September 2024. Edmonton. London. GBG arrived 🥳. Just when I was losing hope for today. Scared the poor Yodel lady by running down my steps to meet her halfway. Let the cross ticking commence. See you on 26/9/24. #BetterThanChristmasDay pic.twitter.com/QhFVFkTn1d — Si BRAPA Everitt (@StymieSi) September 14, 2024 The new GBG (25) is in the… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE RISING SUN, EDMONTON

September 2024. Manchester. The first week after the end of Summer brings gigs from an American, a Canadian and an Australian, which is a joke you don’t want to hear. 4 days after Anastasia Coope I’m straight back to Manchester for another heroine AND another tick in the Matthew Curtis Manc Guide, which is actually… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK – DAY AND NIGHT

September 2024. Sheffield. I’d got my need for a bit of urban exploration out of my system in Mosborough and only 4 hours after saying “Shall we go out ?” Mrs RM was ready to join me in town. “Meet you at Leah’s Yard at 3:30” I text, completely forgetting I’ll be relying on a… Continue reading ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER NEW PUB FOR SHEFFIELD. HOP HIDEOUT, LEAH’S YARD.

September 2024. Mosborough. Sheffield. As a podgy schoolboy version of Retired Martin I actually stayed at a Suffolk caravan site called “Cakes and Ale” in the late ’70s, on the old RAF Leiston site a couple of miles from Sizewell B, a childhood that may explain a lot about me. Mosborough is no Leiston, far… Continue reading CAKE AND ALE – CRAFTWORKS, MOSBOROUGH

September 2024. Mosborough. Sheffield. Life is settling down a bit in Waterbeach now, though the arrival of some boisterous visitors in a week’s time may change that, and I might even be able to contemplate some travel outside the Sheffield-Cambridge-Tunbridge Wells corridor soon. But on Saturday, arriving back in Sheffield at noon, I just needed… Continue reading A MARRIAGE IN MOSBOROUGH

September 2024. Cambridge. If you’d asked me to guess beforehand what a 3 pub crawl round Cambridge would comprise, I might have guessed Champ, Maypole, Free Press. No-one could have predicted the Town & Gown and Cambridge Tap. Two McMullen’s conversions, the first from a cinema, the Tap from a Cambridge Building Society next to… Continue reading THE CAMBRIDGE TAP. DON’T GET TOO EXCITED, PAUL

September 2024. Cambridge. One day back in Sheffield, one night in Manchester, and then straight back to Cambridge for an afternoon with my favourite #PubMan, the fellow with the most letters published in What’s Brewing. I bet you think I only like Stafford’s Paul Mudge because he brings me breweriana from his massive collection, don’t… Continue reading A SYMPHONY IN BROWN – THE CHAMPION OF THE THAMES

Simon is in Dumfries and Galloway (rebranded to Dolce & Gabbana) this week, Pub 2990, Masonic Arms, Gatehouse of Fleet. Funky village, bonded with the barman over crazy hurricane conditions. Five Kingdoms is fresher than the Jarl but it burns my chest to buggery. A parson's nose of a pub, good in parts. Too much… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 63 – DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY