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Tag: pub

  • Pub lunch by the river in the Spring sunshine. โ˜€๏ธ

    Full image of Dan, a white man with a blue ponytail and a goatee, smiles next to a broad rural river.
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    Dan, a white man with a blue ponytail and a goatee, smiles next to a broad rural river.

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    • posted 29 April, 2026
  • Happy Polyamory Day y'all. (Plus max props to Petra without whom I'd have forgotten about it, like most years.)

    Closest thing I did to celebrating it was going out to the pub last night for beer and food with my metamour, while our partner-in-common took our kids to see a film. Polyfam life isn't always glamorous; but it is full of love.

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    • posted 23 November, 2025
  • Dan shrugs for the camera as he sits at a pub table with a variety of people; one woman, sat to his left, throws a V-sign with her fingers.

    Queer Coded ๐ŸŒˆ

    Paraphrased from a conversation in a Manchester pub last night -

    Them: Your [dyed blue] hair is queer-coded, right? Like... you're telegraphing you're queer?
    Me: I mean... I'm also wearing a pride rainbow t-shirt and my watch strap is a 'bi pride' flag. I don't feel like I'm being subtle.
    Them: Nah. The hair's the giveaway.

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    • posted 12 May, 2025
  • Sometimes the kids need to leave your pub dinner before you finish your drink, and you need to take a "to-go" pint.

    Full image of Dan, grinning, holding a quarter pint of beer in few rear passenger seat of a moving car.
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    Dan, grinning, holding a quarter pint of beer in few rear passenger seat of a moving car.

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    • posted 30 March, 2025
  • Image representing post: On This Day In 2005

    On This Day In 2005

    On this day in 2005, Dan received an unusual parcel. No, you're not reading the same post twice... this is not a fault... just deja vu!

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    • 6 comments
    • posted 4 May, 2012
  • Nostalgia Isn't What It Used To Be

    It's been a bit of a day for nostalgia. It started even before I woke up, when I was dreaming about an argument that could have marked the end of Claire and I's relationship, if it weren't for the fact that it didn't even slighly represent the actual circumstances of our seperation (I'll spare you โ€ฆ

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    • 5 comments
    • posted 27 March, 2010
  • Image representing post: The Danville Public Service Announcement

    The Danville Public Service Announcement

    I don't visit Facebook often. In fact, I usually only log on once or twice a month to clear out the billions of requests to install applications (and block those applications) that people don't seem to have noticed that I never accept, or to check up on a mis-placed phone number or e-mail address for โ€ฆ

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    • posted 21 April, 2008
  • Hospitals

    My Gran's been taken into hospital: we could've seen that coming when we visited while up that end of the country for my cousin's wedding. She'd protested about the possibility of being admitted then, stating that "she'd been in hospital three times before and they hadn't managed to kill her yet," which is an interesting โ€ฆ

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    • posted 30 June, 2006
  • The Way Lunch Should Be

    There's a right way to go for lunch during your break at work, and, if you're in Aberystwyth, this is it.
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    I started in Scholars, where Matt (in the Hat) is spending the entire day as a birthday celebration. I treated Matt to a pint of Guinness, and had a half myself, thereby giving โ€ฆ

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    • posted 10 October, 2005
  • Celebrations Are In Order!

    Celebrations are in order! Paul says so!

    To celebrate Sian (and others) having completed recent dissertations and other academically-significant projects, the usual crew are cordially invited for curry at Cafe All Spice at 6:15pm, followed by the Ship & Castle (there's a beer festival on!).

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    • posted 21 April, 2005
  • Tesco Delivery Service

    I originally tried to post this message from my mobile phone, on the journey back from Norfolk, but fucked it up and failed miserabley. So here's a second attempt:

    On the way back, in accordance with The Tradition, Claire and I visited Tesco in Wisbech (The Tradition dictates that any Aberite who leaves Aberysywth to visit โ€ฆ

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    • posted 31 March, 2005
  • All The Fun Of Aberystwyth

    Aber's great this time of year - late enough that the weather becomes favourable, but early enough that the tourists haven't arrived. Alec came down the day before yesterday for an interview for the PGCE course he wants to get onto, which was cool, 'cos I haven't seen him in a long while, and we โ€ฆ

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    • posted 24 March, 2005
  • Parcel Of Goodies

    Woo and indeed hoo. Just when I was about to wander down to Richley's and take advantage of their sale on jeans (having had a nasty shredding-related accident with one-too-many of my existing pairs of trousers a couple of weeks back), my Auntie Anne sends me a parcel of goodies, including several pairs of trousers โ€ฆ

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    • posted 1 December, 2003
  • Bovini: A Week Well-Spent

    It's been a busy week. I've spent a lot of my time at the office, trying to get the replication model for Bovini working - causing much stress as it failed time and time again. For those of you without a grounding in computer science theory, replication is the art of making data be identical โ€ฆ

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    • posted 5 September, 2003

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