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An odd November, but at least it was better than November 2020, perhaps the most miserable of my life.

Not much of a travel map,

and only 32 new GBG pubs (ticks), which compares shamefully with BRAPA’s haul of 61.

Not that I didn’t save pubs, sometime single-handedly. Eighty-four (84) different pubs in a month, but problematically (?) many of them were repeat visits on wonderful Days Out with Old and Young Codgers in Macclesfield, Belper and Stafford.

I wouldn’t swap those pints with Will and the Mudg(i)es for any number of new micros called Bottle & Bellend, I’ll tell you.

And I got Bass this month. Great Bass, too. Just not as much as Life After Football.

PUB OF THE MONTH – CHANTRY, EAST SHEFFIELD

I took Mrs RM; a local offered to tie her shoelaces up. A fortnight later I took Will; he didn’t offer to tie Will’s shoelaces up. Sexist, but sensational.

Runner-up was the Alpine Hut in Sheffield Christmas Market. Obvs.

BEER OF THE MONTH – PEDIGREE, WINTER GREEN, SHEFFIELD

BARGAIN OF THE MONTH – FISH & CHIPS + OLD PECULIER £6.34, SPOONS.

DECEMBER PREVIEW

It’s my birthday on the 22nd, so I’ll be targeting 22 ticks that day, anyway.

And later this week I’ll be sharing my strategy. It’s good to have a strategy, even if you ignore it completely.

Right, off to get my booster jab.