September 2023. Scarborough. Well, you can’t spend the equivalent of 13 and a third pints of OBB on your rail ticket getting to Scarborough and just do the two ticks. If I’d turned up a few days earlier I could have seen Glamorgan grind out a draw to keep Yorkshire in their rightful place at… Continue reading THE BEST PART OF COMPLETING THE BEER GUIDE IS BEING ALLOWED TO DRINK PINTS IN PUBS LIKE THE SCHOLAR’S
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TOP 100 PUBS – THE HOLE IN THE WALL, BRIGHTON
Five posts from Brighton and no pictures of the beach, so here’s one from Daniel. April 2023. Four new GBG ticks in two hours, just like the old days. It concluded at the Hole in the Wall, tucked away in an unprepossessing little street near that big pole in the ground which turns out to… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE HOLE IN THE WALL, BRIGHTON
WELCOME TO SHEFFIELD
April 2023. Enough of the holiday snaps. Perhaps I’ll put the photos of risotto, Saint Theresa and bus tickets on my Instagram. Back home from Skopje, the mid-stay barriers opened for us first time for a change and were home in Sheffield 3 hours later. Unfortunately that meant 3am, and we had to be up… Continue reading WELCOME TO SHEFFIELD
BACK TO THE OLD (HALLAMSHIRE) HOUSE
5th March 2023. Not enough/too much Smiths references on this blog. I’ve been coaxing Mrs RM out of the house for strenuous walks around Sheffield. As some of you will know, if you don’t keep active in your 50s everything stops working at 60. The walk from the Blind Monkey up to Crookes is Lincoln… Continue reading BACK TO THE OLD (HALLAMSHIRE) HOUSE
WELL, I STILL LOVE THE CITY ARMS
23rd December 2022. Mrs RM eventually turned up at Manchester’s library (the central one, rather than Rylands or Chetham’s), and thankfully hadn’t bought me a Christmas jumper from Primark. Because she’d lost her purse (left it in the car, detail fans). Matt was just about to finish his last cut; Mrs RM had mysteriously lost… Continue reading WELL, I STILL LOVE THE CITY ARMS
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