A big day on the blog yesterday as Russ returns to the fold. I do hope the Prof is OK. Back to Rochdale, where you left me in the toilets of the Medicine Tap. They’re quite cute. I headed for St Chads for a spiritual break, or at least to look at gravestones and realised… Continue reading ANOTHER ROCHDALE WINNER ?
Month: October 2019
ROCHDALE UPRISING
13 minutes from Victoria to the Victorian. I’d been looking forward to a first proper look at Rochdale in a decade (or two), as it gives me the chance to wheel out these amazing FACTS about the town. 99.7% of Southerners couldn’t place Rochdale on a map (given a 300 mile tolerance). 82% believe Lisa… Continue reading ROCHDALE UPRISING
THIS & THAT
Think of this next post as purely for my benefit, enabling me to refer you to the exemplar curry cafe whenever the mood takes me. The Holts sunk, assorted Southworths and Mudgies headed for the Marble Arch, a pub of some repute I believe. I set off for Rochdale. Not on foot. Just like George… Continue reading THIS & THAT
WOKE UP, IT WAS A HARE & HOUNDS MORNING
More ten minute posts penned in Starbucks on the A34. On the Monday I awoke in Huddersfield (actually Ivy Green, and we know how geography matters) with a decision to make. How best to add a tick to a day in Manchester with a few pints with Yanks and a curry with Matt? Over Stotts… Continue reading WOKE UP, IT WAS A HARE & HOUNDS MORNING
TICKING CHAOS IN LEEDS
Where was I ? Oh, yes, watching a brave lady valiantly clear up a pile of vomit (sorry to those of you with weak constitutions) on the 19:09 Huddersfield to Leeds “fun train” on Sunday night, wishing I’d got that Chinese takeaway and headed back to the Sunday night disco at Ivy Green. “Has anyone… Continue reading TICKING CHAOS IN LEEDS
THOSE CRAFTY YANKS
Hopefully Dick and Dave, safely retired to Preston in their dotage, will treasure this photographic journal of their cultural (curry and beer) trip to the UK of Autumn 2019. For the record, I probably did make them pop in the Magic Rock Tap in Birkby (ha !). Hard to avoid on the way back, and… Continue reading THOSE CRAFTY YANKS
TOP 100 PUBS – SLUBBERS, HUDDERSFIELD
Dick has been pestering me to make him my cover star (it’s like being a mascot at City but cheaper), so here he is, training for a job at next year’s Octoberfest. Note how we ruins the fun of real #PubMen who like to take their own glass back in Northern towns. Next up was… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – SLUBBERS, HUDDERSFIELD
FIGHTING OVER THE 5th PINT OF BOLTMAKER IN THE SPORTSMAN
Say what you like about the Trump presidency, but the dollar is now worth about £2.50, the exact reverse of what it was under the peanut farmer. This has led to the occasionally embarrassing situation of our American visiting pubbers attempting to buy not only rounds (shame on you) but also entire pubs that take… Continue reading FIGHTING OVER THE 5th PINT OF BOLTMAKER IN THE SPORTSMAN
Ee by gum it’s ‘uddersfield
If in doubt, offend everyone. Works for Si. On the Sunday I headed to Hudders to Meet the Southworths, a film that would undoubtedly star De Niro if he hadn’t been shot by Joker. Two nights at Ivy Green, £28 a night and John Smith Smooth for £2.40. The red-faced Old Boy told me the… Continue reading Ee by gum it’s ‘uddersfield
WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY BRAPA’S BEER GUIDE WAS FOUND ?
15 October 2019 will go down in history as a day to rival 23 October 2011, 31 October 1517, and of course 22 December 1964. The day BRAPA’s Beer Guide returned from the dead. It was lost, and it was found, thanks to Martin Brammer and Pub Curmudgeon. We can only wonder at the euphoria… Continue reading WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY BRAPA’S BEER GUIDE WAS FOUND ?
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