30th December 2022. If you’d prefer the official version of the GBG tickers 1st Annual Meeting in Chesterfield then go straight to Duncan’s notes on Paisley parchment here. It’s one of the most concise sets of minutes of a four (4) hour meeting I’ve ever seen, and I used to write them for a living… Continue reading THE 1st GOOD BEER GUIDE TICKERS AGM STARTS IN THE SHAMBLES AND GOES DOWNHILL
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PINT OF PEDIGREE, PUBLIC SCHOOL, POPPADOMS – A NIGHT IN UPPINGHAM
13th December 2022. We didn’t let the snow interrupt our travel plans, but the latest rail strike meant we’d have to drive down to London for our annual End of the Road Christmas Party, via an overnight stop to complete Rutland for GBG23 (calm down, it’s only one new pub each year). We arrived in… Continue reading PINT OF PEDIGREE, PUBLIC SCHOOL, POPPADOMS – A NIGHT IN UPPINGHAM
RAM JAM
I had to pop back to take my Dad to a health clinic today. It’s not my 50th birthday, so don’t go grassing me up. Dad is OK (and wants golf back), perhaps better than when I left, but my heart sunk at a return to dour, featureless Cambridgeshire. No overnight stay, no pint in… Continue reading RAM JAM
AN UNEXPECTED NAME AT THE TOP OF THE COVID LEAGUE
Beer Guide tickers, all 7 of us, seem very keen on stats. The % of new entries in the Guide, odds of a GBG22, and the decline in Covid rates required for pubs to reopen for GBG22 comes out. At roughly 2pm each day we get the Covid hospital deaths courtesy of @UKcovidstats, and a… Continue reading AN UNEXPECTED NAME AT THE TOP OF THE COVID LEAGUE
THE KING OF UPPINGHAM
The last week before Lockdown 2 was a frantic attempt to bag as many GBG counties as possible, targeting (in the words of Management Consultants who’d charge $30k a day for this stuff) the low hanging fruit like Rutland. You might think you’ve heard scant detail about Rutland (53rd on my list of favoured counties),… Continue reading THE KING OF UPPINGHAM
RUTLAND WEEKEND TICKING
Another day, more opening times nerves. My last tick in Rutland at the attractively named Empingham Cricket Club, which I’d already predicted some fun with on here. This is what their own website says; Luckily, they clearly mean the Sri Lankan cricket season, and I was able to confirm they’d be open on Sunday by… Continue reading RUTLAND WEEKEND TICKING
RUTLAND WEEKEND TOPING
I know I’ve used “Toping” recently, but it’s a great word. And nothing else rhymes with “Television“. We completed the Rutland chapter of the Beer Guide last Sunday. It’s no big deal, just the two new entries in a total cohort of seven. They should lump the entries back in with Leicestershire, like I have… Continue reading RUTLAND WEEKEND TOPING
CONTRASTS IN RUTLAND
Rutland is within range of our Campervan, so I expect we’ll be wobbling round the pond there quite a bit. We might even visit all the pubs in the “county”, and there’s bigger hardships in life. There’s a stereotypical Rutland pub with ivy on the walls, hunting pictures and Barbour-jacketed diners, but Oakham’s newest pub… Continue reading CONTRASTS IN RUTLAND
RUDDLES
Mrs RM was persuaded by the first bright skies of the year to brave a Rutland walk yesterday. Sadly, the footpaths around Whissendine were a mudpath, and we were confined to a few miles on (very quiet) C-roads. As they say, it’s an area of simple pleasures. Langham, birthplace of Ruddles, is a pleasant small village… Continue reading RUDDLES
RUTLAND COMES OF AGE
It doesn’t take long to complete Rutland‘s Beer Guide contingent – seven pubs is par for the course. This year, as the County turns 18, it does at least get its own page, but I’m not sure the Leicestershire section is losing any classics. I guess I’ve been to most of Rutland’s 50-odd pubs (virtually all… Continue reading RUTLAND COMES OF AGE
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