July 2023. Royal Tunbridge Wells. A week ago we were rushing down to Kent where my father-in-law had had a bad night and was getting an emergency referral to Pembury Hospital, birthplace of Mrs RM and other adverts for healthy living. Pembury is only 10 minutes from the in-laws Southborough home but the quickest route… Continue reading MY FATHER-IN-LAW’S FIRST CHINESE TAKEAWAY SINCE 1980
Month: August 2023
CURRY, CAMPERVANNING, A “CHEEKY” BASS TO WRAP UP ALSAGER
July 2023. Alsager. Nothing much in life gives me as much pleasure as visiting a place for the first time and getting to know it properly. Scandalously, we’d been in Alsager two hours, visited three decent pubs, but still not seen the actual mere which is the only thing the town is known for (if… Continue reading CURRY, CAMPERVANNING, A “CHEEKY” BASS TO WRAP UP ALSAGER
THE MYSTERIES OF THE PLUM PORTER GLASS ARE REVEALED TO MRS RM IN ALSAGER
July 2023. Alsager. Part 3 of 4 of our Big Night Out in Alsager, as we walk the six steps from the Joule to the Titanic. I’ve never heard anyone talk about Alsager as a pub town, but in the space of a minute you can go from Bass to Joules to Plum Porter, which… Continue reading THE MYSTERIES OF THE PLUM PORTER GLASS ARE REVEALED TO MRS RM IN ALSAGER
MORE ALSAGER JOULES
July 2023. Alsager. No (zero) Guide entries in Alsager this year, though the Lodge had just been named “South Cheshire CAMRA Pub of the Year”. Go figure*. Not exactly overpubbed, by the look of What Pub; Reader, we did all four of those. Just for you. A few yards from the Lodge, just past a… Continue reading MORE ALSAGER JOULES
AND A NIGHT OUT IN ALSAGER….
July 2023. Alsager. Four ticks by four, which sounds like a Ted Nugent album, and time for some non-GBG exploration. We were heading back to Sheffield in the morning, so nothing too adventurous. How about Alsager ? Said no-one ever. I couldn’t tell you anything about Alsager, bar its GBG history and location, all the… Continue reading AND A NIGHT OUT IN ALSAGER….
WEIGHING THE GREENGAGES IN HOLMES CHAPEL
July 2023. Cheshire. A fourth and final new GBG pub on the Cheshire mini-crawl with Mrs RM as taster-in-chief, and a rare visit to Holmes Chapel. With the social club in the Guide, I reckon all the remaining What Pub entries have made the GBG at some time. I can see I’ve been to the… Continue reading WEIGHING THE GREENGAGES IN HOLMES CHAPEL
“A few hints on how things work”
July 2023. Cheshire. Real Cheshire. Before I start, guess what’s behind the (frankly pathetic) swing at my next pub. Answer at the end (DON’T LOOK YET DAVE !). A third pub in an hour as we whizzed through posh Cheshire (just north of Middlewich), and the inevitable reacquaintance with Messrs Brunning & Price at Bostock… Continue reading “A few hints on how things work”
EVERYDAY SEXISM IN SANDIWAY
July 2023. Cheshire. Four new Guide pub ticks in 90 minutes; it was just like the old days. A motley crew, too. Brewery tap, two chain diners and a social club. Next up, after a trip through the rich pretty bit south of Frodsham was an ultra-rare Chef & Brewer in Sandiway (never heard of… Continue reading EVERYDAY SEXISM IN SANDIWAY
A CHESHIRE CHAPTER STARTS
July 2023. Cheshire. I had a good think about whether to lump loads of pubs together in this post and then thought “No, less is more, stick to one pub per post“. The Jesus & Mary Chain were always at their best when their live shows lasted 15 minutes rather than 90. Mrs RM had… Continue reading A CHESHIRE CHAPTER STARTS
DISPENSING CAREER ADVICE AT UTTOXETER STATION
July 2023. Uttoxeter. I consulted the bus timetable to return from Kingstone to Uttoxeter; it seemed to suggest I should have left the previous week. Still, the alternate walk back via Loxley was rather less stressful than the outward slog, helped by the armful of questionable toffees (top) grabbed from a jar as I left… Continue reading DISPENSING CAREER ADVICE AT UTTOXETER STATION
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