February 2023. I’m not one for customs, apart from the famous ones associated with my own birthday (22 December, make a note), but I quite fancy turning up in Haxey, North Lincs to watch the giant scrum known as the Haxey Hood. It’s the most famous thing about the “capital of the Isle of Axholme”,… Continue reading A RARE MOMENT OF PEACE IN HAXEY
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BARKING, BORROWED PLATES AND BOWNESS-ON-SOLWAY
I’d always wanted to go to Bowness-on-Solway, but somehow it had avoided me. Its loss, I guess. The Hadrian’s Wall walk starts here, rather than Carlisle, so I feel we cheated last year. I was quite keen to walk a bit now, but Mrs RM declared it “much too cold*, bitter, ugh“, and since she… Continue reading BARKING, BORROWED PLATES AND BOWNESS-ON-SOLWAY
WAITING FOR KIRKBY LONSDALE TO OPEN
The motto of Sir James Paget, Yarmouth’s most famous son, was “Work itself is a pleasure“, and there is, of course, no more pleasurable work than ticking the GBG and writing about it. Arriving home on Wednesday afternoon after a 4:30 drive from the coast (blame it on Sutton Bridge) I barely had time to… Continue reading WAITING FOR KIRKBY LONSDALE TO OPEN
SCENES FROM A GREAT YARMOUTH TOWN PUB
Probably not the inspiration for Billy Joel’s enduring classic, one of Mrs RM’s favourites, and an odd choice from the Joel canon to hear in Great Yarmouth’s lesser known King’s Arms. It’s nearly always Uptown Girl or that one about old people having all the excitement (which is still the case). Having finished the Guide… Continue reading SCENES FROM A GREAT YARMOUTH TOWN PUB
LIVER AND ONIONS
It was 6pm now, on a Saturday, and we suddenly began to wonder if we’d better eat. I’d booked a £30 Travelodge room at Exeter services next to the Rugby Club, and didn’t fancy diverting into the city centre looking for a free parking place next to a curry house. Ah, that’ll do. Don’t see… Continue reading LIVER AND ONIONS
ONLY 6Xs IN FULHAM
Greetings from Romania, better than you could ever imagine. More posts from West London though, starting with a rare trip to Fulham. We seem to have lost the Tim Taylors pub from Putney, but gained a Wadworths house. How I wish I could get a ticket for City’s game at Fulham, but that’s the downside… Continue reading ONLY 6Xs IN FULHAM
ANGELS IN THE (ROTHERFIELD) ARCHITECTURE
Much of north Sussex looks like my in-laws home in the Wells; green, prosperous, as cluttered as an antiques dealer, but with faded charm. A place they put the tea in before the milk*. Attractive towns and villages like Crowborough and weatherboarded Rotherfield are really suffering from the effects of traffic these days. They’ll get their… Continue reading ANGELS IN THE (ROTHERFIELD) ARCHITECTURE
SOUTH ZEAL – DEVON’S VALLEY OF BEER
I’ve now driven the A30 enough times en route to Falmouth to start to be able to chunk it into manageable bites, and its a pleasant journey apart from Bodmin’s roadworks. If I run out of things to write I’ll tell you about the beer desert that is Launceston. Just before Okehampton is a glorious range… Continue reading SOUTH ZEAL – DEVON’S VALLEY OF BEER
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