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Creative writer - MMU MA graduate - novels, stories, music, food, art, pubs, Freelance journalism. Interested in everything. Also @Macnovel@masto.dopiaza.org

Soho and the Chilterns
Joined July 2010
Now on Blue Sky as macnovel.bsky.social
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Very honoured to have won an award at the British Guild of Beer Writers annual awards - Highly Commended in the Beer and Travel writing category. #BGBW24
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Honoured to be nominated for two categories for the 2024 British Guild of Beer Writers awards. I'm in very esteemed company. #bgbw24
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Many thanks to all at @nagbw and @goodbeerhunting for this amazing recognition. I’m currently in a very happy valley indeed.
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What’s the literary reference?
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Excellent cask beer tasting session from @desdemoor He’s a superb speaker technically and hugely knowledgeable on cask beer. I also went on cask ale safari with him at last year’s #GBBF. The book is superb too (as are many of the recent @CAMRABooks publications).
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Early 1980s Camden. A young singer is found unconscious through poisoning in her squat by her manager. Over a weekend he desperately tries to discover who was responsible - and why - in a race to save her and also discovering revelations about his own past #JWMeetYourMatch
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"Weary pilgrims struggle along the path to the final destination of a long journey—the Beacon Hotel, Sedgley, in England’s Black Country." Read more of @macnovel's b-Roll: bit.ly/42a6xgr
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A couple of weeks ago we welcomed writer @macnovel to the brewery. Michael was investigating the pubs and breweries of Hebden Bridge for a piece in @goodbeerhunting. It was great to be involved and you can read his article here. buff.ly/3uStEzy
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Michael Clarke retweeted
Replying to @macnovel
Thanks Michael. Well done to Aylesbury & High Wycombe Camra.
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Interesting about the ultradian rhythm - I’ve often thought that 90 minutes is a limit for attention (films, length of theatre performance before an interval, etc), plus its subdivisions (45 mins is the length of a symphony or LP). theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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Wish Barcelona passport queues had “EU plus remain voters”. “Others plus leave voters”. Seems more reasonable.
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Looking at the BBC TV coverage of #glastonbury this is possibly the most ridiculously untrue statement ever made in the⁦⁦⁦@guardian⁩
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Perhaps #thearchers scriptwriter has read #redsaucebrownsauce as the delicious sounding crappit heid was discussed as a Scottish delicacy last week @FelicityCloake
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Michael Clarke retweeted
"I remember as a child in South Wales swimming in sewage" Conservative MP @DamianGreen says water pollution from sewage dumping has always been an issue, but it used to be perceived as more acceptable #Peston
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‘Coming Up’ criminally underrated as both a song and video - a template for much 80s electro pop musically but the Ron Mael impression is priceless and the lead vocal is pure, over-the-top, fringe quivering Bryan Ferry. #mccartney at the #bbc
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Pot, kettle, black. And from such a statesman.
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