2 Châteaux to Die For

  ♥️🇨🇵🍷 Well hello! Join me on a deep exploration of two right bank Bordeaux worthy of your attention around £20-25 per bottle but batting way higher in another league of giants! Top Wine Reviewer, I specialise in bang for your buck and bring you the best deals for food pairing and hedonist indulgence 🍷🏆…

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Flower Festival Piano Bonanza

  Hello and Welcome to Appledore Flower Festival 2025 Theme Hobbies, the flowers are beyond exquisite and the sun is shining, there’s chocolate cake, an art exhibition, book stall and the pianist is just warming up Would you like a nice cup of tea? Local businesses have sponsored all the floral displays and the proceeds…

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Brewery Spotlight Hook Norton

  ♠ Hello and welcome to Brewery Spotlight Hook Norton one of Britain’s older traditional tower breweries since 1849 the Head Brewer is JW Clarke great great grandson of Jim Harris founder! A regular pilgrimage for myself since the early 1990s and an interlayering of top old favourites to new wave beers containg oats and…

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Home Pub Card Game Giggles

  Welcome to The Queen’s Legges now open so you can pop up and get a drink Pour yaself something chill with another on the side & settle in for half an hour’s silliness with the 5 very drunk ppl in the corner playing a jolly card game 🍹😅🃏🃏     Sometimes laughter is all…

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Best Cheap Summer Red Wine & Ale

♠ Right Ok so let’s fire up the barbie, warm the grill 🥩🍖 and crack open the reds and the blondes!! First up two magnificent red wines good with everything and friends (if you’re a good cook) let’s see what we get for £4.79 and £6.15, thaz right!! 🍷🍷👇🏼     Plus why wine is…

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Home Pub Eve Rock Classics

Right!! Good evenin’ all and first up let’s pop down the Redders 🦁 for a swift half, who says home is boring? Homè is where the hearth (rug) is and of course fridge/cellar/tail cabinet so pour yourself a good long one (don’t we like a loooooong one? 🤭) and mosey on down bcos tonight I’ve…

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Jack Daniels Root Ginger

  Hello and good evening! What golden spirit for June? And I’m suggesting Jack Daniels Old No.7 Brsnd Sour Mash Tennesse Whiskey sugar maple charcoal matured no less and I’m slicing root ginger in mine, nothing else, for a stunning spiritual revelation 🥃🥃🕊 Let’s listen in and get in the mood!!     Well go…

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Arrogant Frog Viog

  What white wines for June? Anything beginning with “V” Try Sainsbury’s Arrogant Frog Viognier 13% by Jean Claude Mas lily pad white worth the asking price or buy on bargain (stock up) Generous helping of nectarine and cream, cotswold stone, pineapple, celery, grated carrot and hints of orange blossom this will have you sighing…

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Chess: My Immortal Game

Once in a while you play a game that is special! I call this miniature my Immortal Game!! I was a pawn up here     Play so far 1. f4   d5,   2. d4   Nc6,   3. Nf3   Bg4,   4. e3   e6, 5. Be2   Bd6,   6. 0-0   Nge7,   7. c4   Nf5, 8. Nc3   0-0,   9. c×d …

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Barrel versus Bottle

Now I ask you plain which is the poor relation? Barrel beer or bottle? And before you say I know the answer stop awhile and hear me bcos it’s not untrue for any of my favourite British ales including Hook Nortons of Banbury and Mauldons of Suffolk! Let’s investigate the claim     🍺🍺 I’d…

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