July 2025. Sutton. Macclesfield. Back from Glasgow, I actually spent a whole day at home in Sheffield, successfully ignoring domestic duties, before sanity kicked in and we set off in the campervan. Mrs RM fancied a night in the Peak District; Macclesfield Forest was close enough, and Sutton Hall would let us park up overnight… Continue reading IN DEFENCE OF BRUNNING AND PRICE. SUTTON HALL, MACCLESFIELD
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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.
Could YOU walk past the Laurieston ?
July 2025. Glasgow. Back at Glasgow Central from edgy but exciting East Kilbride I had a couple of hours till my £66 return to Sheffield, sadly not long enough to attempt a visit to Carluke’s craft bars but time aplenty to walk across the Clyde for a curry. That area southside down to Hampden Park… Continue reading Could YOU walk past the Laurieston ?
HAPPY WHEN IT RAINS. CHEERY CASK IN EAST KILBRIDE
July 2025. East Kilbride. One night in Glasgow, enough to actually complete a Scottish GBG chapter for the first time since ’22. And what better place to finish a Guide “county” than in an, ahem, unheralded New Town (see also : Harlow) in the rain. Having left Sheffield in a heatwave I’d arrived in Glasgow… Continue reading HAPPY WHEN IT RAINS. CHEERY CASK IN EAST KILBRIDE
YOUR CUT-OUT-AND-KEEP TO CLYDEBANK, A TITAN ON THE CLYDE
July 2025. Clydebank. This is the blog that aims to get you to cancel your holiday in the Canaries or Cambridge, and instead to Coatbridge and Clydebank. It may be the only blog with that aim. It wasn’t just nervousness about leaving curry stains on Duncan and Rikke’s tartan carpet that sold that Clydebank (actually… Continue reading YOUR CUT-OUT-AND-KEEP TO CLYDEBANK, A TITAN ON THE CLYDE
HOT AND SPICY CLYDEBANK
July 2025. Clydebank. Lucy Dacus walked off stage at Glasgow Barrowlands at half ten and I sprinted back to the station, again resisting the lure of the Gallowgate Shawarma scene. Why (oh why) can you never find the entrance to Glasgow Central when you’re in a rush ? Just catching the 22:52 in the direction… Continue reading HOT AND SPICY CLYDEBANK
THAT FATAL PINT OF TENNENT’S. LUCY DACUS AT GLASGOW BARROWLANDS
July 2025. Glasgow. A dash back from Koelschip to the Central Station, the Glasgow rain obediently holding off. Then 20 minutes brisk walk along Argyle Street and Gallowgate to my gig; I might just make the support act. But only if I don’t stop to take photos of Scottish legends. That’s Mel Gibson*, preparing to… Continue reading THAT FATAL PINT OF TENNENT’S. LUCY DACUS AT GLASGOW BARROWLANDS
COOL CASK IN GLASGOW SOUTHSIDE. THE KOELSCHIP YARD
July 2025. Glasgow. With what would qualify as a decent public transport network anywhere outside London, I’d get good value from my £7.70 Glasgow Roundabout ticket. I left the Doublet just before 5, but with a bag to dump out west in a Clydebank “hotel”, and a pub to tick in Southside before my gig… Continue reading COOL CASK IN GLASGOW SOUTHSIDE. THE KOELSCHIP YARD
THE DOUBLET, GLASGOW. A SYMPHONY IN BROWN
July 2025. Glasgow. One night in Glasgow, and a fourth and final West End newbie to restore my faith in Scottish GBG entries. It’s all about Kelvin now. Down into Kelvinhall station, under the river Kelvin, and up at Kelvinbridge where the Doublet awaits. I never did get to Kelvingrove Art Gallery, but the Doublet… Continue reading THE DOUBLET, GLASGOW. A SYMPHONY IN BROWN
AN NBSS 4 ! IN JULY !! IN SCOTLAND !!!
July 2025. Glasgow. I had a Simple Plan for Glasgow for my flying overnighter. Lucy Dacus gig at Barrowlands, a Curry-Heute curry cafe, bit of Culture, and six pubs to pink in the Greater Glasgow chapter of the GBG. But throw a couple of Pub Men into the mix and chaos ensues. Already Duncan had… Continue reading AN NBSS 4 ! IN JULY !! IN SCOTLAND !!!
TOP 100 PUBS – THE LISMORE, GLASGOW
July 2025. Glasgow. A Tuesday afternoon in the West End of Glasgow with Duncan “Pubmeister” McKay, a man determined to prove Scotland deserves its GBG allocation. But first, he’d prove the grandeur of Argyle Street, looking particularly majestic on the entry into Partick, with my 3rd GBG newbie across the street. The Lismore is a… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE LISMORE, GLASGOW
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