24th March 2023. Our second North Kesteven tick of the night is deep in the heart of an area I can only describe as “Greater Martin”; That’s me, down in the bottom-right corner, just above Sots Hole. Really, I think Lincs make these names up. Carlton le Moorland, Norton Disney, Witham St Hugh, and on… Continue reading SPOT THE PUB
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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.
MID-LINCOLNSHIRE, SO MUCH TO ANSWER FOR
24th March 2023. Before I get on to business, I see MumsNet is finally tackling the BIG issues. The correct answer is, of course, to eat it cold after leaving it on the side for two (2) days. And stick to Singapore Rice, you philistine. Back to last Friday. I dread the rural Lincolnshire Good… Continue reading MID-LINCOLNSHIRE, SO MUCH TO ANSWER FOR
POST-PUNK APPRECIATION IN THE CROW
March 2023. There’s just too many temptations in Sheffield. Goodness knows how those CAMRA delegates will cope in April with all those great Greene King and Sam Smiths outlets. Just when you need your journey home from the Wetherspoons beer festival to be direct and rapid, someone puts a magnificent pub like The Crow in… Continue reading POST-PUNK APPRECIATION IN THE CROW
HOORAH !!! IT’S THE WETHERSPOONS BEER FESTIVAL
23rd March 2023. Some lovely street art has arrived at Retired Martin Lane. Everywhere, things are getting better. Apart from the roads into Cambridge, where the art installation is a series of pot holes on the A10. Sheffield remains a giant building site, the constructions alternating between student accommodation and food courts. Yes, you heard… Continue reading HOORAH !!! IT’S THE WETHERSPOONS BEER FESTIVAL
YES, MANCHESTER – THE SENSATIONAL ANNA B SAVAGE
22nd March 2023. Manchester. While Matt and James were sober at Society, I headed across Oxford Road to YES, one of Manchester’s seemingly endless food court-cum-bars-cum music venues. It’s next to the Lass O’ Gowrie, which you’ve probably heard of. Oldest pisser (top), one of the strongest beers once, now a rare Greene King GBG… Continue reading YES, MANCHESTER – THE SENSATIONAL ANNA B SAVAGE
DRIVEN TO THE PUB BY MY SON FOR THE FIRST TIME
22nd March 2023. Quite a significant date, this. The first day my son James drove me to a pub. #ProudParent #23YearsWellSpent etc. etc. If he’d passed his test a year earlier he could have driven me to Claddach Kirkibost. I’d sat quietly in the passenger seat when he drove his car (a blue one) home… Continue reading DRIVEN TO THE PUB BY MY SON FOR THE FIRST TIME
BASS IN FAGAN’S REVISITED
March 2023. Getting Mrs RM to join me on hilly Sheffield walks is a challenge, but there’s a bigger problem once you leave the Blind Monkey. It’s very hard to walk more than a 100 yards without passing a pub that in any other city would be in your Top 5. Luckily I was determined… Continue reading BASS IN FAGAN’S REVISITED
A GOLDEN GLOW IN THE WELLINGTON
20th March 2023. If I was really going to get full value from my rail ticket(s) to Brum that Monday I’d have visited the wonderful Art Gallery, but as you’ll know it’s closed for a while, and I’d had liver and onions so a Balti in Sparkbrook wasn’t an option, either. So a last pub… Continue reading A GOLDEN GLOW IN THE WELLINGTON
ON TOWARDS ROWLEY REGIS, AND THE INEVITABLE ABK-LED MICRO
20th March 2023. Two ticks in the bag, I sped up on the way back to Oldswinford, stopping only to bring you Stourbridge street art. I think this is a metaphor about the housing market, and this gorgeous painting may well be on the wall of an old pub on the Bridgnorth Road; and here’s… Continue reading ON TOWARDS ROWLEY REGIS, AND THE INEVITABLE ABK-LED MICRO
BOSTIN’ BATHAM’S BITTER
20th March 2023. Just as you only watch “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” or hear Lizzy McAlpine’s “Five Seconds Flat“ for the first time once, you only get to go in a classic Batham’s pub for the first time on one occasion. But that’s no reason never to revisit the Vine or the Swan, or the… Continue reading BOSTIN’ BATHAM’S BITTER
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