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
Tag: Half Moon
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)
DOING IT IN HALVES
Hitchin John is always great company, and the only thing I can say against him is that he lives in Hitchin, which never has new GBG entries. He should move to Stockton-on-Tees and we could meet up every month. Still, despite the thrill of the tick it’s always nice to pop back and do a… Continue reading DOING IT IN HALVES
THE HALF MOON – FIGHTING BACK
I’m sorry this post pops out long after the lovely Ali has brought her cover versions of Fairport Convention classics to the Half Moon. You can still catch Dean Friedman, though. Pub Number 8 was a lung-busting five minutes out of town, and only inserted in the itnerary at my insistence. It was the Pub… Continue reading THE HALF MOON – FIGHTING BACK
“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”
FROM EASINGTON TO SUNDERLAND
As I’m sure I’ve said before, it’s not that far to Yorkshire from Cambridge. You can go county-to-county in 70 minutes, faster when they get round to bulldozing Elkesley. If there’s anyone reading this in the beer desert of Elkesley I apologise; but 20 years of slowing to 50mph in order to “admire” your village… Continue reading FROM EASINGTON TO SUNDERLAND
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
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