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John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻
@johnbeardsworth.bsky.social
Taking photos, writing about photos, brewing strong beer, making perfect tortelloni, knowing everything (yeah?) about Lightroom and Photoshop, following United, drinking Vimto, missing Thorntons
Last week in the Royal Oak (Borough) I watched a couple insist on having their Harveys Best from the bottle. In that pub of all pubs.... Anyway, like in your article, they were Spanish tourists too, and it had been cold that day.
January 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Aren't Royal Mail now run by the bloke who owns most of W Ham? Make of that what you will!
December 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Man dies of rabies after kidney transplant from donor who saved kitten from skunk” and they missed “which had been bitten by a bat”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Man dies of rabies after kidney transplant from donor who saved kitten from skunk
Michigan man received kidney transplant from donor who had fought off a skunk and was later found unresponsive
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
So uncomfortable-looking you might expect your pint to be in a dimpled jug?
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It's on today at the Hand & Marigold. Nowt special - said as a Mancunian in London in the 80s when Boddies seemed part of a pre-Oasis Northern wave, Thorntons everywhere, United rising, Sainsburys stocking Vimto. Says it all that the next pint was something else - Elusive Pursuit, great
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Confirmed today at the Star Tavern, Belgravia
October 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Plus The Victoria, Paddington. I was wowed more by last year's, but probably need to test another.
October 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Glad you gave the guys at the Hand and Marigold a good mention. Super and ever-changing selection of beers, a fine team behind the bar, and perfect for the 42 bus home.
October 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Kind-of, and with new laptops. The difference is that I get it delivered to the toy shop so I can enjoy a quick journey to pick it up and cuddle it all the way home.
September 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I wonder if they're always too eyecatching anyway.

E45 might help with the scratching! But better to run our of disc space at home than when you (as in I) fail to empty the flash cards - or forget a hat!
August 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
By chance i enjoyed a pint of @trackbrewingco.bsky.social
Sonoma Pale Ale at the (excellent) Hand and Marigold in Bermondsey. Anything that beats must be quite a beer!
August 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM