Feedback from Rose Grant about her provided 'blog on wiki '

Dear Andy,
I'm afraid I've been so busy with the new press that I had not looked
at your wonderful efforts on the wiki. Well I have now, and I think it
is great! Of course I haven't had time yet to look back over everything
that you have selected but the format looks very good. I do not have
any concerns about anything you may have selected since I can't
remember saying anything that I later regretted. I am confident that
you will only add items that could be of interest or of practical use
to others.

Me:
> So I have to ask you if it's OK
> with you if I can quote the first paragraph of your last email as
> 'feedback data' please?

Yes, of course! Please use anything that I have written. I would also
be happy to write a specific testimonial should you need one. There
must be many cider enthusiasts who, like me, are indebted to you for
setting up ukcider. How else would I have got to know wonderful people
like Andrew, Roy, Dick, Gary, Stephen...(I could go on)? I would
probably still be messing about with my demi-johns and wondering why
the cider from them, tasted peculiar etc etc. I never used to bother
about things like pH and SG, how much sulphite is needed and so on.
Yesterday, Ian Lermen , a cider maker from The Forest of Dean visited
me. We are going halves on a pallet load of 20 litre bag-in-boxes.
After loading his trailer we had a jolly little cider tasting, as he
had brought me sample bottles of his cider. I had just bottled some of
my keeved Dabinett so we had a reciprocal tasting, my sweet and his
dry. I thought his dry was excellent. Ian's wife had come with him and
they were both very impressed with the keeved Dabinett . The keeving
process means that it still has a plenty of the actual apple flavour
due to the residual fructose.
The discussion moved on to how we had learnt about cider making,
terrible mistakes of the past, etc. He mentioned that he'd been on
Peter Mitchell's cider course and I said that I'd been thinking of
doing it for some time, but was put off by the cost. He said it would
be a waste of money for me as he didn't think I would learn anything I
didn't know already. (tut tut!) I told him that the most important
things that I have learnt about the craft had come from ukcider, over
the last few years, in spite of it having been my hobby for 20 years
before that. I hope that he will join up. I try to encourage every
cider maker that I meet to do so.
You can be very proud of what you have done for cider in this country
and even worldwide. Isn't it great to have cider friends in so many
countries? I am looking forward to meeting Dick and Gary here in May.
It would be the icing in the cake if you and Linda are able to come too!
Rose