friend (beer), however, due to signing up for some torture (season ticket at S.A.F.C) I’m totally skint, so I can’t go out.  Instead I find myself marooned on my couch, bored, whilst Mrs Beermat watches the TV. 

So what does one do on such an occasion?  Obviously, you set up an account with wordpress and start to bare your soul to the global internet community.  It’s something I’ve thought of doing for a while but never got round to.  Well it’s that and the slight embarrassment I feel about the whole thing.  Hence when the wife asks my reply is “nowt really, just lookin”.  What the hell does that mean!?!  I might as well just tell her I’m surfing for porn – that’s probably what she suspects anyway!!

Mmmmm, I miss beer……