September 2023. Longparish. I realise some of you have been unable to sleep since news of the loss of my GBG first broke last Thursday on our way to the End of the Road. Thankfully, someone invented mobile phones and Mrs RM contacted the Plough who confirmed that a middle-aged man had, indeed, stupidly left… Continue reading THE DRAMATIC RECOVERY OF RETIRED MARTIN’S GBG IN LONGPARISH
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BEER GUIDE DISASTER IN LONGPARISH
August 2023. Somewhere near Andover. It’s End of the Road day. The campervan is packed with tents and chairs and salami; we’re off to see weird folkies in a field near Salisbury for 4 days. We drive three and a half hours straight (aren’t they’re rules on this ?) and stop for lunch at the… Continue reading BEER GUIDE DISASTER IN LONGPARISH
RICHIE BENAUD
Someone is bound to complain that isn’t Richie Benaud, aren’t they ? But Richie IS cricket, if you ask me (you didn’t), and he’s celebrated in The Cricketers* in Longparish, another of those effortlessly gorgeous Test Valley pubs that aren’t half as posh as you expect. Longparish is, coincidentally, a long parish, with lots of… Continue reading RICHIE BENAUD
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