Ray Blockley

Good stuff. I tried rain, forest, wave, etc sounds but didn't work for me. I needed something more mundane & monotonous... 🙂 Good luck. 👍

..the files together, overlapping each file. Result is a 10-hour long continuous noise. Works for me but don't confuse it with the common White Noise. Obvs I only use it when I've decamped to spare room or settee as wife isn't too keen! Reading a book (non-fiction I find best) also works for me.

Assuming you want non-meds ideas. Obvious ones are muscle relaxation exercises & simple Yoga - lots online. I find "Brown Noise" works for me - bizarrely. I have an MP3 player & small speaker which I play it thru. Found a free MP3 Brown Noise download & used freebie app Audacity to copy & link...

A Voran electo-hydraulic cider pack press under a tarpaulin.

Superwinch box.

Managed to get our trusty old Voran 100-P1 out the pressing shed, down the path & under cover. Phew! Tomorrow it starts its journey onwards with new owners. Once we get it down the even steeper drive to the kerbside that is... Good job we kept our old 12v Superwinch from our caravaning days! 👌

Photo of "supermoon" taken in Nottinghamshire UK.

Got up at 2.30am to let Yarly 🐾 out (she's become regular as clockwork thanks to her HRT) & thought I may as well grab the opportunity for a "supermoon" shot. 🌛🌕
#moon #supermoon

So I'd have been 7 or 8 when this was a hit. One of the few songs I know the lyrics off by heart. And that raw harmonica solo still makes the hairs on the back of my head stand up. 👌

'Warmer weather has made my cider stronger' - Charnwood Cider owner A cider maker says the weather has caused more sugary fruit, which makes his cider more alcoholic.

Good to see Rob in the news. 🙂👍
Another East Midlands cider maker who's goodies are on the Cider Bar at the Nottingham Robin Hood Beer & Cider Festival which opens on Wednesday. 👌
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A slow cooker pot with dumplings.

Proper autumnal, so it is the official start** of Dumpling Season. Sticks to yer ribs scran. 😋

**Last season finished yesterday...

Laptop screen using Photoshop to draw out an image.

Laptop screen with Photoshop software, zoom in while working on details.

Having a minute & a brew while working in Photoshop to draw out a likeness of Charles Eamer Kempe, stained glass designer. This chap will be the logo for the 2026 Hucknall Beer Festival as he designed the stained glass windows in Hucknall's parish church. Last of the Local Hero logo themes. 👍🍺

YouTube video by kingstonblack Last One In...

Aaaahhh. Memories. 😊🐾
#dog #spain #riodelasenia #gopro

youtu.be/YeQvC1KnjoQ?...

Front label of bottle.

Rear label of bottle.

Wooffits fed & walked, hatches battened down, pan now cooling on the hob ... so time to crack open a bottle of Seb's "Brown's Apple SV" to wash tea down. As usual from Seb, lovely stuff. Dry, fresh, good sparkle, spicy, lime & lemon notes, phenolic notes. 😋
#cider

Boxes of draught still cider.

End of an era. The last ever draught, still, Torkard Cider. 🫡
These are off to the "East Markham Apple Day" & this cider was made exclusively from apples picked by local volunteers within the "Hempsall Heritage Orchard" in East Markham itself, in October 2024.
Waes Hael! 😊🍏🍎
#cider #local

It amused me that the camera operator kept Rob's logo out of frame.

Sweep being philosophical.

Thought for the day.

Just back from popping round to see Ali & Luke to pick up their 10L BiBs for this Sunday's East Markham Apple Day cider bar. They were busy milling & pressing perry pears, & while we chewed the fat, Ali gave me an excellent half of Bulmer's Norman. 😋 Cracking stuff. 👌

Hucknall cider maker retires after 30-year career in Nottinghamshire - BBC Sounds When Ray Blockley started out, Torkard Cider was the only cider producer in the county.

No idea what he's wittering on about here... Maybe @rfcider.bsky.social will if he listens to the end...?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Hucknall cider producer retires after 30 years Ray Blockley says he is closing his cider business after 30 years.

Blimey... They don't half scrape the barrel (cider barrel obvs!) for "news stories" these days...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dog asleep on her bed.

It's been a long day. 💤
Time to crash out, snore - & stick your tongue out.
#dog #sleep #snore

Eating ice cream in cones

Pints of beer in a Victorian nautical themed pub.

An afternoon spent enjoying the sun & wandering along beaches & clambering over rocks with the Wooffits, topped with fresh wonderful ice creams at Spurreli, & now a pudding of pints with a crisp garnish in the Harbour Inn, Amble, Morpeth. 🍺
#sun #beaches #icecream #beer

Dog on beach looking out to sea.

Two dogs on beach.

Dog on beach looking inland.

Two dogs on the beach, one holding a red frisbee.

Beautiful warm & sunny day, so a long walk across the dunes & along the beach was in order. Yarly tried to better King Cnut but failed, so both decided to frolic in the waves, chase each other & claim ownership of the frisbee or squeaky ball - or both.🐾🐾
#dogs #beach #seashore

Gazing into a rock pool on the beach.

Rock-pooling is so much easier with children... 🐾🐾
#dogs #rockpools #beach #seashore

Stokey 🐾 looking out over the mouth of the River Tweed from the battlements of Coxon's Tower, part of Berwick town walls.

Enjoying a delicious pint of beer in The Curfew micropub.

Today is also Stokey's birthday as she hits the Big 4.🐾 We celebrated with some excellent pints of beer at The Curfew micropub on Bridge Street, Berwick. Sadly they had no pork scratchings so sharing a bag of crisps had to suffice.
We also appear to have purchased a house...🤔🙂🏡

Royal Border Bridge over the River Tweed from Tweedmouth.

The Royal Tweed Bridge with the Berwick Bridge behind from the south bank at Tweedmouth.

Interesting concrete forms which support the Royal Tweed Bridge.

Looking south from the north bank along the East side of the old Berwick Bridge.

Part of today was about wandering around Tweedmouth & Berwick-upon-Tweed, while admiring the history, architecture & engineering...
#bridges

Dog in the sea.

Dog in the sea.

Warm & sunny with a light north-easterly breeze. Perfect for a salty old sea dog to enjoy what she loves most (after pork scratchings that is...). Coquet Island & lighthouse in the distance.
#dog #seadog

They were more bored when we were scoffing ice cream on the way here.

But but but ... when we were last in we shared the last packet of pork scratchings - & no delivery yet! 😱

Lacing on a freshly pulled pint of beer.

Yarly 🐾 crashed out under the table.

Stokey 🐾 crashed out under the table.

Pfft! Oomans are drinking beer again... Yawn! 🙄🐾🐾
#beer #pub #dogs

On the banks of the river Tweed by the Royal Border Bridge with Berwick-upon-Tweed in the background.

On the banks of the river Tweed by the Royal Border Bridge with the castle at Berwick-upon-Tweed on the opposite bank.

On the banks of the river Tweed by the Royal Border Bridge with the castle at Berwick-upon-Tweed on the opposite bank.

Sitting beneath the Royal Border Bridge on the south bank of the river Tweed at Berwick-upon-Tweed.

A wander along the south bank of the River Tweed & by the Royal Border Bridge at Berwick-upon-Tweed. 🐾🐾 What's left of Berwick Castle is on the opposite bank.
#dogs #river #bridge #trains

Enjoying ice cream cones at Spurreli. 😋

Wander back into town for today's choice of ice cream. No Belgian Chocolate left... 🫤 so we went "Harold & Hilda" & both had Cherry Vanilla & Honeycomb. 👌😋

Our old girl Yarly getting some fuss.

Our old girl Yarly getting some fuss.. but incoming yawn.

Our old girl Yarly getting some fuss & it's so tiring...

It is so tiring getting lots of fuss... & being force-fed** pork scratchings. But at 15 yrs & 9 months, what's a girl to do...? 🐾
[** Nope. Her nose still works & seems to have compensated for her loss of vision & hearing! She can smell a pork scratching at 100 metres...]
#dogs #pubdog