February 2025. Misson. Notts. Brace yourself for an actual new Beer Guide pub. I bet you’d forgotten what those were. The White Horse in Misson is a real sod for the BRAPAs of the ticking world. Open from 6, tucked away in that weird bit of North Notts below Posh Doncaster and just west of… Continue reading A MISSION TO MISSON
Tag: Landlord
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 ?
AN OLD AND PECULIER BIRTHDAY FOR MRS RM
December 2023. Colsterworth. Although not celebrated as widely and elaborately as Retired Martin Day (22 December, but you knew that), Mrs RM’s birthday two days earlier is also a day that needs to be commemorated with a blogpost. I’m not at liberty to tell you her age, but the day is sponsored in Heinz. And… Continue reading AN OLD AND PECULIER BIRTHDAY FOR MRS RM
MEANWHILE, SOMEWHERE NEAR NEWARK….
November 2023. Morton. Notts. Slow progress through the new Beer Guide this year, but without the pressure of completion it’s like being “Sherpa” Tenzing after climbing Everest*, happy to tick castle mounds in Essex for the rest of his life. I ticked my penultimate Nottinghamshire newbie just downstream of Newark, a brisk walk from Fiskerton.… Continue reading MEANWHILE, SOMEWHERE NEAR NEWARK….
THE SUN WILL ALWAYS RISE IN THE MORNING
November 2023. Addenbrooke’s. Cambridge. It took me 5 hours to get back from Oldham to Waterbeach, the trip from Sheffield in about 2:20 hours these days, and Dad had already been taken by ambulance to Addenbrooke’s awaiting assessment (alliteration alert). The antibiotics for a suspected infection kicked in quickly, and I spent the next 24… Continue reading THE SUN WILL ALWAYS RISE IN THE MORNING
THE COORS TASTES A BIT “EGGY” IN NORTHALLERTON
October 2023. Northallerton. One more post from a successful raid on the North-East/Yorkshire sections of the GBG, with what felt like an overdue return to Northallerton after a three pub tickathon back in 2018. Five (5) years ago I wrote of “a solid blue-rinse town, generally resting on its laurels by virtue of being better than… Continue reading THE COORS TASTES A BIT “EGGY” IN NORTHALLERTON
“Hey mate, watch my bag for a minute while I go and get a scratchcard”. Drug drama at Tonbridge Castle.
There are three things likely to improve your blog views. 1) Blogging from an unheralded town and slagging off its classier neighbour, 2) Queueing (especially in Spoons), 3) Tipping your beer in a plant pot. Let’s see if a reference to drugs can be added to our list. We needed to catch a bus back… Continue reading “Hey mate, watch my bag for a minute while I go and get a scratchcard”. Drug drama at Tonbridge Castle.
BASS MIRRORS IN FARRINGDON
September 2023. London. The first London trip of the new Beer Guide year is a season’s highlight, like Southampton away or a crispy beef and Singapore rice in the campervan in a town beginning with “Z”. Last year that first trip to the City didn’t happen till November, so 18th September is an early treat.… Continue reading BASS MIRRORS IN FARRINGDON
FINDING A THRILL IN ECCLESHILL
26th January 2023. I’d have stayed even longer at Bradford Industrial Museum (an hour is a LONG time for me) but the artisanal cafe was a bit disappointing (a coffee machine with paper cups) and they wasn’t a section on brewing and pubs, just that Babycham exhibit. So I walked back towards the Greedy Pig,… Continue reading FINDING A THRILL IN ECCLESHILL
A NEW BEER GUIDE PUB IN BISHOPTHORPE ? ANOTHER ONE !
A start to North Yorkshire, one of the last of the GBG counties I completed a first time (if you see what I mean) in 2018. Since then it’s plodded on with its usual dozen new entries, all in irritating places like Bishopthorpe, just south or York. BRAPA HQ is marked on the map below… Continue reading A NEW BEER GUIDE PUB IN BISHOPTHORPE ? ANOTHER ONE !
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