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rachel hendry @rachelhendry.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you Nicola! ❤️❤️❤️

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 6h

"What is it that you want from your waitress?"

Brilliant, @rachelhendry.bsky.social

Pellicle @pelliclemag.com · 6h

The Waitress, a million personas, fetishes and expectations in one woman. A look at what it means to serve, by @rachelhendry.bsky.social

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...

The Waitress — Pellicle

“The waitress is different; she is ignorant and coarse, but genial. She is often unwashed and her teeth are unfilled, but she knows life and she is not afraid of life, which is to her big, dramatic, b...

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rachel hendry @rachelhendry.bsky.social · 1h

Oh this is fantastic, Phil, thank you for sharing!

rachel hendry @rachelhendry.bsky.social · 1h

ahh thank you for reading! I’ve complied a list of everything I watched (a lot of it didn’t make the final draft) if that’s of use?

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Pellicle @pelliclemag.com · 6h

The Waitress, a million personas, fetishes and expectations in one woman. A look at what it means to serve, by @rachelhendry.bsky.social

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...

The Waitress — Pellicle

“The waitress is different; she is ignorant and coarse, but genial. She is often unwashed and her teeth are unfilled, but she knows life and she is not afraid of life, which is to her big, dramatic, b...

www.pelliclemag.com

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rachel hendry @rachelhendry.bsky.social · 1h

Matt, thank you!

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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 4h

This is such bold, adventurous writing from Rachel. Such a pleasure to be able to publish work of this calibre.

Pellicle @pelliclemag.com · 6h

The Waitress, a million personas, fetishes and expectations in one woman. A look at what it means to serve, by @rachelhendry.bsky.social

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...

The Waitress — Pellicle

“The waitress is different; she is ignorant and coarse, but genial. She is often unwashed and her teeth are unfilled, but she knows life and she is not afraid of life, which is to her big, dramatic, b...

www.pelliclemag.com

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rachel hendry @rachelhendry.bsky.social · 6h

this took a lot of work and only some of it my own, I cannot thank @clairembullen.bsky.social enough for the time she took to understand what I was trying to say and the sharpness of thought and guidance she gave to get the piece where it needed to be, it was a dream to work with her on this

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rachel hendry @rachelhendry.bsky.social · 6h

for @pelliclemag.com i've written about the formation of The Waitress: a facilitator of desires, a manager of expectations, a performance of manners. about what happens when success is dictated by character, about what it is to serve for a living

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...

The Waitress — Pellicle

“The waitress is different; she is ignorant and coarse, but genial. She is often unwashed and her teeth are unfilled, but she knows life and she is not afraid of life, which is to her big, dramatic, b...

www.pelliclemag.com

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David Bailey @bathedailey.bsky.social · 22d

Fantastic article from @rachelhendry.bsky.social as per on the social perception of cask beer for CAMRA. Chuffed to provide illustrations for it. It's cask ale week somewhere: learn.camra.org.uk/courses/cask...

2001 space odyssey rip. Apes gathering round the monolith tentatively but the monolith is a hand pull.

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rachel hendry @rachelhendry.bsky.social · 25d

I think you're right!

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Burum Collective @burumcollective.bsky.social · 26d

In our next piece, Rosemary Richings talks to a variety of people within the disability community about what they want to see from hospitality venues when it comes to making customers feel welcome

Words by Rosemary Richings
Illustration by Helen Anne Smith

www.burumcollective.com/posts/trueme...

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Phil Mellows @philmellows.bsky.social · 26d

Cask beer and sparkling wine have more in common than you think argues @rachelhendry.bsky.social for @camraofficial.bsky.social It’s all down to the pet nat I reckon.
learn.camra.org.uk/courses/comm...

Common ground: Can there be a relationship between cask beer and sparkling wine?

learn.camra.org.uk

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David Bailey @bathedailey.bsky.social · 26d

On the common ground between cask beer and sparkling wine by the boss @rachelhendry.bsky.social for @camraofficial.bsky.social. Bunch of illustrations on a super interesting comparison: learn.camra.org.uk/courses/comm...

square illustration of two boats passing each other in the night. Pint of cask in the foreground in a humble wooden boat waves at a flute of sparkling wine in a more expensive liner.

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rachel hendry @rachelhendry.bsky.social · 25d

It is! I've been wanting to write about natural wine (pet nat specifically) and cask beer for a while, I think the overlap between them is so interesting! Yet consumed and perceived so differently!

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Three Counties Cider & Perry Association @3ccpa.bsky.social · 28d

You have until Friday to enter the worlds best and largest international perry competition!

Three Counties Cider & Perry Association @3ccpa.bsky.social · Sep 4

Have you entered our inaugural Three Counties International Perry Championship yet?

Entry forms and more information are available on the link below and deadline for entries is Friday 19th September.

tccpa.co.uk/sign-up-for-...

Sign up for the Three Counties Cider & Perry Association's Inaugural Perry Competition! - TCCPA

The 2025 Three Counties International Perry Championship will take place at the Malvern Autumn Show on 26-28th September.

tccpa.co.uk

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Burum Collective @burumcollective.bsky.social · Sep 9

Our first online piece from The Usual is by the community publican of The Trafalgar in Wimbledon, providing us their perspective on pubs, building community, and what it means to have regulars 🍻🤝

Words by Oli Carter-Esdale
Illustration by Helen Anne Smith

www.burumcollective.com/posts/solace

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Burum Collective @burumcollective.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Editors Note for The Usual is now available to read here or through the link below! Written by @rachelhendry.bsky.social

www.burumcollective.com/about/usuale...

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rachel hendry @rachelhendry.bsky.social · Aug 22

ah this is lovely! thank you!

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Altona 93 Fanzines @altona93fanzines.bsky.social · Aug 22

This article by @rachelhendry.bsky.social for @pelliclemag.com is so wonderful that I would love to frame it and hang it on the wall.

Do we want to create a thread with beer mats of football clubs? Let me start with #Altona93. Feel free to share and reply with others! 👇🏽

Photo of seven Altona 93 themed beer mats on wood.

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Ben 👻 TisDAMNED 🔥🔥🔥 @prismaticpuffin.bsky.social · Aug 20

My local have one commemorating their cat’s 10th birthday!

The beer mat is a painting of the pub cat, with a pint of beer and a glass of red wine at her side and circled by the words ‘Happy birthday Beyoncé’ in calligraphic text.

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rachel hendry @rachelhendry.bsky.social · Aug 20

back on @pelliclemag.com contemplating beer mats today, those tiny discs of pulp that soak up and support and siren call to drinks past present and future only to be discarded to the pub floor:

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The Wood That Drank The Heart — The Love and Life of Beer Mats — Pellicle

There is a theory I’m working on, born from over a decade of hospitality work, that the things a society pays the least attention to often have the most to say. To be discarded and dismissed, yet to e...

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Historic Beer Ads @beerpuffery.bsky.social · Aug 20

This article tickled my brain, and now I'm thinking about how intentionally disposable things record history in totally different ways than all stuff that tries (lol) to last forever.

Anyway, here's a Löwenbräu coaster from the 1964 World's Fair in New York.

Top/front (I think) face of a beer coaster made by Munich's Löwenbräu for their beer garden at the 1964 World's Fair in New York. Shows the brewery's lion crest in the center, surrounded by the towering New York skyline. Around the rim is printed "Löwenbräu München" and around the top is "Weltausstellung New York 1964-65."

Top/front (I think) face of a beer coaster made by Munich's Löwenbräu for their beer garden at the 1964 World's Fair in New York. Shows the Munich skyline, featuring the Frauenkirche. Around the top rim is printed "Löwenbräu München" and around the bottom is "Weltausstellung New York 1964-65."

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rachel hendry @rachelhendry.bsky.social · Aug 20

back on @pelliclemag.com contemplating beer mats today, those tiny discs of pulp that soak up and support and siren call to drinks past present and future only to be discarded to the pub floor:

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/8/...

The Wood That Drank The Heart — The Love and Life of Beer Mats — Pellicle

There is a theory I’m working on, born from over a decade of hospitality work, that the things a society pays the least attention to often have the most to say. To be discarded and dismissed, yet to e...

www.pelliclemag.com

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