November 2023. Addenbrooke’s. Cambridge. It took me 5 hours to get back from Oldham to Waterbeach, the trip from Sheffield in about 2:20 hours these days, and Dad had already been taken by ambulance to Addenbrooke’s awaiting assessment (alliteration alert). The antibiotics for a suspected infection kicked in quickly, and I spent the next 24… Continue reading THE SUN WILL ALWAYS RISE IN THE MORNING
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IN THE DOGHOUSE, UNEXPECTEDLY
September 2023. Brigg. What Pub told us there were four cask pubs in Brigg. We found those, and an unmarked craft bar, AND a genuine real ale bar. The Doghouse, at the Exchange, seemingly Brigg’s premier coaching house, had also escaped the attention of What Pub. Till now. It’s a smart old place, with big… Continue reading IN THE DOGHOUSE, UNEXPECTEDLY
“There used to be a library there”
July 2023. Milton. Cambridgeshire. I don’t want you to think I’m trying to get Dad round All The Pubs In Cambridgeshire or anything, but he’s certainly been to more more this year than he had the last 70, even if it is only keeping the local pineapple juice industry alive. Tuesday saw us dot around… Continue reading “There used to be a library there”
A PADDINGTON BEAR STARE FOR THE TIRED BEER IN W2
June 2023. London Part 2 of 11. My heart leaped for joy when I realised I could ride the Central Line from Fairlop straight to Queensway, less than a mile from pub tick No. 2. My joy was only slightly lessened by the realisation that after 7 years as Mayor Sadiq Khan still hasn’t installed… Continue reading A PADDINGTON BEAR STARE FOR THE TIRED BEER IN W2
FINDING A THRILL IN ECCLESHILL
26th January 2023. I’d have stayed even longer at Bradford Industrial Museum (an hour is a LONG time for me) but the artisanal cafe was a bit disappointing (a coffee machine with paper cups) and they wasn’t a section on brewing and pubs, just that Babycham exhibit. So I walked back towards the Greedy Pig,… Continue reading FINDING A THRILL IN ECCLESHILL
A NEW BEER GUIDE PUB IN BISHOPTHORPE ? ANOTHER ONE !
A start to North Yorkshire, one of the last of the GBG counties I completed a first time (if you see what I mean) in 2018. Since then it’s plodded on with its usual dozen new entries, all in irritating places like Bishopthorpe, just south or York. BRAPA HQ is marked on the map below… Continue reading A NEW BEER GUIDE PUB IN BISHOPTHORPE ? ANOTHER ONE !
MARTIN POWER, OUTER ASHFORD PUB TICKER EXTRAORDINARY
A mid-June trip to finish Kent. I would have waited till Joan and Dave Southworth arrived a month later so they could have the thrill of pinking a county, but completing the Guide and getting chapters complete had become an obsession and besides, you can’t trust Americans with marker pens. You’ll be seeing a fair… Continue reading MARTIN POWER, OUTER ASHFORD PUB TICKER EXTRAORDINARY
CONSTANT CRAVEN
Ticking gets difficult when you’ve got the easy counties in the bag. Getting four ticks in a day, never mind a BRAPA half-dozen, is tricky. But nothing much beats the thrill of finishing a GBG county, especially one as vast as North Yorkshire, on a first beautiful day of the last weekend in February. Technically… Continue reading CONSTANT CRAVEN
THE FIRST 2021 AIRING OF “STOP THE CAVALRY”
Well, probably not, I bet they’ve been playing it since September 5th in Sheffield Dunelm, but my first “Stop the Cavalry” came last Thursday on the western edges of Bradford, which are very lovely. Out on the wiley, windy moors described by Kate Bush in her book made famous by DJ Bronte I stood, surprised… Continue reading THE FIRST 2021 AIRING OF “STOP THE CAVALRY”
THAT’S VELOUTE
Two new pubs in Harrogate for me, though one of them fell into the “arguable” category tickers love to argue about. Both only ten minutes walk from the station, another couple to Harrogate’s astonishing collection of GBG pubs (eleven this year). Those eleven entries are quite capable of changing names, if not location, each year,… Continue reading THAT’S VELOUTE
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