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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Agreed. A great proponent for public discourse in science. Would have likely been politically ostracised in Britain and denied entry to the US if alive today!

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Have gone home for Christmas and picked up these. Intriguing…

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I thought pickle would be the flavour for me but they’ve gone for the sweeter gherkin flavour rather than my preferred Mittel European full sour. Disappointing.

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Torres cured cheese crisps are a fine and wonderful thing; recognisably Manchego-ish, and will restore your faith in cheesy crisps. All Torres crisps pale, however, in the force of nature that are their fried egg flavour crisps. There's some sort of witchcraft going on with them.

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Lab Christmas party enhanced by some disguised Morgenthaler Magic: tequila-sherry egg nog. If you have a crowd, this will please

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

That’s the Christmas tree sorted

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Found a bar in London for game 6. It’s a Phillies bar, got to be a good omen.

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

This one in Japan left little for the imagination.

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Sometimes the answer is an absinthe fountain. Saturday night at The Parlour with @skochlab.bsky.social working out what the question is.

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Yes it’s three penguin kites on a beach in Le Touquet, what of it?

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The world is your oyster, quite literally here in Le Touquet in Normandy. I do enjoy a challenge…

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

A much needed escape to the bucolic Kent countryside for some vintage motorcycle racing. The roar of ancient machines and the perfume of Castrol R in the air. Delicious!

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A pain summer school like no other!

Poster for the Bordeaux Summer School May19th-23rd 2025

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

And such a wondrous thing needs the appropriate adddress:

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A little delicate after last night’s Burn’s Night. Here’s the wee beastie before and after cooking

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Friday cocktail. A take on the Cameron’s Kick but with poitin and Laphroaig. A full head-on assault of moonshine and peat to welcome the weekend. I may need another.

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It’s been an increasingly stressful first week back, and so to Charles Baker Jr’s ‘The Gentleman’s Companion Volume II, an Exotic Drinking Book’ for solace and advice. Never fails. Happy Friday!

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Traditional New Year’s Day morning swim in the welcoming azure waters of the North Sea. Bracing!

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Cheers Ewan! Suitably revived, we pressed on…

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

It is the time of year for a corpse reviver, and where better to drink one than in the place of its invention; the American Bar at The Savoy. A fitting joint birthday celebration with @skochlab.bsky.social

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

When your ten year old can’t quite let go of the idea of Santa…

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Christmas carol service in Canterbury cathedral. The ethereal sound of the choir reverberating in that 13th century vaulted space is other-worldly. Fortunately heavy on the singing, light on the god business.

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

A tour of the Christmas lights of London starts with a quick sharpener in Sketch. The Winter Solstice: reposado tequila, cactus pimento liqueur, maple syrup, lemongrass, ginger, orange, Mezcal.

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

It’s the time of the year we must give thanks to Jeffrey Morgenthaler and the life-affirming properties of eggnog. Cheers!

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

On this day in 1933 prohibition ended. Nothing could be more suitable to mark the occasion than the Scofflaw.

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

‘If I had all the money I’d spent on drink, I’d spend it on drink’ - Vivian Stanshall. I happened upon this plaque outside the house where he lived (and died) while on a quest to buy gin.

Blue plaque to commemorate the house the Vivian Stanshall lived in.

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Accidentally stumbling across a Japanese supermarket earlier today was rewarded with a bottle of fine Shochu and fresh yuzu juice. Nothing else for it but a Yuzu Sour. Kanpai!

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Friday afternoon cocktail time: The Aviation, in recognition of our US colleagues battling airports and airlines this holiday weekend. Cheers!

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

It’s a beautiful thing. I’m quite partial to our local variant

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Some would say it can’t be improved upon, but I’ve taken to adding a dash of this delicious elixir and it definitely adds something.

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

What better way to mark submitting my review for a manuscript than with the king of cocktails, the Last Word.

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The Tuxedo. Further adventures into the martini. A reward for completing a manuscript review. Two more to do…

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Currently guzzling my way through this bacchanalian bible. Tonight the Nordic martini; gin, aquavit, vermouth. kold som en brøndgravers røv: cold as a well-digger’s arse

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Simon Beggs @simonbeggslab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Landscape with lager. A very enjoyable trip to Lausanne and the Suter lab, capped with a walk in the hills overlooking Lake Geneva

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