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Martin @mandab.com · 11h

I reckon they will be the coolest people.

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Martin @mandab.com · 1d

Ooops, misread the announcement - make that December! Presale next week.

Martin @mandab.com · 1d

Oh, and now Counting Crows are coming in March as well. Tempting, tempting.

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Martin @mandab.com · 1d

Ooh, Garbage are playing a "farewell" show at the Town Hall in March. Their last show at the Civic is one of my favourite gigs of all time. Tempted.

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Martin @mandab.com · 5d

Fireworks after 11pm are only allowable at New Year, I reckon.

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Martin @mandab.com · 5d

Oktoberfest at Mythica in Wairau Valley. One of the best beer events of the year.

Smiling selfie. I'm wearing a straw trilby and holding a large glass stein of pale beer.

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Martin @mandab.com · 6d

And here's the YouTube link, for those who like that sort of thing: youtu.be/UjV9mrNOS-w

The Beervana Sessions No 2 - Lager Clouts

YouTube video by The Third Pint Theory podcast

youtu.be

Martin @mandab.com · 6d

So far this evening I have had beers from Germany, Cornwall and Waipu.

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Martin @mandab.com · 6d

I am going the simple route also. I've dug some leftover beef cheek ragu out of the freezer amd am baking an enormous kūmara.

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Martin @mandab.com · 6d

Here we go with another podcast episode recorded live at Beervana. One for all the lager lovers out there.
open.spotify.com/episode/1eb7...
podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/t...
linktr.ee/third.pint.t...

The Beervana Sessions No 2 — Lager Clouts

open.spotify.com

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 7d

PEOPLE. THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. MY GOD THERE ARE LUNATICS STANDING FOR SEATS

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 7d

Only one in five Aucklanders have voted in local elections

With two days remaining until polls close, only 21.9 percent of eligible voters had returned their papers.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Martin @mandab.com · 7d

I really need to get down to Dunners again sometime soon. I love the Emerson's taproom - they have train noises in the toilets!

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Martin @mandab.com · 8d

I absolutely love Cards Against Humanity, and their latest stunt is awesome: www.explainsthejoke.com

They're getting around the Mango Mussolini's tariffs by explaining the meaning behind each quote, therefore this is an "informational product" which is tariff-exempt!

Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke

An incredible product totally exempt from Trump's stupid tariffs.

www.explainsthejoke.com

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Martin @mandab.com · 8d

Watched the F1 movie at the cinema tonight. Decent mindless entertainment, fairly clichéd but good action sequences.

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Martin @mandab.com · 9d

This aligns with much of what I'm feeling at the moment : open.substack.com/pub/jameelaj...

Vulnerability hangover incoming.

Fuck.

open.substack.com

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Martin @mandab.com · 10d

Very sad start to the day with the news that Dame Jilly Cooper has passed away. My wife met her while working for her publisher over 20 years ago, and we still received a Christmas card every year with a personal message written in Jilly's indecipherable scrawl. A real character, and a sad loss.

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Martin @mandab.com · 11d

My burgeoning media career continues - just recorded my first regular weekly beer segment for Gold FM!

Although technically a "career" is supposed to involve payment, isn't it?

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Martin @mandab.com · 11d

But Chippy ain't it.

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Martin @mandab.com · 11d

Lovely to see the Warriors reserves waltzing to the State championship. Good signs for the future.

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Martin @mandab.com · 11d

Labour just need to go hard on ANYTHING!

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Martin @mandab.com · 11d

Excellent afternoon eating wurst & schnitzel, drinking festbier and celebrating my folks' wedding anniversary. Life's still tough, but you've got to take the wins.

And if you're in Auckland, go eat and drink at Twofold in Parnell. They're good people.

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