A team effort continues, as Mrs RM and I bravely tick the wine beer gardens of our local GBG pubs for your entertainment. Like Tavaré, I’m doing the Guide in singles, while BRAPA takes the De Villiers route. Our Thirsty Thursday Target is Cusworth Hall in “nice” Doncaster, which is a real place. Shamefully, I… Continue reading MILKING THE BABA GANOUSH IN CUSWORTH
Month: April 2021
TOP TUCKER IN TUPTON
Blimey, only 10 days into the Great Re-opening and a second trip into the North Derbyshire mining villages for a real life, palpable GBG tick. Days after conquering Clay Cross we were back down the A61 for a tick we could have added to the Three Horseshoes if I’d bothered to do proper research and… Continue reading TOP TUCKER IN TUPTON
“Listen to your wife”
Mrs RM really is an extraordinary human being. Just being able to make it back up Whitehouse hill deserves an award, but she’s also just alerted me to this post tonight on Wonderful Walkley; Sadly, I’d just come back from that recycling centre and not seen anything except a huge pile of cardboard that the… Continue reading “Listen to your wife”
PACKED PUB GARDENS BY THE DON
ALL THE PUBS IN SHEFFIELD ON FOOT No. 7 – The Riverside (Kelham Island) On Monday (I’m already that far behind) we popped into “town” to walk off the 455 calories we’d inevitably put back on in the pub later. Pleasingly the Cathedral hasn’t yet been converted to a Brunning & Price, and will therefore… Continue reading PACKED PUB GARDENS BY THE DON
IT’S PRONOUNED “BEAVER”. HONEST
Our 3 day world tour continued from Kent with a stop in Waterbeach (no Chung Hwa) and a night by the river in the Vale of Belvoir. Or Beaver to you and me. The posh bit of Leics-cum-Lincs betwixt Grantham, Melton and Nottingham has some good pubs, but rarely new ones, and the tick in… Continue reading IT’S PRONOUNED “BEAVER”. HONEST
“Have you got the App ?”
You left us in the car park of the Spotted Dog in Penshurst, which I’ve captured here in black and white to show you what it looked like in its 1950s hey day before colour ruined things. Parking at a pub had the massive advantage of an on-site loo. But the real highlight here is… Continue reading “Have you got the App ?”
THAT PERENNIAL PENSHURST PHEASANT v PEASANT PROBLEM
Mrs RM had phoned the Spotted Dog in Penshurst to ask if we could leave our campervan in their car park overnight. Well, you know my views on phoning pubs, it starts there and before you know it you’re asking for tasters. But I guess the end justifies the means, and 15 minutes after that… Continue reading THAT PERENNIAL PENSHURST PHEASANT v PEASANT PROBLEM
MORE GREAT PUB BEER GARDENS
We woke in Dereham, refreshed by 8 hours sleep only interrupted by 3 re-fillings of the, er, milk bottle. Baa Baa had kept watch all night, warding off the strange six-fingered creatures who stalk the Brecks, before Stage 2 of the road trip. Kentish Paul knows this journey well, and will be staggered to learn… Continue reading MORE GREAT PUB BEER GARDENS
THE CHERRY TREE STICKS TWO FINGERS UP TO CRAFT
MORE Dereham ? you ask. Well, it just gets better. If there were a league table of unheralded English market towns it would be at No.27, squeezed between Darlington and Dartford. We TRIED to find something remarkable and new in the High Street, but perhaps the £5 note dispenser is a shock too far. So,… Continue reading THE CHERRY TREE STICKS TWO FINGERS UP TO CRAFT
WORTH THE WAIT
It’s only 4 days ago, but I’m still struggling to remember the, er, finer details of the Dereham distraction from my attempts to get back on the GBG ticking horse. Only now looking back at the photos and the iconic route that night, do I recall the cultural high points; No idea about Bob the… Continue reading WORTH THE WAIT
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