September 2024. London. A Beer Guide tick, Sweet and Sour Pork, and the greatest living Australian playing live in the West End. Now that’s a great Monday night out in London. A week earlier Julia had been the surprise noon act at End of the Road, a performance we’d missed due to (checks notes) having… Continue reading JULIA JACKLIN IN THE WEST END
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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.
WONG KEI
September 2024. London. It’s arrived ! (2 days after BRAPA’s copy, but York always gets treated better than Sheffield). Two years after The Great Completion, two years of abject failure to attempt to do a Britney, and repeat the feat. But family comes before ticking, and of course, as Sade sang about finishing the Guide,… Continue reading WONG KEI
TOP 100 PUBS – THE RISING SUN, EDMONTON
September 2024. Edmonton. London. GBG arrived 🥳. Just when I was losing hope for today. Scared the poor Yodel lady by running down my steps to meet her halfway. Let the cross ticking commence. See you on 26/9/24. #BetterThanChristmasDay pic.twitter.com/QhFVFkTn1d — Si BRAPA Everitt (@StymieSi) September 14, 2024 The new GBG (25) is in the… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE RISING SUN, EDMONTON
ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – DAY AND NIGHT
September 2024. Manchester. The first week after the end of Summer brings gigs from an American, a Canadian and an Australian, which is a joke you don’t want to hear. 4 days after Anastasia Coope I’m straight back to Manchester for another heroine AND another tick in the Matthew Curtis Manc Guide, which is actually… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – DAY AND NIGHT
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER NEW PUB FOR SHEFFIELD. HOP HIDEOUT, LEAH’S YARD.
September 2024. Sheffield. I’d got my need for a bit of urban exploration out of my system in Mosborough and only 4 hours after saying “Shall we go out ?” Mrs RM was ready to join me in town. “Meet you at Leah’s Yard at 3:30” I text, completely forgetting I’ll be relying on a… Continue reading ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER NEW PUB FOR SHEFFIELD. HOP HIDEOUT, LEAH’S YARD.
CAKE AND ALE – CRAFTWORKS, MOSBOROUGH
September 2024. Mosborough. Sheffield. As a podgy schoolboy version of Retired Martin I actually stayed at a Suffolk caravan site called “Cakes and Ale” in the late ’70s, on the old RAF Leiston site a couple of miles from Sizewell B, a childhood that may explain a lot about me. Mosborough is no Leiston, far… Continue reading CAKE AND ALE – CRAFTWORKS, MOSBOROUGH
A MARRIAGE IN MOSBOROUGH
September 2024. Mosborough. Sheffield. Life is settling down a bit in Waterbeach now, though the arrival of some boisterous visitors in a week’s time may change that, and I might even be able to contemplate some travel outside the Sheffield-Cambridge-Tunbridge Wells corridor soon. But on Saturday, arriving back in Sheffield at noon, I just needed… Continue reading A MARRIAGE IN MOSBOROUGH
BROWN SOUP AND BASS
September 2024. Cambridge. One point for recognising the flower, a second for the birdie, those two both from my sister’s field, and a third for recognising the pub just from that soup menu (top). Yep, it’s the Queen’s Head in Newton, aka the Brown Soup pub, one of Stafford Paul’s musts on his first visit… Continue reading BROWN SOUP AND BASS
THE CAMBRIDGE TAP. DON’T GET TOO EXCITED, PAUL
September 2024. Cambridge. If you’d asked me to guess beforehand what a 3 pub crawl round Cambridge would comprise, I might have guessed Champ, Maypole, Free Press. No-one could have predicted the Town & Gown and Cambridge Tap. Two McMullen’s conversions, the first from a cinema, the Tap from a Cambridge Building Society next to… Continue reading THE CAMBRIDGE TAP. DON’T GET TOO EXCITED, PAUL
PAUL MUDGE FINDS MILD IN CAMBRIDGE
September 2024. Cambridge. “Is there a Craft Union pub in Cambridge ?”. Er, no, Paul. But there is an exciting range of keg at The Cheesemonger d’Arry’s aka Stolen Liquor Loft aka Rattle & Hum, though like me Paul remembers a once characterful Cambridge Arms selling exotic Greene King ales. And next door, what looks… Continue reading PAUL MUDGE FINDS MILD IN CAMBRIDGE
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