February 2023. When I finished the GBG in September, I’d visited and been to a Guide pub in every GBG “county”. Except one. Poor old Northants decided not to provided any new entries in the first post-Covid Guide, either because they hadn’t been able to visit pubs properly, or because the county’s pubs are particularly… Continue reading MIDLAND BAND CLUB – HI VIS, HIGH NBSS SCORES
Author: retiredmartin
Retired NHS, doing long walks around UK and the world to record the great bits. Focused on Good Beer Guide pubs and live music.
JUMPING ON THE GUINNESS BANDWAGON AT THE BREWERY TAP
9th February 2023. On my weekly trips back to Waterbeach (“home”) to entertain my parents with readings from my blog I can at least get the blog up-to-date, as long as Dad doesn’t the internet box off. What I can’t do is leave the village, the northern exit (the brewery quarter) closed and the middle… Continue reading JUMPING ON THE GUINNESS BANDWAGON AT THE BREWERY TAP
BEMUSED TOURIST PUB, CAMBRIDGE
8th February 2023. Despite seeming to have been in the Free Press all afternoon, it had actually only been fifteen minutes so I unexpectedly found myself with just under 10 minutes to squeeze in a post-emptive/pre-active/pointless bonus pub on the way back across Parker’s Piece towards the station. Still time to admire the Orchard Street… Continue reading BEMUSED TOURIST PUB, CAMBRIDGE
THE FREE PRESS
8th February 2023. It’s as well that I completed the GBG last year (you remember that ?) as this year I’m spending more time in Waterbeach with Mum and Dad than in Sheffield or anywhere else, which I don’t begrudge at all but obviously it’s really limiting exploration and ticking. But I can still get… Continue reading THE FREE PRESS
A SHOCK WINNER OF THE SHEFFIELD “PINT OF THE DAY” AWARD
5th February 2023. Yes, Sunday last (or is it “Sunday before last” ?). I’d left Jim B to tick Chapeltown and was heading home after an afternoon of cask delights in southern Sheffield. The important thing at this point is NOT to get distracted by the bright lights radiating from the Globe, the cheap student… Continue reading A SHOCK WINNER OF THE SHEFFIELD “PINT OF THE DAY” AWARD
HALVES IN HEELEY
5th February 2023. Any sensible person would have said “Bye” to Jim B after the White Lion and let him find his own way back through the dangerous back streets of south Sheffield to the station, but us tickers look after our own and I knew there were wild animals in Heeley. And I always… Continue reading HALVES IN HEELEY
TOP 100 PUBS – THE WHITE LION, SHEFFIELD
5th February 2023. A tip for all you pub bloggers out there. Let your posting slip for just a moment and you’ll be a week behind again. Three posts daily does it. Another top tip is “Don’t worry about there being more than a thousand pubs in your Top 100 pubs“. No-one can prove you… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE WHITE LION, SHEFFIELD
TICKERS’ DILEMMA AT THE TWO THIRDS
5th February 2023. Back in Sheffield from the Peak District, I was just about to turn my attention to the state of the garden (honest, Mrs RM) when fellow ticker Jim B (not the Beach Boys song messaged to say he was touring the area and would I like to join him for a pre-emptive… Continue reading TICKERS’ DILEMMA AT THE TWO THIRDS
WHAT RHYMES WITH WINCLE ?
5th February 2023. You left us in our campervan in Butterton, where the gas that heats the van ran out at the same time the frost descended. Luckily, we had Baa Baa Toure AND Alfie the Alpca for warmth, but even then I woke with a frozen big toe, which made an ascent of the… Continue reading WHAT RHYMES WITH WINCLE ?
TOP 100 PUBS – BLACK LION, BUTTERTON
4th February 2023. Our Search for Sites App, a fiver well spent, told us the next pub would let us leave our campervan in their car park overnight, and sure enough Butterton’s Black Lion seemed delighted to have us hog a space. It really was one of the most unfussy places I’ve been in, considering… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – BLACK LION, BUTTERTON
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