October 2023. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Here’s the updated map from that Saturday Stagger on Tyneside. Stop (G) is Newcastle Uni, stop (H) is Newcastle Hospital.
I was regretting those “bonus” stops at the Bridge and the Free Trade by now; this bloke on the approach to Chinatown seemed to be admonishing me.
8.30pm now. I ought to eat, drink water, and get to my gig. Where was my gig, anyway ?
Somewhere in the University Student Union. It looked so dark.
Oh, there’s a Spoons. I’ll ask in there.
Hang on, isn’t this Luthers, that new Spoons Leon told me about ?
Some pub ticking heroes don’t do interviews with the Telegraph or Radio Purbeck.
Unnoticed, the legend of south Tadcaster had been nearing the completion of the Spoons*.
Quite a pleasing Spoons too,
and it’s a joy to see that students have found a good use for all that learning.
The nice man pointed to some stairs leading to the music room. I had a half of the Otter cowering away on the left, and thought I’d best eat.
But then music started and I made a dash for it.
retiredmartin 
Congratulations to Leon on the addition to their family which was due quite soon when he got round several York pubs with me in June.
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Only a student could think of and complete that mustard trick. Well done.
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Our future is safe in their hands, David.
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And a student shouldn’t need to be informed that the ‘MUSTARD’ is ‘YELLOW’.
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I’m sorry to say this, Paul, but following a wave of unsuccessful French invasions over the years we have been left with a residue of BROWN French “mustard”.
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But surely you won’t get any of that foreign muck in a Spoons?
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So didn’t “take back control” include mustard ?
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Colman’s “French mustard” in the 1960s was brown. Ish.
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