I promised you (well, US Dave), the results of my cross-checking the new Good Beer Guide tonight, so here it is. THE SCORE Having marked in pink all the 4,508 entries in GBG22 that I’ve already done, like this; I calculate I’d visited 3,927 pubs by the time the new GBG “landed” (ugh). That’s 87.1%,… Continue reading “I’ve seen the cross-ticking and the damage done, a loss of 195 pubs on GBG21. Gone, gone..”
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TOP 100 PUBS – VICTORIA, LINCOLN
Have I done this one before ? Wouldn’t surprise me. Pauline nearly guessed right, I did look in the window of the Strugglers, named after the ascent from the Wetherspoons to the pubs at the top of the hill. Sadly staff illness had scuppered what look like a good trading day. Such is a publican’s… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – VICTORIA, LINCOLN
IMPISH BEHAVIOUR
Yes, it’s Lincoln ! Living in Sheffield gives you access to all of England’s great towns by rail; Lincoln, Derby, Retford… Mrs RM joined me on my first official ticking expedition of the new Guide year. The Tiny Tavern, a lone new GBG entry and the first for a while, had a locked door but… Continue reading IMPISH BEHAVIOUR
PINK MARKER TO THE READY, LET’S GET STARTED
A week ago, I returned from Norfolk via my parents to find Baa Baa Toure looking like the goat that got the cream. Or something. My new GBG had finally arrived., a mere 2 weeks after some of my rival fellow tickers. Note the damage at bottom left. My GBG22 already looks more worn than… Continue reading PINK MARKER TO THE READY, LET’S GET STARTED
ONE NIGHT IN DEREHAM (via TOFTWOOD)
I am now the pub expert on Dereham, or East Dereham if you’re the landlord at the Creaky Floorboard I was chatting to this week. Is there a West ? And why are you asking me ? I don’t know the difference between East and West ! See, here’s a 3 mile pub crawl I… Continue reading ONE NIGHT IN DEREHAM (via TOFTWOOD)
COMMUNITY PUB, BEESTON (NORFOLK NOT NOTTS !)
As Johnson said, a man who is bored of Norfolk has every right to be. But I press on with Curry Charles, to a pub on the edge of dashing Dereham recently acquired by “the community”. Here’s the legal paperwork… Like micros, I’m rarely as impressed by community pubs as CAMRA. They often seem to… Continue reading COMMUNITY PUB, BEESTON (NORFOLK NOT NOTTS !)
TASTERS TORMENT NEAR TORRID THETFORD
I owe Curry Charles a pint, that was his suggested title. Charles, my Pub Man of 2020, had joined me on the second leg of my West Norfolk tickathon, providing double entendres of the third order. But first he provided me with a late gourmet lunch. I’d have preferred his famous white haggis. New entries… Continue reading TASTERS TORMENT NEAR TORRID THETFORD
CONSIGNED TO THE SMOKING HUT
Some real oddities new to Norfolk’s GBG collection this year, like the Foldgate, a roadside diner I’d passed on the A1122 heading to Dereham a hundred times and thought “That’ll NEVER get in the Guide“. And yet it has. Blimey ! Nice sign, Labatts isn’t it ? Stradsett is a hamlet of 60 people, not… Continue reading CONSIGNED TO THE SMOKING HUT
NORFOLK – AN ACQUIRED TASTE
I think I’ve been banned from MumsNet. After a year of raiding their treasure trove of accidental ludicrousness as a lurker I can’t load the latest articles about Christmas dilemmas and nitpick collagues without signing up, and who knows where that leads. So I may miss out on Pashmina Petra from Parson’s Green telling us… Continue reading NORFOLK – AN ACQUIRED TASTE
LOVELY LYNN
Now I’ve moved north the wilds of Norfolk are three hours away, which is no loss till we get to GBG ticking time. An overnight stay in Dereham, the very heart of Norfolk, and four new ticks to kick-start a slow month. Starting with a FOURTH trip to King’s Lynn in 2 years . What’s… Continue reading LOVELY LYNN
