As you’ll know, I love Essex. Particularly estuary Essex around Tendring. So a trip to the Maybush in Great Oakley was always going to be one of my GBG18 highlights. Regular readers will recall our last trip down here at Christmas. The great ” Recovery of Mrs RM’s Handbag episode“. Back then, I wouldn’t have guessed… Continue reading SAVING GREAT OAKLEY
JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF WYMONDHAM
That’s right, lure you in with a KLF line and then burn a million quid in front of you. (Hoping even Pub Curmudgeon will get that reference). One of the downsides of following the Beer Guide trail is that you’re limited in the number of pubs you can revisit (if you did all the pubs in Leicester… Continue reading JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF WYMONDHAM
A SHOCK WINNER IN NORWICH
Mrs RM is choosing her trips out with me carefully at the moment; passing up the chance of a pub crawl round Leicester with old codgers (and Mudgie) but jumping at the chance of a day in Norwich. Fickle. Two new Beer Guide entries, neither of them micropubs, or Brewery Taps, or Ember Inns. What… Continue reading A SHOCK WINNER IN NORWICH
A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY IN MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE
One of the highpoints of the Pub Ticker’s Year today. The “pub” with opening hours set specifically to thwart your visit. Compared to the Well in Woodhouse, the Rock & Roll Brew House I did last week is a doddle. They’re both open a grand total of ten hours a week*, with the Well settling on; Thursday… Continue reading A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY IN MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE
retiredmartin ON DETENTION IN LEICESTER
You may have noticed I finished the Leicester post when the night was still young, leaving Mudgie and Mr Mudge to negotiate the joys of 2017 train services north via Birmingham. But Richard and I were staying over. And what’s more, “we’d paid £4.20 for a Bus Day Ticket and we’re gonna use it”, as… Continue reading retiredmartin ON DETENTION IN LEICESTER
LEICESTER PUB CRAWL – “Can one desire too much of a good thing ?”
Another Pub Blogger Crawl, another opportunity to whine about too many handpumps. A Tuesday in Leicester, comparing notes with Old Mudgie of Pub Curmudgeon fame, Richard of Beer Leeds fame, and Paul Mudge of Stafford, which is fame in itself. Historians may one day be interested in this annotated itinerary, and wonder about the deviations we made. Thanks to… Continue reading LEICESTER PUB CRAWL – “Can one desire too much of a good thing ?”
BRUMMING WITH CONFIDENCE
Yes, it’s Jimmy the Hoover on the front cover of Smash Hits from 1983. How low can this blog go, you ask ? Answer – very low. I left a group of imbibers enjoying lunch in a busy Old Contemptibles, heading back to the Jewellery Quarter to tick two more Guide new entries. A couple of very modern… Continue reading BRUMMING WITH CONFIDENCE
MORE LUNCHTIME SECOND CITY FUN
From the Jewellery Quarter, Pete Allen took me on a mini tour of Birmingham heritage. On his own pub blog Pete looks at the changing face of canalside pubs over the decades; here we strolled through the Victorian and Edwardian centre. The beer range may have changed this century (bye bye Ansells), but the remaining pubs… Continue reading MORE LUNCHTIME SECOND CITY FUN
BIRMINGHAM’S JEWELLERY QUARTER – THE OLD…
Having gone all grumpy retiredmartin the other week on the train home, I really ought to balance it up with a bit of praise for the 2nd city(*) So good was the day, that you get three exciting instalments(**), this one covering the Jewellery Quarter. Birmingham was a reminder of what a joy a pub crawl round a… Continue reading BIRMINGHAM’S JEWELLERY QUARTER – THE OLD…
IRISH PUBS AND OFFAL IN ILFORD
On our pub crawl round Leicester today, Pub Curmudgeon told me about an unfortunate incident near Ilford that necessitated a 2 night Premier Inn stay there. There’s worse hotels to get stuck in (the old Formule 1 for instance), but few more challenging places in London to be stuck. At least in Dagenham you’ve got the creek, in… Continue reading IRISH PUBS AND OFFAL IN ILFORD
