April 2024. Harpenden. We left bucolic boring Bucks and headed into boring bucolic Beds via Woe-burn, and thence onto the Dunstable Northern Bypass, which probably deserves a blog of its own. I’d have taken a night in the campervan at Leighton Buzzard, but the prospect of an hour’s walk back from town to Heath &… Continue reading A CRAFT HUNT IN HARPENDEN
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NEW HAW ON SUNDAY
January 2024. New Haw. Addlestone. From Buckingham we headed round the M25 to the in-laws, a decent journey enlivened by a quick stop in that odd area of scruffy Surrey below Heathrow, You might not think it’s scruffy when a 2 bed Maisonette in Addlestone or Byfleet costs £2.8 million, but there’s not much sign… Continue reading NEW HAW ON SUNDAY
BLACK EYE FRIDAY IN SOUTH CAVE – VOLTAROL AND DOOM BAR UNDER THE BODDIES SIGN
Retired Martin Day. South Cave. Before I give you your Christmas Day “Half A Dozen Pubs” (Cheshire !), another slice of pub life from Retired Martin Day in our South Cave night out. I’d considered ticking the Bear via Brough station on the way back from Hull last week, indeed I had a title in… Continue reading BLACK EYE FRIDAY IN SOUTH CAVE – VOLTAROL AND DOOM BAR UNDER THE BODDIES SIGN
HAPPY HOLIDAYS IN HOLBEACH
December 2023. Holbeach. Oh bless you, GBG24, engineering a long awaited return to Holbeach, the unknown quantity of the Fens. Just look at those famous faces associated with the town. Yes Geoff Capes of the Police fame. A town full of history. I spent my 33rd birthday at a fancy dining pub just up the… Continue reading HAPPY HOLIDAYS IN HOLBEACH
THE 40th BIRTHDAY PARTY IN THE FOX
October 2023. Wem. Shropshire. Pub two on our pub crawl “curated pub appreciation in Northern Salop tour“. 10 minutes back into Wem past the old brewery and a sharp left to the Fox Inn, just past the imposing offices of E. Maund & Sons (Garage). I always find it reassuring when a stop on a… Continue reading THE 40th BIRTHDAY PARTY IN THE FOX
ODDS ON DOOM BAR AS NEXT CHAMPION BEER OF BRITAIN CUT TO 5,000/1 FOLLOWING MY NBSS 3.5 HALF IN SHEFFIELD
August 2023. Sheffield. I woke up this morning in a cold sweat. Mrs RM has been taking pictures of our garden, no doubt to attempt to shame me into doing something about it. What, I know not what. After the frantic ticking of last August, we had allocated this summer for finally exploring the bits… Continue reading ODDS ON DOOM BAR AS NEXT CHAMPION BEER OF BRITAIN CUT TO 5,000/1 FOLLOWING MY NBSS 3.5 HALF IN SHEFFIELD
DOOMED IN CROMER
July 2023. Cromer. Although I’m (definitely) not completing GBG this year the sight of incomplete counties still distresses me as much as it did a decade ago, particularly when there’s just one (1) left to do. In Norfolk, that loner was the White Horse. I did my weekly Facebook check on opening hours and saw… Continue reading DOOMED IN CROMER
A VINTAGE DOOM BAR IN LOXLEY
July 2023. Loxley, Sheffield. Having established that the Robin Hood (RIP) in Little Matlock was, indeed, the furthest point of my 2007 mega Sheffield crawl, I reckoned I ought to find a new pub to write about to justify splitting the trip into two posts. I guess the market for pictures on flowers (I think… Continue reading A VINTAGE DOOM BAR IN LOXLEY
“Oh grief this Doom Bar is brilliant”
June 2023. Rochester. And it was all going so well. A nice riverside walk from Strood, a late morning glass of murk in a pub that might get in the GBG when the CAMRAs drop the “Real” from the name, a triumphant pint of BBB in a backstreet survivor, and some culture in the cathedral.… Continue reading “Oh grief this Doom Bar is brilliant”
REHABILITATING GRAYS
May 2023. Thee only way to finish the eastern part of the GBG is Essex. BRAPA’s adventures in getting from King’s Cross to Thurrock on a rail replacement bus and back in time for an unwise ESB at the Parcel Yard would make classic reality TV. Excitingly, one of my new Essex ticks is in… Continue reading REHABILITATING GRAYS
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