October 2025. Toddington. A slightly different route from north to south last week, with an ultra-rare visit to bucolic Bedfordshire. Toddington (nice village sign) is your gateway to the mysteries of Central Beds, including the birthplace of my Mum and last home of Bob Monkhouse. And now there’s a modest pub walk from the M1… Continue reading TODDINGTON PUTS THE BANNERS OUT
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A PROPER JOB
Visiting pubs on a Thursday lunchtime in one of the world’s great cities, that’s a Proper Job. Though of course, not as commendable a job as the folk leading the Extinction Rebellion outside the Abbey. Fear not, pubs are safe with Stafford Paul. Paul not only had the itinerary, he also had the annotated map. … Continue reading A PROPER JOB
ISLEHAM RESISTS THE HUMOROUS GUEST BEER
Now Mrs RM is working in Melrose (her blog posts to follow, no doubt), I’m only allowed a couple of nights away from home a week. So occasional days have to be spent in and around Cambridge ferrying old folks (not a euphemism) about to Tesco and the Day Centre, and reminiscing about “The… Continue reading ISLEHAM RESISTS THE HUMOROUS GUEST BEER
MARCH ! MARCH !! MARCH !!!
I’ve always wanted to use that headline, the name of a pointless walk through nothingness to Cambridge. Reading the 35 year history of the walk tells you quite a bit about Fenland pubs. Far from walking, on Thursday night my sister and I took two rattling trains to March via Ely, while cousin Keith came in … Continue reading MARCH ! MARCH !! MARCH !!!
HALSTEAD’S BEER HEROES
I was reading the Morning Advertiser and noticed the finalists in the Great British Pub Best Beer Awards; Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd, South Wales Purecraft Bar & Kitchen, Birmingham The Craft Beer Co, Leather Lane, Clerkenwell, Central London The Griffin, Halstead, Essex The Grove, Huddersfield The Sheffield Tap, Sheffield Hard to argue with the five… Continue reading HALSTEAD’S BEER HEROES
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