Brigg has punched above its weight for years. With only 5,000 souls, it still manages a good train service (on Saturdays to Cleethorpes), an FA Vase winning football club, a great Chinese takeaway and eight pubs in half a mile stroll through an attractive market town. Ideally placed for Scunthorpe too. As with Goole, a… Continue reading BRIGG GETS ITS SPOONS
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SAM SMITHS OBB SAFE IN STAMFORD
My sympathy is with all those affected by the recent and ongoing floods. The main new item on European news stations while I was abroad over Christmas was the impact on York, and neighbouring Tadcaster, with its iconic Sam Smiths brewery, seems to have been particularly affected. There have been reports about stocks of Old Brewery… Continue reading SAM SMITHS OBB SAFE IN STAMFORD
SEAL CUBS, MICRO PUBS
Saturday was wet and blustery, a great day to go to Cleethorpes and count baby seals (c. 2,000 of them). Donna Nook is an area of salt marshes, used by the RAF for bombing practice and, more secretly, by grey seals for breeding. It’s all very cute, though whether it was worth a nearly six hour… Continue reading SEAL CUBS, MICRO PUBS
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