When My Feet Go Through the Door
Friday, 7 August 2026
Spinning mildly in Manchester
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I went to the Spinners Rest in Ancoats for the first time last night as Joseph Holt's Brewery chose it as the pub where their award for ...
Wednesday, 1 July 2026
RIP Humphrey Smith
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I raised a glass of Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale last night to the memory of Humphrey Smith, the owner of the brewery in Tadcaster, Nort...
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Monday, 18 May 2026
These are a few of my favourite things
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This weekend s Guardian had a list of the best hundred novels, compiled from top tens submitted by writers and critics (I've read thir...
Saturday, 2 May 2026
Snookered by the black
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I watched the fourteenth frame of the World Snooker Championship semi final between Northern Irish player Mark Allen and Chinese youngster W...
Thursday, 2 April 2026
An Alt Alternative
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Two of the beer bloggers I read regularly, Ron Pattinson and Martin Taylor , have both been to the Rhineland recently and I've been enj...
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Monday, 2 February 2026
Some Manchester music myths (and a few facts too)
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On 7th May 1964, Granada TV filmed a programme of performances by touring US blues musicians including Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Cousin Joe ...
Thursday, 1 January 2026
Beers of the Year
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Happy New Year everyone, hope it's a good one for you all. Just been doing some number crunching of my 2025 beer scores on the CAMRA web...
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