My penultimate Essex tick for GBG22 came on the outskirts of Maldon, beloved of at least one former Pub Man of the Year on this blog. Maldon is an Essex highlight, even if it’s been a while since the town itself tempted me back with a new entry that wasn’t a micro or brewery tap.… Continue reading MORE MALDON MAGIC IN MUNDON
Tag: White Horse
A SHERE DROP INTO HASCOMBE
I drafted a post entitled “My Strategy To Complete the Good Beer Guide in 2022” but I haven’t been able to finish it, which may be a metaphor for the GBG conquest itself. But a key part of the strategy is one big trip each week to bag a dozen outliers, now I’ve exhaused all… Continue reading A SHERE DROP INTO HASCOMBE
WILL FATHER CHRISTMAS BRING TIER 1 TO SOUTH CAMBS ?
As you’ll know, my favourite website (apart from my own) is MumsNet, where worried mums ask the immortal question. Am I Being Unreasonable…. My advice, owmn, is to tell DD (Dear Daughter) that Christmas is all Roman/Pagan/Victorian nonsense NOW, and save yourself a fortune on presents. While you’re at it, scrap Mother’s Day, Bonfire Night… Continue reading WILL FATHER CHRISTMAS BRING TIER 1 TO SOUTH CAMBS ?
SQUEALERS IN STOURPAINE
Next stop, dunno. Si scoured his GBG, hideously desecrated with green marker, for pubs open now but shutting in the afternoon. We bypassed the aptly named Blandford Forum, a real ale desert, on the way to Spetisbury. I had no recollection whatsoever of the Woodpecker, and it hardly mattered as we’d missed it by… Continue reading SQUEALERS IN STOURPAINE
SLEAFORD MOD(IFICATION)S
And on we go, into the long dark teatime of the soul, or “A Day In Lincolnshire” to give it the correct title. The great Lincolnshire GBG19 tick begins in Sleaford, or all places. Clearly you all know where Sleaford is, you’re educated people. Unlike the audience at my gig in Cambridge last night… Continue reading SLEAFORD MOD(IFICATION)S
SAVED PENALTIES & SAVED PUBS IN UPPER SOUDLEY
You left me on Day 3 of the Forest of Dean Big Tick, having just been warned by a pub cat to “beware the back streets of Cinderford“. It took me to realise that’s what those miaows meant, I don’t speak cat and had to use Shazam. Next stop, Upper Soudley’s White Horse., tucked between… Continue reading SAVED PENALTIES & SAVED PUBS IN UPPER SOUDLEY
BEERMATS AND BBB HEAVEN ON DEVIL’S DYKE
Mrs RM is in training for a mammoth walk in Kerry at Easter; the Dublin trip last month will be sufficient training for the pubs. There’s not much opportunity for exertion in Cambridge; our castle mound stretches to 10 metres, though it compensates by proximity to pubs. The best the county has to offer is… Continue reading BEERMATS AND BBB HEAVEN ON DEVIL’S DYKE
FAMILY BREWERS AT A PROPER BEER FEST
Mrs RM and I will be setting off for Manchester on Friday, with a To Do list that includes Bundobust, the Stretford Sip Club and the Manchester Beer Fest. No doubt Mrs RM will spend a third of the trip looking in estate agents and wool shops. Or for courgettes. On a slightly smaller scale… Continue reading FAMILY BREWERS AT A PROPER BEER FEST
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
MILTON – PARADISE via WEST BERKSHIRE
Mrs RM wasn’t very impressed by my house-husbandry, so I’ve spent most of the day redoing the housework. This isn’t why I retired; life in a tent seems more appealing. By 2pm I was free to do a local walk, two miles or so along the Cam to Milton. The Cam is surprisingly flat, and the… Continue reading MILTON – PARADISE via WEST BERKSHIRE
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