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GT Ales Santas Pod

Final #beer from GT Ales tonight, one left over from Christmas - Santas Pod, a chocolate and vanilla porter. If you ever get the chance to buy this beer do. It is as smooth as silk and the chocolate and vanilla notes really shine through. #BskyBeer

GT Ales North Coast IPA

Next up from GT Ales is their North Coast IPA. A hoppy little number with a dry finish, dangerously drinkable! #BskyBeer

Yes, the worst you can say of Doombar is that it is bland and inoffensive... the MacDonald's of the beer world 🤷

It's mainly St Austell and Sharps round here. Makes it difficult for independents like GT's. Not that there's anything wrong with St Austell, just be nice to have a wider choice!

Gary makes some cracking beers. If you're ever over Braunton way pop into the brewery and get some.

GT Ales Thirst of Many

Staying in North Devon tonight with GT Ales Thirst of Many. A fine refreshing session beer. #BskyBeer

Certainly didn't do much for my blood pressure! #Bees

GT Ales stout

And finally, just in time for #Stouterday, back into Devon for GT Ales Atlantic Storm oatmeal #stout. Very moreish.

Korev lager

And now moving from Devon to Cornwall, Korev lager from St Austell, more of a classic Pilsner style. #BskyBeer

Utopian lager

@teamutopian.bsky.social unfiltered lager. 1st #beer of the evening. A cracking British lager. #BskyBeer

Craft beer has a lot to answer for!

Any good?

A much-liked post by Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com with the titles “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student” and the caption “They don’t want to get blamed again“

A joke for the history buffs:

Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

Plus the football coverage is much better on Twitter. You'll look in vain for most Brentford accounts (honourable mention to @brentfordfcnyc.bsky.social) on BlueSky & non-league stuff is virtually non-existent.

Once got my fingers bitten by a dog putting a leaflet through someone's letter box - swore profusely at their video doorbell, probably didn't help our candidate!

Live in Hampshire? You might have a view on whether any of your council tax should go towards buying ads on X.

Lots and lots of other ways to reach audiences with paid spend, Hants. And I never go there so that the fact I'm served this ad means your spend is being wasted.

Schwerin Christmas Market.

Yellow card!

The Lincoln Imps' long lost cousin in Lubeck?

Lubeck, Germany. Stars of the Christmas market in front of a church.

Just here to point out that Currywurst is not just the worst German sausage dish nor indeed the worst German food nor even the world's worst food but actually the worst thing in the world.

'It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description without meaning—as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.'

Albert Einstein, from Max Born, Physik im Wandel meiner Zeit (Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1966).

It's International Coffee Day. A moment to put our caffeine-based differences aside and unite against our common enemy: soup.

I'm not sure how happy these two individuals would be to sit alongside each other on a bookshelf, even 2000 years after their deaths.

Varus probably didn't know Tacfarinas, but Tacfarinas certainly knew who Varus was - there are a fair few connections between the two... A short #Roman🧵

just read an incredible 13th Century account of a feudal uprising where a duke's son was killed by rebels who used a trebuchet to knock him off the battlements with the only available ordnance: a peasant's decapitated head. apparently it was the first serf-face-to-heir missile

no, *you* shut up 😁

The Field or Rez Point series by @simonwinstanley.bsky.social if stories involving complex timelines are your thing for sci-fi. The Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson is a good overview of the American Civil War.

Sunset Westward Ho!

Sun setting over Westward Ho! beach.

I think the final proofs of my book on Tacfarinas have finally been signed off & so it will shortly be heading for the printing press. A book about anti-#Roman rebellion in northwest Africa in the early reign of Tiberius.

Now available for pre-order www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tacfarinas-A...