October 2025. Chaddesden. Derby. Back at Derby station from Tutbury, I reckoned it was worth chancing a dash to the Hoppy Place, Derby’s lone new GBG tick a couple of miles east. Out the station’s back entrance, through the grim light industry and Tier 2 football of Pride Park, over the Brian Clough expressway via… Continue reading A BASS AND POPPADOMS HALT IN CHADDESDEN
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TICKING ON THE MACCLESFIELD CANAL
July 2025. Gurnett. Macclesfield. “Gurnett ? Never heard of it“. Neither had I before the new GBG introduced Ye Olde King’s Head to the world. I’d fancied coming here on the Old Codgers Macclesfield Meander last month, with it just a mile south along the canal, but the company from the Two Mudge(i)es and Frome… Continue reading TICKING ON THE MACCLESFIELD CANAL
THE BIG DERBY “CURATED PUB SURVEY” No. 8 – YE OLDE DOLPHIN
May 2025, Derby. Well the itinerary had gone to pot, but our #PubManHeroes from Leicester, Frome, Sheffield (x 2), Stafford and Worcester (x 2) were at least walking in a straight line, reminiscent of a scene from the Wicker Man. But where was our leader ? Life After Football presumably checking out Bunk and Brooklyn’s… Continue reading THE BIG DERBY “CURATED PUB SURVEY” No. 8 – YE OLDE DOLPHIN
THE BIG DERBY “CURATED PUB SURVEY”. No. 2 – THE SMITHFIELD
May 2025. Derby. The BIG unofficial Derby pub crawl went off-course immediately on leaving the Brunswick, our group deciding that no, they couldn’t wait 13 minutes for the Alex to open, so over the Derwent, looking all pastoral and romantic, until Paul brings my attention to the abandoned shopping trolleys on the left. This crawl,… Continue reading THE BIG DERBY “CURATED PUB SURVEY”. No. 2 – THE SMITHFIELD
BASS. ALMOST AS FASHIONABLE AS PABST BLUE RIBBON
April 2025 (last post in April !). Sheffield. Having just had a bottle of non-alcoholic German wheat beer as a social experiment, I had 15 minutes trudge back to Mrs RM via Kelham Island. 5 minutes brought me to Alder, and you know what’s there. Yes, yes, Pabst Blue Ribbon, which the UK just promised… Continue reading BASS. ALMOST AS FASHIONABLE AS PABST BLUE RIBBON
WHERE HAS LEICESTER’s CHERRY TREE BEEN ALL MY LIFE ?
April 2025. Leicester. The last knockings of my Big Day Out in Hinckley, as I decide that 24 minutes is, in fact, enough time to see a bit more of Leicester, and somehow squeeze in a pint at the Cherry Tree, which a quick look at my giant spreadsheet confirms I’ve never been to before… Continue reading WHERE HAS LEICESTER’s CHERRY TREE BEEN ALL MY LIFE ?
THE WILLIAM BASS TRAIL REACHES THE PESTLE & MORTAR
You try coming up with blog titles for four successive Bass pubs. April 2025. Hinckley. Well, this hastily convened exploration of a rarely visited (for pubs, I’m sure folk visit for the household wares shop) Leicestershire market town was going well, and a fourth pint of Bass in three hours came two minutes from our… Continue reading THE WILLIAM BASS TRAIL REACHES THE PESTLE & MORTAR
MORE BASS IN BURBAGE
April 2025. Burbage. I do have a number of rules I apply to my blogging. No more than ten pictures, a two minute read so you can read it in the time it takes to sink a pint of Bass, all facts checked independently by ChatGPT, and NO MORE than 100 pubs in the Top… Continue reading MORE BASS IN BURBAGE
THE RED LION. BEAUTIFUL BASS IN BURBAGE
April 2025. Burbage. While I’d been leading Stafford Paul on a curated tour of church doors, horsepools and wildflowers, our fellow toppers Quinno and Leon were on a meandering route to meet up at the Red Lion. A solid place to start, though perhaps not a cask line up to impress folk who believe all… Continue reading THE RED LION. BEAUTIFUL BASS IN BURBAGE
IS BASS EXEMPT FROM THE CAMRA “BUY INDIE” LAW ?
April 2025. Sheffield. That title comes from reader Stu; usual prize, Stu. Well, I was very excited leaving Alder that Friday Thursday, rushing to tell the new keeper of the Bass Directory (“Custodia Bassista”) the Good News. Joy too, at the Great Stuff This Bass Facebook group, who all wanted to know “But is it… Continue reading IS BASS EXEMPT FROM THE CAMRA “BUY INDIE” LAW ?
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