As you’ll know this blog has an important public service remit; to encourage you out of your sofas (DO put your trousers on and your craft cans into the bin) and out exploring our wonderfully diverse country. Sadly, the train about to pass the Fountain doesn’t stop in Tuxford, Notts, but if you jump out… Continue reading MISSING ERIC
Tag: Nottinghamshire pubs
(BEER) TERRACE TRENT DERBY
I hope the return of BRAPA to the big league of pub blogging will see more famous titles like “Well Past My Selby Date”. I expect Simon has been looking to use a Terence Trent D’arby reference since 1991, when TTD released the seminal “Neither Fish Nor Flesh“, which I am staggered to see Discogs… Continue reading (BEER) TERRACE TRENT DERBY
GUESS THE PUB GOES FOR A BASS TASTER
Yes, a lovely looking pub, but tasters ? For Bass ? Perhaps the most obscure clue ever to the location of our mystery pub; My second Superman clue in a week, fact fans. It’s twinned with a French coal mining town whose Wiki entries claims “an extremely old tree” as a place of interest. At… Continue reading GUESS THE PUB GOES FOR A BASS TASTER
60 UP
Mum and Dad celebrated their Diamond Wedding Anniversary today. They had a nice card from the Queen, though I know they’d have preferred a Chinese takeaway from Chung Hwa with me and Sis; that’ll have to wait. There won’t be a (belated) celebratory pint in The Sun. Mum’s not a Pub (Wo)Man, and probably doesn’t… Continue reading 60 UP
WORKSOP – LIQUORICE, LACINGS & FRENCH HORN
Makes Worksop sound exotic, doesn’t it ? And if you live in South Anston, it probably is. Sadly, the gorgeous tiling often adorns closed or keg pubs, making Worksop the Rotherham or Woolwich orPoole of the Midlands, My route to Sheffield to see my lad often flies past the edge of Worksop, though I reckon… Continue reading WORKSOP – LIQUORICE, LACINGS & FRENCH HORN
NEWSTEAD AND THE PIT
27th February 2020 A glorious February came to an end in the coalfields of Nottinghamshire, inevitably at a community focused micro. Pleasingly, it filled an irritating gap in the GBG map. These things matter when you’re as old as me. A fifteen minute hop from Mansfield’s shiny station gave me a few minutes to explore… Continue reading NEWSTEAD AND THE PIT
AN ASSET OF COMMUNITY VALUE
24th February 2020 “Nottingham’s Pub of the Year“declares the Old Green Dragon, along with its predilection for old Guinness adverts. Glory for tiny Oxton, tucked away in the posh bit between Southwell and Nottingham, safely away from mining villages, pumping stations and CenterParcs. Dave will be thrilled to learn that the other, recent GBG, pub… Continue reading AN ASSET OF COMMUNITY VALUE
HUCKNALL – BEER & SKITTLES
I’m driving BRAPA round the hard-to-reach pubs of the Cambridgeshire Fens on Saturday; “Whittlesey, little to see” is my suggested blog title. I’ll probably leave Si to his own devices this time, rather than distracting him from pub hubbub by pointing out how difficult West Oxon ticking is going to be. I can always count… Continue reading HUCKNALL – BEER & SKITTLES
WOMEN IN LOVE (WITH MICRO MURK)
The posts keep coming, but the beer dried up for me. After the usual IKEA drama (dropped cushion cover or something), I bravely volunteered to let Mrs RM do the tasting while I did the note-taking. Being a self-taught beer smellier, I know how to score a beer purely by sniffing it. The next… Continue reading WOMEN IN LOVE (WITH MICRO MURK)
HARDY & HANDSOME – KIMBERLEY KICKS ON
I’m afraid the title is the best thing about this post from a frustrating afternoon in industrial Notts. Alan Winfield would have appreciated it, albeit horrified by the unfettered growth in micros. After Manchester I spent 3 days throwing things away while Mrs RM did company accounts and tax returns. She was ready for an… Continue reading HARDY & HANDSOME – KIMBERLEY KICKS ON
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