19th December 2022. Having quickly acquired my new Bradford GBG tick* at Boar & Fable, I had to make a quick decision about how best to get value from my £14.40 Off-Peak return ticket, having missed cut-off for the Media Museum. Another bar on North Parade ? There’s nine to choose from; I’d been having… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – RECORD CAFE, BRADFORD
TAKE THE FIRST TRAIN TO BRADFORD
19th December 2022. Enough of Mrs RM, it was almost MY birthday now. To warm up I took a look at my GBG spreadsheet (really ought to blog about that) and found to my horror the ONLY new Beer Guide entry I could do was in Bradford. And even that didn’t open ’till 16:00. What’s… Continue reading TAKE THE FIRST TRAIN TO BRADFORD
No Dry January In Aldridge.
Originally posted on Evo Boozy Scribbler:
I wasn’t really feeling Friday night. My back was hurting and I felt rubbish. One female colleague had commented on the day that I looked awful and another chipped in that I looked like death warmed up. But the first Friday of January is always what we call the…
MRS RM CRUELLY DENIED HER BIRTHDAY PINT OF 10.5% IMPERIAL STOUT
16/17th December 2022. While 22 December is clearly the most important day in the year, it behoves a dutiful husband to remember his wife’s birthday and ensure she gets suitably plastered on high strength beer. Mrs RM actually had two goes at that this year, joining James and I in the Walkley Beer Co on… Continue reading MRS RM CRUELLY DENIED HER BIRTHDAY PINT OF 10.5% IMPERIAL STOUT
FOR WHAT IS CHATTERIS ?
15th December 2022. We arrived back in Waterbeach to find the “worst snow since 1982”, but at least it hadn’t closed Chung Hwa. Mrs RM helped me conquer the final new Cambridgeshire entry for GBG23, an overdue return to Chatteris, a town immortalised on Half Man Half Biscuit’s best seller. I can’t believe I hadn’t… Continue reading FOR WHAT IS CHATTERIS ?
I WANT TO SEE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS TONIGHT
By the time we left the Globe we only had time for one more pub, a new GBG entry near our gig, but mysteriously we had enough time for shopping in Oxford Street. This was a particular mystery to me, as I’d assumed we’d concluded our present shopping on 1 January, just as we do… Continue reading I WANT TO SEE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS TONIGHT
MARYLEBONE PROVES YOU SHOULD ALWAYS ADD THE POSTCODE TO YOUR TICKING SPREADSHEET
14th December 2022. From Bow we headed west, and an increasing rare new Guide entry in London tourist central. Marylebone’s tick means leaving the underground at Baker Street, and taking the foot tunnel under Marylebone Road, a passage promoting all the traditional tourist joys on NW1. Baker Street is where football fans traditionally stop for… Continue reading MARYLEBONE PROVES YOU SHOULD ALWAYS ADD THE POSTCODE TO YOUR TICKING SPREADSHEET
BOW BELLES
14th December 2022. You left us in a cafe in Leytonstone, where I’d just finished off Mrs RM’s shepherd’s pie and didn’t feel much like running for the tube, but luckily the (packed) Central line was still operating at 5 minute intervals, and 10 minutes later we hopped out at Bow for a first time… Continue reading BOW BELLES
CAFE LIFE, LEYTONSTONE
14th December 2022. Life is more than pubs, pub mascots and pub guide markers, of course. But that hadn’t stopped me producing a neat little spreadsheet of my GBG “needs” ahead of our trip to the Lexington for the End of the Road Christmas gig (cos I am big Xmas fan). In years gone by… Continue reading CAFE LIFE, LEYTONSTONE
PINT OF PEDIGREE, PUBLIC SCHOOL, POPPADOMS – A NIGHT IN UPPINGHAM
13th December 2022. We didn’t let the snow interrupt our travel plans, but the latest rail strike meant we’d have to drive down to London for our annual End of the Road Christmas Party, via an overnight stop to complete Rutland for GBG23 (calm down, it’s only one new pub each year). We arrived in… Continue reading PINT OF PEDIGREE, PUBLIC SCHOOL, POPPADOMS – A NIGHT IN UPPINGHAM
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