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London Beard Week 2025. Promoting Hirsute Style in the Capital Beard Liberation Front Media Release 5th August Contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social London Beard Week 2025 Promoting Hirsute Style in the Capital The Beard Liberation Front, t…

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From the sublime to the ridiculous. Monday: Test cricket finished for the summer; Tuesday: The Hundred starts From the sublime to the ridiculous. Monday: Test cricket finished for the summer; Tuesday: The Hundred starts I’ve been going to Test matches at The Oval for longer than I can remember. I was there…

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Closing Wetherspoons pubs & community impact Wetherspoons is a publicly quoted company and its legal duty is to shareholders. That said without customers there is no profit. Spoons currently has around 800 pubs and is opening news ones (for e…

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Times Editorial demands review of timing of Test Matches & the Hundred The above is the final paragraph of a Times Editorial on the Fifth Test at the Oval which ended with a 6 run victory for India on 4th August. The Times as one would expect of Murdoch media is gener…

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Telegraph had an interview with Pete H who owns the Cock, Pocket, Southampton Arms & Howling Hops who said he thinks chefs ruin pubs. Rather a focus on good beer, cider etc & let people bring their own food. A Guardian article I thought but Corbyn is writing in the Telegraph today on his allotment

Bit of an odd article in my view. Feeds into a declinist agenda which the Telegraph loves except that paper sometimes ventures into pub food while the Grauniad doesn't bother these days

Engels died on 5th August 1895 but had a vigorous if unusual appetite in his last month Engels died aged 74 on 5th August 1895. His ashes were scattered off Beachy Head. He had cancer but in the last month of his life he still managed a varied and interesting diet, albeit it seems wit…

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2025 Beard, Shorts & Sandals Season Suspended for 24 hours from 00.00 4th August due to Storm Floris Beard Liberation Front 3rd August Contact Keith Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social 2025 Beard, Shorts & Sandals Season Suspended for 24 hours from 00.00 4th August due to Storm Floris The Beard Libe…

Suspension of the Beard, Shorts & Sandals Season 2025 due to inclement weather has now been lifted. Beard flaunting can resume
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Unionise! Facial hair optional

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Unionise! Facial hair optional

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2025 Beard, Shorts & Sandals Season Suspended for 24 hours from 00.00 4th August due to Storm Floris Beard Liberation Front 3rd August Contact Keith Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social 2025 Beard, Shorts & Sandals Season Suspended for 24 hours from 00.00 4th August due to Storm Floris The Beard Libe…

Suspension of the Beard, Shorts & Sandals Season 2025 due to inclement weather has now been lifted. Beard flaunting can resume
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00.30. Clean cats bowl so she can now eat the same food that was in it before (including a few bits of 40 day aged steak..)

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Nigel Farage on cigarettes & alcohol. The issue of how many bottles (of wine) makes a ‘proper’ lunch I’ve seen all these diary pieces and gossip columns say that I’m a chain smoker,” he said. “Others have written that my drink intake verges on alcoholism Westminster interview 27th March In an inte…

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Chris Woakes joins Beard Hall of Fame Beard Liberation Front August 4th The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that England bowler Chris Woakes has been admitted to the Beard Hall of Fame. Woakes wh…

Chris Woakes, the England bowler, has joined the Beard Hall of Fame as an outstanding example of cricketing beard power
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From the sublime to the ridiculous. Monday: Test cricket finished for the summer; Tuesday: The Hundred starts From the sublime to the ridiculous. Monday: Test cricket finished for the summer; Tuesday: The Hundred starts I’ve been going to Test matches at The Oval for longer than I can remember. I was there…

The Oval saw one of the great Test Match finishes. However, The Hundred starts on Tuesday😁
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From 1871 to 1964 the August Bank Holiday would’ve been on Mon 4th August(England & Wales) From 1871 to 1964 the August Bank Holiday would’ve been on Mon 4th August(England & Wales) The Debate about the August Bank Holiday (House of Commons March 1964) In March 1964 Edward Heath, Tor…

If you enjoyed the weather in England & Wales on 4th August keep in mind that from 1871 to 1964 the August Bank Holiday was the first Monday of the month. Reasons why it changed👇
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certainly not

England v India Test series: the importance of Siraj & what the UK media misses Indian fast bowler Mohammed Siraj took 5-104 in England’s second innings at the Oval. Despite the impact of Bumrah, who didn’t play at the Oval, Siraj was a key player in the series. Po…

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26 Counties but not the 6 counties according to Google..

From the sublime to the ridiculous. Monday: Test cricket finished for the summer; Tuesday: The Hundred starts From the sublime to the ridiculous. Monday: Test cricket finished for the summer; Tuesday: The Hundred starts I’ve been going to Test matches at The Oval for longer than I can remember. I was there…

The Oval saw one of the great Test Match finishes. However, The Hundred starts on Tuesday😁
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Yes nominations welcome but must be in the public eye & not Jonathan Gullis or similar obviously

Eclectic Avenues — How London’s First Black Pub Landlords Changed the City’s Drinking Culture — Good Beer Hunting The HMT Empire Windrush has become a fitting symbol of the plight of Black Britain. The ship—which transported 1,027 passengers and two stowaways from Jamaica on June 22, 1948, a journey whose 75t...

Near me a host of Spoons have shut. As Pete says they’re the nearest thing we have to Working Men’s clubs but they’re also the spaces black drinkers find community in. All the sources here were in them (and a lot of the pubs are now closed or closing)

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completely agree. Before craft beer my local for many years was the Tollgate, Turnpike Lane, N8 (sold by Spoons tho still just about open as a pub). A genuine community pub. Something the Spoons haters miss or perhaps just don't want to know

The Ambridge Socialist. After Farage, Badenoch makes a bid for a role in the Archers The Ambridge Socialist 4th August With the news that the Gills are selling Home Farm, rumours suggest that Kemi Badenoch may be moving in. While Farmer Farage would boost the takings of The Bull co…

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Chris Woakes joins Beard Hall of Fame Beard Liberation Front August 4th The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that England bowler Chris Woakes has been admitted to the Beard Hall of Fame. Woakes wh…

Chris Woakes, the England bowler, has joined the Beard Hall of Fame as an outstanding example of cricketing beard power
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Closing Wetherspoons pubs & community impact Wetherspoons is a publicly quoted company and its legal duty is to shareholders. That said without customers there is no profit. Spoons currently has around 800 pubs and is opening news ones (for e…

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Nigel Farage on cigarettes & alcohol. The issue of how many bottles (of wine) makes a ‘proper’ lunch I’ve seen all these diary pieces and gossip columns say that I’m a chain smoker,” he said. “Others have written that my drink intake verges on alcoholism Westminster interview 27th March In an inte…

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From the sublime to the ridiculous. Monday: Test cricket finished for the summer; Tuesday: The Hundred starts From the sublime to the ridiculous. Monday: Test cricket finished for the summer; Tuesday: The Hundred starts I’ve been going to Test matches at The Oval for longer than I can remember. I was there…

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Chris Woakes joins Beard Hall of Fame Beard Liberation Front August 4th The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that England bowler Chris Woakes has been admitted to the Beard Hall of Fame. Woakes wh…

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