April 2023. Not as good a film as “East of Ipswich”, for those of you who remember that classic. Another pub that they’ve put in the Guide because there’s no way BRPA can get there on public transport, though he could walk from Scunthorpe if he’s not distracted by Scunny’s embryonic* craft scene. Our journey… Continue reading SOUTH OF SCUNTHORPE
ALL THE TABLES WITH A “RESERVED” SIGN; WHAT WILL MRS RM DO ?
April 2023. We loved this little trip to North Lincolnshire. Said no-one ever, except us. Two new GBG pubs to tick (IF I am ticking the Guide), starting with the Heneage Arms in Hainton, which you’ve never heard of, even if you live in Market Rasen. The Heneage Arms has been brought into community ownership… Continue reading ALL THE TABLES WITH A “RESERVED” SIGN; WHAT WILL MRS RM DO ?
MRS RM HAS A COLLISON WITH A ZEBRA IN MARKET RASEN
April 2023. I decided I’d use the last Friday in April to finish the Lincolnshire GBG entries. Honestly, you would too. They’re either rubbish, or never open, or both. Mrs RM said she’d come with me. I think she mixed up Market Rasen with Market Drayton or Melton Mowbray or Mogadishu in her head. We… Continue reading MRS RM HAS A COLLISON WITH A ZEBRA IN MARKET RASEN
TOP 100 PUBS – THE HOLE IN THE WALL, BRIGHTON
Five posts from Brighton and no pictures of the beach, so here’s one from Daniel. April 2023. Four new GBG ticks in two hours, just like the old days. It concluded at the Hole in the Wall, tucked away in an unprepossessing little street near that big pole in the ground which turns out to… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE HOLE IN THE WALL, BRIGHTON
OLD
April 2023. Old. Not just one of the best tracks from one of the best albums of 1982 produced by a Brummie, but the highlight of my third tick on the Greater Brighton Tickathon. In truth, the Harvey’s Old was the only highlight of Guide newbie the Maris & Otter, virtually dead at 3pm and… Continue reading OLD
GRUBBS BURGERS
April 2023. There’s a lovely guy called Drunken Bunny who runs a pub and kebab blog called the Endless British Pub Crawl (here). Sound familar ? Either he or BRAPA should sue, surely. The posts are short, daily slices of pub life, and I feel ashamed I haven’t read or commented more. But that’s life.… Continue reading GRUBBS BURGERS
HOVE – HARVEY’S, HIGH CULTURE, HOG RACING
April 2023. Mrs RM was very keen to tell the lovely Southworths that I wasn’t ticking the Beer Guide this year, and I clearly take my instruction from her. But when you have a day on the South Coast free to yourself as your wife is staying in the caravan all day typing it still… Continue reading HOVE – HARVEY’S, HIGH CULTURE, HOG RACING
AN ULTRA-QUICK TICK IN SOUTHWICK
April 2023. Staying in Rye gives you access to the joys of the English south coast, with access to new pubs at Brighton a mere 90 minutes away, if you can fathom the train timetable with its weird 10 minute step-back-in-time at Hampden Park (not Sussex). Regular readers will recall I was at Southwick just… Continue reading AN ULTRA-QUICK TICK IN SOUTHWICK
WINCHELSEA – I TOLD YOU IT HAD A HILL
April 2023. Rye is a great base for pubs in all directions (except south. No idea what’s south), and has wonderful walks west through the nature reserve to Winchelsea. One lesser-known footpath takes you through fields full of pebbles, past the meteorite that flattened the nascent East Sussex micropub movement in 1478. The ducks took… Continue reading WINCHELSEA – I TOLD YOU IT HAD A HILL
BONDING OVER ROQUITO PEPPERS IN BRITAIN’S SMALLEST TOWN
April 2023. I’d got my two Canterbury ticks in the bag by lunchtime (a lamb samosa); perhaps I’d stop and explore an unsung Kent town like Ashford Chartham on the way back to Rye. The train left Sturry from Platform 1 at 13:32. It was now 12:27. I spotted Platform 1 across the line and… Continue reading BONDING OVER ROQUITO PEPPERS IN BRITAIN’S SMALLEST TOWN
