retiredmartin

December 2024. Sheffield.

Jim’s itinerary was a bit challenging by my more relaxed standards;

I had a tentative plan to do some new GBG pubs in Leeds and Burnley but always good company over ticking, and Jim is always good company.

I make a bit of a hash of guiding him from the Old Queens Head to The Grapes, an 11:30 opener,

that’s what ticker pressure can do to a man.

You’ll know the Grapes by now, I bought fellow rapid Pub Man Ian here recently.

It’s an astonishingly gorgeous, authentic Irish pub, which has just swapped Tetley for Moonshine and Barnsley to secure a GBG entry.

Mrs RM was on the Guinness in October, and with it being the rarest ale in England I was definitely having a pint now, which rather forced Jim’s hand and he had to have a pint (of Abbeydale), too.

Note the look of a man condemned to drink cask until he finishes the GBG, when he will be free, FREE, to enjoy keg and gin in pubs again.

More importantly, note my success in “splitting the G”, a craze as iconic as the jitterbug and buying that 18th different 12″ version of “Two Tribes” in 1984.

I nailed it…

…on the 16th attempt.