November 2025. Rye. “At least the trains from Rye are reliable” I tell Mrs RM, as I head for the bus into town to start my latest 3:15 hour rail trip north (Sheffield not Waterbeach this time). “18:48 cancelled” flashes the sign, followed by an excuse that roughly translates to “can’t be bothered. So, a… Continue reading THE 18:48 FROM RYE IS CANCELLED
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SHEFFIELD’S CASTLEGATE
November 2025. Rye. Waterbeach. Sheffield. While Mrs RM stays down in Rye Harbour till Christmas I’m doing the Rye-Waterbeach-Sheffield trudge (all by rail thankfully), checking on parents and children and cottages. Might even get the occasional pub/gig/City game/Chinese takeaway in, if I remember where I am. I seem to be keeping Chung Hwa in business… Continue reading SHEFFIELD’S CASTLEGATE
DON’T AVOID, MYTHOLMROYD
11th March 2023. When you’re setting out on your Good Beer Guide ticking career, you can confidently expect to find half a dozen new Guide entries in an afternoon. But, as BRAPA well knows, the deeper the you go the harder to extract are those ticks. And so I approach the penultimate West Yorkshire entry… Continue reading DON’T AVOID, MYTHOLMROYD
“But Ben Hyde SAID there were trains back to Ashford”
From Waterbeach to On The Beach. We headed down to Rye Harbour Clubhouse to enjoy a Saturday evening of burger and chips, John Smith Smooth, and a 70s disco. Never let it be said that Mrs RM doesn’t know how to live. In the morning, we made the first of no doubt dozens of rail… Continue reading “But Ben Hyde SAID there were trains back to Ashford”
THIS IS HOW IT FEELS TO BE BRAPA
Everyone wants to be BRAPA. But not everyone wants to get up at 6am every Saturday and spend 10 hours on trains and buses in desperate need of a wee, living in fear of a closed micro or lost mascot. On Saturday I decided to be BRAPA, just for one day (like in the Bowie… Continue reading THIS IS HOW IT FEELS TO BE BRAPA
LEAVING TIER 3
Clickbait, of course. There IS no possibility of leaving Tier 3. Sorry, BeerMat, Wickingman, Old Mudgie et al. But I had to return home to Waterbeach to collect some more of Mrs RM’s shoes and power tools this week, which I guess means I was in Tier 2.5 for a day. I took the train,… Continue reading LEAVING TIER 3
“Who’s your favourite revolutionary ?”
Between moving Matt’s tat into storage and then out to Ancoats I popped back on Wednesday to take my Dad for an X-Ray at Addenbrookes and my Aygo to Newmarket Road for its M.O.T. One of these days I’ll get those things mixed up, with disastrous consequences. With the Aygo at Cambridge Vehicle Services all… Continue reading “Who’s your favourite revolutionary ?”
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