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It is best to do it in a fridge although I have done it in a parking garage. (My first time, I had taken my first real career job in a new state and I was living in a hotel while searching for an apartment.) If you have a cool basement then that works too. The warmer the environment, the faster the fermentation goes, the more it takes on a hint of vinegar aroma IMO. Ferment slow to keep it nice and apple-ee You will notice something after a week in the firdge. 10-14 days is a good point to start sipping. It can go another week or two as you savor it depending on how sweet you like it. Caveat Emptor: The fermentation releases CO2 which causes the cider to become effervescent like champagne. Thus it is under pressure. You MUST loosen the cap at the beginning of the process and check it every couple of days to release pressure else the container will explode. You will notice because the plastic carton becomes deformed -- rounded edges and bottom. Just remove the cap for an instant. Keep the cap on except when you 'burp' it. You want the CO2 to carbonate the cider. That is half the point. The other half is a mild alcohol contribution.

It's that time of year. I love apple cider allowed to gently harden under refrigeration. Just finishing my first half-gallon of this season picked up from a local orchard. I've deprived myself the past few years for blood sugar considerations. I'm hoping the trade of sugar for alcohol will mitigate the sin. Think I'll have one more half gallon before I crawl back on the wagon.

Cue hito - "I want a family like That ! "

Swap fully closed eyelids for a casual droop and you've got my routine titivations for an evening out with the lads.

Actually, I think I would prefer that bankers and politicians be deceased before they got on my plane. Best regards, RA1

very nice pics and very nice boys indeed. i can see you are due to travel in a week or two, and i still have more than 2 month to go.... i am always impressed by nice smile and beutiful eyes, six pack come second, and weapon at last.... enjoy the guy, if you meet him. i also assume, that the cousin is a nice pick, too.

Christopher Isherwood: The peculiar odyssey of a great literary outsider Ahead of a BBC Two biopic, Peter Parker explains the lasting appeal of novelist Christopher Isherwood. Doctor Who actor Matt Smith portrays Christopher Isherwood in Christopher and His Kind, a BBC Two biopic of the novelist. Photo: BBC By Peter Parker 6:07PM GMT 17 Mar 2011 On November 29, 1929 Christopher Isherwood packed two suitcases and a rucksack and set off for Berlin on a one-way ticket. “To Christopher, Berlin meant Boys”, he later wrote, and by going to live there he was rejecting both his upper-middle-class background and the social values to which his mother, widowed in the First World War, was still clinging. This ferocious family quarrel had been dramatised in his highly accomplished but heavily remaindered first novel, All the Conspirators, published in 1928. In Berlin he would work on a second novel, The Memorial, which further explored the gulf between the generations caused by the war and was admired by EM Forster among others. It was, however, the novels he wrote about Berlin, Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Goodbye to Berlin (1939), that made his reputation as one of the leading writers of his generation, providing an indelible tragic-comic portrait of a city teetering on the brink of catastrophe as Hitler gained in popular support. While Isherwood was attracted to Berlin by the ready availability of homosexual partners there, he always had a keen journalist’s instinct for being in the right place at the right time. “Here was the seething brew of history in the making,” he wrote, “a brew which would test the truth of all the political theories, just as actual cooking tests the cookery books. The Berlin brew seethed with unemployment, malnutrition, stock market panic, hatred of the Versailles Treaty and other potent ingredients.” Isherwood’s Berlin novels portray this history-in-the-making at street level, showing how ordinary people were affected. Isherwood’s sharp eye for physical detail and human oddity means that his characters are never merely representative of their class or condition, but leap off the page and live on in the memory. And in the feckless cabaret singer Sally Bowles (on whose story the stage musical Cabaret was later based) he created one of literature’s immortals. Isherwood’s lasting attraction as a writer, apart from the unfading crispness and sheer readability of his prose, is that he encompassed a century. Although born into the Edwardian age in 1904, he still seems strikingly modern. He may have effectively left England in 1929, but he took his Englishness with him, becoming, as he put it, “a permanent foreigner”. He recognised that being an outsider wherever he went, both nationally and sexually, gave him an invaluable perspective as a writer. Having fled Berlin in May 1933, he spent the next few years trailing around Europe with his young German lover Heinz Neddermeyer in search of a country in which they could settle without being harried by immigration officials and the Nazi authorities. Heinz was eventually imprisoned for draft evasion and sexual offences, after which Isherwood travelled to China as a somewhat improbable war reporter with his friend WH Auden. The two emigrated to America in 1939 and Isherwood settled in California. He worked with leading directors in Hollywood, became the disciple of a Hindu guru long before hippies followed in The Beatles’ footsteps to India, and ended up a figurehead of the Gay Liberation movement. He died in 1986. Every step along the way is recorded in the books he wrote, so that reading Isherwood gives one a real sense of what it was like to live through the 20th century, a century characterised by wars, the clash of ideologies, widespread deracination and massive social change. A new perspective is promised by Kevin Elyot’s adaptation for BBC Two of Christopher and His Kind, Isherwood’s memoir of his life in the 1930s, published in 1977. Taking advantage of the new freedoms resulting from gay liberation, Isherwood not only placed his homosexual experiences back at the centre of his Berlin life in this book, but went on to describe his further travels throughout what Auden described as “a low dishonest decade”. As in Goodbye to Berlin, this is a personal story played out against and driven by history. The familiar refugee experience is given a novel twist, however, for it is sexuality rather than race that forces Isherwood to seek another homeland. The book ends hopefully with him setting sail for America, like many European émigrés; and it is here that a whole new chapter of his life and work will open. ‘Christopher and His Kind’ is on BBC Two on Saturday 19 March at 9.30pm. Peter Parker is the author of ‘Isherwood: a Life Revealed’ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8388504/Christopher-Isherwood-The-peculiar-odyssey-of-a-great-literary-outsider.html

Nice of you guys to worry about me. Not sure what I had but it was not any fun. Much better today and may even go out for a short time. I did make some other posts about Bangkok and my visit to a cardiologist which never made it over here but if you are really interested you can go to www.gaythailand.com and read them. I trashed the photos and just don't feel like copying the threads over here, so take a look if you feel you missed something.

It's a bitch to be sick in a foreign country. Firecat, get well soon!

If you ask me, the line between Sarah Palin and satire is a fairly slender one.

I speculated here before that has to be one reason he is living in Casa Santa Marta -- to lessen the danger of ending up like John Paul I.

Do Vegas bookies have an over/under on how soon this new Pope will be found dead in his apartments? I'm thinking with every statement, his health gets more precarious.

Well, to tell the truth, I have provided transport of the last remains a time or two, being hired by the funereal director. This creates a conundrum for the flight plan which traditionally calls for "souls on board". Does one state two + one "ex" or one in progress or what? I have so far insisted that the funereal director accompany the flight. I don't wish to have to deal with the family and the remains. Only one discomforting task at a time, please. Final note: It is considered bad technique to depart with one deceased and arrive with any more. Best regards, RA1

This Hustlaball in berlin was incredible. In the VIP room, action is right in front of you and you can see (and touch if you dare) some models that you only saw in movies. I loved passing my hands into Tom Wolfe's hairy chest while he was fucking his Buddy. Same with Jonathan Agassi. Hardy any twinks here, most are men with virile look , most of them with hairy chest. Worth a repeat, no doubt. I guess the Las Vegas is really hot too. I plan to go to London next June. In the main room and other room, lot of action also on the main stage and on booths. And the Play Area ! Wilder than wild ! Not for the romantic of you ! Tom Wolfe George Basten Johan Volny Other models. Maybe you know them ?

I can't get enough of this one.

Not sure how this will translate or maybe you have to be there but here goes. I am in Thailand now and the word pronounced smaoke is the word for giving a Blow Job I finished a session withe this very cute 19 year old and we are on the balcony looking at the Boats and the Sea. He takes out a pack of cigarettes and takes one out and I grab him and say " Smoke Cock is good. Smoke those Bad. Without hesitation he replies. "Yes but I don't always have a Cock"

...from Broke Straight Boys TV.