If I hadn’t deleted my notes I’d no doubt have been able to give you Pevsner style notes on the qualities of the misericords of Gloucester Cathedral or the joys of Cinderford, but instead all I know is we parked up (FREE !) by the Severn where Mrs RM did a Zoom call (not to… Continue reading NEWNHAM – A SEVERNTH HEAVEN ?
Month: May 2022
MOOCHING ROUND MINCHINHAMPTON
In May 1980 the New Musical Express published a letter from India posing the question “Where is Beatles Band ?”. In May 2022 I’ve been missing not for 20 years, but 3 days, and get comments from an American asking “Where is Retired Martin ?”. Mainly I’ve been watching Eurovision in Belfast gay bars, Dave.… Continue reading MOOCHING ROUND MINCHINHAMPTON
STROUD – VEGAN BEER @ 10am
Baa Baa Toure awoke refreshed from a night at the Stonehouse canal (this is before his annual wash). Mrs RM and I are are only refreshed after 6 gallons of coffee, so did the chicken run across the road to the WORST Starbucks in Gloucestershire (unless you have better information). No filter coffee, cheese toasties… Continue reading STROUD – VEGAN BEER @ 10am
CHELTENHAM CRAFT & CANALS
One last Gloucestershire tick and a flying visit to the side streets of regal Cheltenham, with the streets around the Railway Inn proving the hardest to negotiate/park. In a break from the norm, the writing on the wall reads not “dining and rooms” but “Smokey Phi Phi“, as the Railway undergoes the sort of gentrification… Continue reading CHELTENHAM CRAFT & CANALS
BACK UP YOUR FILES – A LESSON FROM PRESTBURY
“Let’s keep these ******* (*)pubs ticked” said Mrs RM, in her defiant rather than angry tone, as we completed a round half dozen in Greater or Lesser Cheltenham. In normal circumstances my first action now would be to refer to my copious and comic notes taken that night 12 days ago, but I deleted them… Continue reading BACK UP YOUR FILES – A LESSON FROM PRESTBURY
THE CROSS HOUSE, TEWKESBURY – FINALLY A PUB MRS RM LIKED
Another half an hour through gorgeous west Gloucestershire hills and a fourth (4th) tick of the afternoon in Tewkesbury. Four attractive towns too, none of the usual grim northern cities I subject Mrs RM to. And is she grateful ? Tewkesbury is gorgeous, isn’t it ? Come on a day it isn’t flooded is my… Continue reading THE CROSS HOUSE, TEWKESBURY – FINALLY A PUB MRS RM LIKED
NOTHING POSH ABOUT NEWENT
From Herefordshire (leaving one straggler in Luston to complete the county) we headed over the border into Gloucestershire. The border is the dashed line, painted by drunk Victorian workers in 1857. Why can’t we have straight county/state boundary lines like the Americans ? I was last in Newent the week before lockdown, behaving like nothing… Continue reading NOTHING POSH ABOUT NEWENT
ROSS-ON-WHY ?
I wanted to us (D)ross-on-Wye, I really did, but that would be unfair and as you know I reserve my unfairness for a certain Berkshire Thames-side town. And besides I used it before, in 2017. We took the much longer route (1 minute more) through the Vale of Leadon and Much Marcle, passing a giant… Continue reading ROSS-ON-WHY ?
Ledbury, but not THAT pub
Mrs RM is determined to help me get the Beer Guide ticked, and 10 days ago we set off on another campervan adventure to conquer Gloucestershire and around, a tricky county to get an away win on a damp Friday in May. 2:28 hours to our Ledbury diversion, as we oddly find that Herefordshire is… Continue reading Ledbury, but not THAT pub
HIGH TABLES AT THE HOLT HALT, LOW AT MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL
Last Wednesday’s day on the Holt’s had ground to a halt, but perked up briefly as I met Matt after work for a pre gig pint at the rather overlooked Crown & Anchor in the shadow of Cathedral Square. I’d actually come here in 2015 before a Low gig at the cathedral. Who says I’m… Continue reading HIGH TABLES AT THE HOLT HALT, LOW AT MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL
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