I’m back home in Waterbeach Sheffield, Mrs RM is delighted with the number of Facebook “likes” she’s got from our GBG completion, and I’ve been told in no uncertain terms that my priority is now “the garden“. I’ve checked our marriage contract and there’s no mention of gardens. Looking at my blog views this morning,… Continue reading IN SOUTH SOMERSET, SUNDAY SUPPING STOPS SUDDENLY
MEANWHILE, BACK IN JULY, THE MUDDLED MAN MARVELS
Right, I’ve milked Saturday’s triumph at the World GBG Ticking Championships for all its worth, the completed Guide lies in repose in our living room for inspection for 10 days, and it’s time to try and catch up with the blog. I left you in bell-ringing Wiltshire in early July, and return to the task… Continue reading MEANWHILE, BACK IN JULY, THE MUDDLED MAN MARVELS
A SPECIAL END TO TICKING IN SCOTLAND
Dave Halliwell, our Manx correspondent, summed up the appeal of travel guided by the GBG here; I started the blog to write about travel and will press on till I can’t after completing the Guide. I understand there may be some great pubs outside the GBG. It’s taken me 57 years to reach Orkney, and… Continue reading A SPECIAL END TO TICKING IN SCOTLAND
NO MORE WORLDS LEFT TO CONQUER
Thank you for all your good wishes on completing the Beer Guide at lunchtime in Rousay. It was an emotional morning, a mix of worry, joy and panic. And calories. This was breakfast at the West End Guest House in Orkney, where a Canadian septuagenarian regaled us with tales of the Peterborough Petes ice hockey… Continue reading NO MORE WORLDS LEFT TO CONQUER
GOOD BEER GUIDE ? DONE IT, MATE
Well, I’m there. The Taversoe, Rousay (pop.200). Tick 4,501 of 4,501. The GBG complete. And Mrs RM is with me. Sorry, black and white photo as it’s Scotland. Actually, she’s the only other person here, though the tables are all booked. The beer is good, the Cullen Skink is sensational, the staff are cheery, the… Continue reading GOOD BEER GUIDE ? DONE IT, MATE
I AM THE ONE AND ONLY…TAVERSOE IN ROUSAY
What a day this has been. Twelve (12) pubs, 6 pints of Scapa Special, 1 inadvisable Orkney whisky, far too much country music on the St Ola jukebox, which ends with me needing just the one (1) pub tick to join the immortal Pubmeister in completing a current (rather than 1987) Good Beer Guide. Mrs… Continue reading I AM THE ONE AND ONLY…TAVERSOE IN ROUSAY
EIGHT MILLION STORIES, EIGHT PUBS TO TICK, LET’S LICK WICK
So many songs with eight (8) in the title, and I choose A Tribe Called Quest. Yes, it’s started. Yesterday saw a nine hour journey from the Chung Hwa to a four poster bed in Kingussie accessed by a secret code, a journey beset with disasters such as a detour through Grantham, flooded motorway in… Continue reading EIGHT MILLION STORIES, EIGHT PUBS TO TICK, LET’S LICK WICK
THE BELLS OF MERE
Can I start by thanking Elizabeth for her service to the nation. She will be missed. Back to lesser matters as I ease from Hampshire to Dorset to Wiltshire and a first ever visit to Mere, just off the A303 so beloved of holidaymakers. Mere will not detain you long, a one street town of… Continue reading THE BELLS OF MERE
MORE PUBS NAMED AFTER ANIMALS IN GILLINGHAM (not THAT Gillingham !)
More from my massive July West Country Tickathon, and some prime Dylan for you; Possibly US Dave’s favourite Dylan, though personally I prefer the cover version by The Wiggles. Man had to give names to the animals as nearly all of the pubs in Gillingham (Dorset) are named after them; I was only in the… Continue reading MORE PUBS NAMED AFTER ANIMALS IN GILLINGHAM (not THAT Gillingham !)
AT MY WHITSBURY END
Back on the GBG ticking trail in early July, this time from our new Rye base (I only spent 7 nights in Sheffield that month). Oddly, hardly any quicker to get into the New Forest and Dorset from Rye than Yorkshire. That drive through the New Forest took us on a gorgeous slow road between… Continue reading AT MY WHITSBURY END
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