Back on the Royal Navy voyage with Roger Knight’s Convoy and the Imperial Stout from Fullers. Stout fellows of the Empire? Ok it’s tenuous but it’ll do! 🤣 🍻 📚 #readingndrinking
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Back on the Royal Navy voyage with Roger Knight’s Convoy and the Imperial Stout from Fullers. Stout fellows of the Empire? Ok it’s tenuous but it’ll do! 🤣 🍻 📚 #readingndrinking
Dishes done. Ironing done. Feet up done. Interrupt Nelsonian navy reading for the perfect match of book and bottle: The Greek Revolution in print and a Greek renaissance in a bottle #readingndrinking #histbookchat
November 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Dishes done. Ironing done. Feet up done. Interrupt Nelsonian navy reading for the perfect match of book and bottle: The Greek Revolution in print and a Greek renaissance in a bottle #readingndrinking #histbookchat
An evening with an American in the Georgian Royal Navy and an excellent moscatel. #readingndrinking #histbookchat
September 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
An evening with an American in the Georgian Royal Navy and an excellent moscatel. #readingndrinking #histbookchat
How to end a long weekend? A Cornish beer and a novel about a Cornish Captain. #readingndrinking
September 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
How to end a long weekend? A Cornish beer and a novel about a Cornish Captain. #readingndrinking
If anyone wants me, I’m drinking @Glengoyne 12 year old and reading about Lord Barham. Start the week the way you mean to go on… #readingndrinking 📚 🥃 #histbookchat
September 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If anyone wants me, I’m drinking @Glengoyne 12 year old and reading about Lord Barham. Start the week the way you mean to go on… #readingndrinking 📚 🥃 #histbookchat
Taking a break from book unpacking with a glass of moscatel and an excellent series of papers on naval leadership. I’m being exposed to a range of French & Spanish admirals I’ve never heard of and some I’ve only heard of in defeat. Thanks 1805 Club! #readingndrinking #histbookchat
September 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Taking a break from book unpacking with a glass of moscatel and an excellent series of papers on naval leadership. I’m being exposed to a range of French & Spanish admirals I’ve never heard of and some I’ve only heard of in defeat. Thanks 1805 Club! #readingndrinking #histbookchat
The last #readingndrinking in the current abode in Enfield (if all goes to plan tomorrow!). I moved in with She Who Must Be Obeyed in 2019 so the Fullers 2019 Vintage Ale is perfect. As is the Bolitho book! The new neighbours better not be rogues or it’ll be a broadside for ‘em!
August 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The last #readingndrinking in the current abode in Enfield (if all goes to plan tomorrow!). I moved in with She Who Must Be Obeyed in 2019 so the Fullers 2019 Vintage Ale is perfect. As is the Bolitho book! The new neighbours better not be rogues or it’ll be a broadside for ‘em!
Settling down on this warm afternoon with Left-Handed Admirals and Leffe. There’s a joke about getting legless here that I’m not going to make, but the book itself looks very interesting. #readingndrinking #histbookchat
August 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Settling down on this warm afternoon with Left-Handed Admirals and Leffe. There’s a joke about getting legless here that I’m not going to make, but the book itself looks very interesting. #readingndrinking #histbookchat
After an excellent book on the Revolutionary Navy I’m back to fiction, in this case I’m starting the Bolitho series. No idea if a Parsifal Pecorino is appropriate, but it’s right for the weather. 📚 🌊 🇬🇧 #readingndrinking
August 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
After an excellent book on the Revolutionary Navy I’m back to fiction, in this case I’m starting the Bolitho series. No idea if a Parsifal Pecorino is appropriate, but it’s right for the weather. 📚 🌊 🇬🇧 #readingndrinking
The #readingndrinking isn’t just about the books that come in: I’ve joined the @thewinesociety.bsky.social and this is the first haul to go with the rest of my summer reading…
August 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The #readingndrinking isn’t just about the books that come in: I’ve joined the @thewinesociety.bsky.social and this is the first haul to go with the rest of my summer reading…
Tonight I’ve moved on to the shambles that is the Revolutionary French Navy with an excellent white Bordeaux but then Chateaux George is run by an Englishwoman… #readingndrinking #histbookchat
August 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Tonight I’ve moved on to the shambles that is the Revolutionary French Navy with an excellent white Bordeaux but then Chateaux George is run by an Englishwoman… #readingndrinking #histbookchat
Tonight’s reading is a battered secondhand copy of Brian Lavery’s “Jack Aubrey Commands” with some Armagnac no doubt liberated from a Bonapartist who had no further use for it… #readingndrinking #histbookchat
August 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Tonight’s reading is a battered secondhand copy of Brian Lavery’s “Jack Aubrey Commands” with some Armagnac no doubt liberated from a Bonapartist who had no further use for it… #readingndrinking #histbookchat
Resting up some blistered feet after miles of walking yesterday. A large glass of Black Tot Rum and a biography of a Nelsonian captain. What better way to spend a Sunday evening… #readingndrinking #histbookchat
July 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Resting up some blistered feet after miles of walking yesterday. A large glass of Black Tot Rum and a biography of a Nelsonian captain. What better way to spend a Sunday evening… #readingndrinking #histbookchat
Tenuous link: Master (Stoat Coffee Stout) and Commander beer and another Patrick O’Brian book… 😉 #readingndrinking #histbookchat
July 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Tenuous link: Master (Stoat Coffee Stout) and Commander beer and another Patrick O’Brian book… 😉 #readingndrinking #histbookchat
I have been asked “what next?” after finishing my first circumnavigation of the Aubrey/Maturin novels. Well I am moving on to what is perhaps Aubrey’s favourite subject (and a glass of Pedro Ximenez sherry)… #readingndrinking #histbookchat
June 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I have been asked “what next?” after finishing my first circumnavigation of the Aubrey/Maturin novels. Well I am moving on to what is perhaps Aubrey’s favourite subject (and a glass of Pedro Ximenez sherry)… #readingndrinking #histbookchat
Well, that’s it… 16 years after I started Master and Commander I have reached the conclusion - my first circumnavigation of the Aubrey/Maturin novels. What’s to say: simply magnificent. I’ve opened a sound bottle of white to celebrate #readingndrinking
June 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Well, that’s it… 16 years after I started Master and Commander I have reached the conclusion - my first circumnavigation of the Aubrey/Maturin novels. What’s to say: simply magnificent. I’ve opened a sound bottle of white to celebrate #readingndrinking
On a cooler evening, I am experimenting with what I believe to be period appropriate libations. It’s Helion Books’ From Across the Sea with an excellent glass of madiera. #readingndrinking #histbookchat
June 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
On a cooler evening, I am experimenting with what I believe to be period appropriate libations. It’s Helion Books’ From Across the Sea with an excellent glass of madiera. #readingndrinking #histbookchat
I feel like I’m crossing the equator this evening. Not #readingndrinking in North London! The last but one Aubrey & Maturin, raising hell in Chile, and a @ConwyBrewery Rampart (assuming one will be stormed in Chile eventually 🤞).
June 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I feel like I’m crossing the equator this evening. Not #readingndrinking in North London! The last but one Aubrey & Maturin, raising hell in Chile, and a @ConwyBrewery Rampart (assuming one will be stormed in Chile eventually 🤞).
Post dinner relaxation with the blockade of Brest. The dangerous tides are well represented with a pint of Conway Brewery Riptide Black IPA. A pleasant evening of #readingndrinking. #histbookchat
June 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Post dinner relaxation with the blockade of Brest. The dangerous tides are well represented with a pint of Conway Brewery Riptide Black IPA. A pleasant evening of #readingndrinking. #histbookchat
Plenty of #readingndrinking being done this weekend. Another Aubrey & Maturin classic with an excellent French red. What more is required on a Sunday afternoon…? 📚 🇫🇷 🍷
June 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Plenty of #readingndrinking being done this weekend. Another Aubrey & Maturin classic with an excellent French red. What more is required on a Sunday afternoon…? 📚 🇫🇷 🍷
Not strictly in keeping with the training regime, but as a little reward I am treating myself to my own blend of rum with Mutiny on the Spanish Main #readingndrinking. Thankfully the labelling is too faded to see the wildly inappropriate name I gave my blend! 🤪 #histbookchat
June 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Not strictly in keeping with the training regime, but as a little reward I am treating myself to my own blend of rum with Mutiny on the Spanish Main #readingndrinking. Thankfully the labelling is too faded to see the wildly inappropriate name I gave my blend! 🤪 #histbookchat
Bank Holiday Monday #readingndrinking: Taylor Anderson’s Winds of Wrath and Haese Veld Belgian Strong Dark Beer. 🇧🇪 🍺 📚
May 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Bank Holiday Monday #readingndrinking: Taylor Anderson’s Winds of Wrath and Haese Veld Belgian Strong Dark Beer. 🇧🇪 🍺 📚
To end the day after dinner it’s Taylor Anderson’s Pass of Fire and, appropriately when fighting Grik lizardmen, a glass of Gulden Draak Imperial Stout! #readingndrinking
May 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
To end the day after dinner it’s Taylor Anderson’s Pass of Fire and, appropriately when fighting Grik lizardmen, a glass of Gulden Draak Imperial Stout! #readingndrinking
On today’s #readingndrinking it’s Taylor Anderson’s Destoyermen instalment, River of Bones, while cruising on the River Rhine, drinking Sion Kölsch. It’s a hard life…
May 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
On today’s #readingndrinking it’s Taylor Anderson’s Destoyermen instalment, River of Bones, while cruising on the River Rhine, drinking Sion Kölsch. It’s a hard life…