February 2024. Cambridge. Pub number 4 (of 2) on a dreich night in Cambridge just off the normal King Street run. The Alexandra is, along with the Geldart, a more recent of the city’s GBG perennials, one of the best Greene King pubs in the area, though the beer range gives none of that heritage… Continue reading CELLAR TEMPERATURE IN ALEX
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BLUE MOON, AND AN EXPRESSION OF THE PROBLEM OF INFINITE REGRESS
February 2024. Cambridge. OK, “a couple” in Cambridge was about to turn into four, but it was Will’s fault, and besides I don’t “do” Cambridge enough. Four very different pubs in suburban Cambridge in half a mile on a lovely evening amidst the council housing and foliage and suspicious looking tape shops closed since I… Continue reading BLUE MOON, AND AN EXPRESSION OF THE PROBLEM OF INFINITE REGRESS
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
“Meet you at the Geldart”
February 2024. Cambridge. Unwisely, but I’m not sure on whose part, I agreed to meet Will in Cambridge “just for a couple”. How did I/he not learn our lesson from Leeds ? This is Will’s future exhibit in the Museum of Pubbing. Ooh, quite a lot there, Will. We said we’d meet at 5 just… Continue reading “Meet you at the Geldart”
MORE CAMBRIDGE HERITAGE PUBS
February 2024. Cambridge. As you’ll know I’m a creature of habit, and on my first Cambridge history quiz trail I was keen to pick a dull, predictable, heritage pub to celebrate completion of pages 1 and 2 of my book (recommended for children age 8-12). The Eagle and Bath House were unpleasantly packed, so they can… Continue reading MORE CAMBRIDGE HERITAGE PUBS
LOOKING FOR CLUES IN TOURIST CAMBRIDGE
February 2024. Cambridge. On the move, so short posts for a while. Mum and Dad tend to have a post-lunch snooze before The Chase, the highlight of the day, which is when I nip out for the 15,000-20,000 steps I need or else I’ll seize up completely. Mrs RM bought me a quiz trail of… Continue reading LOOKING FOR CLUES IN TOURIST CAMBRIDGE
THE SENIOR’S MENU IN SOHAM
February 2024. Soham. My main “care” duty back in Waterbeach is helping Dad escape from the confines of four walls to explore the Fen Edge and give Mum a few hours to herself. On Tuesday we got to do a pub lunch in a pre-emptive tick as well. Not at the unexpectedly “closed Tuesday” Five… Continue reading THE SENIOR’S MENU IN SOHAM
BRIGHTER DAYS, DARKER BEERS
January 2024. Waterbeach. I spent Monday to Friday down with my parents, occasionally getting Dad out of the house as the weather gradually improves. It won’t be long before it’s summer and I can take him to pub gardens again. In the meantime, I was going slightly mad sitting in a living room heated to… Continue reading BRIGHTER DAYS, DARKER BEERS
MAMMON
January 2024. Cambridge. I’d arrived in Cambridge at 5pm, and aimed to have left by 6. M um locks the door at 7, to keep out the Waterbeach undesirables. Mum had given me a short shopping list for the Sainsbury’s by the station (bananas and mushrooms), but with 12 minutes spare after two rapid pints… Continue reading MAMMON
CAMBRIDGE GETS ITS BASS BACK
January 2024. Cambridge. Well, I didn’t believe Dan; In fact, I hadn’t seen Draught Bass in Cambridge this century, since a late ’90s Greene King dalliance with exotic guest beers saw it in The Zebra opposite the Cambridge Evening News offices. Dan wasn’t born when the Zebra was killed off. And now here it was,… Continue reading CAMBRIDGE GETS ITS BASS BACK
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