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FFS! Another licensee meets their match at the Fox. When the fuck will the bean counters at Admiral Taverns allow ‘someone’ to make this pub pay…

Cor, that really is a banger!

Jon Richardson gets hands-on in pub restoration series Comedian Jon Richardson gets on hands-on in the first episode of his pub restoration series, A Yorkshire Pub.

I very much enjoyed watching the first instalment of 'A Yorkshire Pub' last week (see www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2026...) - a pub not far away from where I live and I very much hope it will be open again soon!

Ribena! Sensible choice…

Spent a very memorable evening in there when our train from England missed the connection to Orkney. We were well looked after by locals, which was just as well as this was our first encounter with the Scottish last orders system where a bell keeps ringing until service stops.

Fool Runnings…

Post a banger that isn’t in English.

Careful, they may give you The Bumps! Happy Birthday Rach’…

Magazine article about the end of our 30 years of making cider.

Blimey! It's like coming across your obituary in The Times..! 😉
Nottingham Drinker issue ND177 - not available as online PDF yet, but out in pubs & watering holes. 👍
#cider #nottinghamshire

NB: Hat is from a "Beautiful South" concert c. 1991. 🙂

Vinyl album of Conte Candoli All Stars – Little Band - Big Jazz

Very cool album from the cream of West Coast jazzers with a terrific warm mono production.

Conte Candoli All Stars – Little Band, Big Jazz (Eros, 1961 UK mono)

#Jazz #Vinyl

Michael Palin and Mackenzie Crook Star in 'Small Prophets' Mackenzie Crook has written and directed a new sitcom, Small Prophets, about a man searching for his missing girlfriend.

Small Prophets 'It's a mysterious story'
featuring Michael Palin and Mackenzie Crook.
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Looks a bit ‘Morris Dancing Tunes’ to me.

Bird box with rusted Corten Steel face, mounted on the side of a shed.

With a garden that has almost no North facing walls it’s been a difficult job thinking where to put this John Hollington Design Bird Box. Pleased to see that on a sunny day it didn’t catch the sun until late-ish afternoon, I just hope the birds can find it now. 🌱

#MooCooMonday

Des was a man of many layers. Years after the event, I discover my first interaction with him was buying the 12” remix of Charlton Heston by Stump - that was him, as half of the Irresistible Force. He made the Popbitch newsletter as Secretary of the Ramblers Association (moor, geddit?) 1/2

Budgie x Canned Heat supergroup!

Be quick!

It’s a lovely journey, like green hilly Devon, but it just takes too much time out of the day.

Adventure Cat trying it for size.

“Nah! Not for me, Dogs really are stupid!”

The narrow gauge from Santander to Bilbao takes a few hours, I learned later that the bus takes less than an hour 😂 Nice journey though…

‘What’s surely been needed is a reboot of these traditional pub games in their natural habitats.’

One reason I stopped blogging about pub games is it became increasingly obvious that pubs that hosted them had little or no interest in promoting them, Skittles in particular is like a secret society.

Turned on the telly just in time to see Italy beat USA in the Curling 🥌🎉

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

Mandlesson?

Small brass rivet in the concrete of a culvert parapet, obscured by Leylandii but revealed by a hand.

Leylandii, mortal enemy of Benchmark hunters.

Rivet on the low parapet of a Culvert in Melton.

#BenchmarkMonday

Small Prophets, the new series from Mackenzie Crook, co-starring Pearce Quigley and Michael Palin, starts tonight at 10pm on BBC Two. It's the @radiotimes.bsky.social Pick of the Day.

a bald man wearing sunglasses is looking at the camera . ALT: a bald man wearing sunglasses is looking at the camera .

What if I told you Hollywood has been turning out repetitive AI-esque bilge for decades…

I wasn’t particularly interested before today, but I feel myself being sucked in, particularly by the Curling 😬

Men’s figure skating?

Oh fuck! Curling…