July 2023. Sheffield. Mrs RM has a posh watch which “rewards” her, if a beep can be considered a reward, as she hits her 10k/15k/20k step targets. A walk from the Blind Monkey into central Sheffield is worth 10k, so Mrs RM decided to take back a pair of shoes she’d just bought. NEVER, NEVER… Continue reading Mrs RM’s resolve crumbles in The Old Shoe
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ALL THE BREWERY TAPS IN SHEFFIELD ON TRAM – ST. MARS OF THE DESERT
July 2023. Attercliffe. Sheffield. I have a little section called “Notes” on my phone and for 2 years there’s been a note saying “St Mars of the Desert”. If Pastore is the trendy centre of Greater Waterbeach’s brewery centre, St Mars is the heart of hip Sheffield. Or something. During lockdown I had a fair… Continue reading ALL THE BREWERY TAPS IN SHEFFIELD ON TRAM – ST. MARS OF THE DESERT
ROBIN HOOD, ROBIN HOOD…
July 2023. Little Matlock, Sheffield. I had a real scare the other day, I can tell you. On the walk up the hill into Sheffield, just past the Crow, a young bloke overtook me. Granted, I was dawdling a bit, and I’d overtook him a few minutes earlier so he may have had a point… Continue reading ROBIN HOOD, ROBIN HOOD…
OUTDRUNK BY SEPTUAGENARIANS FROM FRATTON
July 2023. Sheffield. It’s a good job I finished the Beer Guide last year; I’d never have made it in 2023. I’m the Nico Rosberg of GBG completion; get it done in an easy year and then retire and do more interesting things. While Nico has become an “eco-entrepreneur”, I’ve been content to blog about… Continue reading OUTDRUNK BY SEPTUAGENARIANS FROM FRATTON
CIDER WITH MARTIN
July 2023. Sheffield Compared to, say, St Albans or Dunfermline, Sheffield has a modest musical history. 1960s – Joe Cocker, 1970s – Human League, 1980s – Def Leppard, 1990s – Pulp, 2000s – Arctic Monkeys.. But it has a vibrant small venue scene that allows foreign bands of all ilks to play throughout the week.… Continue reading CIDER WITH MARTIN
REVELLIN’ IN THE RIVELIN
July 2023. Sheffield. Yes, finally July. Time to start exploring our own city, for a change. I knew Sheffield pretty well before we moved from Waterbeach, after annual pub ticking trips stetching back 3 decades. Notably in 2007 I visited a few months after the devastating floods of 25 June 2007. Look at the state… Continue reading REVELLIN’ IN THE RIVELIN
THREE NBSS 4s IN A ROW IN SHEFFIELD
June 2023. Sheffield. Blimey. A mini-post where I just say “Sheffield has great pubs and beer“. I’ve had more visitors asking to catch up for a pint in two years in Sheffield than in twenty-two in Cambridge (Hitchin – zero). Fellow ticker (pubs, World Cups, Pogues gigs etc) Ian visited on a Wednesday night for… Continue reading THREE NBSS 4s IN A ROW IN SHEFFIELD
BIRTHDAY BOOZE ON A BIG BENCH
June 2023. The last day of the in-laws trip “oop north“, and FIL was allowed to speak in a Yorkshire accent as it was HIS birthday. Mrs RM is 1/37th Italian on the maternal side, which almost entitled her to an EU passport post-Brexit (and a place in the Italian national team after their defeat… Continue reading BIRTHDAY BOOZE ON A BIG BENCH
SHEFFIELD BOOM TOWN
2nd June 2023. Sheffield. According to James our city centre is as busy as he’s seen it since he moved up in 2017. When the in-laws had first visited Sheffield 2 years ago for fourteen (14) days they hadn’t seen the city at its very best, with Covid restrictions still in place or tentatively lifted.… Continue reading SHEFFIELD BOOM TOWN
SHEFFIELD BLOSSOMS
May 2023. The last Tuesday of May, a great day to have responsibility for keeping the in-laws out of the house while Mrs RM worked. A great day to visit Sheffield’s free gardens. I was discussing with Mrs RM how little of Sheffield smart southern suburbs we’d actually visited since we’d moved 2 years ago… Continue reading SHEFFIELD BLOSSOMS
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