retiredmartin
retiredmartin
Martin
Retired NHS, doing long walks around UK and the world to record the great bits. Focused on Good Beer Guide pubs and live music.
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September 2025. Sheffield. Back home in Sheffield, for a couple of days at least, the question is “How much time do I waste on this new GBG, then ?“. Once you’ve done it once (did I ever mention ?) there’s no real need to do it again,...
September 2025. Waterbeach. That last trip home before the new GBG was also the last weekend for Landlady Helen at the Sun, which has featured more in this blog since I left for The North than when I lived there. Helen and Theresa had to...
September 2025. Ely. The weekly drives down to Waterbeach (and frequently) Tunbridge Wells to visit elderly parents (and house) have been getting increasingly wearisome; mentally as much as physically. So I took the slow train home via...
September 2025. Teddington. Every £25.50 trip to London needs a new GBG tick and a classic or two, plus a Spoons if I haven’t done it before. Teddington doesn’t have a Spoons, which either adds or takes £100k off average house prices....
September 2025. Teddington. London. By Friday the trains were running from Cambridge to London again, and I could finally finish the capital’s GBG entries, just before the new Guide (ugh) landed at RM Towers. Teddington is exactly the...
September 2025. Cambridge. Not quite sure why I was spending this Thursday afternoon in Cambridge, between visits to Dad’s care home. Possibly the cancellation of the London train, or the tip-off about Bass at the Free Press, or more...
September 2025. Cambridge. Cambridge has gone Bass crazy. The Kingston started the trend, and now there’s a check-in at a Greene King flagship. I mean, it’s not their biggest public house, but the Free Press is where I learnt to love...