Many of you have express disappointment, nay, anger, at the lack of Maidenhead on this blog recently. No doubt they won’t be happy that I try to satisfy you with Binfield, either. But it’s only 5 miles south of the Honey Pot and as close as Mrs RM or I dare go. And the Stag… Continue reading AND A NIGHT OUT IN SWINDON
Tag: Doom Bar
AN UN-INN-SPIRED CHOICE ?
One of the odd dilemmas of life in Sheffield is that the pubs and scenery is so good that I have to devote some time to the Ticknalls and Tingleys and Thorpe Hesleys rather than the ticks I need in Wales (the actual one, not the one near Worksop). So on Sunday (ages ago now)… Continue reading AN UN-INN-SPIRED CHOICE ?
DEATH, DOOM AND DARLO
Day 2 of the Great Northern Campervan Crawl a fortnight ago, and the first of Mrs RM’s stints working in a pub. Due to some big French IT project (French : “Le IT project”) she’d agreed to work a week of mornings that week, telling Claudes and Jean-Pauls to turn it on and off again… Continue reading DEATH, DOOM AND DARLO
“The Doom Bar has replaced the Bass”
Blimey ! More pictures of beer as my blog header, what’s going wrong. Back to Rushcliffe (aka Kenneth Clarke country) for a second tick. I’m really speeding up now. East Leake is neighbours with Gotham, Zouch, Bunny, Sutton “Chris” Bonnington and the ultra-mysterious West Leake. Sadly, it was raining intermittently, despite my presence, and the… Continue reading “The Doom Bar has replaced the Bass”
A DOZEN DOOM BAR DAZZLERS
“There’s nowt such thing as bad beer, it’s just they that keep it that spoil it” – Brad, The Furnace I know you doubt me, but Brad’s maxim is never truer than with our nation’s favourite beer (sorry, Donnington BB). I probably drink half a dozen pints a year, mainly in Spoons. I’ve never taken a… Continue reading A DOZEN DOOM BAR DAZZLERS
ROYDON RUMBLES INTO THE GBG
Blimey. A month after I contemplated a first visit to Hoddesdon for the first time in a quarter century (football rather than pubs), the Beer Guide sends me there. Well, Roydon, which is on the edge, in some senses. Some lovely villages between the “challenging” towns of Hoddy and Harlow, with Roydon having the bonus… Continue reading ROYDON RUMBLES INTO THE GBG
BECAUSE YOU CAN’T GO TO CORNWALL AND NOT DRINK DOOM BAR
Yes, just like visiting the Cotswolds and NOT slagging off Donnington BB, or staying in Burton and NOT downing a gallon of Carling, you MUST sample Doom Bar in its spiritual home. So I did, leaving Mrs RM to her crochet or whatever women do when left to their own devices. Only 14 minutes to… Continue reading BECAUSE YOU CAN’T GO TO CORNWALL AND NOT DRINK DOOM BAR
HOOK, LINE AND CITRA
The Pub Bloggers Code states “Thou Shalt Not Visit A Fellow Blogger’s Home Town Without Buying Him A Doom Bar“. That rule was subsequently and contentiously amended to exclude Tonbridge. Arguably Heathrow Terminal 5 is the home of the Southworth clan, and if they’d really wanted to be in the UK we’d have met them… Continue reading HOOK, LINE AND CITRA
SIDMOUTH – CONS, BUT MOSTLY PROS
I think this might be in my Top 5 titles, you know. Not on a par with the Rye one, but you lot never got that one. What’s your favourite ? I’d never been to Sidmouth, as Charlene (not that Charlene) sang on Motown in 1982. Good grief, what a coastline. It was heaving, almost… Continue reading SIDMOUTH – CONS, BUT MOSTLY PROS
GIVE US 50% OFF DOOM BAR NOW, RISHI
I returned home from Cornwall to the loving embrace of my family 4 days of washing, cleaning and laundry. Sunday off, then back to the hard yards of saving pubs and creating a huge tax burden for my children. Scarily, a dozen times for me, including the numerous coffees in Spoons. Yes, it’s half price… Continue reading GIVE US 50% OFF DOOM BAR NOW, RISHI
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