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Colin J

@gricehead.bsky.social
81 followers 78 following 740 posts

Father, husband, cat servant, ultra/marathon runner, parkrun obsessive, craft beer geek. Saving people money in the cloud.

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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 4h
I don't like change and I don't like the new Untappd app.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Maybe they could work on making all the new fleets interoperable as well.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Positive: sports massage makes me feel slightly more human. Negative: spending the next 24 hours pulling knots out of my leg hair.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Literal face eating tigers are literal.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good of them to signpost the next TV celebrity sexual assault case.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
First 80% of any F1 race is utterly pointless at this stage.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And again, this. But the midweek version.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Maybe it's a cultural/language thing, and the American security services mistook dogging for something else entirely, and were monitoring them for potential recruitment?
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You don't see refereeing like that in the Premier league 🤣
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I feel very sorry for any weekend plans Kieran Maguire's wife had for them. #priceoffootball #mancity
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Which is a much larger competition than the FA Cup (in terms of number of participating clubs) and doesn't descend into chaos as a result.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In France, really clear breach of rule mistakes can be litigated after the match but, crucially, an official protest has to be lodged at the time of the breach. This does not take place regularly, but you can usually find one example a season in the early rounds of the Coupe de France...
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Were all going to get soaked with overpriced piss-equivalent beer every time there's a goal, aren't we?
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
20% of tube drivers are women (compared to ~4% of offshore oil workers) which I know isn't what you asked, but you said masculine so...
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This week I finally watched an episode of Jetlag, and I apologise now for my prolonged absence from all things
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My exact strategy during the discovery phase of our audit last year. They got their own back with seven months of follow up questions offline.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They're not spending enough time in nightclubs, clearly.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Performance Management Deadline
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I've been informed I don't listen and I'm an inattentive parent as her flight is actually Thursday, not today 😂
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is how I learn that my eldest might not be going to Spain for her second year fieldwork tomorrow morning Subsequently, this is also how she finds out.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I hope you brought them back.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Can I just say... Gig etiquette these days. Wtaf? Not a cheap gig, I assume. People leaving seats during the main act *multiple times*. Toilets: OK, a couple of times (a lot of middle aged women 🤭) Drinks: acceptable if you must. Food: why? It's only 3 hours! TO BUY MERCH: again, wtaf?
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
There's usually more grass than this tbf.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Good to know it's not just Northern Railways trains that get shafted by Network Rail control incompetence. Currently enduring the longest ever SWR journey because of one incorrect signalling regulation decision.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bushy pilgrimage. With deer. Still like mid summer down here.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Visit London. Find a Manchester brewery tap takeover. In a Yorkshire glass.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's been going downhill for a long time /coat collected
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Mr Pig definitely needs to post here more, rather than the hellsite (although I did eventually pick this post up from the newsletter)
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Is there a bluesky boycott going on that I've missed? My feed has been decimated in the last few weeks. Some people who posted *loads* see to have just stopped.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Great couple of days at Rivington Brewery Farm Trip 2026.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Which is, ironically, the exact character he played in Industry.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Was just about to say you don't look *that* bad....
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'll be refereeing the 9 millionth round of the "established adult cats vs new kitten vs temporary resident kitten" tag team match, and trying to minimise bloodshed (mainly my own) and vet bills.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When the little git has been away two nights, you're not moving him so you can go to bed.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Rather painful walletectomy after one of our cats booked himself in for a two-night stay with all the extras at the vet hospital. Seems to be OK now, which is what matters. Insert comparison to private healthcare here.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Yep, I did Further Maths, and it was Pure and Applied, so all I really learned in year 1 was the equivalent of A Level statistics, and the start of some obscure limits stuff that I can't remember the name of.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My degree course - Maths - in the 90s, 70% of the first year was spent getting everyone to the same level. But that is more because there were so many different A Level syllabuses that were called "Maths" that nearly everyone had gaps in either applied, statistics or "further"
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Great. NAT gateways in four AZs now.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I have a bucket in the garden with about half a cm of water in the bottom after last night's efforts. Unofficial weather station ftw. Still muggy af though.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
yes
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Second new venue of the weekend (because I was literally a month early last time) is East London Brewing Co. As you'd expect, hazy pints, outdoor seating, dogs, beards, sandals...
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
And Pretty Decent have unadvertised blue...
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Whilst Hackney Church are majoring on weird (hot sauce gazpacho gose, banana and blueberry sour)
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Thankfully, Gravity Well had some decent beers on, and all the Wednesday fans were in Wetherspoons, apparently.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
London being a bit of a shambles today. Overground issues, so half an hour walk round the Olympic park, only to find the first tap I went to had technical issues meaning no beer. Resorted to an uber to escape. Now dodging Sheff Weds fans, which is just rank bad planning on my part.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
First time I've seen someone cut the route (significantly) at parkrun and still take the finish. Why? 🤷
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This can be applied to any non-potato crisp in my opinion. Corn snacks have their place, but stop this alternative crisps shit.
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Another "win" for media hounding...
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Colin J @gricehead.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Everywhere else I've been/passed on the mile tonight has been busy, as have the other out of town places tbf. Smacks of doing something wrong rather than no punters out.
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