The city is thronged with people out enjoying the weather, the restaurants and cafes are full!

Spending the weekend chasing my two year old son around the parks of Paris. Can’t get over how many well maintained public spaces there are here. Beautiful parks with great playgrounds, lots of benches and seats and public toilets.

My Heart Leaps Up — Beer, Graft and Tourism in Cumbria — Pellicle I first met Matt and Michelle when they worked at Hawkshead Brewery, Matt as the head brewer, and Michelle as the head of marketing. In the 2010s, Hawkshead was the pride and joy of Cumbria’s independ...

In the far north west of England, beer is flourishing. Who could have predicted that, like the felling of a tree, the fall of one brewery would create space for so many more?

@katiematherkm.bsky.social on Cumbria's thriving beer scene.

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/4/...

Good beer is good beer, I think that wave of breweries got younger people into drinking more variety. When the buzz went off them, cask was fully developed and ready to offer cheaper and better options. That generation of drinker grew up and so did their taste.

Just give the food, donate the money, this performative nonsense is degrading to all involved.

How long will it be before this happens again?

O/O Bar, Gothenburg 🇸🇪 1st visit. Little bar for O/O Beers. 8 taps with 3 guests and a side-pull for their Pils. Quite a nice space. Knajpa style drop-in. Worth noting for sure. Audience younger but not exclusively. 🍻👍

Haha they’ll be going up again pretty soon the way things are going.

Well done lads, you’re making a shitty situation even worse the rest of the small businesses in the country.

If you want to be mad at the government it should be for not using the big surpluses to accelerate the decarbonisation of the country.

Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather

A single line in this piece just made my day:

“The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.”

Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Usain Bolt.

Honestly still finding this hard to believe. I’ve had a few pints with Alex over the years, a really nice lad, and a world class brewer. Sympathies to his family and friends, I can’t begin to imagine the pain they are in.

The facade of the Elms Inn in Burton, England, featuring the legend BEST BASS ELMS INN

Someone, possibly on Twitter, recommended this pub to me ages ago - well I’ve finally been and can now recommend it to you too. The Bass is good

I’ll grab a pint if you’re free next time, if you’re available!

Enjoyed it, the pub and beers have definitely gone on the list for my next visit to Manchester!

As someone in a time zone 5hrs ahead I was very excited about all the Sunday afternoon games at the start of the season. It seems like most of them have been moved to later.

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And see we did. Great pie.

We’ll see!!!!

Read this excellent profile from @willhawkes.bsky.social and then go to the correct Sutton Arms - not the incorrect Sutton Arms around the corner that I first went to.

A pint of Ambush at the Porterhouse Temple Bar.

I concur.

If they don’t it’s on me, not them.

Someone needs to make a law that the Porterhouse Temple Bar can never change. I love this pub.

Surprising to me when I see screenshots from twitter, can’t believe they’re still posting on it.

In better pub news, happy Friday.

The State of the Union has a whole other meaning when it I say it in my North Dublin accent.

Another advantage of not being on twitter is I don’t get to see this lads posts anymore. I lost some accounts I enjoyed following, but plenty more that just wound me up. I haven’t seen that pepper lads poison in at least a year.

Off Patent Ozempic and the Summer of 2026 I predicted in 2024 that 10% of us would 6kg of bodyweight this year . Here is how an even bigger effect might happen. GLP-1 drugs start goi...

For those tracking the contemporary decline in beer drinking and pub going, @iamreddave.bsky.social reckons one factor is/will be weightloss drugs: liveatthewitchtrials.blogspot.com/2026/02/off-...

This is a necessary fillip given most Irish league games are being cancelled because apparently Ireland now suffers a monsoon season