November 2025. Brighton. A few new GBG entries along the Sussex coast, so let’s follow up Eastbourne and St Leonards with everyone’s favourite bit of London-by-the-Sea. Brighton feels a major city these days, with a Top 10 Premier League team and some of the highest parking charges in Western Europe, though the station itself is… Continue reading BRIGHTON, WITHOUT THE SPOONS VOUCHERS (but Jaipur still only £2.25 a pint)
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THE JOY OF EASTBOURNE SPOONS
November 2025. Eastbourne. Mrs RM is spending a season down in Sussex by the Sea, attending to elderly parents (sound familiar?). Arranging Lasting Powers of Attorney never seemed so urgent. I’m hoping to spend a while down there too, ticking GBG pubs and National Trust castles. Some dreich weather to start this week meant I… Continue reading THE JOY OF EASTBOURNE SPOONS
CASK BEATS THE HEATWAVE IN MACC’S REDWILLOW
July 2025. Macclesfield. An overnighter in Sutton Hall just south of Macclesfield, where the rain stopped for only the second time since 1988. The walk into town along the canal towpath was pleasant, and gave Mrs RM welcome respite from those Sheffield hills. The problem was the pubs, far too many of them, and it… Continue reading CASK BEATS THE HEATWAVE IN MACC’S REDWILLOW
BBB – BORING BUT BRILLIANT IN THE POSADA
March 2024. Wolverhampton. A hotchpotch of a day in the Black Country, where I’d caught up with The Two Pauls on their Big Black Country Day Out, but after pints in the wonderful Old Swan and Beacon I’d had enough of waiting for Dudley buses, and had a plan to get back to Sheffield for… Continue reading BBB – BORING BUT BRILLIANT IN THE POSADA
COALVILLE – A ROCK AND A WALL
December 2023. Coalville. Well, who’d have thought it. A new GBG pub in Coalville. Sadly, it comes in the same year that the landlord of the Stamford and Warrington, sulphurous Pedi and all, leaves us for good. The Rock Bar ? I was convinced this was the bikers pub that graced the Guide to Britain’s… Continue reading COALVILLE – A ROCK AND A WALL
BERMONDSEY BEER MILE MAKES THE GBG AT LAST
November 2023. Bermondsey. Mrs RM dropped me off at Tonbridge Station, where I resisted the strong temptation to have a quick pint in Pub of the Year finalist the Nelson Arms, and half an hour later I was back failing to find the exit from London Bridge (the Birmingham New St of the south). These… Continue reading BERMONDSEY BEER MILE MAKES THE GBG AT LAST
RECONSTRUCTING A LOST AFTERNOON
August 2023. Sheffield. After our pleasant, sensible, hour in the Kelham Island Tavern Will left me on the corner of the Wellington, which in retrospect seems a bit untypically cruel but that’s what Premier League status does to you. I should have kept walking up this hill, but these days the Welly is too inviting,… Continue reading RECONSTRUCTING A LOST AFTERNOON
BASS IN FAGAN’S REVISITED
March 2023. Getting Mrs RM to join me on hilly Sheffield walks is a challenge, but there’s a bigger problem once you leave the Blind Monkey. It’s very hard to walk more than a 100 yards without passing a pub that in any other city would be in your Top 5. Luckily I was determined… Continue reading BASS IN FAGAN’S REVISITED
ALFIE THE ALPACA
2nd October 2022. Yes ! October ! Mrs RM had heard about an alpaca farm to the west of Sheffield, and having recently put turf down in our garden it seemed a good idea to get an alpaca to tend the grass. Oh, apparently that’s not how it works. Anyway, a trip out to the… Continue reading ALFIE THE ALPACA
BABY-FACED ASSASSIN
Yes, it was Hebden Bridge we were headed for, only 3 days after my ticking fail at Nightjar. Tickers never quit. What a lovely station. And what stunning urban art in the skate park for which the town is no doubt renowned. The Nightjar wasn’t open till 3. Should we book ? No, it surely… Continue reading BABY-FACED ASSASSIN
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