August 2024. Yaxley.
A long Monday, starting in Eastleigh and with stops at both in-laws on the route back to the Blind Monkey, eight (8) hours on the road.
“Find me somewhere to stop, Mrs RM“.
She found me Yaxley.
Kentish Paul writes of villages in his home county that have evaded his attention. Cambridgeshire’s Yaxley had had precisely two visits from me, and nothing in the Yaxley Gazette in the chippy was going to convince me I’d missed much.
OK, nice eagle.
My last trip had been a speculative pre-emptive tick at valiant carvery pub the Farmers,
an unlikely but deserved entry the very next year. I take credit for it.
Sadly, it wasn’t getting a post-emptive visit tonight, as Mrs RM had earmarked Friar Tucks across the road.
Note those ties! That could have been a podgy Unretired Martin c.1981.
Freshly cooked large cod and chips and a can of shandy £13.
The chippy isn’t a bargain tea any more, but somehow much more satisfying than the Greggs we often stop for, and rather wonderful.
Not sure how the Ben Shaws compares with the Shandy Bass of my youth, or the Schofferhoffer Matt had a pint of in a Manchester pizzeria then next night.
But I reckon shandy beats zero alcohol every day of the week.
retiredmartin 
There aren’t many liquids fit for human consumption that don’t beat zero alcohol beer, an oxymoron.
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You can tap Ben Shaw’s Shandy into Untappd. I’m not sure you’d want to, but you can.
Shandy Bass is also on there and I did once tap it in at my local chippy, several years ago. Because a tick’s a tick. It seems I gave it one out of five, which may have been somewhat generous.
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There’s some weird stuff on Untappd.
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