On to my last Lincolnshire Beer Guide pub, always a bittersweet moment. Something to do with the diacetyl, I guess. Not a great county, for pubs or beer, but that’s not really the point of all this, is it ? In Lincolnshire, it’s often about windmills. This is Burgh-le-Marsh, a pretty village 5 miles and… Continue reading THE 5pm PINT OF XB MAN
DOOMED
Greetings from Broughty Ferry, temporary home of the CAMRA AGM attendees, and also the Punx, on the way to the BrewDog AGM up in Ellon. Two cultures clash. These are my freebies so far from the Punx, the Spoons, and the CAMRA. You left me in Scunthorpe, where for old times sake I popped… Continue reading DOOMED
SCUNTHORPE STEELS ITSELF FOR CRAFT
There must be a better blog title than that, but I’ve just had a haggis supper on the Royal Mile and I can’t be bothered. Be prepared to be a bit surprised, though I’ll wager I can count the number of you who’ve previously enjoyed Scunny’s charms on one hand (a trip to Glanford Park… Continue reading SCUNTHORPE STEELS ITSELF FOR CRAFT
ROOTING FOR WROOT
I’ve no idea why you’re reading this when you should be doing the BRAPA Quiz. Perhaps I’ll do a highbrow version of Si’s Quiz for my own 5th anniversary, and hide pub reference in Wesley hymns. You can never have enough Wesley on this blog. I sense this wasn’t exactly a ringing endorsement of Wroot… Continue reading ROOTING FOR WROOT
MARCH ’19 STOCKTAKE + APRIL PREVIEW
My usual reflection on a particularly manic March and, unusually, some concrete plans for April. Despite seventy (70) posts, and a week off pubs after Aberdeen, I still ended the month a week behind with this wittering (not the Sussex one). As you’ll see when you look at the Great GBG Pinked Map (patent pending),… Continue reading MARCH ’19 STOCKTAKE + APRIL PREVIEW
“Hiya John”
Onto my last East Yorkshire GBG tick for the year, and a lovely sight on Page 525 it makes. Eight new entries, 20% of the total, and one new classic with the Board Inn joining the Dog & Duck, Nellies, Whalebone, New Adelphi Club & the Jemmy Hirst in my Top 100 pubs. Not bad.… Continue reading “Hiya John”
PICTURES OF LELLEY
A nice picture of flowers for my Mum, if she reads this (she doesn’t). Cheaper than actually buying them from Tesco, even two days after Mothers Day. There were loads of mothers, probably grandmothers, at my penultimate East Yorkshire tick in the backwaters of Holderness. The “Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness” if you’re living… Continue reading PICTURES OF LELLEY
HORNSEA HOPES DASHED
“Enough of all this culture, give us a pub !” says Mrs Ethel Higgins, of American Samoa, my new star reader*. Indeed I will. How about the Marine in Hornsea, the lowest of low-key East Coast resorts, somehow making Withernsea seem cutting-edge. But it’s got a big lake with a café, and a big discount… Continue reading HORNSEA HOPES DASHED
HULL – A CULTURAL INTERLUDE
Day 2 of 3 in East Yorkshire and Lincs. Time for some “culture” *, if a Chinese takeaway and a pint of Plum Porter isn’t cultural enough. I started by the River Hull at the Council buildings, for some reason. Perhaps I’d intended walking up Wincolmlee to see if the Whalebone was open at 10… Continue reading HULL – A CULTURAL INTERLUDE
UNBRIDLED JOY IN BRIDLINGTON
OK, that title only really works if you pronounce your favourite East Yorkshire resort as “Bride“, but bear with me. The train from Hull rattled past Beverley and Driffield, normally homes to at least one new GBG tick each year. This must have been a first tick in Brid for a decade, since the wonderful-looking… Continue reading UNBRIDLED JOY IN BRIDLINGTON
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