Michael Deakin
@maristhotter.bsky.social
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Pan 🏳️🌈 Lefty ⬅️ Nerdy 🎮📚 Beer boy 🍻 Co-presenter of "Does It Shandy?"
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The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette!
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
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Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
The Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette — Pellicle
It was the writer and politician Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) who famously said, “ Change your hearts or you will lose your inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns ...
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📢 NEW BLOG POST
Very overdue return for my personal blog.
An exploration of identity and the struggle to hold onto a sense of self when hospitality work requires that you spend a large part of your life shifting your persona to suit the needs of the customer.
8bitsandbobs.co.uk/2025/11/01/d...
Very overdue return for my personal blog.
An exploration of identity and the struggle to hold onto a sense of self when hospitality work requires that you spend a large part of your life shifting your persona to suit the needs of the customer.
8bitsandbobs.co.uk/2025/11/01/d...
Don’t Look Down
When your work demands that you shift between several different versions of yourself every day, how do you remember which version is really you when it comes to spending time away from the bar?
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In my happy place (in the bath, drinking red wine, and listening to Joni Mitchell)
When you host a dark beer event and commit to the bit a little too hard 🖤
