Heather Dougherty
@heathwine.bsky.social
UK-based freelance wine educator and writer
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Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
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Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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As it’s international man day, let’s have a quick look at the Man top ten.
Bat
Rocket
Isle of
John In
Mr
Spider
Neanderthal
Manfred
Gary Old
Gary Nu
Bat
Rocket
Isle of
John In
Mr
Spider
Neanderthal
Manfred
Gary Old
Gary Nu
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
As it’s international man day, let’s have a quick look at the Man top ten.
Bat
Rocket
Isle of
John In
Mr
Spider
Neanderthal
Manfred
Gary Old
Gary Nu
Bat
Rocket
Isle of
John In
Mr
Spider
Neanderthal
Manfred
Gary Old
Gary Nu
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Andrew, you have been evicted. It's time to leave your big brother's house
October 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Andrew, you have been evicted. It's time to leave your big brother's house
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The Guardian has gone TOO FAR this time. It's a British paper; we say "half-arsed", not "half-assed". FFS.
October 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The Guardian has gone TOO FAR this time. It's a British paper; we say "half-arsed", not "half-assed". FFS.
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For those that have followed me from Twitter you will recall I put out many threads on the lunacy of the plan by Rishi Sunak to make the excise tax system for Alc be based on the strength rather than volume. This subtle change was devastating for the wine industry with yet more UK Brexit red tape.
October 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM
For those that have followed me from Twitter you will recall I put out many threads on the lunacy of the plan by Rishi Sunak to make the excise tax system for Alc be based on the strength rather than volume. This subtle change was devastating for the wine industry with yet more UK Brexit red tape.
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What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.
October 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.
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Astonishing piece about #Putin’s huge vanity #wine project, Krinitsa, just down the road from his vast and staggeringly vulgar Black Sea palace, Gelendzhik. The fruits of kleptocracy in a mafia state, on a grand scale theins.ru/en/inv/28560...
War and wine: While Russia bleeds money and battles drones, Putin's wine business is booming
The Krinitsa winery, just down the road from Putin's Gelendzhik palace, is estimated to be worth over 27 billion rubles ($330 million), making it Russia's most valuable winemaking operation. Plans are...
theins.ru
October 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Astonishing piece about #Putin’s huge vanity #wine project, Krinitsa, just down the road from his vast and staggeringly vulgar Black Sea palace, Gelendzhik. The fruits of kleptocracy in a mafia state, on a grand scale theins.ru/en/inv/28560...
Yes, this is pub culture! We must stamp out this single file queuing nonsense.
But real Brits know that what looks like a bar scrum is in fact a queue, and the person behind the bar is absolutely clear on who is where in that queue
The forming of orderly lines in pubs appears to be an emerging phenomenon, and Britons are divided on what system they prefer
Single-file queue: 40%
Bar scrum: 39%
yougov.co.uk/topics/consu...
Single-file queue: 40%
Bar scrum: 39%
yougov.co.uk/topics/consu...
September 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Yes, this is pub culture! We must stamp out this single file queuing nonsense.
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all my love to the new waiter in this place who, when I ordered a glass of picpoul, went "a glass of......pickle? :("
September 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
all my love to the new waiter in this place who, when I ordered a glass of picpoul, went "a glass of......pickle? :("
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This is just getting ridiculous. Nothing that has happened (or is reported below the headline to have happened) this weekend remotely justifies talk of an explosion or mass protests. The media are confecting a crisis, and, in some sections of it, hoping to provoke one. 1/3
August 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is just getting ridiculous. Nothing that has happened (or is reported below the headline to have happened) this weekend remotely justifies talk of an explosion or mass protests. The media are confecting a crisis, and, in some sections of it, hoping to provoke one. 1/3
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*Lady Bracknell voice* “A HAM-bag?”
August 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
*Lady Bracknell voice* “A HAM-bag?”
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Don’t want to worry you unduly, but it’s very hard to find any footage of the techbros and datagarchs saying they really like people. Sure, ‘humanity’ as a concept gets positive reviews but nothing really warm and memorable about people. youtube.com/shorts/LXpc1...
Why Is a Man Unsure About Humanity’s Worth Helping Design Its Digital Future?
YouTube video by NowThis Impact
youtube.com
July 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Don’t want to worry you unduly, but it’s very hard to find any footage of the techbros and datagarchs saying they really like people. Sure, ‘humanity’ as a concept gets positive reviews but nothing really warm and memorable about people. youtube.com/shorts/LXpc1...
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Hooray, it's Private Eye week 🎉
Will John Torode and Gregg Wallace be featuring in a follow up #Masterchef cover to issue 1638 from December?
You can find out this Wednesday, available from all good newsagents
Or subscribe here: www.subsonline.co.uk
Will John Torode and Gregg Wallace be featuring in a follow up #Masterchef cover to issue 1638 from December?
You can find out this Wednesday, available from all good newsagents
Or subscribe here: www.subsonline.co.uk
July 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Hooray, it's Private Eye week 🎉
Will John Torode and Gregg Wallace be featuring in a follow up #Masterchef cover to issue 1638 from December?
You can find out this Wednesday, available from all good newsagents
Or subscribe here: www.subsonline.co.uk
Will John Torode and Gregg Wallace be featuring in a follow up #Masterchef cover to issue 1638 from December?
You can find out this Wednesday, available from all good newsagents
Or subscribe here: www.subsonline.co.uk
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Don't call them trouser snakes, try:
July 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Don't call them trouser snakes, try:
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Preheat your oven to Central Line.
July 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Preheat your oven to Central Line.
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Arranging for my tombstone to provide suggestions of similar humans you might like
June 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Arranging for my tombstone to provide suggestions of similar humans you might like
Nice. Here's the full 100 awesome wines list: 100wines.wineeducators.com
June 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Nice. Here's the full 100 awesome wines list: 100wines.wineeducators.com
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Well, yeah, you’re Cary Grant.
April 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Well, yeah, you’re Cary Grant.
It's charming, in a very British (but not Richard Curtis) way. Do go and see it.
in rare non-doom loop news, saw Ballad of Wallis Island last night & it's v hard not to love; funny in an inexplicably British way, heavy on rain and cardigans, emotional but not schmaltzy. (I am not a folk music person, if that's putting you off don't let it) www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
The Ballad of Wallis Island review – funny, melancholy yarn of a folk duo reunited by oddball superfan
Tim Key bring his trademark pleasant awkwardness to the island-owner who pays Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan to come and play for him
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It's charming, in a very British (but not Richard Curtis) way. Do go and see it.
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Champagne Louis Royer, rinsing bottles, c. 1900s.
100+ years ago, heavy, thick, and expensive bottles built to withstand up to 6 atmospheres were commonly reused multiple times.
100+ years ago, heavy, thick, and expensive bottles built to withstand up to 6 atmospheres were commonly reused multiple times.
May 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Champagne Louis Royer, rinsing bottles, c. 1900s.
100+ years ago, heavy, thick, and expensive bottles built to withstand up to 6 atmospheres were commonly reused multiple times.
100+ years ago, heavy, thick, and expensive bottles built to withstand up to 6 atmospheres were commonly reused multiple times.
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‘Creepiest pub sign 2025’ competition is now closed
May 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
‘Creepiest pub sign 2025’ competition is now closed