Sarah
hopandwedge.bsky.social
Sarah
@hopandwedge.bsky.social
Captain Clusterfudge, Prized Pillock, Devourer of Cheese, Seeker of Misadventure.
Fuelled by 🍻🍎🤼‍♀️🎬🕹️🧀📖🧶🌳🧳
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Please feel free to talk to me about
- Beer
- Cider
- Cheese
- Pubs (Culture & Historic)
- Travel (Inc Itineraries w/o a car)
- Wrestling
- Subcultural Theory
- Post-Colonial Cinema
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Narrative Based 🕹️Games
- Animation
- Indie Graphic Novels
- Brutalistm
- 90's Hip Hop

To start
okay, time for a prompt post to distract us all from the horrors. quote this post with your areas of expertise, interest, hyperfixation and/or obsession and invite your audience to ask you questions about them.
This time last year I battled Storm Bert to get from the motherland (Southampton) tonight I battle Claudia. An hour ago I left Worcester Foregate Street got as far as Worcester Shrub Hill before terminating, currently in an Uber heading for Bristol....
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I'm really thinking of killing off my hopandwedge blog/persona (?), admittedly I've not kept it up but to be honest and I didn't keep it up because I felt like such an outsider and so unwelcome by others writing about similar things, really kicked my esteem. I would like to get back writing though
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Soon as I saw the delivery driver had been sent all the way to Torquay I knew I wasn't getting my sofa this week 😂
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Last of my Beaten by the Whisker goodies , a delicious slab of coffee and walnut cake
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I think I prefer living without heating. So I came home from London with no pressure in the boiler, again. Put the heating on, mainly to turn my bathroom into a laundry room. This one in the bedroom should be off right? It's piping hot, that's wrong? #plumbing
November 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Up and out of bed purely because I knew I had the ideal marriage of beatenbyawhisker sourdough + turnerandgeorge bacon on the cards. Heavenly start to the day
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I'll share my other finds later, but just supping a Kernel Citra, the beer that got me started on craft beer back in 2010 (!) at the Queen's Head, Kings Cross before bailing earlier than planned , I just don't have it in me to do any more
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Can you say you've been to London if you've not drank beer in a railway arch?

People bang on about how expensive London is but I stick by the belief that most places have caught up. Less than £6 a pint is cheaper than I pay at breweries in Worcestershire and Gloucestershire
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Denied at Palmeria to fulfil my craving for bifana (they've stopped doing them), I headed to Deeneys for a full Scottish. But sleepy now - Leyton, London
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Bag is actually heavier now as I've swung by one of the best bakeries in London - Beaten By a Whisker, Walthamstow - found it by accident last year. Picked up this beaut of a loaf, and a cookie tie me over as I decide if I want a full Scottish or not
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I think pushed it a bit too far yesterday and now my fibromyalgia is letting me know about. My bag has magically quadrupled in weight and I'm feeling very inflamed 🫠
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Guess I should get up and do something with my day, walked almost 7 miles yesterday and I am feeling it!
November 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The London skyline from a grubby Travelodge window looks Blade Runner -esque
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Post show cocktail at 56 St James after I eventually got in - went for a Naked and Famous - Mezcal, aperitivo, chartreuse and lime
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Give @nylarosebeast.bsky.social her flowers, her and Rhio went for nearly 30 mins and she gave her an absolute mountain to climb 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Statdaddy!!! #AEW #EVE that match went hard AF!
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Women's graps time with EVE Elite Encounters at the Big Penny Social, Blackhorse Lane
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
In Hackney for another cocktail, Equal Parts
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
In the past couple of hours there's been a cocktail (Elementary) and NYC pizza by the slice (Paulie G) and a lot of walking -(Old Street, Shoreditch, London)
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Back to Blighty for green and wet hop beers - Sutton Arms, Farringdon, London
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
From Italy to Belgium with a Taras Boulba at Belgian specialists The Dovetail, Farringdon, London

I haven't had this beer for a long while, so much flavour for the ABV. Must not leave it so long in future!
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Panino con Bolilto (stacks of slow braised beef, salsa verde and chilli oil) and a Peroni Ross for a tenner in Farringdon, absolute steal - Quality Wines, Farringdon, London
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Neat (and free!) exhibition on Pictograms at Japan House - Kensington
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Quick coffee and a catch up - Paddington Basin
November 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I'm up and out far earlier then I should be on a day off
November 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM