January 2025. Thriplow.
Mum’s carer comes at lunchtime, hopefully to get her to eat more, and we nip out for a quick dose of “not Waterbeach”.
The Queen’s Head at Newton is unexpectedly closed, which is frankly something one of the Famous Five should never be.
But a couple of miles south, just above Duxford’s Air Museum, sits Thriplow (pop. 440), here seen in the throes of a dual Morrisons delivery/mobile library stop.
Famous for it’s daffodils in February; I thought with global warming they’d be here by 6th January.
“The iconoclast William Dowsing mutilated the church screen in 1644″, says Wiki.
Today’s mutilation of a sacred building in Thriplow comes courtesy of a 5 year old’s birthday party, which provides a fully reserved village pub at the start of Dryanuary,
and staff wearing fairy wings.
The Guvnor offers profuse apologies that we can’t have lunch; we’re just pleased to see a busy pub.
Though the high table by the fire we’re forced to perch at isn’t ideal, the beer (Nethergate and Mad Squirrel, a malty NBSS 3) and crisps and toddler noise is perfect.
The Green Man is community owned, but I bet you could guess that from these pics.
Come back in a month when the daffs are on.
retiredmartin 
Obviously in a rush to go out… Mrs RM jacket is inside out!
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You clearly have no idea about young persons fashions, Stu 😉
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Daffs next month? Hah! Here in the Greater Zetlandic Archipelago they don’t come out until April.
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That’s why house prices are higher down south, Bill.
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The wild daffs by in the woods along the M50 come out in March, as they’ve always done.
The ones that people plant in their gardens these days are bred to bloom ever earlier.
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Viz https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/early-flowering-daffodils-to-grow/
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Blimey, gardening tips. My parents were market gardeners but it never rubbed off !
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I’ve never had anything other than excellent beers from Nethergate. I used to drink them quite a bit, back in the day when I drank in the Bricklayers Arms in Luton, as an alternative to watching the Hatters at Kenilworth Road.
Nowadays it’s less expensive to just walk to the Kelham Island Tavern instead – the pub that is only 10 minutes walk away from wherever you happen to be. Also less traumatic – I just pretend that the latest Hatters defeat means nothing, while crying desperate tears into my Gainsborough Trinity scarf.
Sorry. I’ll get a grip.
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…what I meant to say was that it’s good to see you and Christine are looking after yourselves in these difficult times. Beer and crisps are better than nowt, and definitely less expensive than therapy.
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Missing you 😟
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Nethergate were always beers I looked out for when I lived in Cambridge…
Augustinian
Golden Gate
Umbel Ale
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When I first started using the Mill Road pubs in the ’90s those Nethergate ales were practically house beers in the free houses like the Cambridge Blue and Live and Let Live (and dominated early beers festivals, too).
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It’s been interesting to see how us Manchester City fans deal with disaster, each collapse taken more phlegmatically than the last.
You’ll be fine. Stick with Trinity. I’ll join you on a matchday. I’m going to be doing “town guides” on the blog this year and I’m sure there’s a market for a Gainsborough one.
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If only the Kelham Island was just ten minutes from my Shetlandic exile.
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Artificial Intelligence solutions to problems like that can’t come soon enough.
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