Just heading back from our annual mud and Americana/punk/weird stuff festival in Dorset. Day 2 saw long queues at the Craft bar as the internet went on strike and the folk dispensing Lost & Grounded and Beak weren’t allowed to take cash. If you thought the Sleaford Mods were angry you’ve never seen Mrs RM… Continue reading “Cash is our preferred method of payment”
Tag: Godalming
Commandeering the jukebox in the 3 Lions, Godalming
Today’s post comes to you courtesy of the Museum, a (now) Butcombe pub in Cranborne Chase. Look very closely at the little jars below; they’ll become relevant when I get to my reports from End of the Road. The Museum one of the poshest pubs ever to grace the GBG. My next pub isn’t posh,… Continue reading Commandeering the jukebox in the 3 Lions, Godalming
DRUNKEN BILLIARD PLAYERS OF GODALMING STEAL MY DUPPY RUM
August 2023. Godalming. We’d paid zero (0) pounds to camp in Godalming and we were going to get our money’s worth. Leaving the bustling Star to the drunk billiards women we stopped to admire the puffer fish, and the high street, and then ignored the interesting looking pre-emptives in favour of the Spoons. Long an… Continue reading DRUNKEN BILLIARD PLAYERS OF GODALMING STEAL MY DUPPY RUM
THE STAR OF GODALMING
August 2023. Godalming. You don’t make Mrs RM walk two miles from a parked campervan, to the very end of the High Street, and then retire for the night after one pub, not when you can’t get anywhere else for another new tick (I think my closest pub I still “needed” was in Uxbridge). Not… Continue reading THE STAR OF GODALMING
YOUNGS, NEVER ORDINARY IN THE RICHMOND ARMS, GODALMING
August 2023. Godalming. You can learn a lot by looking at a Retired Martin Ordnance Survey extract. Godalming looks particularly alluring, doesn’t it ? Hills, National Trust river navigations, Lammas Lands, a Ladygarden and the birthplace (at Charterhouse school) of Genesis. OK, scrub that last bit. Never did get Genesis, something to do with poorly… Continue reading YOUNGS, NEVER ORDINARY IN THE RICHMOND ARMS, GODALMING
GODALMING THE HARD WAY
August 2023. Godalming. On this date a year ago Mrs RM and I drove 268 miles (apparently) to crack the back of the Highlands and bring Beer Guide completion within reach. I still have nightmares about pubs being closed that week. The trip to finish Surrey was less demanding, and had the added advantage of… Continue reading GODALMING THE HARD WAY
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