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The surprise appearance of Jedward was a fun and unexpected curveball

Manchester’s Best Beers, Pubs and Bars 2nd edition (2026) - CAMRA shop Guidebook to more than 220 pubs, bars, tap rooms and bottleshops in Manchester and its boroughs such as Bolton, Trafford and Rochdale. Available April 2, 2026

Happy publication day to Manchester’s Best Beer V2! I hope to see a few of you later on at Café Beermoth to celebrate (please note the Waterstones bit isn’t happening.) If you haven’t picked up a copy you can do so here:

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God grant me the power to be a perpetually online social media manager, on April 1st, in a world filled with AI slop. It’s gonna be a looong eye-rolled filled morning.

V pleased to have played a part in enabling this delightful purchase

Gonna miss this goose

So good

The mascot at the World Indoor Championships is absolutely bringing the hype I love it

Not at BeerX this year for the first time since I started working in the industry! Going to miss catching up with everyone!!

Thank you!!

He’s on a stag do, but a “nice time” kind of one!!

Any top pub recs for Belfast? My brother in law is off there this weekend and his pals have a huuuuuge list so it’d be good to help them narrow it down 🍻

I like “flabbergasted” and “discombobulated”

😂

Well I thought I was being exceedingly witty anyway 😂

Guess who has been a big brave girl and booked her first haircut since pre COVID?!

Oh how I have missed lighter evenings and a bit of warmth in the air

National XC Championships. The annual reminder that being distinctly average (at best) and somewhat resembling a potato doesn’t make me any less of an athlete ☺️ always the best day out!!

BBC! Thoroughly enjoyed it

The top 3 in the men’s big air has brought a tear to my eye. Real camaraderie and cheering each other on to be the best they can. What sports should all be about. #winterolympics

The 2026 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100

Well I thought Wuthering Heights was fantastic. The DRAMA. The DRESSES. The EGGS.

I’m doing the Beer Lovers Marathon there in May and believe these steps form part of the route 😬

I really enjoyed it! In a “it’s like a cover song that you don’t quite recognise at first because it’s so flamboyantly different” kind of way. Also THE DRESSES.

Gosh transphobes are incredibly boring as well as awful aren’t they

When I told them they were factually incorrect, their ever so eloquent reply was “no fuck off”. Laughable and embarrassing excuses for women who are actively causing harm to others in the name of “protection”. Utterly vile.

Arguing with particularly stupid transphobes on the internet. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

ALSO going at 120 km per hour and SITTING UP TO TAP THE DONGLE absolutely wild

I honestly can’t think of a single person in the world I would be comfortable doing the double decker luge with 😂

Rhythm dance ice skating to 90s megamixes?! YES. #winterolympics