The travel needed for new GBG ticks continues to rise. This weekend we’re taking the campervan into Kent (two hours) for three Thanet ticks (guess what those are), then another two hours westward into Worcestershire, where avoiding the Cheltenham Festival crowd is the priority. Occasionally you need to stay closer to home. Which means the occasional foray… Continue reading GRAVITY DISPENSE, BABY LAMBS & PIPERS CRISPS IN CONINGTON
Tag: Cambridgeshire
THE ALETASTER, ST. NEOTS
Type micropubs into Amazon and two titles pop up; The first of those looks like an extended blogpost on the early flowering of the “Scene” in Herne, Hartlepool and Newark. If I invest the 99p I’ll let you know. The second (published 31 March) is a weightier looking volume (220 pages) apparently packed with anecdotes… Continue reading THE ALETASTER, ST. NEOTS
HADDENHAM – LOOK SHARP !
I’m trying to get round all of Cambridgeshire’s 70 Good Beer Guide pubs this year, to see for myself the craft invasion that certain commentators have heralded recently. Already I’ve had terrific beer and cheer in March and St Neots, though finding takers for a Thursday night crawl in Ramsey has proved an effort. Haddenham is… Continue reading HADDENHAM – LOOK SHARP !
FAMILY BREWERS AT A PROPER BEER FEST
Mrs RM and I will be setting off for Manchester on Friday, with a To Do list that includes Bundobust, the Stretford Sip Club and the Manchester Beer Fest. No doubt Mrs RM will spend a third of the trip looking in estate agents and wool shops. Or for courgettes. On a slightly smaller scale… Continue reading FAMILY BREWERS AT A PROPER BEER FEST
LODE STAR ?
Walking options from our South Cambridgeshire villages aren’t the world’s best. Occasionally, however, some arcane law or other requires me to stay at home and I have to walk locally. Yesterday afternoon Mrs RM and I took a stroll round the site of the forthcoming Cambridge North station, which backs on to the sewerage works. I… Continue reading LODE STAR ?
MILTON’S **** UP IN A BREWERY
“Did you enjoy your night staying in your own village” – “Yes” “And are you still going to slag my Facebook friends off” – “Yes” Mrs RM knows me too well. Some friends in Waterbeach had wanted to visit our own Milton Brewery* for a while, but needed a decent group size (25) to make… Continue reading MILTON’S **** UP IN A BREWERY
WATERBEACH SUN’S BEER FESTIVAL
It’s a rare day I stay at home, but I promised Mrs RM I’d go with her to our local pub’s Beer Festival, just to be unusually sociable. The Sun is the drinkers pub in a village of about 5,000, recently reduced by the closure of the RAF base. It’s the first pub I went… Continue reading WATERBEACH SUN’S BEER FESTIVAL
WATER BUFFALO AND DOOM BAR
As promised I’ve been spending the occasional day locally, visiting some of the “wonderful” (flat) Cambridgeshire countryside. For context, the AA Guide of 1001 Walks in Britain features one walk in Cambridgeshire, and that’s at Wicken Fen. Mrs RM and I found a ten mile circular between Snailwell and Fordham, where you’ll find quite a… Continue reading WATER BUFFALO AND DOOM BAR
ROYAL STANDARD REVIVED
Cambridge got one of it’s closed pubs back today as the Royal Standard on Mill Road was reopened, and a fine thing it looks too. The Standard was never one of the city’s great pubs when in Pubmaster hands, but in an area of East Cambridge that had lost several locals in recent times (Duke… Continue reading ROYAL STANDARD REVIVED
THE REINDEER, SAXON STREET – WORTH THE WAIT
One of Cambridgeshire’s few new entries in the just issued Good Beer Guide is a real curiosity. The Reindeer in Saxon Street is the only pub in a tiny village a few miles south of Newmarket, with very little population catchment. It was taken on in 2013 by a renowned figure in the world of… Continue reading THE REINDEER, SAXON STREET – WORTH THE WAIT
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