If anyone wants me I’m drinking Pedro Ximenez on a voyage to the antipodes with William Golding! #readingndrinking
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Work is finally over for the day! What are we doing tonight Brain? The same thing we do every night Pinky: read well and drink well! Glencadam Portwood and the 1805 Club New Series Volume 2 #readingndrinking #histbookchat
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Finally getting into the 1805 Club’s Trafalgar Chronicles, or at least the new series. Matching with Black Jack, a Cornish porter from Tintagel Brewery. Given the number of captains from Cornwall (Bolitho anyone? 🤣) this seems appropriate. #readingndrinking #histbookchat
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Tonight on #readingndrinking it’s slaves escaping on British ships which is an excuse to try some of the South African ‘Three Ships’ whisky I have been gifted by someone I thought was a friend! 🤣 #histbookchat
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Another haul from Ken Trotman books and its wargaming content for the 18th century, both the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War. 📚 #readingndrinking
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It’s time! @blackredcoats.bsky.social’s Black Redcoats and the Harbour Special from Tintagel Brewery. I’ve dipped into the book before but this is the full cover to cover. From the start it’s pretty epic and uplifting. #readingndrinking #histbookchat
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Tonight on #readingndrinking it’s Feeding Nelson’s Navy and Fullers Brewery Imperial Stout. 🌊 🍻 📚 #histbookchat
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Work laptop switched off. Now it’s time to read about Midshipmen while drinking from the cask! #readingndrinking #histbookchat
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Right! As I’m still technically on holiday, albeit at home, I intend to relax with a book about Evangelical Anglicans in the Royal Navy and wonderful beer made by Trappist monks. A perfection born of contrasts tonight! #readingndrinking #histbookchat
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What do I do on holiday? The same thing I do at home! Go to book shops and try new beverages… 📚 🍻 🇮🇸 #readingndrinking
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It’s still dry January so on this evening’s #readingndrinking it’s Black Salt and black tea in a suitably patriotic mug… 📚 🌊 #histbookchat
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My first attempt at a dry January (though I’m making an exception for an open bar on Saturday) doesn’t mean there’ll be no #readingndrinking. In fact I’m reading about foreign seamen in Nelson’s navy while avoiding scurvy… #histbookchat
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Continuing the theme, I misread Brakspear as Breakspar, something no sloop or brig commander would wish to do! So it’s Sloops & Brigs by James Henderson and a Brakspear Oxford Gold #readingndrinking #histbookchat
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Pre-Christmas dinner relaxation with a good book and a seemingly bottomless glass of Prosecco… #readingndrinking #histbookchat
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Tonight it’s James Henderson on the legendary frigate engagements of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars and Badger Ales Master Stoat. Master Stoat could be a master and commander but he’s dressed like a ship’s carpenter 🤷🏻♂️ 📚 🌊 #readingndrinking #histbookchat
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Tonight I ease into Christmas week with a Bolitho and a glass of Black Tot Rum. As a glass half full kind of chap I’m enjoying Kent’s writing. He’s no Patrick O’Brian but he’s a grand writer. All I need is a tall ship and a glass to sail her by. Near enough! #readingndrinking
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This evening I am mostly reading ‘Patronage and the British Navy’ and drinking Tintagel Brewery Castle Gold. #readingndrinking #histbookchat
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This evening I will be mostly reading Nicholas Roger’s’ “The Press Gang” with a Tintagel Harbour Special, which is a bitter, which I suppose is what many pressed men might be… 🌊 📚 🍺 #readingndrinking
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A Tintagel Brewery Cornwall Pride matched with Captain Bolitho, Cornish hero. For the story it helps it’s a bitter as there’s a bitter first officer to boot! #readingndrinking
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Back on the Royal Navy voyage with Roger Knight’s Convoy and the Imperial Stout from Fullers. Stout fellows of the Empire? Ok it’s tenuous but it’ll do! 🤣 🍻 📚 #readingndrinking
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Dishes done. Ironing done. Feet up done. Interrupt Nelsonian navy reading for the perfect match of book and bottle: The Greek Revolution in print and a Greek renaissance in a bottle #readingndrinking #histbookchat
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An evening with an American in the Georgian Royal Navy and an excellent moscatel. #readingndrinking #histbookchat
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If anyone wants me, I’m drinking @Glengoyne 12 year old and reading about Lord Barham. Start the week the way you mean to go on… #readingndrinking 📚 🥃 #histbookchat
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Taking a break from book unpacking with a glass of moscatel and an excellent series of papers on naval leadership. I’m being exposed to a range of French & Spanish admirals I’ve never heard of and some I’ve only heard of in defeat. Thanks 1805 Club! #readingndrinking #histbookchat
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The last #readingndrinking in the current abode in Enfield (if all goes to plan tomorrow!). I moved in with She Who Must Be Obeyed in 2019 so the Fullers 2019 Vintage Ale is perfect. As is the Bolitho book! The new neighbours better not be rogues or it’ll be a broadside for ‘em!
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Settling down on this warm afternoon with Left-Handed Admirals and Leffe. There’s a joke about getting legless here that I’m not going to make, but the book itself looks very interesting. #readingndrinking #histbookchat
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After an excellent book on the Revolutionary Navy I’m back to fiction, in this case I’m starting the Bolitho series. No idea if a Parsifal Pecorino is appropriate, but it’s right for the weather. 📚 🌊 🇬🇧 #readingndrinking
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The #readingndrinking isn’t just about the books that come in: I’ve joined the @thewinesociety.bsky.social and this is the first haul to go with the rest of my summer reading…
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Tonight I’ve moved on to the shambles that is the Revolutionary French Navy with an excellent white Bordeaux but then Chateaux George is run by an Englishwoman… #readingndrinking #histbookchat
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