Definitely onto the short posts now, but as it’s nearly my birthday (22/12) my attention is wandering. December 2025. Faversham. Mrs RM was determined to wake up somewhere exciting on her **th birthday this week (actual age only available to Patronised readers), and as Carluke was too far we settled on Faversham, an hour away.… Continue reading FABULOUS FAVERSHAM PART 1
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.
ANOTHER NBSS 4.5 !!! THE WATERWORKS, RYE
December 2025. Rye. Back in Rye the bus to the harbour was 40 minutes late. As you’ll know, 40 minutes is exactly the right amount of time needed to do Mrs RM’s shopping at Jempson’s and squeeze in a bit of curated pub research. About time for a long overdue visit to the Waterworks then.… Continue reading ANOTHER NBSS 4.5 !!! THE WATERWORKS, RYE
ALL THE PUBS IN HASTINGS NEW TOWN. No. 2 – THE SEADOG
December 2025. Hastings New Town. I didn’t buy a £1 bag from Primark to carry my £10 fleece, so ran the risk of leaving it on the train (again) if I extended my rapid assault on Hastings New Town. So the Yates’s, and the heritage Havelock, and a Belgian beer bar called Tin Tin will… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN HASTINGS NEW TOWN. No. 2 – THE SEADOG
ALL THE PUBS IN HASTINGS NEW TOWN. No. 1 – THE JOHN LOGIE BAIRD
December 2025. Hastings. You’ll know that I fund my hedonist lifestyle by not buying clothes, but by Monday I realised I was going to have to replace my dark fleece, inexplicably left on the 17:35 from Uttoxeter after 4 pints of Bass. 20 minutes by rail brings you to Hastings, which has shops and pubs.… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN HASTINGS NEW TOWN. No. 1 – THE JOHN LOGIE BAIRD
BOTTLES IT IS THEN
December 2025. Rye Harbour. I’d popped down up to Waterbeach to see Dad on Friday, leaving Mrs RM to her blog without me ruining her WiFi. “Are you back tomorrow?” she asks, oblivious to plans. Obviously she wanted something brought down to Rye, probably chocolate*, so I caught the first train back, the one with… Continue reading BOTTLES IT IS THEN
PASTY AND PASTORE
December 2025. Waterbeach. Ask anyone about Waterbeach and they’ll say “Ah, that’s where the Southworths ate a Chinese takeaway with folded bits of card“, but it’s also renowned as the place with two breweries and a Brewery Tap that isn’t. Pastore is the fruit sour specialist whose beers pop up in the craft beer places… Continue reading PASTY AND PASTORE
THE TRUE START OF CHRISTMAS
December 2025. Waterbeach. Back at Home (2) after that little Gravesend diversion and 20 minutes between train at Kings Cross that I judged just insufficient for a pint at the King Charles I, I visit Dad in the afternoon (I’ve just missed “Annie” at the care home), hoover Sunnyside and then pop to The Sun.… Continue reading THE TRUE START OF CHRISTMAS
A DIVERSION TO GRAVESEND
December 2025. Gravesend. Kent. The route from home (1) to home (2) to home (3) is fairly well-established now. Friday saw the Rye to Waterbeach via St Pancras leg, interrupted by a short diversion at Ebbsfleet International, one of the UK’s least used (per square foot) railway stations now the Eurostar avoid it on evil… Continue reading A DIVERSION TO GRAVESEND
IS SPOONS CASK QUALITY GETTING BETTER ? BEXHILL THINKS SO
December 2025. Bexhill-on-Sea. We’d entered the gates of Bexhill with such noble intentions. Culture at the De la Warr, a long bracing walk along the front, Eddie Izzard’s model railway… But too much beer early on had scuppered plans, and I wasn’t even in the mood for some clothes shopping for me. Not today. But… Continue reading IS SPOONS CASK QUALITY GETTING BETTER ? BEXHILL THINKS SO
TOP 100 PUBS. THE RUDDY DUCK, BEXHILL-on-SEA
December 2025. Bexhill-on-Sea. Mrs RM enjoyed our lunchtime in Sussex-by-the-Sea, remembering the times that her aunt (it was probably her granny but I’m not strong on genealogy) took her to Bexhill for whatever people used to do at the seaside in the 70s. Look out to sea and shout at France, I guess. The houses… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS. THE RUDDY DUCK, BEXHILL-on-SEA
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