A few exciting reports from my mega-ticking excursion to Scotland last week, starting with Piercebridge, which you may remember from last year, or from Roger Protz’s excellent book on the A1 pubs.
Piercebridge popped back in my mind as we drove up the (newly re-opened) B6275 towards the Scottish borders on Monday night. Largely because that old post has recently been getting half a dozen views a day a year on.
In case you wondered, these are the countries of origin of today’s views of my blog. The European Union visitor is a mystery.
Clearly I treasure my Canadian visitor more than all the others put together, but it’s the South Korean readers that intrigue me. They seem to come via a reference to my post in this website, which is worth a look*.
https://namu.wiki/w/할아버지의%20낡은%20시계
I guess it’s a Korean explanation of the old nursery rhyme about the Grandfather clock, which has somehow picked up my reference to The George, which houses that very dead timepiece. Not that I can see any reference in there.
A year ago I’d nipped in for a photo, so I thought I owed them the price of a pint. And the pub, and the Tees, looked gorgeous in the sunset. And we needed a “comfort break“.
It’s an old-fashioned hotel bar, but pleasant enough. No-one at all dining though.
Despite there being a couple of Geordie businessmen and a quartet of Italian fisherman as well as us, we had trouble getting served. The barmaid seemed to be doing the cooking, serving, clock maintenance and pulling of the pints. I guess that’s what we mean by increasing productivity.
Mrs RM tried the local beers (the George OK, the Golden Ale very good indeed), while I tried to get the Grandfather clock to work by staring at it.
And failed.
Oddly, more pubby than the GBG gastro place over the bridge that had disturbing levels of public affection when I visited last year.
If you pass this way, it’s worth a visit, if only as a place with steps to help you dismount and remount your horse.
And for the views.
*I cannot be held responsible if you choose to visit this site and see offensive images of Wayne Rooney attempting to win the ball on Sunday.
retiredmartin 
Is a “comfort break“ what our Korean friends would know as a “piss” ?.
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In the radio program “Car Talk”, it was also referred to as an “Urgent need of a haircut”.
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I only saw your original comment when Dan just responded; it seemed to have been caught by my sensitive Spam detector !
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“Clearly I treasure my Canadian visitor more than all the others put together, ”
(waves fan in front of face) Tra-la good sir! (blush)
“The Tees”
I know Scotland is known for some difficult golf courses (since they invented it) but that par is ridiculous! (LOL)
“which has somehow picked up my reference to The George”
Yep. You’re the link at the end of part 2 on the page.
“if only as a place with steps to help you dismount and remount your horse.”
Either that or this is a subtle reference to that famous Canadian location poem “Antigonish”. 🙂
Cheers
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Thanks for all that useful info about golf and the Korean translation of my name, Russ.
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Looks like a nice place with decent beer and views, albeit with a dismal legend about a dead bloke and a broken clock.
Incidentally, you seem to have at least the first stage as I do for making broken things work. These are:
1.Give it a hard stare. You’ve tried this, so move on to:
2. Spray it with WD40.
3. Hit it with a hammer.
If these easy steps fail, give up and go for a pint.
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4. Turn it off and turn it on again.
5. Replace the battery.
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6. Roll of Duct Tape
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Reminded me of the song … my grandfathers cock was too big for the shelf so it stood 90 years on the floor?
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Freudian slip on the keyboard there Rich? Or is it a Leeds thing to sing about geriatric appendages? 😉
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Oooops!
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I suspect the stopped grandfather clock reminds Mrs RM of you.
It’s only right twice a day.
Wahaay !
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She would say you’re being very generous, Prof.
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Are you sure those steps aren’t for easier access to your mobility scooter? Which is of course merely a modern version of a horse.
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Good spot.
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That’s our Martin, “Big In Korea,” as we like to call him.
Russ, I think you need to rally the Canadian pub-loving troops, surely your fine nation deserves the #3 spot. But measured by steadfastness/quality/quantity of comments, I think you put Canada at #1 all on your own. 😉
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Well said, Mark.
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My understanding of the cause of the simultaneous death and clock-failure was that it fell on the poor old bugger!
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