FINALLY ! A GOOD LANDLORD

December 2024. Milton.

Happy Retired Martin Day.

On Tuesday I failed to get to London to celebrate Mrs Retired Martin Day, and was attempting to get home to Mum as trains ground to a halt.

Services back to Waterbeach were successively cancelled, the only departure from Cambridge taking me the 2 miles to Cambridge North,

from where I walked the 4 miles home. At least it wasn’t raining.

Across the A14, I suddenly needed a wee, and where better than Milton’s Waggon and Horses ?

First visit since COVID, when it had just returned to complete Milton’s quartet of pubs after an ill-fated spell as an upmarket Italian restaurant.

I’d dropped the Stafford Mudge at that very door this Summer, as Paul attempted to complete the set of family brewers in his Cambridge tour.

That exterior is the highlight, but it’s a better boozer than those scatter cushions suggest.

And it’s SO friendly, if a bit blokey at 3:30pm.

Will I get another of those much loved Christmas beers ?

Nope. No cask at all. They’re having their lines replaced in time for Dryanuary. Good for them.

“Got any beer in bottles in that fridge ?” I ask, hoping for something Elgoods.

“Bud, Asahi…”.

I can see Landlord. Let’s try that.

£4 a half litre, and apart from the bubbles it’s sensational. SO bitter, everything cask Tim Taylor isn’t in 2024. It won’t convert me to bottles, mind.

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

27 thoughts on “FINALLY ! A GOOD LANDLORD”

  2. “I’d dropped the Stafford Mudge at that very door this Summer, as Paul attempted to complete the set of family brewers in his Cambridge tour”.
    Successfully completed with Mrs SP kindly driving me to a Donnington pub eight days ago.
    I shall have to think of a challenge for 2025 now.

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      1. The nearest one which was probably a mistake.
        It was the White Lion at Upton on Severn which isn’t a proper country Donnington pub but very much like the Kings Arms in Swindon. and presumably other urban Arkells pubs.
        The BB had seen better days and the SBA wasn’t much better. I saw a beer being changed but that was the Cotswold Gold.
        Very definitely my worst experience of Donnington in fifty-one years – but it was a tick, which is something I rarely do.

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      3. Very well but what should I tick in 2025, the first year of the second quarter of the twenty-first century ?

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    1. I can confidently say, Andy, you had a much better day than I did.

      I’m delighted the beer was good in the Posada, one of this year’s stars for me. And pleased Toyah and Robert are so happy.

      Ooh, made me jealous.

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      1. The Rocking Rudolph was a bit sharp, but when 3 people walked in just after us that made the total customers five. “This is the busiest we’ve been all day.” said the woman behind the bar.

        Dilshad’s was recommended to us in Posada. Always go with the local recommendation. 🙂

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