Any month that starts (in Lincoln) with Paul Mudge, Sheffield Hatter and the Southworths,
and ends with Lizzy McAlpine singing “Soccer Practice” can’t all be bad, but in-between came three weeks of elderly parent traumas which saw Mrs RM and I confined to Waterbeach (again). Not all bad,
but a house about 10 degrees too hot for comfort and tellingly our coughs disappeared the moment we returned to Sheffield last night.
So the monthly travel map is surprisingly “busy”,
Without those family crises we would have been in Moldova mid-month, completing our world tour of Europe, but Anton’s Gowt near Boston was as far east as I got, and the clamber up the Stump the most exciting that travel got.
The stats aren’t bad. 54 pubs, 23 new GBG pubs, and only one dreadful looking beer;
and even that half in Langley Mill didn’t taste that bad.
Pub of the Month – Viaduct Tavern, London, a Fullers pub reminding you of the joys of visiting City boozers in the autumn,
though Leicester’s Blue Boar was the best revisit, and produced the top pub grub of the year.
Beer of the Month – Holt Bitter, Halfway House, Droyslden, an oft overlooked east Manchester pub reminded me how great Holt’s cask remains.
But really, October was all about Lizzy McAlpine, and Soccer Practice. This reaction video from 19 year old Niamh from Sydney could have been mine,
except I’m not a 19 year old girl from Sydney.
In November, I hope to be mainly drinking Bass.
retiredmartin 
“In October, I hope to be mainly drinking Bass”
while my one hundredth pint of Bass this year should be within the next few days.
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We want your records for the museum Paul.
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