Ash heaps, Thorpe Marsh Power Station, South Yorkshire, April 2025.

Join us on Tuesday for Habitation: poems on the theme of land/class/nature with Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, Fay Musselwhite.

Tue 21 April
The Harlequin, 108 Nursery St, Sheffield, S3 8GG

Free entry, all welcome. Book here:
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lol spurs

No but thank you for the offer! Honestly there must have been about 50 bar towels up for grabs today and I just grabbed the select few I liked or had historical links to the pubs.

I also managed to pick this up for the Rutland.

A stones brewery bar towels with the words "Goes down great guns" running along the bottom.

sadly wasn't quick enough to bag this beauty 😔

A bunch of bar towels from John Smiths, Camerons, Tetleys, Wards, Bass and Marstons

I've hit the jackpot lads.

heated chivalry

Oh thats a very silly mistake from me. It was probably the Bass convo that had me mixed up!

I was quite disappointed by the Flowerpot in recent visits, so much so that I've sadly started leaving it off my Derby Pub Crawl.

When you live in possibly (definitely) the best area for pubs in the country, it's so bloody hard to make yourself venture out to different places.

Really wanted comfort food today so I made the one and only dish my mom could make without somehow fucking it up - corned beef hash. And let me tell you, whilst it really hit the spot for my mood, there is definitely a reason I've not eaten it for going on 20 years.

A pint of cask beer on a table in a beer garden. Next to it is a copy of Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman.

Pint and book! I've absolutely loved reading The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. A tale of artifice, aspiration, and arousal. The Odyssey if Homer had access to LSD.

The pint was English Pale by Ideal Day, which was refreshingly crisp and clear in comparison to a complicated read.

Amazing thank you! I imagine we will be drinking more wine anyway, so non beer focus is absolutely fine.

We've not even started looking where to go yet, so if you have any places you'd like to put forward then please feel free!

Bologna, I'm going to be in you next month, and I promise to spend outrageous amounts of money in your wonderful bars and restaurants if only you would please stop Villa from winning a trophy this season.

Actually they all ordered straight away and then decided to start making changes whilst it was cooking 🙃

YES! and miraculously only half an hour late!!

Let's play a game of will the table of 9 who booked for food at 2PM turn up before the kitchen closes at 3PM.

That scene from Game of Thrones with Hodor holding back the horde of white walkers except I'm hodor and it's a horde of tickers trying to get into the pub at 11:45 on any given weekday.

Bags upon Bags of papers and pamphlets

Spent my morning rifling through 50 years worth of local CAMRA mags and What's Brewing. How do you spend your days off?

Bacon in a hotcross bun

One of my only traditions - Easter Hot Cross Bacon Butties 🙏

A pint glass of beer that is about 1/3 foamy head. Saint Mars of the Desert is printed on the front

It's Easter weekend, which in Sheffield means that all the best pubs are packed with folkies.

So I am taking refuge in this fiddle free zone with a nice glass of fleurs de printemps.

Oh absolutely not! I've never been able to do biscuits. They always end up rubbish. So I'm very jealous!

A tray of brownies with creme eggs melted into the top. A vase of tulips behind it.

made creme egg/mini egg brownies for Easter 🐣

Since last Friday I've managed to have one whole afternoon (today) to myself outside of working what feels like non stop. What did I do with it I hear you ask? I wrote the pub quiz ready for my shift tonight.

When I went to Burton, this pub was the one I was most surprised by, I really liked it too.

Haha. No idea what made this weekend so busy. Nothing particularly special, just loads of thirsty punters!

A hand with the palm showing and fingers spread, there are visible calluses at the base of the finger closest to the thumb

I have served so much cask beer this weekend that I now have pint pulling calluses at the point where my hand grips the handpulls.

How was it? I had a terrible experience the last time I was in the Coopers and don't much feel like ever going back, but the way everybody talks about it makes me think I must've missed something?

Took just under a grand in 3 hours on my own. I am on deaths door.