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@AmadeusMozart Ditto Stockport County

Why is the Weatherfield football team called Weatherfield County, surely Weatherfield is a town, suburb of Manchester and NOT a whole county. #Corrie

@GBbooze @oldmudgie Ownership may have changed, but notable for being relaunched as a collab between 4 different breweries: historypoints.org/index.php?page…

The Albion Ale House, Conwy, #Wales 🍻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Multi-roomed pub with a nationally important historic interior, each room retains original 1920s features, and several have interesting fireplaces. There is no music, TV or fruit machines. The pub serves beers from all over the U.K.

@oldmudgie What a cretin

Latest issue of Samuel Smith's pub list published today. 316 in total, of which 138 are open, 152 closed and 26 status to be confirmed. facebook.com/download/20779…

@oldmudgie Such a waste of computing power, energy, water…

Cute, but does this actually improve the human condition?

@kbw1001 @oldmudgie @HydesBrewery I always ask for one from behind the bar in less enlightened establishments, but have had to make do with a napkin before now. They setve a useful (essential?) purpose, after all.

@bakefaceMCR @oldmudgie @HydesBrewery Rare as hen's teeth thesedays (at least in the pubs I use).

Wow, well done to @HydesBrewery for a pub refurbishment featuring carpet, bench seating, round tables and beermats! 😊👍🍻 facebook.com/story.php?stor…

@kbw1001 @oldmudgie @HydesBrewery Those things that stop you getting sticky/watery rings all over the table.

@oldmudgie @HydesBrewery Beermats 🤔 What are they 🤨 😀

@oldmudgie My mate in North Wales has been to their barn several times, v.scenic/atmospheric apparently, and nice cider to boot. Certainly not a major brand though. Neither does my friend recall seeing it any local supermarkets.

But I opened the link, so the clickbait worked 😳

Major cider? Never heard of it, let alone actually seen it on sale. birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/shopp…

@oldmudgie Anything replacing it? Or is there already an app or something?

I see CAMRA are shutting down their WhatPub website on 25 August, which is going to result in a lot of dead links.

@TheCrownInnSP Great, can’t wait (that’s enough grey tho!)

We are in!!! Can't wait to transform The Crown Inn and have you all here for opening to enjoy lovely beer 🍻 #thecrowninnstockport

@nwpearson @tandleman @oldmudgie For about 3 days a week.

@tandleman @oldmudgie In my experience the very best chippys are usually open for a limited period during the day eg 5pm till 9pm.

Haddock in beef dripping after haircut in Morley Leeds. Sorry no photo, but with fish as thick as my thumb and great tasting batter, this was fab. Chips excellent too. Nothing here in M24 can hold a candle to it. Bog off tiny thin cod and veg oil.

@oldmudgie What a cretin. Having seen the photos, I was planning a visit. Surely others too?

Humphrey Smith strikes again! ☹️ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@SHEIN_Official Disgusting Pay your staff properly.

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@oldmudgie Depends on the cut but not at the US steak houses I’ve been to. It’s common in France with Bavette steak. OK with cheaper cuts but otherwise not a fan - would rather slice to my desired size. Obviously it goes cold quicker too.

Is it common in the US to present steaks pre-sliced like this? 🥩

@oldmudgie And probably shrinklation too as brewers downgrade from 500ml bottles to 440ml cans, as many of the craft crowd already have.

Unlikely, but I can see a lot of beers switching from bottles to cans. telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink…

@MrTimDunn They’ve increased the 140 character limit on Twitter then?

I’m off to Devon tonight; aboard one of the best-kept secrets of Britain’s railway: the 19:04 from Paddington. I am having dinner in the dining car, as we surf through the night along twin strips of steel. Speeding at 125 miles per hour, Sarah the chef somehow cooks in the kitchen for us lucky 16 and Aaron’s team deftly serves up soups (thanks to some fancy footwork, I’ve noticed) without a spill down the aisle. It’s a full house tonight; numbers have been steadily growing these last few years as more people discover this semi-secret weekday - (it runs at lunchtime too, as well as in the other direction, AND to/from Swansea) - attainable occasional luxury. We’ve just called at Taunton and I’m having my freebie coffee and mint. I’m enjoying the shared spectacle of once-strangers at tables swapping stories of travels, decisions which changed their lives, careers extraordinary and yet - as every conversation always turns in this carriages - finding commonality in a love of all things & places which lie out this way West. At Tiverton Parkway the ever-chatty Michelle clears away glasses, and visibly restrains herself from striking up chat… she’s just seen the time. Here, I am reminded of my last trip last year, riding aboard this incredible survivor of an age of romance which - and this carriage is proof - is not yet all gone. That day was a time when I was low; really, very low. Two kind friends swooped in and took me far, to see more friends down by the sea, and we came home that night on the evening diner. Some poor soul - troubled by something terrible - was in such a bad way that they had ventured on to a bridge up ahead, so we stopped at Tiverton whilst someone unseen did their magic and that night, likely saved a life. As we waited, some aboard and some on platform, others from standard joined the dining car on discovering that it’s a free upgrade if there’s space, and you’re buying a meal. As I stood in the evening sun, mulling over the meaning of life and how its ups all have downs but deciding that therefore all its downs must always have ups, one of our fellow diners (a much-loved actor of worthy great repute) was now, it transpired, desperate for a spliff. With wine glass now on the platform, she brought out her sweet-scented roll-up. But she *knew* that one cannot smoke upon a station, so in a move executed as elegantly as those she makes upon stage and screen, she lit up and leant over the railing - on one leg to ensure she was well over - into the car park. It’d never stand the test of a court of law but no judge could surely fail to be impressed. Good news soon came from Control of the line and person safe up ahead, and we all returned to the dining car in better spirits perhaps, than we had all been in whilst in our own separate little worlds. That journey back to London was full of chatter, joy and relief. I don’t flash cash - I have none to do it with, despite what some might presume of people who work “in the media” - but there is a romance to dinner in the diner and something very special about eating a proper meal on a train. Sometimes the quiet solitude of a table for one, saved up for and planned for, is the restaurant of my dreams and an escape away from London. Another time it can be a journey unexpectedly learning from others’ life experiences, or a safe haven to hide in having had a day of sad loss, or a place to celebrate something chuffing great with mates. Whatever the occasion, I’m grateful for the Great Western Railway Pullman Dining cars and the staff who work on them. At £38 for two courses and coffee, that often-first-class-from-standard upgrade, the chat, the solitude, the people and the smiles, to me it’s real worth is far more than that. The @gwrhelp dining cars remind me that life, and indeed our railways, really can be great.

@AnthonyGri10669 @oldmudgie “Bollocks on stilts” - buy that man a (above average strength) pint 🙌🏻

@oldmudgie Bollocks on stilts. If I wanted to drink gnat’s piss I’d buy Bud Lite. This encourages the likes of Anheuser-Busch to reduce the ABV of Leffe from 6.6 to 6 in the UK on the grounds that it will attract more drinkers.

This sounds like complete bollocks, as the lack of enthusiasm for 3.4% beers demonstrates. If drinks have become weaker, it's overwhelmingly because of duty rates. theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

@oldmudgie As does this (note ginormous betting ad)

An image that speaks volumes about our times.

@oldmudgie Is that @themarkrad in the ad?

The conviviality of beer drinking back in the day 😊🍻

@oldmudgie Bottles just seem classier, especially for stronger beers somehow.

POLL: What would be your reaction if your favourite bottled beer was put into cans instead?

@oldmudgie Wow 😮

@bakefaceMCR Apparently reusing bottles consumes more energy than recycling the material.

“Glass tax” to increase the cost - and thus the price - of bottled beers. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…