Ned
nedleyjames.bsky.social
Ned
@nedleyjames.bsky.social
Guitar mans. Not often cyclist with Brixton CC Dad of 2 Burmese cats. THE KING OF SLABS.
There are no guitar shops in Cambridge. All shut down. How can this be? I’m away without a guitar and I’m clucking.
December 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
December 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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I’ll be opening up the Shirker’s again on Christmas Day, before going home to cook lunch tipsy.

Always such a lovely, festive pub-family vibe, with people bringing food to share and pausing for a couple of hours in the madness.

One of my favourite pub days.
December 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Happy to speak with Stuart! X
December 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Tonight at 7pm (UK time)

📖🎤🍷
Would you talk to these men online?

Meet the authors of Deserter Stories for a chat, a reading and a drink.

This Weds, 10th Dec, 7pm. Free, obviously.

Sign up here: luma.com/n5jmckv2 and bring a bottle!
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
@vincerai.bsky.social @andrewgrumbridge.bsky.social

Yup. 2 farmers was me. Brought them down to the live pubcast last year if you remember. Probably not. Dementia. Oh well. Never mind.
December 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Happy #caturday
November 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff x
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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We’ve made it easier to book our upstairs room by adding a booking form to our new website.

No fee to book, just use the bar! 🍻

www.theshirkersrest.co.uk
Home
The Shirker’s Rest | Independent Craft Beer Pub & Private Hire in New Cross, SE14
www.theshirkersrest.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
#crispnews @andrewgrumbridge.bsky.social @vincerai.bsky.social

Gingerbread Doritos 🤮
The legendary not often seen tomato wheat crunchies
Masala chicken and Teriyaki walkers.
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I’ve reached that point in every day where Threads hot takes go into overdrive about Tr*mp and insta goes mad with the top 10 signs you are ….sick / mad / healthy/ lists. I don’t follow any of it. Yet every day the same…🤷🏽‍♂️
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Some say it's always Pub Day @deserterblog.bsky.social. If so, its' Double Pub Day today as our baby migrates to bookshops and bathrooms throughout the land. Trebles all round!
It’s Pub Day – Deserter
Deserter Stories is out today.
deserter.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Come to the Deserter Stories launch bash.

* exotic crisp buffet
* complimentary pint (while stocks last)
* conviviality
* mirth

7-9pm, Upstairs at The Shirker’s Rest, New Cross.

Sponsored by Anspach & Hobday
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Farage says people are over paid on minimum wage. From a man that made 90 grand from a gold bullion firm for 4 hours work.
November 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Looking forward to this on Friday.

Anspach & Hobday have kindly provided a barrel of their excellent Hop Picker’s Pale which we’re gonna dole out, gratis.

Get there early before @vincerai.bsky.social and I neck the lot!
Come to the Deserter Stories launch bash.

* exotic crisp buffet
* complimentary pint (while stocks last)
* conviviality
* mirth

7-9pm, Upstairs at The Shirker’s Rest, New Cross.

Sponsored by Anspach & Hobday
November 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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If Leslie Phillips made packets of nuts...
November 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
@andrewgrumbridge.bsky.social @vincerai.bsky.social Opened the cupboard to find these….Cant say I’m looking forward to trying. #crispnews
October 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Our new book is published on Nov 4th. Come and see us on our World Tour.

Join us for readings, chat and pints in some fine South London hostelries. Free. Apart from the pints.

7pm for 7.30pm (more or less)

PS Chener is full up. The Shirker's is more of a knees up.
October 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
@andrewgrumbridge.bsky.social @vincerai.bsky.social I have mixed feelings about this….They have renamed a thousand Pubs - the office.
October 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Diamonds are stolen in Paris and it can’t just be me? Nothing ….
October 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In my local. As much as I miss the peoples republic of south London from which I hail…I’m currently sat between a bloke that makes all the flavours for all the crisps you’ve *ever* eaten and another bloke that used to train snipers for artic warfare for the army. It’s only Tuesday.
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
October 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
@andrewgrumbridge.bsky.social @vincerai.bsky.social Very strong crisp game in the nica shop in Finsbury Park.
October 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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There's a lot of nice liberal folk on here who make nice, liberal points. But:

1. If you believe vaccines cause autism - you are a cunt
2. If you believe people on the autistic spectrum are somehow less human and valuable than you because of their condition - you are a cunt.

Thank you.
September 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM