23rd January 2020 This post is a bit pointless, as Duncan beat me to the press with his write-up of the magnificent Idle Draper, set in Bradford’s best named suburb. As Duncan notes, I’d done a trial run of his West Yorkshire pubs the day before, walking from Greengates up the hill to Idle (both… Continue reading THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IDLE
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.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS, LOW PRICES
23rd January 2020 Only a week behind with the blog after yesterday’s 3-in-1 special, and I haven’t had a pub visit since Saturday. So catching up is possible. But unlikely. Thursday was my day to drive Duncan round the new delights of West Yorkshire. I’m sure there is/was a pub called the New Delight. Pubmeister… Continue reading WUTHERING HEIGHTS, LOW PRICES
FANNY’S BY GASLIGHT
22nd January 2020 WARNING : CONTAINS PROPER PUBS !!! A bumper Shipley-cum-Saltaire special, aided by an Ibis giving me access to two new GBG ticks, a classic oldie, and a curry. Oh, and tall buildings. Shipley town centre took a post-war hammering, but the Spoons is majestic. Continuing the theme of the last post, where… Continue reading FANNY’S BY GASLIGHT
A FAREWELL TO ALBION
22nd January 2020 I’ve found a rare photo of fellow blogger Pubmeister (middle) reviewing post titles with some of his Blog Support Team. The chap on the left is excited with “No Sour Beer In Sowerby Bridge” but Duncan secretly knows it’s rubbish. Everyone knows it’s pronounced “Sorby”. Three nights in West Yorkshire, ten GBG… Continue reading A FAREWELL TO ALBION
PUDSEY BARED
22nd/23rd January 2020 Oooh ! A composite post. Is that allowed ? Well, I made two trips to Pudsey, capital of western Leeds, on successive days and one of those was just as Duncan’s Taxi so it’d be daft not to combine them. Even Mark Crilley can’t be expected to read too many of my… Continue reading PUDSEY BARED
ENTER THE DRAGON
18th January 2020 The last pub of the night, the last of the Great Western Adventure, a first ever venture to the Dragon. Having got the new GBG tick out of the way, the Super Mare was our oyster. Music in the Brit Bar, Otter in the Criterion, karaoke in Off The Rails. Even the… Continue reading ENTER THE DRAGON
WESTON BLACK CATS AND CULLOMPTON BLOWOUTS
18th January 2020 I’ve been uncharacteristically generous to my Sis on this trip, you might think, given the tiny lanes she directed me down in Cornwall (“Only following orders !”). But her pubby observations are highly valued, she doesn’t chat about the Love Island twins from Waterbeach, and when we had a tyre blow out… Continue reading WESTON BLACK CATS AND CULLOMPTON BLOWOUTS
THE TORTOISE BEATS THE HARE IN LEWDOWN
18th January 2020 I hope these dates I’m sticking up help in your appreciation of my epic journey. Once I finish the Cornwall trip there’s just a write-up of a messy 3 days in West Yorkshire and Manchester and I might just finish that in time for the January Stocktake but don’t set your clocks… Continue reading THE TORTOISE BEATS THE HARE IN LEWDOWN
DEVOLVING THE PINKING DUTIES IN LANLIVERY
18th January 2020 The journey home from Cornwall, a dozen GBG ticks in the bag, via the now ritual overnight stop at Weston-super-Mare. Bur first, the just as inevitable pub lunch down country lanes near the Eden project. Now, you’ll know I never resist an opportunity to ridicule myself and my loved ones. So if… Continue reading DEVOLVING THE PINKING DUTIES IN LANLIVERY
GIVING PENZANCE A SECOND CHANCE
18th January 2020 And so to Penzance, which Sis and I didn’t warm to in 2016. To be fair, it was raining. With only a basic homebrew boozer in town I declared the town the Newmarket of the West (look it up). “But there HAS to be a hipster quarter” said Sis. “Even Newmarket has… Continue reading GIVING PENZANCE A SECOND CHANCE
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