MERSEYSIDE HAS FALLEN – 3rd TIME LUCKY IN PRESCOT

April 2024. Prescot.

Our plan for a Big Night Out in Chester foundered at the first hurdle, as Mrs RM realised with horror that the Stupid one of us had forgot to put the duvet back in the campervan after laundering the sheets (it’s the domestic detail you come for).

I’d packed the blanket and pillows, but somehow Mrs RM decided that this wasn’t sufficient for her comfort. “And I’m no princess !!!” she emphasised. I said nothing; it’s always wise. “Stupid and the Princess” was the alternate title for this blog, but it had already been taken.

So half an hour and a £2 toll for the new Runcorn bridge later we were heading home via Prescot,

where I was not 100% confident of completing Merseyside as easily as Cheshire, even though Simon had managed it.

You see, The Bard had been resisting my ticking advances, just like in the film “Shakespeare In Love“. In January an attempt had foundered due to a “shutter problem“, and a second attempt met with “flood issues“, so I was ready to mark this one as “Closed, tried my best” when the Facebook page went silent.

But there it was, open at 3pm as promised,

with as cheery a welcome as you could hope for in Woollybackland.

But quiet, too quiet for a Saturday afternoon.

“They’re all at the football” said Patrick.

And so they were, and a week later the Cables are one (1) game from glory. Well, the Northern Premier League Premier Division, anyway. Good luck tomorrow v City of Liverpool. I’m sure Shakespeare wrote a sonnet about it.

Always tricky when you’re the only customer in a micro, but you do get the full attention of the Guvnor, and Patrick was a joy, and the bargain Wily Fox of Wigan was good enough too.

I still have no idea what the connection between the ram and Prescot is, and don’t care,

but one of you will no doubt tell me.

Published by retiredmartin

Retired NHS, doing long walks around UK and the world to record the great bits. Focused on Good Beer Guide pubs and live music.

5 thoughts on “MERSEYSIDE HAS FALLEN – 3rd TIME LUCKY IN PRESCOT”

  1. Martin, if only to remind us of our own lives, some domestic detail would make a pleasant change from these obscure, GBG entries that most of us are unlikely to ever visit. 😄

    From my point of view, descriptions of the towns and villages, where these CAMRA approved, man in a shed outlets are located, make a far more interesting read, but that’s just me being a grumpy old git!

    Talking of CAMRA, what happened at the AGM? Or didn’t you go, in the end?

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    1. T’other Paul,

      The Secretary of my branch asked “Anything interesting from Dundee ?”

      and I replied

      “Not really, a much calmer meeting that might have been expected from perusing Discourse beforehand.

      There was no contest for the NE as I think you know.

      Attendance was about half of Sheffield last year and so scarcely a dozen West Midlanders were photographed outside Caird Hall.

      Patrick Harvie MSP was a good Guest Speaker.

      Motions. 1 carried, 2 carried, 3 defeated, 4 carried, 5 amended and defeated, 6 remitted, 7 defeated, 8 carried, 9 ( tellers needed ) defeated.

      I think I was the only one there who had attended the 1974 York AGM fifty years earlier,

      I stopped off for a night on my way home for some of Glasgow’s best heritage pubs.

      Overhead lines down at Wigan on Monday means I should get my return fare refunded.

      Cheers,

      Paul Mudge,   Stafford. “

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      1. Thanks for the heads up on the CAMRA AGM, Stafford Paul. I suspect it was all very different to that 1974 York AGM. My first AGM was the one held in Durham, in the early 1980’s – I can’t remember the exact year, but I’m guessing at 1981. My last one, was the 2013 Norwich event.

        As far as know, no West Kent CAMRA members were in attendance, at Dundee, although a contingent from Maidstone CAMRA normally makes an appearance at these events.

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      2. Paul,

        Yes, very different from York 1974, the last chance to drink cask John Smiths ( several years before its reintroduction ) but optimism from a few smaller brewers reintroducing real ale, and pints ( including Yorkshire Clubs ) in the Beer Exhibition at 10p except Old Peculiar for 15p.

        Durham was 1981, one of the few I missed.

        Kent was most in evidence this year from the member you’ll remember as “Steve Bury, Sarf Arts” now that he’s moved.

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