December 2024. Bermondsey. Thanks to Deserter for the title inspiration. Back to Cambridge from Sheffield on Wednesday morning, the laundry still not dry, I was straight off back to London that evening for a gig. Plenty of time to rest when you’re dead. A heaving Northern Line to London Bridge, and then 10 minutes walk… Continue reading “I’M THE TICKER OF SOUTHWARK, IT’S WHAT I DO”
Month: December 2024
ALIVE AND KICKING AT THE CARLTON CLUB (WHALLEY RANGE)
December 2024. Manchester. A lot of rushing back and forward at the moment, with an overnighter in Manchester vis Sheffield to check the boiler, check the post, and see City win for the first time in many, many months. It’s hard supporting the little teams, I can tell you. “Fancy a curry, Dad” texts Matt.… Continue reading ALIVE AND KICKING AT THE CARLTON CLUB (WHALLEY RANGE)
CAMBERWELL BASS P**N
December 2024. Camberwell. Stuck in London for a while, allegedly due to an incident in Royston (it’s always Royston, isn’t it ?), I’d headed on the first train south from St Pancras to Loughborough Junction, your hop-off for Kings Hospital, where my Father-in-law has been a regular visitor this last year (as well as an… Continue reading CAMBERWELL BASS P**N
BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE
December 2024. London. The now weekly trek back from Rye to Waterbeach takes the same time by rail as car, cause my Mum the same amount of worry, and allows me to get a London tick or two. But not today (well, last Monday, actually), as I caught the first off-peak train from Rye and… Continue reading BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE
HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No.72 – THE CHANNEL ISLANDS
A belated return to the celebrated “Half A Dozen Pubs” series, an early Christmas present. I’ve completed my Christmas present shopping of course; on 1 January, in fact, same as in the last 30 years. The in-laws have been touting a trip to the Channel Islands next year, and if I didn’t have the concern… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No.72 – THE CHANNEL ISLANDS
A WINTER IN RYE
December 2024. Rye Harbour. Mrs RM is staying close to her own parents down south while I do similar in Cambridge. The last year has seen four attempted overseas trips cancelled due to family dramas and we’ve resigned in our ambitions for now. She’s had had the caravan on let for most of the year… Continue reading A WINTER IN RYE
ALL THE PUBS IN RAMSGATE No. 3 – THE RED LION
November 2024. Ramsgate. In for a penny… You can’t come to Ramsgate and not head down King Street to the High Street, the heart of Ramsgate and the embodiment of its “rough diamond” status. This 2020 pic, one of my favourites, capture the town’s charm perfectly. Where King St, High St and the road to… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN RAMSGATE No. 3 – THE RED LION
ALL THE PUBS IN RAMSGATE No. 2 – MONTEFIORE ARMS
November 2024. Ramsgate. And the hits just keep on coming. You can’t really justify going all the way from Rye to Ramsgate for a lone pint, and the Montefiore, ticked a decade ago, is one of those pubs I want to go back to on every return to this great town. Tucked a few yards… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN RAMSGATE No. 2 – MONTEFIORE ARMS
ALL THE PUBS IN RAMSGATE. No. 1 – THE HONEYSUCKLE INN
November 2024. Ramsgate. Another GBG year, another new Guide pub for Remarkable Ramsgate. “You’re joking – not another one!” says Brenda Mrs RM, who decides an afternoon in the caravan drinking discounted North Brewing cans beats Ramsgate in the rain. But I love Ramsgate, so much I’ve decided to start a mini-series on the pubs,… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN RAMSGATE. No. 1 – THE HONEYSUCKLE INN
DUNGENESS
November 2024. Dungeness. Plenty of undiscovered Kent and Sussex coast to explore from the base of Mrs RM’s Rye caravan; never been to Lydd. And oddly, until Saturday we’d failed to make it to Dungeness, which holds a strange place in the English psyche due to remoteness, the rolling (?) marsh, a desolate but beautiful… Continue reading DUNGENESS
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