November 2025. Mayfield. East Sussex. My penultimate East Sussex Beer Guide tick takes us deep into the Weald, but only half an hour from Mrs RM’s in-laws (and Kentish Paul, coincidentally). Mayfield lies deep in the teenage Miss Spencer consciousness, for reasons we’ll see shortly, but first it’s lunch at the white boarded Rose &… Continue reading MAYFIELD’S ROSE & CROWN. A WEALD PUB
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TOP 100 PUBS – THE RAILWAY INN, MANSFIELD
February 2025. Mansfield. A lot of posts from my First Big Post Funeral Trip to Mansfield coming up. “We just need to get away somewhere nice like Bath for a few nights and recover” said Mrs RM, but in truth I needed a 25,000 step slog exploring one of the UK’s least loved towns visiting… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE RAILWAY INN, MANSFIELD
THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING IN WOLLASTON
20th March 2023. I’d given myself two hours to walk the 5 miles to outer Stourbridge and back, visit the two new GBG pubs, squeeze in lunch and perhaps a Bathams. It was JUST enough time. I’d forgot how many pubs there were along the A458 as Stourbridge becomes Wollaston, and the Black Country becomes… Continue reading THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING IN WOLLASTON
AN IXWORTH SPECIAL
Next up, one of those “Pub Lunches in Rural England” you folks love. The standard for this is Medomsley, of course. But Ixworth‘s Greyhound comes close. And has added Grockle. Just to show how far behind I am blogwise, despite the 3 posts a day, this calorific feast came before the Bury St Edmunds Festival,… Continue reading AN IXWORTH SPECIAL
GUZZLING IN THE GOWER
A trip to Swansea for another skateboarding contest; another chance to finish off the little clutch of pubs in the Gower. The skateboarding with fingers event has apparently taken over from an event in Bavaria as the pinnacle of the sport this year, which speaks volumes about Swansea’s cultural renaissance,or perhaps how cheap it is.… Continue reading GUZZLING IN THE GOWER
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