4th February 2024. Waterbeach. Southborough. Funeral Day starts with this austere view of the A10 from outside the Slap Up where the family spent Monday night. There’s nothing like being the centre of attention at a funeral to make you realise you’re actually an adult, and you really ought to have a rudimentary knowledge of… Continue reading LIFE & DEATH
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SMALL STEPS, BUT FATHER-IN-LAW MAKES IT TO THE PUB
January 2024. Southborough. Royal Tunbridge Wells. We spent a couple of nights round Mrs RM’s Mum and Dad’s, seeing how my father-in-law is getting on after a lengthy period of hospitalisation and rehabilitation. He just wanted a Chinese takeaway and a trip to the pub, bless him. Only 8 minutes to the Imperial; you remember… Continue reading SMALL STEPS, BUT FATHER-IN-LAW MAKES IT TO THE PUB
MY FATHER-IN-LAW’S FIRST CHINESE TAKEAWAY SINCE 1980
July 2023. Royal Tunbridge Wells. A week ago we were rushing down to Kent where my father-in-law had had a bad night and was getting an emergency referral to Pembury Hospital, birthplace of Mrs RM and other adverts for healthy living. Pembury is only 10 minutes from the in-laws Southborough home but the quickest route… Continue reading MY FATHER-IN-LAW’S FIRST CHINESE TAKEAWAY SINCE 1980
ONE BEER IS PLENTY (PART 337)
I mentioned that Southborough, home of the in-laws and Meow’s is not well pubbed, but we actually stayed in what most folk would consider a pub for 3 nights last weeks. The Hand & Sceptre is decidedly not a pub. In fact, I’m sure the words “Rooms and Edibles” is probably scribbled on the ancient… Continue reading ONE BEER IS PLENTY (PART 337)
Meow’s
Mrs RM and I spent most of this week on an emergency mission to the in-laws in Southborough. The crisis appears to have been diverted, and more importantly a new addition to my Top 10 Chinese takeaways found, in the most unexpected of places. Southborough is essentially one long street along the A26 with Paul… Continue reading Meow’s
A SEARCH FOR SUPPABLE BEER IN SOUTHBOROUGH
Loads of posts from (checks notes) Alton Towers, Wigan, Darwen, Bodfari, Cambridge, Bridport and Tonbridge to come, but here’s one from this very night, while I remember. All the relevant points of interest there, including Pashmina Pauline Mansions (there’s a new GBG pub in Maidstone, must go). I’ve mentioned Southborough’s Imperial (the ONLY real pub… Continue reading A SEARCH FOR SUPPABLE BEER IN SOUTHBOROUGH
“MOST IMPROVED PUB”
On Sunday morning we headed off to the in-laws, after the traditional small English breakfast at Hitchin Spoons. Truly, there is nothing sadder than a Spoons before John Smiths Smooth can be served. The biggest obstacle to the 90 minute trip round the M25 and down the A21 to Southborough is remembering the top-up of… Continue reading “MOST IMPROVED PUB”
TWO ITALIANS
Snow gives you the incentive to tidy up your photo collection, and find that I haven’t written up two pre-Christmas meals at pubs run by Italians. Nothing that unusual about that, but they’re the two main locals in my village and my in-laws in Kent. The White Horse in Waterbeach has been through the ringer… Continue reading TWO ITALIANS
THE IMPERIAL, SOUTHBOROUGH
It’s only in the last few years that our regular trips to the in-laws have become bearable. By that, I mean of course the pubs in Tunbridge Wells have improved, as Paul Bailey has reported recently. Little Southborough isn’t Tunbridge Wells though. What it gains in views over the Weald it loses in terms of any… Continue reading THE IMPERIAL, SOUTHBOROUGH
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