Tuesday, 5 October 2021
Monday, 4 October 2021
A good week ahead
For me, at least. I’m on leave. I plan to spend the time running, and getting fit for the Saddleworth Santa Dash.
The 5km run through Saddleworth’s leafy villages returns after last year’s event was, predictably, cancelled. But, between now and 4th December, I’m going to be continuing with clean eating, running at the gym, running a road route which is of a similar distance to the Dash, and trying to knock time off. I’m getting somewhere. (Started at 52 mins, now down to 40.)
Then, an estimated 500 of us – maybe more- will descend on Uppermill for the run. After the route, which drops us off back where we started, there’ll be stalls, music, food and drink.
What about this week? Well, I’d love to be watching DJ EZ at Warehouse Project on Saturday, but who do I know who likes garage music from the naughties, who can afford a £40 ticket and is free to go out? No-one I know, as far as I know.
UK’s Tyson Fury faces Deontay Wilder for the WBC heavyweight belt, the third time the two giants face off in the ring. That’s Sunday morning, ring walk expected to be 4am. I might be in Genting for this. By all means, PM me on Insta.
Something I forgot to mention on the Blogtober introduction on the 1st was stats. At the time of uploading this post, here are a few figures for my blog:
Overall page views: 937103
Page views last month (presumably meaning September, as opposed to below): 3631
Page views in the last 30 days (a different metric): 3730
Let’s see if I can get a spike in hits during the month. Unless I uncover a society of blog-reading tegestologists, I doubt it.
Sunday, 3 October 2021
Donated Beermats: 68
Before we went into lockdown in March last year, a mate of mine was bringing me piles of beermats from the pubs he’d frequented. Every Monday, at Andy’s Man Club, he’d rock up and pull out a wad of mats from his pocket as he knew I collected them. It was also said mate who put me in touch with The Prairie Schooner, the pub that donated the huge box of mats that I’ve been uploading from since Dec ‘19.
Just before lockdown began, he gave me a handful of mats that I’d saved and not uploaded, as it was a small pile. I thought in maybe 3 months or so the pandemic would blow over and we’d be meeting face-to-face again. Maybe he’d bring a few more and I’d put them with said handful. Well, it obviously took a lot longer than that for meetings to recommence. I’ve not seen said friend since lockdown began and can’t seem to find him on social media any more. I hope he’s okay.
Anyway, here are the (substantially newer than Prairie Schooner’s) mats he brought.
Saturday, 2 October 2021
A Quick Jaunt through the Pubs of Oldham and Manchester
Blogtober has begun, and last night I had a stroll through the pubs in my immediate locale, then into Oldham Centre on a Friday night for the first time in a decade (it was dead, so didn’t feel comfortable wandering into any establishments for the sole purpose of nicking beermats). Hence, I stopped off in Failsworth- much the same, so I moved onto the city centre and spent most of the night trying to find busy enough pubs to stroll into without buying anything.
Manchester was also pretty dead, although the Northern Quarter had some life to it. In the whole night I managed to pick up an entire 4 beermats.
Friday, 1 October 2021
Blogtober / Beermats Month
Beermats still to go up in #Blogtober . Doubles that I've identified, that I'm planning to trade, in the bag on the left pic.twitter.com/Jxt2A9odXM
— Matt Tuckey 🇬🇧 (@matthewtuckey) October 1, 2021
What is Blogtober? It’s a month-long challenge to upload a blog post every day for the month of October. Tea and Cake for the Soul goes into more detail. I’ve had a plan to do this blogging challenge for years, but COVID and other things have got in the way every time. The plan for this year is to do this on the theme of beermats.
Long time readers will have seen my arbitrary Instagram embeds featuring decades-old beermats in blog posts before. I’ve had a break from doing this while I’ve been bus doing other things, but I still have half a box full of these mats – donated from The Prairie Schooner a few years ago- plus some reproduction vintage mats to go up. I’ve also got some mats that a mate picked up before the pandemic.
I could spend the whole project dipping into the box and uploading those, but that’s not much of a challenge, is it? Hence, I have plans to trawl the pubs of Oldham and Manchester for newer mats, plus keeping a journalistic eye open for any other subjects that might make a good blog post: fights, arrests, ambulance call-outs, celeb spottings, and possibly some staple posts like Prospective Mondays, Creative Wednesdays, Throwback Thursdays (tbt), Psychology Saturdays and round-ups of the week on Sundays. But it’ll mostly be beermat related.
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