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This is the small print where I deny everything and refuse to take any responsibility for anything. Any opinions given should not be taken as facts, and any facts given should not be taken as opinions.
E. & O. E.
Copyright www.petespintpot.co.uk 2008. First published 17 October 2008, last updated 3 July 2009.
Pete’s Pint Pot is dedicated to the home production & sensible drinking of beer, wine, cider & meads plus a little bit of china painting & a few bits of photograph tampering.
Finally the sanity clause: As Chico Marx famously said to Groucho, “Everybody knows there ain't no Sanity Clause!”
WARNING:- Some pages may contain music!
Do not enter this site if you are allergic to nuts!
Site Map
Welcome to my web site. After a bit of encouragement from Stephan at YoBrew, I finally decided to have a go at producing my own web-site. I tried several programs available on magazine cover-discs or downloaded free from the Internet, eventually adopting the Serif WebPlus X2 package as I found it the easiest to use, although I did have my fair share of problems! Designing the site was the easiest part, although I didn’t appreciate that at the time. It was the publishing of the site that really confused me but many thanks to Stephan for his tireless patience (his wife tells me that he repaired the wall as soon as his head got better) & enormous effort in setting things up for me.
I have learnt not to believe statements from software manufacturers who claim their product is ideal for beginners etc. I sometimes get very annoyed when magazine articles/reviews say the same, they know what they are doing, they are professionals who rely on advertizers for some of their income! Do they ever get a few novices to try the stuff out? I suppose they could do & it is me that is particularly obtuse when it comes to computer stuff (just like everything else!).
As this is my first ever venture into web site construction I hope do not expect a (very) high degree of competence.
I hope the site improves as I get a deeper understanding of what I’m doing and what you the visitor wants, so please be patient with me. The site is not intended to be cutting-edge, garish or flash, but substance rather than style. It is my intention to up-date the site regularly but, as Dr. Samuel Johnson is often quoted as saying, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions”.
It is also my intention to have this site completely free of any advertising but if some relevant manufacturers come along with big buckets of money, who knows! You may notice some “names” appearing from time-to-time but only when I consider them pertinent.
You may have noticed that I sometimes use this site to have little rants about people and/or things that annoy me, please do not take these too seriously.
The site is not “vegetarian” but my sympathies/lifestyle do lean in that direction. I will refrain from cracking the old joke about why, if we’re not supposed to eat animals, did God make them from meat?
Wherever possible, my criteria for beer, wine & cider making is to use the minimum of chemicals & additives and, as far as I know, no animals will be harmed.
This may sound like a long abandoned mission statement from some wretchedly “cutting-edge” old British broadcasting company, but it would be satisfying to know that this site could inform, educate & entertain its’ visitors.
The Potty Page has been included to shew a few examples of the wife’s china painting & the Image Manipulation page as an extra bit of Narcissism.
Cheers!
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Adverts & Other Triviality
I’ve decided to try a Poll, & if it proves reasonably popular, others may follow. I would ask you to please vote in the Polls as the answers given could result in the site being adapted to suit you, the visitor’s interests better.
The icon shews the Ukrainian pole vaulting Champion Sergey Bubka who won all sorts of World Championships & Olympic medals, setting quite a few World Records along the way. His International career ran (?) from 1981 to 2001.
Gerry’s Big Decision. You can watch this program about two award-winning breweries on the verge of collapse get the attention of entrepreneur Gerry Robinson with the view to him making investments as he sees fit, from this link:- www.channel4.com/programmes/gerrys-big-decision/4od#2926974. Be prepared to cry into your beer as the badly produced program starts, as do most programs now, with loads of irritating, random clips of what we will see if we have the patience to persevere with watching. After each set of adverts the annoying narrator, in her best condescending voice, told us what had happened previously whilst shewing us clips we had seen previously! Lots of bitting & bobbing ensued as the stories of the unfortunate breweries unfolded. Things did improve as we got to know a bit about the personalities & their problems. I enjoy happy endings & this gave us two, may they all live long & prosper.
It’s a pity that TV producers of all channels seem to think that we have the limited attention span of cretins like them.