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he/him head sommelier at La Trompette, writes about things, mostly vegetables and wine with added opinions.

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@DwightWedding @oldenoughtosay South (central ish) England and they're both spatulas

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so one could argue the Americas did get a bit of pestilent revenge...

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@J_J_Kennedy re your foot note on syphilis, Jaques Pepin argues that compulsary injections to treat syphilis played a large role in the early spread of HIV

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(in the origin of aids)

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@jen_out_of_ten Jesus. I found myself going back to blusky a couple of days ago. Much less horrible but still quite dull.

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@TRidesmith ha, I just saw that... nope I don't think legislation has been passed

[London Review Bookshop @LRBbookshop]

my mate who works in the royal mint told me about this astonishing feature on the new £50 notes and we've been avidly waiting for a king charles fifty to test it out - today we got one and can confirm that it does indeed work

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@LRBbookshop Magnificent. Quite wonderful.

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@toutovlepo that would be cool

[Sam Whyte @samwhyte]

something that impresses me about European away fans - how's some fella from Augsburg got a number for a Wednesday night in Birmingham?

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@ShadiBartsch I asked it to write me a slightly bawdy poem in Linear A and it was completely
unintelligable.

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@steinkobbe Whereas clash of civilisations played through an angry fog of weed smoke is much better 😂

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@puneetsingh DMX was the darkness

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

If you're in Reading, look out for this!

An evening of folk horror shorts at @Rdng_bsct_fctry 🎃

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@jen_out_of_ten please tell me that wrap came with 0.6g of dodgy charlie in it along with the jesus bothering

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@Matt_Muir I like that Orcs were people from south London 😂

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@TRidesmith @So_mmel_ier 99 Scavino Roche dell’ Annunziata was the most recent casualty 😭

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@TRidesmith @So_mmel_ier Sad thing is there are huge chunks of the wine world who’ll stay for cork regardless of the bottles they pour down the sink.

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@TRidesmith @So_mmel_ier Same. Have had the 73 also (1st vintage under screw cap) was phenomenal but the 81/85 comparison seemed more pointed.