DO THE HUSTLE

April 2026. Skipton.

Still in Skipton last Sunday, we explored the little strip of shops between the High Street and Sheep Street with entrances off both.

“Yorkies” looks like a dolls house, but it’s actually a chippy (small fish and chips only £7 !);

the third building is Hustle, a cute little bar I was about to walk past on the way to the “proper” pubs by the marina.

“Oh, go in !” says Mrs RM, who really is incorrigible. Whatever incorrigible means.

Sometimes it’s best do as you’re told, I think it’s called the “Submissive husbands movement“.

Quirky little place, blues at a good volume,

and art that got my first post censored by Blue Sky this morning,

and banter at the bar,

and Craven cask.

And a dog that didn’t, for once, lick Mrs RM.

The Session Pale was OK, Hoppy Heiffer very good, but I doubt you’re coming here for the real ale.

You’re coming for the hustle.

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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.

13 thoughts on “DO THE HUSTLE”

  1. You or your regular readers may know this, but was that Hustle previously called something like the in and out bar, due to having two doors ??

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    1. Unless you’re BRAPA. He’s using his age 67-80 units now, it’s like cashing in some of your pension early.

      Can Americans cash in their 401 early, or has Trump taken them all to finance the ballroom ?

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  3. Van McCoy’s finest is now living rent-free in my head. Cheers, RM. It’s going to take all of The Clash’s first album to shift that.
    Even at the time, I resented songs exhorting me to “Do the this, that or the other”. Why the hell should I, I thought. Luckily, punk rescued us from all that nonsense. (Honourable exception: Do The Strand. Goodness knows what that was all about.)

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    2. Another startling Van McCoy fact. He had a second big hit in the UK a year later with the similarly sounding “Shuffle”.

      If “What song was a Number 4 hit in the UK for Van McCoy in 1976 ?” was your question for £1m you’d lose.

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  4. Hmmm. There’s a reason I won’t sign up for Bluesky.
    I would like to sign up for Mastodon, but I want an instance that won’t have a fit when I decide to post an erotic image. Even with warnings. It not being hosted in one of the *five eyes* countries would also be good.

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