Beer Guide tickers, all 7 of us, seem very keen on stats. The % of new entries in the Guide, odds of a GBG22, and the decline in Covid rates required for pubs to reopen for GBG22 comes out. At roughly 2pm each day we get the Covid hospital deaths courtesy of @UKcovidstats, and a… Continue reading AN UNEXPECTED NAME AT THE TOP OF THE COVID LEAGUE
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.
A TRIP TO WILKO
Mrs RM has reached the conservatory with her scary wallpaper stripper. You don’t want that machine anywhere near your genitals, that’s for sure, particularly when there’s no chocolate in the house. So I braved the snow, and headed into town for an “essential purchase” from Wilko. Can you guess what it was ? I tend… Continue reading A TRIP TO WILKO
GUESS THE PUB GOES TO HAMPSHIRE
Running out of blog material fast, so let’s hope that pubs get re-designated as schools and re-opened on 8th March. I’ll be happy to teach 8 year olds how to construct GBG ticking spreadsheets if it helps. The next mystery pub is actually a mere Fosbury flop away from the Hampshire border, which you won’t… Continue reading GUESS THE PUB GOES TO HAMPSHIRE
SHOPPING
Yes, the only legal way to leave your house is for “exercise” and “essential shopping“. Mrs RM has a more generous definition of “essential” than me. While the bulk of our food comes from the Iceland delivery man each Sunday (saving me mixing with the virus in Asda) we get to click-and-collect our bits of… Continue reading SHOPPING
“CHAOTIC SCENES”
I normally stay well clear of topical comment on this blog; life’s too short for arguing. But I was struck by this anonymous Government source quoted in the Telegraph implying “chaotic scenes” last summer preventing the early re-opening of pubs. Yes, THOSE chaotic scenes. Honestly ? I made 290 pub visits between July 4 and… Continue reading “CHAOTIC SCENES”
NEW YORK, OLD ROTHERHAM
Four posts from a 44 minute stroll round Rotherham. Grief; wait till I get an excuse to go to Barnsley ! From the top of Moorgate Street looking down on the Wellington and the Cutlers you can see the hills of Sheffield, and New York (not New York). I headed there now, stopping only to… Continue reading NEW YORK, OLD ROTHERHAM
TREES GROWING OUT OF DEAD PUBS IN ROTHERHAM SPECIAL
You left me standing opposite Rotherham Minster with a flat white (Derbyshire : “picnic”) in my hand, with about 20 minutes to go till I picked up something essential for Mrs RM. There was no one about, bar an old chap perched on a seat 20 yards away with his takeaway coffee (probably a latte,… Continue reading TREES GROWING OUT OF DEAD PUBS IN ROTHERHAM SPECIAL
ROTHERHAM – UNFILTERED !!!
Reader Will reacted with horror at my attempt to paint Rotherham as attractive yesterday, throwing in a spurious accusation of “digital editing” that I can’t comment on due to ongoing legal action. No digital editing in this second batch of pics, and look at the results; Guided tours down College Lane are available from the… Continue reading ROTHERHAM – UNFILTERED !!!
LOOK UP !
“Would you like to drive to IKEA and pick up some bedding ?” said Mrs RM, on Friday. “Mr RM ? You there ?” But I was gone. “But they haven’t got it ready to collect yet !” shouted Mrs RM, as I whizzed through Kelham. Oh well, a legitimate to kill an hour in… Continue reading LOOK UP !
GUESS THE PUB GOES TO BERKSHIRE
Our boozers may have been closed for what feels like a generation, but due to the magic of Google Maps I can still pop my head round the door of pubs like this gorgeous looking pub. Today’s mystery pub has been in and out of the Good Beer Guide over the last decade or so,… Continue reading GUESS THE PUB GOES TO BERKSHIRE
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