HOORAH !!! IT’S THE WETHERSPOONS BEER FESTIVAL

23rd March 2023. Some lovely street art has arrived at Retired Martin Lane. Everywhere, things are getting better. Apart from the roads into Cambridge, where the art installation is a series of pot holes on the A10. Sheffield remains a giant building site, the constructions alternating between student accommodation and food courts. Yes, you heard… Continue reading HOORAH !!! IT’S THE WETHERSPOONS BEER FESTIVAL

YES, MANCHESTER – THE SENSATIONAL ANNA B SAVAGE

22nd March 2023. Manchester. While Matt and James were sober at Society, I headed across Oxford Road to YES, one of Manchester’s seemingly endless food court-cum-bars-cum music venues. It’s next to the Lass O’ Gowrie, which you’ve probably heard of. Oldest pisser (top), one of the strongest beers once, now a rare Greene King GBG… Continue reading YES, MANCHESTER – THE SENSATIONAL ANNA B SAVAGE

DRIVEN TO THE PUB BY MY SON FOR THE FIRST TIME

22nd March 2023. Quite a significant date, this. The first day my son James drove me to a pub. #ProudParent #23YearsWellSpent etc. etc. If he’d passed his test a year earlier he could have driven me to Claddach Kirkibost. I’d sat quietly in the passenger seat when he drove his car (a blue one) home… Continue reading DRIVEN TO THE PUB BY MY SON FOR THE FIRST TIME

ON TOWARDS ROWLEY REGIS, AND THE INEVITABLE ABK-LED MICRO

20th March 2023. Two ticks in the bag, I sped up on the way back to Oldswinford, stopping only to bring you Stourbridge street art. I think this is a metaphor about the housing market, and this gorgeous painting may well be on the wall of an old pub on the Bridgnorth Road; and here’s… Continue reading ON TOWARDS ROWLEY REGIS, AND THE INEVITABLE ABK-LED MICRO

I AM OLDSWINFORD’S ONLY BEER TOURIST

20th March 2023. I’m making terribly slow progress towards completing GBG23 (IF I’m actually doing it), which I know will disappoint those of you who had a tenner on me at 18/1 to repeat my GBG22 triumph (what happened to the film starring Emma Stone by the way ?). In truth I’m waiting for the… Continue reading I AM OLDSWINFORD’S ONLY BEER TOURIST