These short posts may lack drama, but they’re certainly helping me clean up my One Drive (I don’t understand, ask Mrs RM). Some of the photos are upside down and I can’t work out what they are. Inspired by Pint & Pubs, we seem to be visiting quite a few Cambridge pubs this year on… Continue reading CAMBRIDGE’S PUNTER – NICE GARDEN, SHAME ABOUT THE GLASS
Month: April 2017
A DECENT ARKELL’S 3B IN ASCOT
In case you’re wondering, this is what a 20 minute post looks like. I’m only writing this up because Arkell’s gets such bad press, and has so few of it’s pubs in the Beer Guide. More than BrewDog or Mallinson though. As you’re no doubt bored stiff of me saying; “There’s nowt such thing as… Continue reading A DECENT ARKELL’S 3B IN ASCOT
BASS & BAD PLANNING IN BLACKFORDBY
While Burton is unquestionably the place to spend a drunken evening (Bass or Joules carry-out into Balti Towers), the old mining villages of the National Forest have some of my favourite unpretentious pubs. I’ve written about Swadlincote and Ashby recently, and I ought to revisit the Three Horseshoes in Whitwick before it becomes an Ember Inn… Continue reading BASS & BAD PLANNING IN BLACKFORDBY
A WALK FROM CAMBRIDGE STATION
Dick (or was it Dave ?) noted I’ve taken the reference to walking 10 miles a day off the blog. I wish all Americans were as observant. I’m still walking decent distances most days, but it gets tough slogging it out round the flatlands of Cambridgeshire when I’m not out travelling to proper places. Mrs RM… Continue reading A WALK FROM CAMBRIDGE STATION
JOY UNCONFINED AT CAMBERLEY’S EMBER INN
If ever there was a post produced without enthusiasm, this is it. Blame Tom Irvin. You’re not even getting a map extract. This is the “Contractual Obligation” of blogging, and anyone who knows their Python will know that LP contains the underrated “All Things Dull and Ugly“, which sums up the subject of this piece. Ember… Continue reading JOY UNCONFINED AT CAMBERLEY’S EMBER INN
FIRST OF THE SUMMER WHINE
Sunday’s beer garden joy in Welford reminded me we’re coming to the time when non-smokers suddenly wish smokers were back in the pub, instead of contaminating their fresh air. Whingers. When the weather is nice, should the pub smoking ban be reversed to force the smokers indoors and leave the beer garden smelling nicer? —… Continue reading FIRST OF THE SUMMER WHINE
TOP 100 PUBS – WHARF INN, WELFORD
I’m debating whether to tell you about the Ember Inn in Camberley. It’s as bad as it sounds, but not in a good way. Think the 3rd Millennium novel, or Tin Machine II. No doubt there’ll be a locust infestation when Simon gets there in 2032. If you ask for it, you get it. But… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – WHARF INN, WELFORD
IN FAIRNESS TO BRUNNING & PRICE…
This blog is guilty of inverse snobbery and proud of it. However, Mrs RM is a fine lady with great appreciation of the real ale, but will always prefer the shiny craft bar to the scruffy “old men’s pub”, which is why I’ve never taken her in the Olde Vic (her loss). But then she is… Continue reading IN FAIRNESS TO BRUNNING & PRICE…
OPEN ALL HOURS – KNAPHILL’S ROYAL OAK DOES A PROPER JOB
Just 17 minutes on the train from Aldershot, central Woking feels a different world. Not always a world I’d want to inhabit, with an athletics centre of a football ground and only a Spoons and a Social Club for Beer Guide company. Type “Woking” into WhatPub and the first places you see are an O’Neill’s, a Slug, a… Continue reading OPEN ALL HOURS – KNAPHILL’S ROYAL OAK DOES A PROPER JOB
ASTONISHED IN ALDERSHOT
Enough of the Midlands, as Tuesday brought a trip to the prosperous South-East, which is at least well-supplied with cheap Travelodges and those odd Days Inn places. It’s just a shame they’re all in Fleet. Logic tells me we’ve only been to Aldershot thrice in our lives, which puts it behind Goole on my league table. … Continue reading ASTONISHED IN ALDERSHOT
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