When you’ve been brought up on a diet of football in a football loving country with a clear footballing structure, it can be a challenge getting into what is supposed to be the same game in a country where at least two and possibly three sports are more popular. New Zealand has a pretty decent…
Kiwi Beer
New Zealand is a wonderfully varied place. Beaches, mountains, hills, fjords, countryside, wine, beer and even the odd city. Many are not odd. New Zealand in spring has all of those things, still. But, if you’re English, you have to bear two things in mind: Cold and Hot. Auckland, in particular, does a wind that…
Aussie Pale Ale
As I sit here on the veranda pondering whether to write anything about beer this week, I think about everyone else working hard in their windowless offices, dry air being blasted at them from all angles at a just-slightly-too-cool temperature to ensure no snoozing on the job … this pleases me, so I have a…
Beer Wanker
You’re probably getting a picture. A beardy twat with a swept-over cut-under on top, a shirt buttoned to the neck, tight chaps and some pointy shoes or deck feet? And there would be nothing wrong with me if that were the case. But, sorry, I am bald, Robert Pires appropriated my facial hair in 1995…
Doyle’s Lager
Food pairing. It’s a thing. Ignore it, get over it or go with your tastebuds. Having said that, sometimes it’s difficult not to be left with the impression that you’ve had the wool pulled over your eyes Featured: Doyle’s Fisherman’s Lager, Malt Shovel Brewery. As if to emphasise the previous blog’s note on the corporate…
Opera / James Squire
Lifestyle beer. It’s a problem but not a big one for the tastebuds. But can anyone manage being a beer wanker? Featured: James Squire’s One Fifty Lashes, Malt Shovel Brewery. Growers Golden Ale, Endeavour Vintage Beer. Relocating to a new city for four months is a good thing. Fancied it. I’ll be honest, Australia was…
Minorcan Graf
Loved this. The cobbles, the ghostly dead-eyed forms arcing over the three characters: a wide-eyed child, a creepy moustachioed Don and what could be a ‘fabioler’ from the island’s Festes de Sant Joan de Ciutadella. The hinges form neat crosses and this all pans out above the cobbled streets. Street art, back streets of Ciutadella,…
Big World
A tiny organism in an vast and unhelpful world. A familiar world, a busy world, many others around of different hues but no one familiar or close enough to see that a massive, potentially dangerous beast looms over you, with who-knows-what in its’ mind.
Premature Euphoria
We’ve all been very excited, haven’t we? We’ve seen the headlines and we’re now awaiting the denouement, the collapse of FIFA, the beheading of Sepp Blatter and the cleansing of the game we all love. It’s just a matter of time, right?
W&F 0-2 H&W
The best, the funniest and the most decisive incident in this game happened after just three minutes. It killed the game like it is going to kill this match report.
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