Our first day as Northerners. If you’re lucky I’ll tell you “Why You Should Never Move House, Ever”.
Two trips to Big Yellow Storage in Hillsborough, a big shop in Morrisons, and an unexpectedly arty walk round Kelham Island.
Kelham is a different beast to the rough industrial suburb we all remember from the 90s.
It’s all flats and foccacia and fold up buggies now
We’re 10 minutes walk (Mrs RM – 20 minutes as she’ll get lost at the Aldi) from this classic.
I actually did an 8 pub crawl of Northern Sheffield 3 months after the 2007 floods.
The pubs are having to show a similar level of resilience now.
I can’t see the world famous Kelham Island Tavern embracing Tier 2, even with South Yorkshire Scotch eggs and a pint a possibility.
But they are doing a decent takeaway trade, at the sort of prices that encourage irresponsible drinking in your underpants rather than safe drinking in pubs.
Sadly, I succumbed to the North Riding and the Blue Bee.
NEVER get Mrs RM a chocolate beer. You’ll never hear the last of it.
retiredmartin 
I thought chocolate was now listed under the Reinheitsgebot.
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I’m not sure Mrs RM pays any attention to laws.
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I’m sure she pays attention to purity laws.
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What a time to move house. Respect!
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Yes, it’s been “A Challenge”, John.
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The missus and I really ought to find our “Dunroamin” I suppose. Well, you know what they say “There’s no time like the future”
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Yes, but you reach a stage where it would take longer to get rid of your junk than you’ve got left. We were nearly at that stage.
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“Our first day as Northerners.”
In the photo above, is that in homage of Family Guy’s ‘Peanut Butter Jelly Time’?
“If you’re lucky I’ll tell you “Why You Should Never Move House, Ever”.”
Waaay too late for that advice for me alas. 😉
“It’s all flats and foccacia and fold up buggies now”
Or, as some would say, ‘gentrification’.
“We’re 10 minutes walk (Mrs RM – 20 minutes as she’ll get lost at the Aldi) from this classic.”
Classic indeed. Pete Brown, in his book ‘The Pub’, says it’s been a beacon for 40 years or so.
“The pubs are having to show a similar level of resilience now.”
(sigh)
“at the sort of prices that encourage irresponsible drinking in your underpants rather than safe drinking in pubs.”
Pfft! The only person in danger when I make my way ‘home’ (i.e. from my computer room to my bedroom) is me.*
* – oh, ok, maybe the better half when I get there. 🙂
“Sadly, I succumbed to the North Riding and the Blue Bee.”
Not mixed together in one pint glass!
(looks down)
Ah, forgot; takeaway only. 😦
“NEVER get Mrs RM a chocolate beer. You’ll never hear the last of it.”
What about pumpkin beer? 😉
Cheers
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Argh. You really need an ‘edit’ button…
“says it’s been a beacon for 40 years or so.”
That should read ‘a beacon FOR TICKERS’. (sigh)
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Not just for tickers. A classic pub beloved by folk who like pubs 😉
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Not pumpkin 🎃 either. Unless it’s an inadvisable late beer in Brussels, I guess.
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“Not just for tickers. A classic pub beloved by folk who like pubs 😉”
Too bloody right. I should have just left it as ‘a beacon’. 🙂
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I don’t know, soft southerners….
Your lockdown walks might have a smidge more variety in future, I suspect.
BTW, which of Simon’s friends is that defrosting alongside him at the fireplace?
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The taller one is Tom.
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The Kernel for under a fiver! Must be an old picture.
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Very old. Last night, in fact.
I didn’t see the keg beer list, just handpumps, or I’d have had that 😉
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What I’ve always suspected, it’s so cold up north you have to warm your beer up in front of a fence post and anthracite fire before drinking. Brr!
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That was the case, before global warming started in 1990, but Sheffield will soon be able to grow its own avocados.
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Is Kelham Island a proper island ?
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