If you folks only knew the effort that goes into these blog titles. I bet you think I just buy BRAPA cast-offs or something. I notice that I’ve just got a Twitter follower from Maidenhead. In the event they can read, I’d like to welcome them to the blog and draw their attention to the… Continue reading BABY WE WERE (HAR)BORNE TO RUN
Tag: West Midlands
A MICRO ROLE MODEL IN OLDBURY
Back to pubbing on the Friday, as two days were enough to “clear the West Midlands“. After the Bennets and the Bow Bars, my first newbie doesn’t look all that, does it ? The Old Dispensary looks better in the photo on WhatPub, which otherwise seems a bit keen to tell me just how many… Continue reading A MICRO ROLE MODEL IN OLDBURY
“WHAT’S BIRMINGHAM FAMOUS FOR ?” ASKS JULIA JACKLIN
Day 3 of my 4 day Midlands tickathon ended in east Birmingham, with a gig, a pub and a Chinese takeaway. I know how to live. Cheapest room was in the Ibis Budget, that probably wanted more to park than to stay, so I dumped my Aygo in industrial Balsall Heath and walked. Just… Continue reading “WHAT’S BIRMINGHAM FAMOUS FOR ?” ASKS JULIA JACKLIN
YAM YAM
Young Simon is clearly having a good time down in Dorset, exploring the unexpectedly rough pubs of Greater Bournemouth (Lesser Bournemouth is rubbish). I’m quite jealous of his first ever trips to Lower Parkston Ex-Servicemen’s Club and the Cricketers, particularly as I’ll only get to drive him to square micros this week. New entries to… Continue reading YAM YAM
BANKS’S BREWERY TAP
More Boring Brown Bitter for you, direct from the city responsible for at least 99.2% of the BBB produced in the UK. Having walked past the Clarendon on our Big Banks’s Bender last Spring, resisting Stafford Paul’s call to “stop in the Tap for one ?“, I felt a bit daft when it finally made… Continue reading BANKS’S BREWERY TAP
BANKS’S, BAPS & (PEAKY) BLINDERS
As Dick and Dave will confirm, the area of the Midlands west of the M5 and over to the Shropshire hills is as good as it gets in terms of beauty, Balti, and, er, bostin’ beer. And there’s still much to be discovered; only last year the Lion O’Morfe near Bridgnorth appeared as if from… Continue reading BANKS’S, BAPS & (PEAKY) BLINDERS
CHRISTMAS CURRY IN COV
The Taylor family spent Sunday at home, the first time we’ve all been together under our own roof all day for 3 years. It’s hellish being stuck in Cambridge, but Mrs RM and I had overdone it yesterday with BRAPA. Our longest family conversation today concerned Christmas meal plans. Due to Mrs RM’s frenetic work… Continue reading CHRISTMAS CURRY IN COV
MICROS ON THE BRUMMIE KNOWLE
First of all, this is what happens when your son comes back from Sheffield Uni and nicks your internet capacity to play his incomprehensible computer games (Not FIFA 94); I’m on best behaviour with this post, as Knowle in firmly in BeerMat territory, in posh Solihull in fact. It’s very east Cheshire, which you can… Continue reading MICROS ON THE BRUMMIE KNOWLE
FARGO – COVENTRY’S CRAFT ENCLAVE
There’s a lot of lonely little isolated Beer Guide ticks to do now, including a host with the sort of unpredictable opening hours visitors just love (i.e. micros and brewery taps). They’re all part of the joys of being a GBG completist. Back in November we nearly finished the West Midlands in Coventry, but the… Continue reading FARGO – COVENTRY’S CRAFT ENCLAVE
BANKS’S AT SOURCE
The demise of Boring Brown Bitters, replaced by a sea of exotic craft, is much overstated. Particularly in the suburbs of the Black Country. What Oxley lacks in architectural interest it makes up for with an ability to get you lost, always a bonus. The Claregate is right on the border with Staffordshire, except of course… Continue reading BANKS’S AT SOURCE
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