Simon James

Occasional tweets. Mostly about beer.

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@scraps_n_chips Relieved to see that the digital display only has two digits

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@FootballCliches @CDEccleshare @D_C_W From LiveScore’s text commentary at the Women’s Euros… A red card on *94 minutes* surely doesn’t lead to an “early bath”? What’s the latest the clock can be on for a bath to be early?

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@scraps_n_chips Get in the sea

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@scraps_n_chips Do me a favour

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@scraps_n_chips Can't believe it's taken you until Easter Tuesday.

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@scraps_n_chips I've been waiting weeks for this.

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@FullersBrewery OK, but when’s it coming back on cask?

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@Bob_Fischer Will genuinely miss these daily slices of Teesside life. Brought back so many memories. Thanks Bob and all the best for 2025.

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@scraps_n_chips Get in the sea

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@alexjenkinspoet We didn’t start the fire

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@Bob_Fischer What chance of you getting down to the big smoke Bob for any expats down here…? Would love to see it!

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@JenhilPow @OlivaceousD Can’t wait to read this article, I just need to pop down to the newsagents first to buy a copy of the paper as that’s presumably better than my digital subscription 😉

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@alexjenkinspoet If that’s the recording I’ve got (Klemperer), I think the soprano is Schwarzkopf. Not a bad soloist line-up…!

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@alexjenkinspoet On recordings: have you tried Fischer-Dieskau? I like Bostridge for many things but for Schubert, I think it has to be DFD.

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@alexjenkinspoet (Rather more helpfully: I adore Winterreise, and know it well. If you do too, you’ll find the book insightful and interesting. I’m less sure how it would be received by someone with more of a passing interest.)

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@alexjenkinspoet I have! I enjoyed it. I’d say it’s the sort of thing that you’d enjoy if you enjoy the same sort of things that I do.

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@OlivaceousD I’ve only asked the question once, on the commute home on the tube, and the guy - mildly intoxicated I think - scoffed and turned it up. Someone got on later and asked him to turn it down; he said the only reason he was playing it loudly was because I’d complained 🤷‍♂️

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@FootballCliches previous winner of the Gravedigger of the Year award. Despite my very real grief at the time I was buoyed by the fact that I knew that my mother-in-law would have found it absolutely hilarious that she was personally to be buried by such a distinguished practitioner of his art.

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@FootballCliches Further to your recent conversation about Cemetery of the Year… When my dearly loved mother-in-law died suddenly a few years ago we unexpectedly found ourselves looking for a burial ground. Imagine my delight when I discovered that the site we’d decided on was run by a (1/2)

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@tania_nexust @Darkstarbrewco Had that for myself the first time last night. Agree it’s great. It’s also very drinkable for its strength!