SUPERIOR TOILET SECURITY IN THE SOMERSET LEVELS

NO. I still haven’t got the new Good Beer Guide. And NO, I therefore don’t know whether I’ll attempt to repeat the feat in 2022-23. Back to mid-August, or as the Scots call it, “Winter”. After a few days “off” in Sheffield, it was back to work completing the Good Beer Guide. Yes, just Somerset… Continue reading SUPERIOR TOILET SECURITY IN THE SOMERSET LEVELS

THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN (17) – GBG TICKING IN STORNOWAY

More almost up-to-date blogging from the Scottish Highlands as the Countdown to GBG Completion wobbles on. This post comes from the front seat of a campervan parked in the car park of the Applecross, waiting for noon opening while Mrs RM fixed Spanish IT issues. From the Uists we caught a ferry to Harris, which… Continue reading THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN (17) – GBG TICKING IN STORNOWAY

“A BETTER CLASS OF INSULT” IN THE EDEN VALLEY

The Cumbrian Completion Caper moved on from Great Asby up the Eden Valley towards an overnight campervan stop in Penrith. But not before confirming that the White Horse in Kings Meaburn is closed (despite what the GBG app tells you) and being gutted. Whether it will rise again in time to require my visit before… Continue reading “A BETTER CLASS OF INSULT” IN THE EDEN VALLEY

ANNIE LENNOX FOLLOWS ME TO NEWTON STEWART

Just before the pandemic struck last March I made my first real incursion into Galloway, sadly unable to make logistical arrangements to tick Newton Stewart, the Chatteris of the North. Continuing the Wicker Man theme, that classic 1973 advert for the Scottish hospitality trade had its premier in Newton Stewart, possibly here; But I can’t… Continue reading ANNIE LENNOX FOLLOWS ME TO NEWTON STEWART

THROUGH THE KEYHOLE – THE CROWN, BRIGHTSIDE

More for fans of closed railway stations, as Wiki tells me; “Despite the opening of Meadowhall Interchange in 1990, Brightside station remained open until 1995. A limited service had continued in its last three years and the station closed without fanfare with a poster announcing that all remaining trains could be caught at Meadowhall. Not… Continue reading THROUGH THE KEYHOLE – THE CROWN, BRIGHTSIDE