May 2025. Wetherby. Well, I wasn’t expecting that level of vitriol in the comments after my usual scrupulously honest report on the Leeds-Wetherby bus. But read on, Anonymous… I trudged on after Wetherby’s eponymous brewery tap through light industrial estates, to Bosun’s, the actual Guide newbie. It’s a quarter to four, the Golden Hour awaits,… Continue reading X98 REDEMPTION ON THE ROAD BACK FROM THE BOSUN’S BREWERY TAP
Month: May 2025
SURVIVING THE X99 TO WETHERBY
May 2025. Wetherby. The relentless driving has been a bit tiring (boring) this year, so I’m trying to do as many GBG entries as possible by rail, before the campervan gets put into service for the tricky ticks. Up the A1 Wetherby has a new entry, a first for what seems like decades, but it… Continue reading SURVIVING THE X99 TO WETHERBY
A HOLT IN REDDISH
May 2025. Reddish. Mrs RM, Blackpool Jane and I had done Reddish Ale justice, and now eyed up a second entry in the Manchester Beer Book. Bottle Mill was tucked away in the glorious red brick of Holdsworth aka Reddish Mill, alongside gyms, Thai boxing and child care. But could we find it ? Well,… Continue reading A HOLT IN REDDISH
ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – REDDISH ALE
May 2025. Reddish. Greater Stockport. Actually I’m not sure if Reddish really is in Greater Stockport, nor do I really care. Its GBG entries are picked by S&SM CAMRA, and that’s all that counts. Reddish Ale was both new in the Guide and in Matthew Curtis’s essential Manc beer book. Frankly I couldn’t tell you… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – REDDISH ALE
ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – THE PEVERIL OF THE PEAK
May 2025. Manchester. Well, there’s a pub you’ll know and probably love, but it’s not the star of our Moderate Night Out with Blackpool Jane last week. That comes next. Jane does something called “work”, and we picked the Pev to meet to plan our pubs as it’s, remarkably, a place Mrs RM didn’t remember… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – THE PEVERIL OF THE PEAK
TOP 100 PUBS – THE EIGHT BELLS, FULHAM
May 2025. Fulham. Putney Bridge looked rather marvellous last Monday night. Perhaps we should get Ray Davies to write a song about it. Mrs RM and I have long loved exploring London, but some parts of the capital have always seemed a bit short of recommendable pubs. Most of Middlesex, Havering, Erith and Belvedere, and… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE EIGHT BELLS, FULHAM
So, THIS is what Landlord should taste like. The Bricklayers Arms, Putney
May 2025. Putney. Two and a half hours after leaving “home” I’d got my rare Putney tick, with my remaining London newbies so spread over the capital I had no chance of a second. So how about some bonus Putney pubbing ? The Half Moon is a famous music venue, the Duke’s Head is your… Continue reading So, THIS is what Landlord should taste like. The Bricklayers Arms, Putney
PRIDE DRINKING WELL, HALL & OATES SUNG BADLY, IN PUTNEY
May 2025. Putney. London The best remedy for monotony is a trip somewhere you don’t know, or know well, and by Monday afternoon even Putney seemed enticing. It was the journey from hell. The train stopped short of Finsbury, the District line gave up before Earls Court, and finally at Putney Bridge the barriers were… Continue reading PRIDE DRINKING WELL, HALL & OATES SUNG BADLY, IN PUTNEY
NO MARCUS AURELIUS FOR MRS RM
May 2025. Chesterton. Cambridge. I just met someone in the Sun who thought Milton beers a bit “Meh” While of course I may be a tad bias, what with their brewery in Waterbeach (see also : Pastore), I just don’t get that. 25 years, some failed attempts to get a foothold in North London, and… Continue reading NO MARCUS AURELIUS FOR MRS RM
A FAMOUS APPLE TREE JUST OFF THE A1
May 2025. Woolsthorpe Manor. Colsterworth. The weekly trips between Sheffield and Waterbeach get no more enjoyable in the eternal English sunshine. It’s a mental rather than physical drain, the sheer monotony of a 150 minute journey down the A1 with little prospect of a stop at Colsterworth McDonalds. Perhaps that National Trust membership, the true… Continue reading A FAMOUS APPLE TREE JUST OFF THE A1
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