A short post, but one purpose of this blog is to allow people to search Google and find SOMETHING on unsung pubs like the Lord Nelson in Appleton Wiske. Where ? Here… Blimey that’s a lot of not much between Darlo and Northallerton and the former POTY in Hudswell. I’m closing in on completing North… Continue reading APPLETON WISKE IS MAGIC
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IPA THROUGH A STRAW IN “PROPER” HULL
On the journey up to Hull I was listening to the new Tracey Thorn album on repeat. Despite having proper song structures and intelligible lyrics, it’s my record of the month (a new and shortlived feature, no doubt), with the sort of confessional detail normally only seen on a BRAPA trip to Runcorn. Tracey,… Continue reading IPA THROUGH A STRAW IN “PROPER” HULL
LORD NELSON, COPENHAGEN
Having just told the estimable Scott that Dublin is more pubby than Copenhagen, here’s a series of reports on bars that were as good as anywhere, even if they lacked old blokes and falling over drunks. The Lord Nelson is tucked just off the main shopping streets between the Tivoli and Nyhavn, but has the… Continue reading LORD NELSON, COPENHAGEN
SOUTHWOLD – ALWAYS CHANGING, ALWAYS THE SAME
There’s a lot to be said for and against sisters, I’m sure, but having one who invites you down to her holiday cottage in Falmouth and Southwold in successive years is hard to beat. It doesn’t make up for what she did to my Action Man in 1973, mind. Sis had used her Birthday presents to pay… Continue reading SOUTHWOLD – ALWAYS CHANGING, ALWAYS THE SAME
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