February 2024. Waterloo.
Twenty minutes from Southport and Liverpool, Waterloo has long been a favourite annual excursion.
I’m surprised Mrs RM hadn’t wanted to re-join me to see the Iron Men on Crosby Beach, one of of our favourite sculptures,
and the Che Guevara quotes,
but she called to tell me she was having Keralan cauliflower curry at Gordon Ramsey’s caff, which I couldn’t compete with.
Another year, another Sefton micro, as Simon has been finding out this week. The Old Tap was a classy place with some of the best beer I’ve had in 2024.
I’m afraid my photography is no match for BRAPA,
but I know some of you like seeing the flooring, some like to know what beers are on,
and what flavour the pies are,
or what the seating looks like (cosy).
That Neptune beer was cool and sherberty, the first “sherberty” beer for a while (NBSS 4). As I picked the glass up it felt cool to the touch, always a good sign.
A really cheery, community place, just like the Four Ashes over the road. The lovely guvnor told me the pub was about to empty as Arsenal v ‘Pool started on the TV in pubs on the main drag, but I can’t say I noticed any drop-off in trade as the gentlefolk pint drinkers stuck manfully to their task.
Across the road the Liver was clearly packed with Reds about to suffer disappointment,
and I headed back to the city centre now to revel in their misery.
retiredmartin 
His shoes are younger and hipper too. I like the focus on tile over carpet though.
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His shoes may be hipper but HE’S not !
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Sherberty…
Herbert Hoover – later an American President – helped to pass the Radio Act of 1927, which allowed the government to intervene and to abolish radio stations that were deemed “non-useful” to the public.
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Aaaaand my mind went straight to ABBA! XD
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I’ve a feeling that I’m not going to live this flooring thing down – see Red Lion, Liverpool Central.
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No Paul, I’m more interested in the flooring than the beers there.
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Che born in 1928?
Blimey, same age as my parents! I couldn’t see them involved in a revolution in the ’60s. They were old.
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Re: The local nutter who can’t leave the BT boxes alone is the dangerous sort: https://thewhitepube.co.uk/blog/sine-missione-is-shit/
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It’s an advert for overpriced T-shirts.
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Are the Iron Men by Antony Gormley? Looks remarkably similar to his self-portrait statue, I saw on a mountain top, in Japan, just before Christmas.
Che was so right. Whatever happened to revolutionaries? And where are they when we need them?
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Yes it’s a Gormley, reminiscent of exhibitions at the Baltic and Tate Liverpool. At Crosby ear on 20 years now.
I should like to see the Japanese one, Japan high on my bucket list.
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I didn’t know there was a Four Ashes other than the closed and for sale Four Ashes at Four Ashes which is at the other end of the Straight Mile from the also closed and Banks’s Four Crosses.
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