The sun is shining (again) so I’m clearing out the garage (still).
Mrs RM has ordered a skip for Tuesday, which prompted one of our rare but ridiculous arguments before I remember I should just do what I’m told.
An hour later she popped out to Milton Brewery, theoretically just across the field from our house but a wholly inessential 1.3 miles in the car.
Bless her cotton socks, she filled up the campervan water bottle with a gallon (8 pints, metric fans) of Nike, the ruby one. My first beer for six weeks.
I’m reluctantly going to accept she couldn’t have lugged a gallon of beer across the field, even though I’ve seen folk do it in Harare.
Cool, rich, bursting with flavour, it was as good as the ale in their legendary “Pour your own beer at the brewery” night.
Reader, we drank six pints in an hour, NBSS 4.5. That is why DRINKING AT HOME IS A MORTAL SIN. Mrs RM is completely unable to provide a regulated drinking environment, which is what you get in Proper Pubs like the Vaults in Uttoxeter.
Anyway, Mrs RM may well send me out later with a couple of milk bottles for some of the 7.5% Marcus Aurelius that one pub wouldn’t let her have a pint of.
Who needs pubs ?*
*joke, joke
retiredmartin 
A little over indulgence is a good thing now and then. We can see the three beer books. What are the yellow ones though? And we award you the neatest garage I think anywhere in the world. Where are the old tires?
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30 years of National Geographic. Costs £24 a year or less and always disinclined to stop the subscription.
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I confess that I have never read a copy of National Geographic. It is an impressive collection of OS maps on there too – are they all pinked up?
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I admire your dark beer fortitude, which of course leaves more pale hoppy proper beer for us fashionista drinkers. Caravan water from that container will always be slightly NBSS 4.5 now on…
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Mrs RM just picks the strong one.
I’m hoping to get the campervan in GBG21. Might be my only tick.
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I assume it was re-purposed from an old burger van, comes with a single multi-sex toilet, a table made from pallets, and only opens when you’re not there. Micropub shoe-in!
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Close, Mark. The “toilet” is currently a Bass serving jug !
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Ooh! The famous ‘Derby Piss-Pour’!
You see what I did there?…
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“a regulated drinking environment, which is what you get in Proper Pubs like the Vaults in Uttoxeter” – except in their middle room and especially the time warp back room where you can do very much as you like – even discuss Autovacs.
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So you haven’t got to the stage stretching a hosepipe across the field and just drinking direct from the brewery yet then?
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At night, when they won’t notice, like ?
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Could be. You could offer to become the brewery tap. For, you know, QC purposes.
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Disappointed you haven’t put it back in the camper to be served via the tap!
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Beer only lasts 59 minutes, Chris. Sure I read that somehwere.
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And so…..finally it begins…..
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I remember heaps of National Geographic at home when I was a child -very difficult to throw them out but they were probably never looked at more than once.My own stash ,recently found ,was about 10 years worth of The Dalesman -it was very difficult to throw them in the bin -most have gone now but I have a small pile left “just in case ” You can never have too many pictures of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales.. We have had a few takeaways from The Cellars -usually looks like pondwater but Mr Sharp is happy with it
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Yes, it’s very hard to throw such beautiful magazines away, isn’t it ? I often see the Dalesman in upmarket pubs and scour them for unfortunately un-PC adverts.
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Is that the Cellars in Maidstone, Pauline?
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Yes it is -we are doing our best to help it ticking over -just off to collect our beer & cider for the weekend
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“it’s very hard to throw such beautiful magazines away, isn’t it ?”
Yes, and it would be impossible to throw away 48 years of What’s Brewing.
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Just doing what one is told is definitely sound advice, where wives and girlfriends are concerned.
Good luck with the skip; a work colleague ordered one last week and was advised by the driver who dropped it off, to stick a sheet over it. Otherwise there’s a danger of it being filled by other local and not so local residents.
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That may happen in Kent, Paul. I can assure you I come from a respectable village (well, Mrs RM and I apart).
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T’other Paul,
“where wives and girlfriends are concerned” – but which do you take most notice of ?
( only joking )
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Time to get a rowboat? Plenty of water near you and rowing will exercise different muscles than walking (or drinking).
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Not such a silly idea, Paul.
Would be happy just to do some lugging to exercise the arms.
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Or slubbing if in Huddersfield ?
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