Live blogging from…you guess.
Well, the seaside.
Nice pub, out on a limb.
One beer, served in a John Smiths Smooth glass. The true way.
The landlord is from Queensbury, near the Dolphin. He serves a good pint.
His wife makes a great fish and chips.
And I guess a soundtrack of ELO and Michael Jackson is his fault too.
Talking of punk music, Mike Oldfield has a connection with this pub.
And it’s not the Ommadawn Arms.
Absolutely no idea.
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Pathetic.
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Google tells me his local pub is in Amersham which he likes to visit on a Monday night. I don’t think it’s this one.
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Is the vintage road sign a clue or a red herring?
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I reckon it’s a red herring; the beermats are from the Hadrian Border Brewery, which puts it somewhere in the North East. It’s the Mike Oldfield connection that’s doing my head in.
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Think of Mike’s many hits.
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The Manor House Hotel on Lindisfarne.
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My “Guess the Pub” attempt was greeted with the silence that usually means I have f****d when blowing my nose.
The only thing I know about Mike Oldfield is that Tubular Bells was recorded at Richard Branson’s Manor Studio. This was the only pub I could find with this name within a reasonable delivery distance for Hadrian Borders beer mats and with a view of the sea. I’m quite relieved to be wrong, because that half of Doom Bar must be getting pretty old by now.
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Doom Bar improves with age, just like yourself, Will.
Sorry for absence of my usual care and attention to your always valuable replies, due to Scottish Internet!
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I’m sticking my neck out here. Nothing to do with guessing the pub, as I haven’t a clue, but with regards to the glasses I’d (almost) prefer one of those hideous Adnam’s glasses, than a John Smiths Smooth (only one step removed from Doom Bar), glass.
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No. No. No.
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Somewhere in Portsmouth, which is a Mike Oldfield hit?
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Excellent effort, Yvonne. A mere 350 miles odd out. (It’s a TV show, and a pub name).
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So it’s a Blue Peter of some description, near the seaside? I’m wondering if I went to it on my Cornish holiday a few years ago – https://wmexplorer.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-postcard-from-cornwall.html?
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Again, a good guess, but try again !
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Northumberland ? Tyneside ?
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Red herring, Pauline.
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Blue Peter, Kirkholm?
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Well done Bill!
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Bill is my cleverest reader by far.
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Magpie?
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Which Mike Oldfield hit was that ?
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