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Parklife Where to go for parky time

A flashback to when we were forced to drink in parks.

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Don’t rush into anything. Then dinner.

🙌 Mark, Greece

Parklife Where to go for parky time

Do you remember the days when the parks became pubs? Even in a pandemic, booze will find a way. @deserterblog.bsky.social

This is definitely a campaign that @deserterblog.bsky.social could get somebody else to throw their weight behind.

A commode chair thing inexplicably outdoors

An outdoor suite you'll not need to move from? Spotted in St Paul's Cray @deserterblog.bsky.social

Bin to Cambridge.

(Spotter: @duncpalmer.bsky.social)

Had a vague notion to go to Lidl, but I’ve sat down now.

Leeds Takes the Biscuit One night in the city of owls

When we went to Leeds, got medicined, drank beer and were followed by owls.

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County Championship: Professional Cricketers' Association calls for cut to schedule to protect players' wellbeing A Professional Cricketers Association survey showed 83 per cent of its members held concerns about the physical impact of the schedule; two-thirds had worries from a mental-health standpoint; the play...

Another reason to love cricket. Wonderful work ethic. Voting to work 8 fewer days a year.

@deserterblog.bsky.social should be more into cricket for this reason. Bum dossers of the month?

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Oh my word, it’s the King of Slabs himself, @nedleyjames.bsky.social!

#CrispNews

Introducing... CASK WEDNESDAYS!

We're massive caskheads at the Shirker's so we thought we'd have a weekly celebration - cheap cask beer all day, Wednesdays.

Fresh, chilled, well-kept, rotating cask beers at £4 a pint.

Come and support your local and a great British tradition!

#CaskWednesdays

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How the Raider accidentally became an RE teacher.

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Write that novel or poem at the Champion Hill hot desk. Don’t let the blank page defeat you. @deserterblog.bsky.social

a picture of some patterned pub carpet. on the left half of the picture it is badly faded and marked, scuffed into only grey marks in some places and with a substantial hole through not just the carpet but the floorboards to the tiles below. on right right is a vibrant red carpet with clear patterns, unblemished

on the left, the carpet that's been down in one of the bars of my pub for at least 50 years. centre, the hole that a (now) little old fella called Bill has made by shuffling his feet when he gets excited about horse racing over half a century. right, the carpet as revealed under a fitted bench

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On street, en suite

Beer, cheese, pub 😍

Like Father, Like Son A Dulwich Raider memoir

"Any man can be a father. It takes someone truly annoying to be a dad."

The Raider on life with his father.

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Once Upon a Time in America When Dirty South married twins

When Dirty South married twins.

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Got all your little things in your rucksack, mate?

(Spotter: Moose)

Pubcast: Up the Elephant – Deserter Deserter’s world of sport and crisps.

New Deserter Pubcast.

Boozing at Queen’s Club
Kneecap at Wide Awake
The Shirker’s was 3
Marijuana for all
Crispspsps

Wherever you get your podcasts or here on the website with pics:
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23 to Anywhere. Strong KLF vibes in SE

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NEW DESERTER PUBCAST: Up the Elephant and round the Castle.

A world of sport, snacks, dossing and drinking. Everything.

Available now wherever you get your podcasts, including right here on Spotify:
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The Birth of the Shirker's It's 2022 and the Raider has opened a pub. With sharks.

"A dangerous but thrilling thought pressed itself into my mind. Is it time to give something back to society and open a pub?"

The birth of @theshirkersrest.bsky.social

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Useful advice: Lazy Oaf clothing store, London www.lazyoaf.com

A History of Crisps Potato. Salt. Oil. Action.

Let the critics carp on about how one-dimensional @deserterblog.bsky.social is, always chuffing on about beer and pubs and indeed, beer. For here is proof of the broadness of our spectrum.

Here comes the summer…

3 pubs. 1 bus. All day. Free and open to all.

Game of London – Deserter What if London is a game?

I was reminded of this piece by someone I met the other day.

I went a bit mad during Covid. (Who didn't?) And I wandered the deserted streets of the city imagining it was all a massive video game.

Game of London

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A History of Crisps Potato. Salt. Oil. Action.

"Why do we love them so? Well, there’s the deliciously simple combination of potato, salt and fat, plus their ubiquitous presence in the public house, as the companion to a lovely pint of ale, or a nice pint of wine." - @vincerai.bsky.social

#CrispNews

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@deserterblog.bsky.social One of my cats will only play lying down - he flops over immediately the game starts. I never had any cat like this before I lived in South London.