Well, what a disaster this blog is.
Sixty-eight posts published (about average) and I’m still only up to 13 April (2019, before the Prof asks). But if I don’t review April now, I never will.
THE BARE STATS
Fifty-two (52) new GBG pubs. Not as good as Bruce Masters, who’s done 50,000 pubs by doing 20 a week, or BRAPA, who ate 53 pieces of his own food in UK pubs last month. But still pretty good.
I actually finished Surrey, Sussex(es), Derbyshire and the West Midlands, most of which you don’t know about yet.
Still far behind the Pubmeister, but we all know who has the better colouring, don’t we ?
Some very good beer, some great cheery service in Scotland, and some striking pictures of pints with my new phone camera (inherited from Mrs RM who is now known as Mme Huawei due to neural brain implants taking the place of traditional phone technology).
HIGHLIGHTS
The month took in Wroot (loads of blog views from there – thanks), Scunny, Skeggy, the Cotswolds, Brizzle, Julia Jacklin, Bromsgrove, Gatwick, Borough, Dudley and half of Scotland. A real mix there.
I enjoyed my afternoon in West Siberia Arbroath immensely; proper stress-free football, smokies, the best steak & black pudding pie in the UK, and a real Scottish pub.
PUB OF THE MONTH – Fifty Four, Horley
The best welcome ever, cool keg drunk under the Gatwick flight path, and Guy Mitchell’s Golden Greats. Unexpected Surrey weirdness.
BEST STREET ART – Scunthorpe. Of course.
BEST VIEW – North Nibley
BEER OF THE MONTH – Fallen Grapevine in the Dreadnough, Leith
Also home to the best German punk graffiti.
MAY PREVIEW
May, heh ? The cruellest month.
A trip to Rugby with the Beer & Pubs gang, a few days finishing Cheshire and Lancs (and shredding my nerves at the Etihad), some days in West Wales with our US readers, and I will finally finish the Isle of Wight (2 to go). 50 new pubs will do me.
Plus no doubt some more pub cats along the way.
retiredmartin 
Your route this month was eclectic. Not sure there was another month where you went to such a diverse set of pubs and counties. Good stuff.
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The South Lancs version of the Caprivi Strip still there, I see.
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I think you’ll find that’s actually a Millenium funded viewing platform jutting eastward from Liverpool Pier Head that allows Scousers to get a better view of the superior pubs of North West Wales and the Isle of Man.
(Had to look that Caprivi Strip up).
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Yesterday the configuration of canal locks, today 19th century African geopolitics. Never a dull moment on this blog.
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I thought it was something Leonard Rossiter tried to do with Joan Collins back on the 80’s
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It’s a fine record of C21 social Britain. But wait what happened to the spreadsheet?
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Your obsession with my spreadsheet rests on the fact you don’t have one, do you Duncan ? Even that Bruce imposter with 50k pubs started his spreadsheet in 1962, probably on Kalamazoo.
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Well I do have one like yours but my county records are all on Word and I lack the heart and skill to transfer them. Your April spreadsheet is a traditional sign of spring. Not sure how that guy has done that many. He must go into every keg bar going. My pal Andy is on 38,700.
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We need an intern, I think. They expect to be paid a living wage for Copenhagen these days though.
Will def do a spreadsheet edition, probably when I’ve completed Hants and Wight.
Re: Bruce, you could probably have racked up a 1,000 keg bars in Salford alone as recently as 2007.
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Intern sounds good. Must have driving licence.
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