The lovely view looking back down The Colmore pub from the leather bucket seats situated towards the rear of the pub.

I also love the two leather bucket chairs at the small table in The Colmore that is situated right at the end of the long main room as it looks back straight down through the pub for peak people watching.

There is a small shelf that wraps around a pillar in The Wellington right opposite the bar and sitting at a stool there with a pint of Oakham Citra at 11am is one of my favourite spots.

Triple hard agree.

I had a second can of it last night and I think it genuinely is a decent blend of the two with characteristics of both coming through in a pretty balanced way.

A bottle of Augustiner next to a frothing ceramic stein containing the finest helles known to humanity

Happy Friday
🫡🍻

Kieran McKenna looks like Charlie Cooper.

A can of Wiper and True's Sundance IPA sits next to a glass containing the contents of said can.

Happy Saturday, comrades.

A fitting game for his first game back for up at your place. Should get a good reception from both sets of supporters.

Tony Mowbray in his first spell in charge of West Bromwich Albion that has been posted in tribute to his return to the club which has filled my heart with joy.

He's back and now my heart is full.

Was very tempted but given I'm easing myself back in went for a 4%er from Helmsley Brewing and bloody nice it was.

A cracker of a pub.
Wouldn't expect anything less from Thornbridge.
Cheers!
Only a quick stop straight from work myself and then I'm off to Blackheath.

Nailed it!

Sláinte!

Hahaha
I only drink clear beers from cask now don't you know.

A glorious looking pint of beer from Helmsley Brewing Co., 'Striding The Riding' sat on a marble table top in The Colmore.

A pint of beer shit from above for an extra view of the sublime, fluffy head atop the beer.

Friends fear he's back on the beer.

A man with his back turned and text reading: "I have a message for beer"

The same man, this time turned to the camera, with text reading: "Run"

Seriously, though, my dry spell from Boxing Day is over today and it's been the easiest one yet. Not sure if I will do it again next year or not, we will see.
Looking forward to a pint though now, I must say.

Beer is in trouble.

I woke up.

If anyone has access to loads of money, Johnny and I want to make a motion picture that will invoke so much working class consciousness and bring the Black Country to the world.

'Rouse ye, Women' (2027) - a film about the 1910 Cradley Heath Chainmaker's Strike. Directed by Johnny Rudge. Casting by Rob Edwards. A Boy Quest Production.

This is a truly beautiful vision.

Together we will create a movie that will invoke so much working class consciousness.

I can one hundred percent see her as a 20th Century chainmaker.
You've got a job as my casting director.

Beamish never went away in Cork.
The Rebel County need to get moving although I suspect it's probably been acquired by some detestable multinational now.

Get her involved.
Oh, I will deal with it!

If Murphy's starts appearing places on the bar or in small pack I will be absolutely buying a tonne of it for nostalgia reasons alone.
The Old Man used to always have four cans of this in the fridge when I was growing up.

My heart yearns for his return.
My head understands it will end in a tarnished legacy.

A Davenport's pub, The Queens Head, on Steelhouse Lane in Birmingham.

A close up of the exterior of The Queens Head with a person entering to sample the Davenport's Brewery offerings within.

JR's Birmingham City Centre Pub Tour #2:

The Queen's Head.

A Davenport's Brewery pub that opened on the site of the old 'Jekyll and Hyde's gin bar after the brewery closed The Bulls Head, another city centre pub it owned (which I much preferred personally) on Bishopsgate Street.

A mug of coffee. The coffee mug has a picture of James Connolly, trade unionist, socialist and Irish Republican on it.

A coffee mug with the text: The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realises the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland - James Connolly.

Good morning.

This morning's coffee brewing was soundtracked by Kaleidoscope World by The Chills.

A cup of coffee in a mug emblazoned with 'West Mids'

Good morning.