December 2025. Whitstable. A Proper Day in Whitstable must include oysters and beer and pashmina shops and pebbles on the beach. Mrs RM fancied something “authentic” but the seafood restaurants were both expensive and fussy looking, and you don’t really come to the Kent coast for curry. Oh, here’s an idea… The Ship Centurion is… Continue reading ALL SHIP SHAPE AT THE SHIP CENTURION
Tag: Adnams
BROWN SOUP AND BASS
September 2024. Cambridge. One point for recognising the flower, a second for the birdie, those two both from my sister’s field, and a third for recognising the pub just from that soup menu (top). Yep, it’s the Queen’s Head in Newton, aka the Brown Soup pub, one of Stafford Paul’s musts on his first visit… Continue reading BROWN SOUP AND BASS
A LOAD OF DOBBLERS
Just for Kentish Paul, your Pelican of the Day; February 2024. Cambridge. Pub 2 of “Just a couple with Will in Cambridge” and a real wander into the backstreets towards Newmarket Road, well away from the post-graduate Mill Road set to a real (and increasingly rare) survivor. The backstreet boozer, the community pub with big… Continue reading A LOAD OF DOBBLERS
DUAL DISAPPOINTMENT AT CARLETON RODE SOCIAL CLUB
January 2024. Carleton Rode. Attleborough. It’s a small world. Two days after visiting the Carleton Rode (pop. 785) Social Club, a remote Norfolk tick, I actually met someone from Attleborough. On his birthday (it wasn’t 22/12). He didn’t believe I’d been to Carleton Rode, which sounds like a member of Graham Taylor’s 1993 World Cup… Continue reading DUAL DISAPPOINTMENT AT CARLETON RODE SOCIAL CLUB
TOP 100 PUBS – THE ELM TREE, CAMBRIDGE
November 2023. Cambridge. I think by law there needs to be at least one (1) new Top 100 pub every fortnight so that by March 2026 there’s a 1,000 of them and then we can apply a 10:1 devaluation or something. Bit surprising that GBG perennial the Elm Tree hadn’t made my chart before, but… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE ELM TREE, CAMBRIDGE
THE OLD TICKET OFFICE
November 2023. Cambridge. Dad moved from a noisy A & E bed to a dedicated elderly ward with 11-8 visiting hours which suggested he was in recovery. After my own recuperative crispy beef and pint of Landlord I decided to make my visit by train the next day, walking the half hour along the guided… Continue reading THE OLD TICKET OFFICE
A TASTE OF SOUTHWOLD
June 2023. Cambridge & Isleham. I see that Simon has finally discovered the delights of Southwold. Chris the Crab and Ozan Octopus ? That’s not the Southwold I remember. And to be honest, though I need to venture out in that direction to complete Suffolk at the Racehorse in Westhall, I rarely come across Adnams… Continue reading A TASTE OF SOUTHWOLD
MY LAST PINT
It’s great to see the vaccine roll-out proceeding at pace. Both our sets of parents will have had both Pfizer jabs by the end of today, allowing them to restart the full range of exciting activities open to octogenarians in Waterbeach and Tunbridge Wells. I haven’t received my Sputnik jab in the post from Sergei… Continue reading MY LAST PINT
MONKS ELEIGH – ALL RIGHT NOW
I reckon one photo is all you need to guess where I went next; Yes, it’s the brightly coloured cottages of Greater Lavenham, pilgrimage for Americans in search of the true fake Lil Ol England for decades now. If you know the Eleighs at all, it’ll be the famous Cock at Brent, whose bench seating… Continue reading MONKS ELEIGH – ALL RIGHT NOW
A CENTURY FOR THE CHEF, OYSTER STOUT FOR ME
One of the cheap treats available in Cambridge is the arrival of a county cricket team at Fenners to bash the local students in the warm-up for the new season. These days, all those students seemed to come from what was Cambridge Poly when I studies for my Accountancy exams there. A couple of years… Continue reading A CENTURY FOR THE CHEF, OYSTER STOUT FOR ME
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