April 2024. Belper. A free afternoon in Sheffield. Zero chance of a new GBG tick; let’s have some nostalgia. I’ve been promising you I’d revisit the Dead Poets since I started this blog, and a hop and a skip via Derby and it’s 13:45 and I’m about to “alight” (weird word, alight) at Belper Station… Continue reading A BELPER BASS BUS BURST
Tag: Cross Keys
“Excuse him, he’s from The North”. SUNDAY NIGHT IN THE CROSS KEYS, HARPENDEN
April 2024. Harpenden. Unless Borehamwood has come up in the world since my last visit (2001) I can safely say Harpenden is the poshest town in Hertfordshire. And that’s despite a less than glamorous underpass at the station. The number of bistros and Thai restaurants is a good indicator of prosperity, and although the pubs… Continue reading “Excuse him, he’s from The North”. SUNDAY NIGHT IN THE CROSS KEYS, HARPENDEN
A DASH TO HAPPY HOUR IN CHEADLE HULME
December 2023. Cheadle Hulme. The 17:17 (delayed) was the slow boat back to Stockport, and presented the tantalising prospect of a second tick of the day, and let me tell young BRAPA that there will come a time when two (2) ticks is seen as riches indeed. A bit of a dull slog from Cheadle… Continue reading A DASH TO HAPPY HOUR IN CHEADLE HULME
FOR WHAT IS CHATTERIS ?
15th December 2022. We arrived back in Waterbeach to find the “worst snow since 1982”, but at least it hadn’t closed Chung Hwa. Mrs RM helped me conquer the final new Cambridgeshire entry for GBG23, an overdue return to Chatteris, a town immortalised on Half Man Half Biscuit’s best seller. I can’t believe I hadn’t… Continue reading FOR WHAT IS CHATTERIS ?
BEVERLEY, BUSY & BEWILDERED
East Yorkshire is always a great section of the Beer Guide to complete, and now I’m within a “short” train journey of some of the most GBG friendly towns on Humberside, or East Yorkshire as it’s controversially known. As luck would have it, the trip to Beverley allows me to stop off twice on the… Continue reading BEVERLEY, BUSY & BEWILDERED
ROOTING FOR WROOT
I’ve no idea why you’re reading this when you should be doing the BRAPA Quiz. Perhaps I’ll do a highbrow version of Si’s Quiz for my own 5th anniversary, and hide pub reference in Wesley hymns. You can never have enough Wesley on this blog. I sense this wasn’t exactly a ringing endorsement of Wroot… Continue reading ROOTING FOR WROOT
THE SUN GOES DOWN (ON THE A689) (LIVING IT UP)
One of the most contentious issues in the pub blogging world is what makes the optimal music selection in a Proper Pub. This is very different from what constitutes good music; I don’t expect to hear Car Seat Headrest or Bo Ningen in a Sam Smiths pub, or Bruckner’s Eighth in a Brewer’s Fayre. I… Continue reading THE SUN GOES DOWN (ON THE A689) (LIVING IT UP)
IPA THROUGH A STRAW IN “PROPER” HULL
On the journey up to Hull I was listening to the new Tracey Thorn album on repeat. Despite having proper song structures and intelligible lyrics, it’s my record of the month (a new and shortlived feature, no doubt), with the sort of confessional detail normally only seen on a BRAPA trip to Runcorn. Tracey,… Continue reading IPA THROUGH A STRAW IN “PROPER” HULL
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