Happy Christmas ? Retired Martin been visited by the three (3) ghosts of Christmas overnight ? No, but it’s in my contract that unless I comply with social convention at least three times a year my blog gets blacklisted. Expect a post celebrating BRAPA’s birthday, whenever that is. We have our boys over on Christmas… Continue reading HAPPY CHRISTMAS !!!
Tag: Sheffield
DUTCHMEN UNDER THE YELLOW ARCH
22nd November 2022. One last post from Sheffield before we go international again, and a trip down to Kelham Island that DOESN’T feature £3.40 cask. It’s took a while, but Sheffield seems to be alive with small club gigs at the moment. There’s four venues in a minute’s walk below the Moor Market food court… Continue reading DUTCHMEN UNDER THE YELLOW ARCH
THE MARMALADE THIEVES OF SHARROW VALE
You left me in posh west Sheffield having confirmed that Greene King’s plain looking Porter Brook would be an acceptable tea stop for Blackpool Jane. Knowing Jane, and Inverurie Karen and Mrs RM there would be time for other stops that Friday, so I popped in The Beer House, one of many micropubs with desperately… Continue reading THE MARMALADE THIEVES OF SHARROW VALE
A SPOT OF SHEFFIELD RECONAISSANCE FOR BLACKPOOL JANE
12th October 2022. Blackpool Jane was about to visit and rate our new B & B (free to Patronised readers) for her award winning blog called “Getting p****d at away games”. We were thrilled, and before she arrived I undertook what we are legally allowed to call “research” in a few pubs in upmarket Sharrow… Continue reading A SPOT OF SHEFFIELD RECONAISSANCE FOR BLACKPOOL JANE
MY FAVOURITE SEAT IN THE DOG & PARTRIDGE
Blimey ! I see BRAPA is blogging from 2 October on his latest wonderful post, and I’m up to 3rd October 2022, which means I’m ahead. Go and sit in the dunce’s corner, Si. More Sheffield street art, and another great little Guide regular. No idea why I popped in the Dog & Partridge, but… Continue reading MY FAVOURITE SEAT IN THE DOG & PARTRIDGE
ALFIE THE ALPACA
2nd October 2022. Yes ! October ! Mrs RM had heard about an alpaca farm to the west of Sheffield, and having recently put turf down in our garden it seemed a good idea to get an alpaca to tend the grass. Oh, apparently that’s not how it works. Anyway, a trip out to the… Continue reading ALFIE THE ALPACA
LINE CLEANING AT THE SCARSDALE HUNDRED
28th September 2022. You left me at the entrance of Sheffield’s second shopping centre, having had an average pint of Wainwright in an average Marston’s dining pub. Having spent the best part of a fiver on an all-day tram ticket, I’d better make it worthwhile by doing some shopping in Crystal Peaks, I suppose. Oh,… Continue reading LINE CLEANING AT THE SCARSDALE HUNDRED
CRYSTAL PEAKS
28 September 2022. ANOTHER day in Sheffield. ANOTHER escape attempt to avoid gardening (I’m sure there was a skip outside our house permanently in September). It was odd having no (zero, 0) GBG pubs left to do, but there’s plenty of boozers left in Greater Sheffield, and a Supertram to take you there; Only the… Continue reading CRYSTAL PEAKS
WHEN NOTHING BEATS A PIE AND A PINT
More short pints with comestible click bait. 27th September 2022. I’ve no idea why I wandered down to the Gardeners just before teatime; perhaps I was bored. Or perhaps I was headed somewhere new and just remembered how wonderful the beer garden was as I crossed the Don. Do I need a reason ? Every… Continue reading WHEN NOTHING BEATS A PIE AND A PINT
FLOATING ALONG
Quite a few days at home in early Autumn, the sort of frivolity not normally allowed to professional tickers. 24th September 2022 saw me use James’s spare ticket for a one day music festival (thanks James) in Sheffield (he was eating Chinese takeaway with my parents). Float Along featured all your favourite “£10 a ticket”… Continue reading FLOATING ALONG
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