5th February 2023. Back in Sheffield from the Peak District, I was just about to turn my attention to the state of the garden (honest, Mrs RM) when fellow ticker Jim B (not the Beach Boys song messaged to say he was touring the area and would I like to join him for a pre-emptive… Continue reading TICKERS’ DILEMMA AT THE TWO THIRDS
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NO HATCHET JOB
30th January 2023. With the Bristol cider pub closed and the Bass pub put of Bass, I succumbed to the inevitable and visited the “local recommended” preemptive for my 6th pub of the night. I’d never heard of the Hatchet, tucked away near the statue of the bloke with the dolphin. It’s the oldest pub… Continue reading NO HATCHET JOB
AND SO TO BED(MINSTER)
30th January 2023. Going nap in Bristol now (no idea why we call a fivesome “going nap”), assuming we can call Bedminster part of Bristol. For all I know there’s a King of Bedminster and no-one pays taxes as long as they grow sour beers in their garages or something. Look, I just don’t know… Continue reading AND SO TO BED(MINSTER)
CHELTENHAM CRAFT & CANALS
One last Gloucestershire tick and a flying visit to the side streets of regal Cheltenham, with the streets around the Railway Inn proving the hardest to negotiate/park. In a break from the norm, the writing on the wall reads not “dining and rooms” but “Smokey Phi Phi“, as the Railway undergoes the sort of gentrification… Continue reading CHELTENHAM CRAFT & CANALS
STOKES CROFT – PROPER RUMPY
I love Bristol. And, like Manchester, it gets better each year. More layers of street art, more new bars and cheap eats, more previously undiscovered little gems. A joy for Corbynistas and unbelievers (says Mrs RM) alike. Not quite great enough to live there (rubbish football), but good enough to cough up for a… Continue reading STOKES CROFT – PROPER RUMPY
(NEARLY) TOP 100 PUBS – PINT SHOP, CAMBRIDGE
Mrs RM had put up with me trudging round with her in the electronics section at John Lewis (Robert Sayle to me), so she felt she’d earned something strong in Pint Shop. Cambridge’s craft place is the one she picks when we’re out, in the same way my sister has always ended up in Falmouth’s… Continue reading (NEARLY) TOP 100 PUBS – PINT SHOP, CAMBRIDGE
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