BLUE MOON. RECOVERING IN THE KELHAM ISLAND TAVERN

January 2026. Sheffield.

Back home in Sheffield on Saturday lunchtime, I hid under the covers avoiding the Manchester derby. Unless I’m physically at the match, I have to avoid the score till the final whistle and last VAR review.

“Ooh, are City losing ?” asks Mrs RM. All her friends are United supporting glory hunters, unlike genuine City fans like me.

20 minutes later, it’s all over and we’ve kept the Reds manager in a job for at least a week. I need a pint.

Ah, Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone etc etc.

Blimey, it was great, a deceptively easy drinking 6% IPA. Feel better already, and we’ve an easy game coming up in Norway.

Someone who shan’t be named dissed the beer in the KIT last week, it’s a free country, but this was a 4.

I resisted the stodge,

and with a full front bar took a seat in the conservatory with the youngsters who seem to prefer the trad Sheffield boozers to the modern bars.

Sadly, I missed Will by about 10 minutes. He never stops.

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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.

22 thoughts on “BLUE MOON. RECOVERING IN THE KELHAM ISLAND TAVERN”

  1. Yes, it’s short post (6 minutes from start to publication) but it still took longer to write than my accidental vegan Spoons breakfast.

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      3. The producers of “An American Werewolf in London” wanted to license Bob Dylan’s version of “Blue Moon”, but B. Dylan was going through his religious period and turned them down [A {literally} bloody, “R”-rated movie: Oh no, you aren’t getting it.]. CBS mentioned it now had the rights to the Marcels’ version, and so that was what was put in.

        One of my Tw**ter followers {I’m now locked out of Tw**ter.} with whom I’ve actually had a cider (and a beer) in Yokohama, Japan, is a strong Man. City fan.

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      5. Apparently, it did. Supposedly, I could apply for reinstatement. But it would come down to it wanting to send an SMS text containing a passcode to a mobile telephone number.
        I do not have a device that can receive a text message. If I ever did get a text message, I would have NO IDEA who sent the text message.
        I do not trust Tw**ter with my telephone number.
        I do not have a mobile telephone.

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  4. Unfortunately, your Blue Moon being NBSS 4 doesn’t negate someone else’s beer a couple of weeks earlier having been a bit substandard.

    Sorry I missed you in the KIT, but to be fair I didn’t know your arrival was imminent.

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  5. I hadn’t noticed before the pub sign depicting the prevalent smog of Sheffield as a proper industrial city. It’ll never see times like that again.

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  6. “Back home in Sheffield on Saturday lunchtime, I hid under the covers avoiding the Manchester derby. Unless I’m physically at the match, I have to avoid the score till the final whistle and last VAR review.”

    I initially thought that you were under the covers as you were ‘under the weather’. 😉

    “20 minutes later, it’s all over and we’ve kept the Reds manager in a job for at least a week. I need a pint.”

    Pfft. You don’t need an excuse to have a pint.

    “Ah, Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone etc etc.”

    Partly because you’re blue about the (light) ‘blues’?*
    *(yes, that’s Chelsea’s nick – at least I added ‘light’ and not ‘sky’, as apparently that’s Coventry’s nick)

    “Blimey, it was great, ”

    (looks up)
    (slow golf clap), for sneaking in the beer you had that way 👍

    “a deceptively easy drinking 6% IPA. Feel better already,”

    See! You were a bit under the covers due to being under the weather from the day before.

    “and with a full front bar took a seat in the conservatory with the youngsters who seem to prefer the trad Sheffield boozers to the modern bars.”

    Trad is rad, dontcha know.

    “Sadly, I missed Will by about 10 minutes. He never stops.”

    Well then, good thing you missed him, or he would’ve forced to stop. 🫠

    Cheers

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