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Jerry Bartlett
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Writer, editor, terminator. Swedophile. Co-author "30-second Beer". Member of the British Guild of Beer Writers. Otherwise, music, food, whisk(e)y.
I look a bit like the singer Steve Lee, in this photo.
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Was in the Crafty Baa last Sunday and sampled some of their Oktoberfest beers. Cool place.
A close-up of a frosted, German-style pint glass with a handle. It contains a slightly hazy straw-coloured beer and is on a wooden pub table consisting of polished planks running away from the camera. The pub interior behind is decorated with an array of small lights.
October 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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It's cinnamon bun day in Sweden. Here's one from last Sunday, bought from an artisan bakery in Keswick.
A Swedish-style cinnamon/cardamon knot pastry decorated with pearl sugar, on a white square side plate
October 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Visited The Lamb in Lambs Conduit Street, today. Probably not been there since I worked in Holborn, many years ago. Glad to say it's much the same, including the snob screens (I think they're called)
Close up of etched (or cut?) glass snob screens at head height above the bar. Each swivel wood-framed glass panel is about 10 inches square. The pattern is an eight-pointed cut star pattern in a frosted background
September 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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McLaughlin wins the toss and elects to bat.
Cover of the John McLaughlin album Greatest Hits. It shows a head and shoulders photo of McLaughlin dressed in white, smiling, slightly bowing his head.
June 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Dad's pint mug (not jug!) filled with Fuller's Griffin Gold.
A dimpled pint glass filled with a pale, golden beer, with a thin white collar of foam.
June 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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In a hotel in Guildford to see a Masterclass by Dweezil Zappa.
A small empty stage with a rack of guitars and a stack of three Marshall amps on top of a Marshall cabinet. Anderson's of Guildford (music shop) logo is on the backdrop
June 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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A Sunday afternoon pint by the river in Richmond
A view of the River Thames from right by the water's edge, looking upstream to the arches of Richmond Bridge
May 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Just opened my ordered/pre-order from @burningshed.com. It's gorgeous! Great job by all involved.
Inside of the triple vinyl cover of Playing the Fool - The Complete Live Experience. It has stage photos from the concerts and band photos (staged!)
May 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Qow Trío at Growlers and Cans, Guildford on Weds. So great to see jazz in such an intimate setting. The beer was great too!
April 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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It's Saturday evening, I'm cooking and have music (Gilles Peterson on 6Music) and a nice beer from Braybrooke/Utopian
Reverse label of the beer bottle. In the background, a pink-labelled beer can
April 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Two very nice British examples of Baltic Porter, this weekend: Friday was Braybrooke at 8.5 % ABV while Saturdaysawl Lost and Grounded's Running With Spectres at 6.5. Both lovely
Two stemmed beer glasses containing Lost and Grounded's Running with Spectres, the can of which is next to them on the wooden table top just to the right. The bottom half of a bottle of Braybrooke Baltic Porter, showing a black label with pale blue lettering
January 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Screenshot from my notifications of an account, purporting to be Kamala Harris, liking my "Brilliant!" post.
November 24, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Same for us!
November 23, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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Anyone else see that MC Escher documentary the other day?
Fallen autumn leaves from a large plane tree almost form a tessellation over a puddle in the road, which contains a partial dull reflection of another tree. It's a bit like an Escher drawing.
November 19, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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I ordered more of this. Still waiting...
Autumnal picture with cloudless blue sky. In the mid-ground are two trees in splendid fiery gold autumn colours either side of the rooftop of a suburban house. Covering the foreground is a dense, neatly trimmed, seven -foot high green hedge
November 15, 2024 at 12:22 PM
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Season premiere for us of Young's Winter Warmer at the Onslow Arms. Splendid autumnal cask
Two almost full straight pint etched Young's glasses on a slatted wooden outside pub table with a small decoration of autumnal dried flowers behind
November 3, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Hone fungus (according to Lens). Masses if it
A clump of fungus at the base of a recently sawn-down sycamore
October 24, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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I wonder who Bluesky 7171 551 was?
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #771,045, Jerry Bartlett ‪@maltjerry.bsky.social‬, joined on Aug 29, 2023"
October 4, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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Glad midsommar to all my Swedish and Swedophile friends celebrating today! It's very nice here - there's a coal tit chirruping outside my window, and the sky is blue. (So obvs, not in Sweden!)
June 21, 2024 at 8:06 AM
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My selection for display in Jan. Some similarities
Display of covers from albums released in 1974: Silent Corner and the Empty Stage, In Camera (both Peter Hammill), The Power and the Glory, The Lamb... Gryphon Red Queen, Gong You to There's the Rub, Bridge of Sighs, Relayer, Wakeman Journey...
April 16, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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Fun to hear a reed warbler at Frensham Great Pond, near Farnham, on Friday. @newviv.bsky.social. Hard to compare, but first heard one last year on May 4.
Cropped screen grab from the Merlin bird song identifier app, showing it picked up a wren and a reed warbler
April 14, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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Repost with the first album you bought with your own money (record tokens or other gift vouchers count)
Album cover for Rainbow Bridge by Jimi Hendrix (Original motion picture sound track [sic])
March 28, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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Inspiration for the cover of Opeth's Heritage, rather than the music, I'd say
Album cover for Heritage by Swedish prog metallers Opeth. A tree with the heads of the band members as fruit and showing stylised roots in the earth resolving into demonic heads. The form/elements of the image echo those of the Moody Blues cover
March 21, 2024 at 8:35 AM
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The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage, Peter Hammill. Released 8 February 1974. "Modern" is strange, never mind Jericho!
Playing vinyl (Chrysalis reissue blue label) on a Rega Planar 3 turntable.the cover is standing behind. Always thought it looked like a closeup of a white-trousered arse.
March 2, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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I much prefer the Swedish version of #ShroveTuesday, #FetTisdag (literally "Mardi Gras"). Semla buns! Mini ones, in this case - Semla sliders, if you will.
Homemade filling. We bought the buns in Sweden.
A mini Semla bun on a black saucer. About the size of a slider (burger)
February 13, 2024 at 4:05 PM