July 2025. Gurnett. Macclesfield. “Gurnett ? Never heard of it“. Neither had I before the new GBG introduced Ye Olde King’s Head to the world. I’d fancied coming here on the Old Codgers Macclesfield Meander last month, with it just a mile south along the canal, but the company from the Two Mudge(i)es and Frome… Continue reading TICKING ON THE MACCLESFIELD CANAL
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IS LANDLORD THE MOST UBIQUITOUS PINT IN GBG PUBS NOW ?
January 2024. Buckingham. Buckingham doesn’t have a railway station, so short of walking to Oxfordshire we were restricted to the town centre for the rest of our evening entertainment (if you can call observing a bloke necking two pints of Lucky Saint entertainment). The What Pub menu is short. even more so now us real… Continue reading IS LANDLORD THE MOST UBIQUITOUS PINT IN GBG PUBS NOW ?
GUNNERSIDE GETS ITS PUB BACK
August 2023. Gunnerside. One of Mum and Dad’s favoured TV programmes is “Our Yorkshire Farm”, a series where two folk just south of the Tan Hill Inn attempt to repopulate the Yorkshire Dales to provide custom for their local pub. Mum was amazed to hear we’d driven past the Owen family farm days earlier and… Continue reading GUNNERSIDE GETS ITS PUB BACK
PARTY TIME IN LEYBURN
The Spreadsheet issue wore me out, so I’ve got to crack on with the travel posts now, and remind you where we’d got to on the Great Northern Campervan Tickathon a fortnight ago. Stop H takes us to Leyburn, where Mrs RM expertly parks up at a space in the market place offering 30 minutes… Continue reading PARTY TIME IN LEYBURN
LESSONS IN WHAT’S SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE, IN WAREHAM
If you’re not drinking yourself, one of the great pleasures in life is taking a progressively more drunken human being round pubs, while you observe their behaviour for your own voyeuristic blog. Normally that means BRAPA, but on Saturday I had the joy of watching Mrs RM drink strong beer in GBG entries. The film… Continue reading LESSONS IN WHAT’S SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE, IN WAREHAM
BUTTER TUBS-THUMPING
First off, eagle-eyed readers (probably Joe the Cocker) may have noticed the embryonic Blog Map on the front of this blog. Many thanks to IT wizz James for the excellent web design work, Over the next few weeks I’ll link my blog posts to locations on the maap so you can navigate the map and… Continue reading BUTTER TUBS-THUMPING
A FAREWELL TO KINGS (HEAD, WILBURTON)
March 2020 Day 3 of The Distancing. As part of my public service responsibility I’ve created a hand-washing guide you can use to the accompaniment of Julia Jacklin‘s paean to avoiding bodily contact. Go to https://washyourlyrics.com/ if you’d rather wash to “Aqualung” or “God Save The Queen” or “Subterranean Homesick Blues“. The blog is just… Continue reading A FAREWELL TO KINGS (HEAD, WILBURTON)
A PEMBROKE PIG-OUT
I know how you love my weird music and Chinese takeaway tips, but here’s a great chippy for next time you’re lost near Milford Haven. £3.20 Anytime Day Return from the Docks to (old) Pembroke. I’m not wasting £3.20 when it’s only a 44 minute walk and you get views like this on the hill.… Continue reading A PEMBROKE PIG-OUT
DESPERADOS
And so begins a run of 22 pubs in Wales, on a seventh day of Welsh pubbing in 2019. What a wonderful country. What (largely) woeful cask beer. I was tempted to lump this lot together, but I know how quickly your patience runs thin when I go over 400 words. And you need to… Continue reading DESPERADOS
A RUDGWICK PICK
If these posts seem a bit rushed it’s because they’re being compiled in between selling ladies undergarments at the local Salvation Army sale. The ticks are limited but the blog potential is high. Onto Rudgwick, my last Guide pub for the year in brutally inconsistent West Sussex, which really ought to merge with its eastern… Continue reading A RUDGWICK PICK
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