Couldn’t stay up until 1:45am for the rugby, but what a nice result to wake up to!



We have a meeting tomorrow with the deputy mayor and various department folks to discuss water supply to likely brewery site and hopefully will get him to mediate a meeting with the nearby country club owners who pump village water up to top of the hill.

Once we get an agreement in principle then we can get a professional to come and test the water. I’ll borrow a water testing kit too and have a go but that’s just so that I can play with a chemistry set 😄

Then, if all goes well with the results of the water tests we can finally have an official chat about renting or buying the site from the family eat farm.. then the fun really begins!



Day off today, so I have thus far spent the morning tweaking my brewery designs.. which whilst fun, is somewhat work adjacent.. need to do something else!



Finally finished watching Andor this evening, definitely my favourite of the TV shows this far.. didn’t even finish the Bob’s Fett one, found it super tedious.



Just had a meeting with another groundwater company, this one was prepared with geological maps of the area etc. Not likely groundwater at the brewery site.. but very likely in the farm in front of it..

.. super expensive to bore though and the farm uses pesticides so we’d need to drill down very far.. not sure it’s in the realms of realism for us right now. Will try to chat with the country club about their water supply .



We had a meeting with our town hall to discuss water provision at the potential brewery site. It went pretty well, the village has a water treatment facility and a groundwater pump already and seemingly from their perspective the water is so pure they barely treat it. However, the country club near neighbouring the tea farm where our brewery may be built pumps the water up the hill and we would have to find out more about whether they do any additional treatment and discuss the possibility of a supply contract.

Whilst they were a bit quiet about whether they would pay for exploratory bore hole work at our site, they said our subsidies could be used to test the water pumped up via the country club so this is now plan A.

Interestingly, they think that perhaps the site which I would prefer but which we considered off the table due to multi-level governmental red tape might not be so difficult and may be back on the table. This sliver of hope was very well received!



Still patiently waiting for frame.work to start shipping to Japan so that I can replace this Librem p.o.s. and start playing rimworld in the only (occasionally) warm room in the house.

.. our second winter allegedly starts tomorrow.. I don’t want to work from the office.. although chances are the nursery school will be inaccessible and the day will be spent looking after the girls anyway.



Designing the housing for your dream job is actually a lot of fun and pretty addictive, who knew?

On my 3rd and favourite iteration of a brewery design for the most likely (at this point) future brewing site.. looking cool.. can only imagine how much cooler it would look if I had actually watched or read any tutorial before jumping in arse first.

Going to measure some of the other potential sites from a map and see what I can conjure up for different layouts.. tomorrow that is, for tonight I shall play rimworld!