November 2025. Eastbourne. Mrs RM is spending a season down in Sussex by the Sea, attending to elderly parents (sound familiar?). Arranging Lasting Powers of Attorney never seemed so urgent. I’m hoping to spend a while down there too, ticking GBG pubs and National Trust castles. Some dreich weather to start this week meant I… Continue reading THE JOY OF EASTBOURNE SPOONS
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POSING TABLES IN THE LADYBOWER
October 2023. Ladybower Reservoir, Peak District. Mrs RM had been getting jealous of other people’s Instagram posts of the Ladybower sinkhole, so she drove the 5 miles out of Sheffield on Saturday afternoon only to be disappointed by a mere dribble. But Ladybower still looks autumnally gorgeous. and while we were there in it seemed… Continue reading POSING TABLES IN THE LADYBOWER
FRUIT FLIES
September 2023. Brigg. 12.10 pm and our fourth pub of the day. Alan Winfield would be proud. Mrs RM had been in the Yarborough Hunt at noon, reserving us the best seat in the house, and clearly being tolerated long enough to be allowed a pint. The Yarbs, as absolutely no-one calls it, impressed me… Continue reading FRUIT FLIES
“The stars shine so bright, but they’re fading after dawn, there is magic in Kingston town”
May 2023. I intend to blog about why repeating Good Beer Guide completion isn’t on the card this year, and one of the reason stares me in the face as I write this from my parents spare bedroom out of which Baa Baa Toure and Alfie the Alpaca gaze longingly. Yes, spending three days a… Continue reading “The stars shine so bright, but they’re fading after dawn, there is magic in Kingston town”
ALL THE TABLES WITH A “RESERVED” SIGN; WHAT WILL MRS RM DO ?
April 2023. We loved this little trip to North Lincolnshire. Said no-one ever, except us. Two new GBG pubs to tick (IF I am ticking the Guide), starting with the Heneage Arms in Hainton, which you’ve never heard of, even if you live in Market Rasen. The Heneage Arms has been brought into community ownership… Continue reading ALL THE TABLES WITH A “RESERVED” SIGN; WHAT WILL MRS RM DO ?
TOP 100 PUBS – VICTORIA, LINCOLN
Have I done this one before ? Wouldn’t surprise me. Pauline nearly guessed right, I did look in the window of the Strugglers, named after the ascent from the Wetherspoons to the pubs at the top of the hill. Sadly staff illness had scuppered what look like a good trading day. Such is a publican’s… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – VICTORIA, LINCOLN
SWAFFHAM PRIOR – TWO WINDMILLS, TWO CHURCHES, ONE PUB, ONE DITCH
Nine days to go and counting until life returns. I’m positive, even if I’ve yet to find a single person on CAMRA Discourse who intends to be in a pub on the 4th. They’re all too busy staying at home, saving pubs by slagging off Wetherspoons. My latest jaunt into the modest charms of the… Continue reading SWAFFHAM PRIOR – TWO WINDMILLS, TWO CHURCHES, ONE PUB, ONE DITCH
CLOUGHIE IN SKEGNESS
An exciting report of a trip outside Cambridge to come. But first another raiding of the archives to bring you the time that Brian Clough’s Forest competed for the Skegness Paper Bag trophy (possibly), romping to a 4-0 win even without Shilton. A week later, Forest won 3-1 at Goodison, went top of the League,… Continue reading CLOUGHIE IN SKEGNESS
THE 5pm PINT OF XB MAN
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
“HE WAS ALRIGHT WHEN I LEFT HIM”
On to my final taxi duties with the BRAPA Bladder Bender from 3 November (yes, I’m that far behind) and only right I start with the Gents at the White Hart in Great Staughton. I’ve had the front seat of my Aygo forensically examined and can confirm the great man did make it, just, to… Continue reading “HE WAS ALRIGHT WHEN I LEFT HIM”
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