Tom has never seen any films (apart from Spy Kids, Matilda and Toy Story (It's a long story, I want to tell it as a stand up set one day)) so tonight we're watching The Godfather. Oh marone does everyone look like they smell great

I don't have synaesthesia anywhere near as strongly as I did as a kid, but I thought I would share this little nugget: Rosalía's voice is soft inside like a caramel centre with a brittle dark chocolate coating. Björk is the opposite—more of a rugged truffle hiding scratches of honeycomb

I'm making a ziiiiiine...

Absolutely obsessed with Culture Club today

Absolutely chuffed to have my story on perfection in pubs as the cover (!) for the Winter issue of @camraofficial.bsky.social BEER magazine ❄️ Absolutely typical that this is the first issue not to be printed!!! Go find it here: share.google/PbHgJjBv4Xpi...

TRAITORS SPOILER AHEAD Alan winning and then immediately regretting it and crying is exactly how I play games

No queuing at the bar, don't order cocktails, no table reservations and always buy your round. @pelliclemag.com's Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette will shortly be carved upon stone tablets and placed above the entrance to the toilets.

The Gulp is winging its way to your inboxes now, with lots of extra bits to keep you occupied. If you'd rather just read the blog post, here it is on my site: www.katiematherwrites.com/the-gulp/pho...

Once again my town and the neighbouring one are in the national news as being the most sought after places to live. Once again I really don't think a 1.5hr journey each way on a packed two-carriage 40 year old train counts as an easy commute

I'm catching up with Trofee Veldrijden and Felipe Orts seems to be enjoying his time as fittest man on the cross course at the start of the season, however Niels Vandeputte really has gained some serious aura since last season

it's due to covid, and it's the big elephant in the room no one in power, much less society itself, wants to address. It's REALLY bad!

Still Life with bottle of beer (1913) Vanessa Bell #Bass Charleston in Lewes exhibition

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

I'm looking for an online German tutor and I've come across an A level student who is fluent and dreams of being an interpreter with 5 languages. Tell me how spending £70-80 per year on an AI language app is better than paying this lad to pursue his passion?

Nice collection of thoughts on pub etiquette! If we could immediately action the ‘no tissues, wet wipes or crisp packets shoved in glasses’ point that would be lovely.

New York is my favourite city and I've never even been

We have had an immense amount of fun putting this together over the last few months. And with silly season about to begin this is sure to become indispensable!

Very good words Balanced

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. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...

This person took this when they called the race

Tiktok is full of videos about how to make Tiktok videos, Substack is full of posts about how to write Substack posts, and my house is full of washing. Will the horrors ever stop persisting?

More people should open their rare beers, if this arctic ale is being digested, so should all the whales Beer from Victorian Arctic expedition to be opened - BBC News share.google/rdeolIGFDQBP...

“These words don’t come from empathy, they come from entitlement” “They come from people who have everything...people who talk about protecting the countryside...protecting it from anyone who doesn’t look like me.” So Jason Manford is a G, got it www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

I'm home and immediately gone out for a roast.

The apple juice in South Tyrol absolutely slaps

Literally nobody said "that was him in the corner" what is wrong with you all

Love this. Reminds me of one of the best bits of writing in Friends, when Joey says: "It's a moo point. A cow's opinion. Doesn't matter."

Every day my watch tells me to get more REM sleep, like I have any control where Michael Stipe goes at night.

@craftbeerchannel.bsky.social your St Mars video is really great! Thought I had to let you know I was just smiling all the way through it.

Today I drank a Lagrein that tasted like strawberry coulis and cava (delicious) and a Souvignir Gris that was floral and exotic and absolutely beautiful. All from a small family winery in Gries, Bolzano.

Trying to remember what fork in the road I took that led me to stay in a 5* alpine hotel for free for work

TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW DO YOU HAVE MEDICINE YOU NEED TO TAKE?

Meet Diane Flynt, the first lady of Virginia cider. It's been a while since we published a cider story, we hope you enjoy it! www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...

Pleased to say my first piece for @the-independent.com Travel is now live ✈️ www.independent.co.uk/travel/europ...

I'd like to thank the woman in front of me for the flu I'm going to wake up with in a couple of days

Nobody told me that Peckham buses are invisible

Anyone else absolutely in love with Victor Jones and his off-kilter Frank Black/Isaac Brock yelling? Surreal brokenhearted dancefloor fun. youtu.be/1xaf8ovAFVE?...

Just because a beautiful natural feature exists, doesn't mean we have any right to trample all over it. I think this is one of my more radical beliefs.

As a huge fan of the Canary Islands you'd think I'd be annoyed about this new tourist tax but actually I think even more needs to be done to protect and rebuild/rewild the natural environment. www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

On a work trip today and I can't fit a nice coat in my bag, so all week with every outfit I'm gonna be wearing a 2000s Lowe Alpine waterproof in a fetching shade of army green

If anyone's after a terrible Netflix drama soap opera to watch, Sullivan's Crossing stars One Tree Hill's Chad Michael Murray (he only talks in a husky whisper) and is set in Nova Scotia. Absolutely dreadful, 10/10

Do something amazing this Xmas. Go to your local independent specialists wine shop. This doesn’t mean a chain btw! Ask the owner of the business to recommend you some wines, and I am pretty sure you’ll get a great deal. Wine doesn’t have to be expensive to be good.

My new Garmin arrives today, I'm really excited about it, how boring of me

Hungover as shit in the gym wishing there was a skull crushing machine

Much to the relief of everyone who has to deal with me, I am allowed to run again

Tom is introducing me to the delights of Benidorm. Can't believe I've never watched it before. I might actually be Madge.

A very grown-up day ahead featuring the tip, a 2 year-old's birthday party, a run, some work, and then a grown-up's birthday party at a social club

Once again lured to the worst KFC in the country (Clitheroe/Whalley) for hot wings

On a train eating a ludicrously expensive spread of M&S foods wondering which alcoholic beverage betrayed me last night

I've found going "Ew!! How embarrassing for you!" does a lot of work in this area