July 2025. Stannington. Sheffield. Right, let’s finish the Sheffield suburb of Stannington so I never have to go there again. Actually, it’s a pleasant little place, proper church, edge of the Peak, two Co-ops, three pubs. but you won’t believe it has a population of 18,607, which is bigger than Devizes (and Marple). Pub 3… Continue reading STANNINGTON AT A STANDSTILL
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A TREASURE COVE
September 2023. Farnborough. A Thursday night in Farnborough. We ticked the “Leisure” box on the Premier Inn on-line reservation system and could almost hear the computer thinking “Leisure ? Really !“. I won’t claim that Mrs RM was in raptures in anticipation (that would have been Maidenhead), but she did seem genuinely intrigued. “What’s in… Continue reading A TREASURE COVE
CHURCH CROOKHAM DAHLIA BATH
September 2023. Church Crookham, near Fleet. Another dull Hampshire dining pub as we approach a crescendo of sorts in Farnborough. Church Crookham sounds like the dullest place on earth, so I hope I have no readers there. The only point of note is that the green blob between our new Guide pub in Eversley Forest… Continue reading CHURCH CROOKHAM DAHLIA BATH
HOOKED IN
21st February 2020 Our maiden trip in the new campervan, provisionally called Simon, and a 3 hour slog round the M25 to Hook. It’s my mother in law and her twin sister’s 80th, so why not pick a Home Counties gastropub to celebrate. If I reach 80 and haven’t completed the GBG I’m in big… Continue reading HOOKED IN
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