Paul Barnard

My occasional musings on beer and pubs

[Paul Barnard @StatusBaby]

@BBCr4today please stop your contributors and reporters peddling the false narrative that Victorian sewers are to blame for the state of the nations water infrastructure. https://t.co/MYiK4CuIqh

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@BBCWorldatOne Replaying a radio 5 phone-in IS NOT NEWS - I don't care what Mr Dipshit from Anytown thinks about anything - if I did I'd have listened to the shitty little phone in. Get this bullshit off a serious news programme - IT IS NOT NEWS

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@Tesco Online is still showing out of stock - so is it out of stock or discontinued? #realtea #microplastics #singleuseplastic

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@Tesco Very disappointed to hear this. As more people are trying to avoid single use plastics, loose leaf tea is making a resurgence. Tesco's should think again. In the meantime the stores are still showing as temporarily unavailable - this photo is from last night

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What's happening @Tesco there's been no loose leaf Red Label for weeks

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@Tesco Hi Cameron - it's out of stock for delivery and none in stores all over North London and has been for weeks. Rumour on Reddit is that Tesco's are dropping it - a bad move as more people choose to move away from teabags due to plastic pollution.

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@RugbyInsideLine For me it's the appalling customer service at Twickenham - bars closing on a whim, glass deposits designed to fleece you of an extra £1 on every pint, bars running out of beer and Guinness yet still allowing gullible punters to queue, clueless stewards. Not to mention the travel.

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Expressing support for @GaryLineker. When there are protests on the streets in Georgia the Tories choose to pick a fight about free speech. Disagree with @GaryLineker by all means, but the hypocrisy of trying to silence him when you installed a Tory donor as Chair is bollocks

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2/2 Went back in to @Halfords_uk to get my email updated for the receipt and thank the team. Came back to find UKPC has slapped a ticket on the van in an almost empty car park for having 2 wheels in the adjacent bay. Great customer experince @Halfords_uk ruined by greedy UKPC

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1/2 Nightmare start to week - van wouldn't start. Managed to get a jump, then down to @Halfords_uk at Friern Barnet Retail Park to get a new battery. Staff their are genuinely helpful and found me the right battery. Changed it right away in the car park outside @Halfords_uk ....

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The days of wandering around Occitanie and Languedoc searching for semi-mythical microbreweries has long gone. The French have finally embraced artisan brewing - and I've been enjoying the results. More to follow soon.

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Eight pints of draft beer - whoopee! I got a feeling tonights gonna be a good good night. Thanks boys @MusHillBrewers

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I ❤ shopping

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Things have certainly changed in Languedoc in the years I've been coming here - tha ks in part to the Beer Cave in Beziers where I picked up 20 artisan French beers from about a dozen different breweries

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A rare midweek night out @maidofmuswell where the @TimothyTaylors Landlord as usual is on spiffing form

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Back @BlackEaglePub for the first time since 2014 and I'm pleased to say it hasn't changed a bit

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Just love it @batemansbrewery #CraftBeer #mochaheads

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@RopeRunners @GoApeTribe We have had exactly the same problem @roperunners and you have always accommodated. @goapetribe were rigid & inflexible.

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@GoApeTribe Alexandra Park #ripoff kids penalised because of slow group in front - timing system sucks - from now on strictly @RopeRunners

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Found on supermarket shelf in Nottingham @batemansbrewery one of the best of it's types I've ever tried. Love to find it on cask.