Lunch in Leicestershire’s Langtons., which are a bit like the Hamptons This is the Welland Valley, previously a haven for Proper Pubs with pub games selling Marston’s and Batemans. This was the Horse & Trumpet in Medbourne. I believe the centuries old tradition of kicking the Watneys Red barrel between Hallaton and Medbourne continues in… Continue reading JIMMY HILL’S KOSSAK
ALTHORP LACINGS
One for our happy American readers now. Althorp, family home of Diana, burial place of Lawrence Washington, and part of a map where you’ll find Chinkwell Clumps and Nobottle Woods. Technically Daventry, though I’m sure that’s still being contested with Northampton. A second GBG pub in Little Brington joins its Greater neighbour this year under… Continue reading ALTHORP LACINGS
LIVE AND LET LYNN
Really stretching out these posts from the week before “Lockdown 2 : Only the Welsh may go to the Pub“. With Doom Bar denied, I headed to the cluster of pubs in South Lynn nearest the football ground; bound to be a midday (or earlier) opener there. I’ll be honest. I really should have explored… Continue reading LIVE AND LET LYNN
DOOM BAR DESPAIR AT THE PORTERHOUSE
Two more King’s Lynn posts for you, as I get full value from my £11.40 off-peak return having completed Norfolk. I know you’d been waiting for that pic. Choices, choices. The perennial Guide entry for Lynn is a characterful old small hotel bar that doesn’t open till 6pm every night, which seems a bit miserly.… Continue reading DOOM BAR DESPAIR AT THE PORTERHOUSE
LYNN LOCKDOWN SPECIAL
Since Pubmeister’s seismic report last year, King’s Lynn has become THE Norfolk destination for #PubMen bored of Norfolk’s endless identikit backstreet free houses. Even Kentish Paul braved the town recently; his report includes words like “Hanseatic”, “Bullards” and “Boondoggle” which may be of more interest to those of you interested in beer and history. How… Continue reading LYNN LOCKDOWN SPECIAL
BEER NUTS & ARTICHOKES
Not many Bob Carters in the Beer Guide, or Artichokes. Plenty of pubs, though, in one of the prime cities for GBG entries. The Artichoke is just north of Norwich’s artisanal inner ring road, and I must have walked past the pub’s lovely flinty curves a dozen times en route to the Lord Rosebery, Duke,… Continue reading BEER NUTS & ARTICHOKES
“I DON’T LIKE RUGBY”
More fearless pubbing in the wilds of Norfolk, the inexplicably popular* county that came 71st in my list of top UK GBG counties. Pleasingly, only seven new Norfolk entries this year, six of which I’ve already forgotten. The Horse & Groom at Tunstead, on the edge of the Broads, was memorable only for a tense… Continue reading “I DON’T LIKE RUGBY”
BOB CARTER’S BOOTIFUL BEERS
Beer Guide entries named after 20th century humans. A select club. Actually, I’ve no idea who Bob Carter is, he may have a Norwich City inside right from the 1930s, but Drayton’s tidy Sports Centre bears his name. You’ll have noticed the Norfolk DIDN’T make my Counties Top 10, despite the 31 beers in the… Continue reading BOB CARTER’S BOOTIFUL BEERS
AND THE WINNER IS…
It’s the most hotly-contested event of the month. Who won “Guess my favourite 10 counties“. The process to determine the winner of the competition to win the Prosecco and craft (Mrs RM drank the Speckle Hen) has been subject to a number of legal challenges, mainly over the size of the hat from which the… Continue reading AND THE WINNER IS…
CRACKING THE WALNUT
Interesting to read BRAPA last night welcoming the 4 week break as a chance to catch up with the blog. “There’s a silver lining to every cloud, and that is I’ve been shamefully behind on my blogs. Still stuck at 9th Oct at the time of writing. “ Ah, 9th October. We were so young, so… Continue reading CRACKING THE WALNUT
