PORK PIE, STILTON, BASS – MELTON MOWBRAY MARVELS

7th March 2023. Closing in on completion of Leicestershire’s GBG entries, a very minor pleasure, but the penultimate tick takes me to magical Melton Mowbray on market morning, which sounds an alliterative dream. All change in Melton’s GBG entries, what happened to the brewery in the market and the bowls club ? And what have… Continue reading PORK PIE, STILTON, BASS – MELTON MOWBRAY MARVELS

HOW TO BRIBE A PUB TICKER TO GIVE YOU A GOOD REVIEW

Beer Twitter is a very serious business full or arguments about authenticity, oppressive capitalism and whether Doom Bar is the bestest beer. Stay well clear of Beer Twitter. Pub Twitter is fun and uncontroversial, unless you get into county boundaries or Baps v Barms. In Darlington, my second GBG tick for the year was about… Continue reading HOW TO BRIBE A PUB TICKER TO GIVE YOU A GOOD REVIEW

HALF MOON RISING (INTO THE EAST YORKS SECTION OF THE GBG)

Reader Etu will be thrilled to know that the Aygo passed its MOT (care of We MOT Anything, of Hillsborough), and stands on the brink of 200,000 miles (in 6 years, one of which was a pandemic(. To celebrate, we set off on our first campervan of August to finish the East Yorkshire section of… Continue reading HALF MOON RISING (INTO THE EAST YORKS SECTION OF THE GBG)

“WARNING: This is a Proper Pub”

Well, we’ll be the judge of that, won’t we ? First stop in Sussex (West) is that intriguing breed, the community-owned pub. Balcombe’s Half Moon could be one of those all-out gastros that guarantee gentkefolk a supply of £7.95 sandwiches, or one of the drinking clubs where middle-class pashmina wearers block the bar and the… Continue reading “WARNING: This is a Proper Pub”

THE GRAND UNION CANAL – THE AYLESBURY ARM

I used to dread trips into the Chilterns to see my Grandparents as a child. If only I’d been able to visit the pubs along the Grand Union as an 11-year old for pre-emptive ticks, I’m sure I’d have had more fun than the trips to Ashridge Monument or Dunstable Co-op for Golden Nuggets. Peter Allen’s… Continue reading THE GRAND UNION CANAL – THE AYLESBURY ARM