Coming into 2022 I knew I’d need a slice of luck as well as Mrs RM’s peerless driving to complete the Guide.
If I’m honest, I expected a fair number of GBG pubs wouldn’t survive last winter, and no doubt tough times lie ahead, but it’s worth noticing that this year has only seen half a dozen or so entries closed.
And in Devon, it was good to see so many pubs thriving after the two years they’ve had.
The Wheel at Wembury didn’t trouble my notes much, just a cheery family dining pub 20 minutes from Plymouth.
But the Jail Ale (3.5) was surviving the rigours of our heatwave,
and on the wall a plea to the brewery (not a Stockport one) to stop unnecessary refurbishment.
It could have been penned in 1992, or last week.
retiredmartin 
I didn’t realize Mudgie was a published poet.
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Which one? It could have been either. Or both.
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Must be the Stafford one. Stocky’s Mudgie is a noted celebrant of all things new and shiny, I believe.
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True the Stockport one wouldn’t rhyme. He’s free verse all the way.
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Iambic pentameter surely? Which I think is a Belgian saison. Possibly. People on Discourse will know.
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Is BBB the equivalent of the sonnet?
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No, writing poetry is one of many things I’ve never been any good at.
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BBbb is the equivalent of the symphony.
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That went wrong. BBB obvs. Fat finger syndrome.
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So the traveler sat down beside
The polystyrene inglenook
Plastic beads were swaying
To an electronic sound
https://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/song-midis/Public_Bar.htm
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Is that a song you remembered from a folk night in a Wetherspoons in Weymouth, Mike ?
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It’s from that mystical time pre-Spoons…
I connect it with The Yetties (folkies from Yetminster, obvs), but the internet suggests the involvement of Fred “oldest swinger in town” Wedlock.
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I remember Fred Wedlock.
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