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Drowning in a puddle

Hello Firstly: sorry it’s been ages since I sent one of these, I have been waiting to have the money to pay my Buttondown subscription lmao. A success...

You will always be welcome in my pub

Hello, Sorry, it’s been ages. I had a massive depressive jag and it’s been hard to keep going with everything let alone write stuff, plus the pub’s been...

Asking for a casking

February 10, 2025

Hello, A few days ago I noticed CAMRA’s current campaign, Handpump hijack. Now, you know me. I’m the type of idiot that gives myself a really hard time for...

January 31, 2025

Hello, Right, time to finally get into my life as a Guinness mob boss. Or well, actually that was total hubris but for a short period of time I had the only...

Stewsday (repeat)

January 27, 2025

Not a stew (he is a fan of it, though) I don’t know why Buttondown won’t let me add alt text but this is a photo of Humphrey the enormous Newfoundland dog...

January 26, 2025

Hello, I think I wanted to write about something nicer than this - like that my ales are selling out faster than I can tap them, which is incredibly great...

January 21, 2025

Hello, Writing this one in a froth of excitement, rather than annoyance, for once. My ales are here, my lines are connected, I’ve just hammered a float into...

Yes, it is time to ban discourse

January 14, 2025

Hello, Sorry, this was meant to be an update about my life as a Guinness mob boss. But unfortunately The Times has published a very stupid article and no one...

Ghosts in the lines

January 8, 2025

Hello, [Matt Berry voice] UK pubs are known for being infested with all kinds of ghoulies. Persistent, pernicious and per-fucking-spicuous, these horrid...

January 4, 2025

Hello, Writing what’s basically an article but like, to people is weird, isn’t it? Writing at all is weird. A strange, unused muscle that still knows how to...

I am the manager now

December 29, 2024

Me, in my pub Hello, Quite a lot of these will be more philosophical than this and there’s plenty of weird pub lore and strange stories about my particularly...