90% of this Beer Guide blogging lark is just a good title*. They’re generally far too clever for you lot, so here’s an easy one today. I may have used it in a certain West Sussex town already, but you can’t plagiarise yourself.
I rose very early on Friday morning, to the sound of “Wake Up to Money” on Radio 5 and Chinese cartons all over the place. It’s low-level debauchery, but it’s my debauchery.
This, I kid you not, was the sunrise from my room.
The Royal Hotel doesn’t do breakfast, in fact you’re locked in on your own overnight until the cleaner gets there, so I had to pop to Spoons for my Eggs Benedict (posh eggs on toast if you’re a commoner).
Just time to admire the bar before I left,
and remember to check my room for power cables, one of which I’ll always leave in any B&B.
The drizzle started just as I left Spoons, but I resolved to take some photos anyway.
That means more to Matthew Lawrenson to me.
On to Heysham, an odd place you wouldn’t leave your car overnight but with a certain upmarket tourism around the coast and the two historic chapels that got the village into the Rough Guide (ahead of Burton-upon-Trent).
A lovely bit of coast, only spoilt by having to say “Good Morning” to everyone every two minutes.
Nothing can spoil the view from St Patricks Chapel.
For five points, name the Brummie LP cover taken here.
Still, I had an hour to kill before catching up with Pubmeister and Maltmeister for the ferry, an hour in the rain. So I killed half that time inThwaites flagship the Royal Hotel, one of the smartest conversions I’ve seen outside Brunning & Price.
Proper coffee AND Black Pepper & Ginseng Handwash. And polite society fussing about where to sit. Winner.
I then caught up with Duncan and t’other Martin, two legends of GBG ticking, who decided a quick half in the Old Hall was possible.
It’s a Proper Pub; old, large and slightly scruffy, too small for Brunning & Price but wasted as a haven for Professional Drinker. The beer range stretched to the “new” Tetley from Leeds Brewery, and was scarily good. I bet it won’t get in the Guide, unless they move it brick-by-brick to Motherwell.
A good start for the boys.
*The other 15% is being good at spreadsheets so you can keep up to date with ticking progress.
retiredmartin 
The Best of Black Sabbath 😈
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Winner. Pint of Doom Bar added in the ledger.
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Is that “Torturing..” a beginner’s guide? And is that a jug of Donnington BB they’re pouring into the unfortunate wretch?
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No laughing matter Scott. Morecambe are hoping to get universal suffrage in 2021. And Donnington BB is outlawed by Geneva convention.
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It’s all a Sham…
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Five posts in and you still haven’t mentioned the VERY large elephant in the room at Heysham.
You know you want to …
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Dumbo ?
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Oh yes, they don’t enforce the smoking ban in Heysham. Do they ?
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It has a nice new access road from Lancaster. But you won’t have noticed that if staying on Morecambe.
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Yes, very nice. I came in that way off the M6, bit unexpected and must have saved 10 minutes or more. Should have mentioned that.
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They do here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heysham_nuclear_power_station
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Is it a secret one, disguised as a micro pub ?
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I dunno but I think they do fusion food …
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Only been once and all the pubs were shut. Mind you we were catching the 0100hrs crossing, with the Edwin Starr band who were playing at LCGB 50th anniversary rally in Douglas. Really nice kids.
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“90% of this Beer Guide blogging lark is just a good title*”
Or, as Life said (I’m paraphrasing); ‘just alliterate and you’re all set mate!’. 🙂
“SUNRISE”
I see the tide’s still out (or did it come in and go out again?).
“and remember to check my room for power cables,”
I usually do two complete tours of the room before leaving. 🙂
“Suffragette exhibition”
I’m sure, since you’re on the coast, they’re merely trying out that new fad of ocean (saline) water to cure nasal congestion. 😉
“before catching up with Pubmeister and Maltmeister”
Apologies but for some reason that made me think of Heat Miser and Snow Miser from the old Christmas cartoon.
“Mark of a Posh Pub”
Why is it also in French on the hand wash? Is that an EU thing or just to show how posh it is?
“who decided a quick half in the Old Hall was possible.”
I see the banner hanging from the wall says ‘car boot sale’. Is that so you can buy one and go around clamping vehicles? 😉
“*The other 15% is being good at spreadsheets so you can keep up to date with ticking progress.”
And not knowing how to use a spreadsheet for proper maths it would seem.*
Cheers
* I’m 105% sure of that!
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107.5%, you forgot inflation.
Oh, does BeerMat get to be called Life now ?
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“Oh, does BeerMat get to be called Life now ?”
He’s been called that on other blogs, and I’m leery of using someone’s name if they don’t use it themselves.
But you correct in using BeerMat as his moniker. Must make a mental to remember that. 😏
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Sorry, I just meant Life as opposed to LaF, or whatever. Being called Life must make you special, as he is.
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LOL, no worries Martin. 😁
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Laced up boots and corduroys 👍 beermat is probably better but LAF life or any other acronym is good…I’ve been called many things. 😀
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Beermat it is then.
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Was the Brummie LP cover ‘Shit on the Villa’?
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