Steve

I absolutely love this cover, I'm guessing from the bottles of Bass that it's inspired by Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère.

Thanks so much, and it's well worth a visit!

BT Tower on a slightly overcast morning, with other office buildings below

Morning!

Thank you!

Cheers, thank you!

Yes, it's awful and unnecessary. They have a massive majority, they could be anything, yet choose to be like this.

Thanks so much for the kind words - and completely agree on needing the right people, pubs are all about that!

What a grim, grim government. They are going to completely destroy what little faith the public has left in politics, which will lead us to an even worse place than we are now.

You're doing a great job in turning that place into somewhere special, and people should know about it - thank you for all you are doing, it's really appreciated!

Thanks for sharing! It's well worth trying out, a work in progress that's definitely worth supporting.

Thanks for sharing! It is such a worthwhile project to make those changes in a deeply unfashionable pub in a deeply unfashionable place!

Thanks so much for sharing, I really appreciate it!

Royal Oak, Northumberland Heath The Royal Oak is massive. It’s local, and that’s important, but the first thing to mention is it’s massive. There are three bars in an age where even two bars is a rarity – The Poolroom Bar, …

Hope this isn't weird to share, but to provide some balance, I wrote up some far more positive thoughts on the pub...
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Mi-Soul radio Mi-Life Mi-Soul

Really think there is a good case for Mi-Soul Radio mi-soul.com being the best radio station out there right now. Wall to wall bangers, crate digging rather than just playing the hits and a friendly community feel to the whole thing.

I think that's entirely fair! I imagine it's amazing for Springsteen superfans, but a bit of hard work for the rest of us.

I thought there was some interesting stuff in there but no way I could justify the cost. I also wonder if I'd enjoy them more as individual albums dripfed over time. The sheer volume made it feel overwhelming and made me less inclined to spend any real time listening over songs multiple times.

YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic Station to Station (2016 Remaster)

Listening to this and thinking it is absolutely one of the greatest songs of all time.
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A few short notes on Correction by Thomas Bernhard “Wherever we look, we see nothing but abandoned intentions” Thomas Bernhard’s Correction (translated by Sophie Wilkins) is a book of two halves. In the first half the narrator is summoned to his fr…

A few short notes on Correction by Thomas Bernhard
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I wrote this over the weekend, sharing again for anyone who missed it and now I have a couple more followers...

Pub table with a pint of beer, Don Delillo's book Libra and a notebook and pen being used as a bookmark

Sunday afternoon.

Finally finished Thomas Bernhard's Correction. An incredible book, loved how all the ideas behind it coalesced at the end. The two part scruture was perfectly executed too. It might not be his best, but his one of his most interesting in terms of it's execution.

A cactus on a pale pink background with text in warm green: Bold Hipster Serif, Coffee & Craft Beer.

In tall, condensed ITC Garamond, a bit like the old Apple font, text that reads: Retro Corporate Skinny Serif, the future they stole from you.

A few years ago everything* looked like the one on the left but now everything* seems to look like the one on the right, with weirdly tight tracking.

* quite a lot of things

Hello! Thought I'd finally give it a go!

Royal Oak, Northumberland Heath The Royal Oak is massive. It’s local, and that’s important, but the first thing to mention is it’s massive. There are three bars in an age where even two bars is a rarity – The Poolroom Bar, …

I've written something about the Royal Oak, Northumberland Heath - a proper pub that has been refurbished in both a practical and philosophical sense.
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I suppose it's about time I check this place out...mainly because there's quite a few people I really miss hearing from.