Cold Turkey
“No, it’s Ok – go on.” I’ve lost count of the number of times my other half has said this to me in a pub, with a slightly weary, resigned tone. Or, if not using those actual words, conveying the message with her eyes. The inevitable pause in conversation, the brief wait whilst I do […]
Craftman
Night-time. A rain-slicked alley, somewhere in the backstreets of London. A group of young hipsters scurry from one forty-tap bar to another. Their smartphones glow with latent heat, fingertips still raw from the check-ins, instagramming and tweeting. A conversation erupts, over a moment of controversy in the last bar. “Yeah, I told the guy: Orval […]
Exclusive: Edinburgh Council launches beer ageing scheme
Last year, Edinburgh City Council announced the biggest shakeup of their refuse collection services for a generation. I think we can all remember where we were, when we head the multi-bin approach for recycling was to go – I certainly do; I was in Leith, waiting for a tram. News filtered through that the coloured […]
Beer Hour
Tomorrow, between eight-thirty and nine-thirty pm, is Earth Hour. For sixty minutes, WWF are asking people to turn off lights and other unnecessary electrical items, dimming the planet a little, saving power. This will lower, briefly, our dependence on generated electricity, and hopefully leave a footprint in the energy statistics to give some kind of […]
A year in AlcoDroid: my beery experiment
It’s my anniversary today. Not a personal one; more of a choice professional milestone. Nothing related to writing either – although I’ve been blogging for almost seven years, I’m not quite at that birthday yet (the 9th of April, in case you’re passing a Hallmark outlet in the near future). No; today, in fact, marks […]
