A fab evening with the local home brew group tonight to round off the year (with commercial beers). New Year, new brews 👍🏻

Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer - the new-to-me Christmas tradition, alongside reading a new book! #Jólabókaflóðið #christmasbookswap

Happy Holidays ... and best of luck managing with all that entails.

Today's office work is brought to you by our sponsors Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Live God. Headphones are on, and it's loud. ♥️

Go me. I finally reached out to a couple of groups to arrange get togethers, after we've not seen each other for ages. If I keep repeating the idea, I'll warm up to it and not stop in with a book as the easier option. 🤞🏻

Got to love home made food for lunch. Like bagels. Which don't have a hole. And are rectangular. Is it a mess up, or have I invented a new food genre?

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It’s a sad indictment of Britain’s ignorance of nature that Sycamore Gap petitions - for a tree that mattered to humans but not nature - received tens of thousands of signatures but a petition to protect entire peatland habitats is stuck at 1,500 actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

Parcel has been sent. Parcel has been received. Book excitement begins! #Jólabókaflóðið #books #CantHaveTooManyBooks Thanks, @whalesandbooks.bsky.social Thanks for organising these swaps @christmasbookswap.bsky.social 🎄🎉📚🎉🎄

UK resident, in this age of streaming TV and unlimited channels, I'm regressing to childhood. I've bought the Radio Times Christmas edition 📺 📖

We've got a really fun article inc. a homebrew recipe from @themadbrewer.bsky.social up on @pelliclemag.com, where Paul has attempted to recreate spice beer from Frank Herbert's 'Dune'. Find it here! www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/12...

Next semester is already looking quite busy with RA work, part time teaching and ploughing on with my book. But if you have transcription or archival (London/SE area) needs please do drop me a line. My rates are now on my webpage. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Hi #medievalsky, can you please suggest websites with Latin documents/manuscripts which also provide transcripts in Latin? I began palaeography in my degree & want to refresh my knowledge. However, some sites I use just have digitised versions - beautiful but without the text to view afterwards.

Headed over to The Irish Centre in Leeds last night to see The Dirty Three. What a cracking gig, the best drumming I've heard for a while, great repartee from Warren Ellis, including a long surreal intro on depression, travel & locating Satan, hiding as Billy Joel in his Philadelphian hot dog shop.

S France back streets snapped this afternoon

GOOD MORNING! Here's our weekly round up of good writing about beer, with pubs in Norwich and Bradford, thoughts on the budget, and notes on a kitsch advertisement for Hamm's beer. 🍻🍺 boakandbailey.com/2025/11/news...

I think you should subscribe to the 2025 Beer Publication of the Year. It's really good, run by a talented bunch who work really hard for very little money, and we've got plenty of ambition to take it further. We're only as good as the support we get from our readers: www.patreon.com/pelliclemag

I started off a frittata on the stove top, then oven at lunch before taking calls. It rose up like a soufflé but has fallen back down. Lunch tomorrow sorted. Thanks to my brother's hens' eggs. Eggs & onions only. I've had potatoes in before now, but not tied into either of the opposing groups.

In Praise of the Beer Town — in my occasional blog for the folks at @geterbrewed.bsky.social I’ve written about what makes a great town beer scene, and for the haters I’ve included my own personal top 10. www.geterbrewed.com/blog/2025/11...

@whalesandbooks.bsky.social, hi, we are partnered for this year's book exchange - Jólabókaflóðið 2025. Would you message me direct to chat further? 📚🍫

Oooh, someone in my local homebrew club has taken delivery of some malt from Fawcetts for us. That's going to be nice for the New Year (bit busy in the run up to Christmas), but it'll give me time to get hops in.

Last ask, I swear. Local film makers shooting a story written by my excellent, clever and funny school writers group. Ignore the figures here. We're £350 short with three days to go. If you've bunged us some money THANK YOU. If you'd like to, THANK YOU. ❤️ www.spacehive.com/angeline#/la...

It's the last day for signing up! #books #jolabokaflod

I blame the neighbours for putting up their lights and making me feel festive. This must be the right glass for Stille Nacht.

Have you a recommendation of a bar in Paris, ideally with several draft (Winter/Christmas) beers or a wider choice of bottles? We are off in December, so enjoying something more than Jupiler will be great. Thanks! #brewsky #beersky #paris

I need to know what a bagel is without the hole. That's what I've made tonight. Delicious but not round either. 😁

@carolinedebenh1.bsky.social, do you do requests? Will you be posting any (Belgian) Christmas/Winter beers over the next few weeks? That might inform some of my purchases... 😁 #brewsky #armchairtourism

BLACKOUT THE SYSTEM From Nov 25 – Dec 2, we’re stepping back to push back.Stop feeding the system that profits off our struggle.Be mindful with your dollar. Buy nothing unnecessary, support local, and starve the greed that keeps us divided. Real power lives with the people. Real change starts here

A delightful sour from my 'forget it' stock that I've just got out last month. It's still fizzy, there are floral notes, citrus too, wine undertones and ginger coming up afterwards. It's a great delicate brew, just sad that they're not brewing any more, but an inspiration to try this style myself.

Deep question. Which languages (and countries) spspspsps with cats? UK rep here 👋🏻. Just English influenced or is it known in other languages? 😸

An Archive of Handwritten Traditional Mexican Cookbooks Is Now Online

21 easy projects to help wildlife in your garden - you don't have to do them all, even just a few of these make a huge difference! www.wildway.info/p/21-ideas-s...

Gardens make up 4.6% of UK land area according to the RHS, let’s make the most of them to save wildlife. Here’s how - please share and spread the word. www.wildway.info/p/21-ideas-s...

Does anyone else read characters with certain voices? I'm reading Le Carré's spy books with Alec Guinness' voice from the TV series. #booksky

It’s finally coming out ! Get ready Old Norse studies 😈🏳️‍⚧️

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

Hello non sleepers! I can't sleep so am up with whiskey, cheese, baguette and the Leeds International Film Festival brochure. This started out as a grouch on overactive brain insomnia but I realise with my diet that I'm too bourgeois and privileged to really complain. Anyway, #LIFF2025, go see it.

Have I missed all the publicity or is it muted? Philip Pullman's 3rd volume in The Book of Dust trilogy is coming out! I only know from walking past my local (UK) bookstore, backtracking, going in and pre-ordering. Clear my diary. #VeryExcited #Booksky

I finally made some time to go through 5 boxes I store beer. The idea was to remove it all from my memory & let it develop. It worked, I've found the Belgian beers I left to see how they evolve. 5yr old St Bernardus abt 12 had lost fizz but had pronounced aromas. 4 Yr old Rochefort 10 is lovely.

@trumanbooks.bsky.social, hi, could you save a copy of Forever Paris by Marin Montagut for October 25th please? Happy to pass on details via a DM. Thanks.

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The new SHIFT guide helps you find your climate superpowers! So glad to team up with @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social on this cool initiative! www.dagens.com/lifestyle/th...

Corporations holding Govts to ransom. CEO of Eli Lilly, $114m pay packet last year, says the UK is “probably the worst country in Europe” for drug prices. Big Pharma cartel wants the NHS to pay more for drugs, make bigger profits. Govt must manufacture generic drugs, end profiteering.

If you don't have anyone with any health and science background, @theopennotebook.bsky.social has a database of freelancers www.theopennotebook.com/writers/ and a legion of resources to get your gen assignment reporters up to speed. also see healthjournalism.org 🩺 🧪

I've got the stein, but I'm not in München or with a Festbier. Happy Oktoberfest y'all, I'm kicking back with a Kees St Brandarius Barrel Project Imperial Stout. Good stuff, warming, and I'd forgotten what non lactose/flavoured brews were like. #brewsky #beersky

This weekend and next has loads of Heritage Open Days across the UK. We've been up since 7, out on a couple of things and seen 1 HOD event with another to go at this afternoon. It's great, but feels like Day 12 already.

A poem by Lydia Davis

We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky