All those three post days have taken their toll. I’m up to date, with nothing to write about.
Except Mrs RM’s new campervan.
Bye bye, giant Adria.
And hello, slimline campercar.
About a third the size, so Mrs RM will have no excuse for not driving this down narrow Cornish lanes while I panic.
The benefit of this campercar is that it will fit under those low barriers that councils selfishly put in car parks and slot into normal spaces in service stations.
It’ll also slot into your drive, so if you live next door to a GBG pub I haven’t visited yet* please feel free to let us park at your house and make us bacon sandwiches in the morning.
I’m particularly looking for someone who lives next door to the Crown & Anchor on Holy Island.
Mrs RM has promised me she’s cutting down on her 156 hour weeks so we can visit parts of the GBG UK we’ve missed so far, like Stranraer, from where we can take the new Boris Bridge to Ireland.
And of course, Claddach Kirkibost (a minor character on Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy) now calls.
Sadly, Wales and the Marches look a bit off the agenda this weekend due to the wet stuff, but the days of coughing up £30+ on a grotty B&B are hopefully over.
NB Bets are still offered on when my battered Aygo will conk out as it approaches the double century.
*preemptive ticks also considered
retiredmartin 
“I’m particularly looking for someone who lives next door to the Crown & Anchor on Holy Island.”
Well…. remember my mate with the santa beard in Tynemouth Club?
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Failing that the causeway looks a good bet 😉
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Not one map, not two, but three sensational maps. More please. That’s an impressively pinked national one. Did Notts do something wrong? Also I like the red deer image on the side of the campervan.
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The red deer is the international symbol for someone allowed to park on red lines while the non-driver nips in for a half.
Notts? Don’t talk to me about Notts.
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Have Donnington made an insane geographical expansion of their estate we weren’t aware of?
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The Red Deer in Sheffield was the start nearly thirty years ago of a ridiculous day out in South Yorkshire the latter half of which I remember very little.
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That doesn’t sound like you, Paul. What happened to your notes?
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I don’t know.
And the next day the three of us weren’t sure how we had got from Sheffield to Conisborough.
I slept very soundly except that a cat landed on me from quite a height in the middle of the night. Maybe I was sleeping where it usually did.
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Actually 4 maps- even better. Standard setting.
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Some remote places on that map, even for the UK. Looks like an ordeal. I’ve got 2-3 days in Rye and the marshes to look forward to myself.
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Say hello to Jeff in the Ypres. 👍
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Oh, yes. A great pub, especially on Sundays when they’ve got live music on.
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Oooh, missed that. Found it a really welcoming classy place since Jeff took it on, and it was good before.
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Ahem. Proud that I’ve ticked off the Westford afore ye. BTW last time I was there there was free parking next to the green at the back of the Lindisfarne Mead place. All part of the service.
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So you’re not just the saviour of Bass?
Yes, can’t imagine there’s much to stop you parking anywhere in Northumberland.
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Always watching over the pub tickers.
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Hard not to panic driving down narrow Cornish lanes. Never seen such skinny lanes & high hedges. Driving on the wrong side of the road is scary enough, but on those lanes you don’t have a choice.
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Mrs RM has promised me she’s cutting down on her 156 hour weeks.
Sounds a great job. One hour a week for the last three years
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I’ve told her my pubbing is work too.
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And of course she believes you!!
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I am about a thousand miles from the nearest GBG pub, but you are welcome to park in our driveway and I will bring bacon sandwiches out to you, and also take you to Michigan brewpubs where every other beer is an IPA that has something really adventurous added to it, like cilantro.
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As always, Mark, you win our ♥ if not the 🏆 by being first to offer.
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Excuse my limey ignorance, but what exactly is “cilantro”?
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Apparently it’s the same plant that produces coriander seeds (I say having just looked it up!)
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Claddach Kirkibost? Only one ferry from mainland UK, how easy can you get compared to some potential GBG entries (wink, wink)…..
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So Mrs RM here, to the cheeky person who thinks I don’t work156 hrs a week, right now it’s not far off it! Very exhausted.
Also the 18 year old and self appointed style guru says the dear deer should go. I’m not sure about it. Should it stay or should it go?
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That’s how I read it, honest.
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Mrs RM / Mrs CT,
Replace the deer with the words “Private Ambulance” and other motorists will treat you more courteously.
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