Wednesday 30th April 2025 With the exception of Somerset and Gloucestershire, I went into this seven day birthday ticking bonanza with...

Google Photos update - still awaiting an email / callback from Wix Tech Support. As this next blog goes on, watch as I delve into the...

Sunday 20th April 2025 My final day of this septic Easter epic would prove the tickiest yet, as I hop over the Shropshire border - a...

Welcome to another photo-less blog and apologies again. Convinced myself the problem is at their end having tried all their...

First off, I'm having a Wix nightmare because I receive an error message when trying to add photos. No idea why. It was fine...

Word up pub lovers, hope you've had a successful April. 61* (not out) Good Beer Guide ticks in the month (still one more day to come,...

Wednesday 16th April 2025 'Why Staffordshire?' And if Staffordshire, why Stafford? Why not Stoke or Uttoxeter or somewhere where I had...

Good evening, weekend finally! I sometimes think these four day weeks after a Bank Holiday feel longer than a normal one. Anyway, ten...

Good evening, I'm back from the ole' giraffes (cockney rhyming slang for Staffs) to tell you what the Good Beer Guide should really be...

Good evening folks . Here's six more from my recent week staying in That London ...... Golden Ark, Selsdon Hull City fans should keep...

Part 1 seemed to go off okay, so I'm back with six more of the same ..... in the GBG style. My only concern now is whether I'll have to...

An idea I've had floating around for a while now is to review my pubs in the style of the Good Beer Guide, which could become the book...

Look, it sounds a bit like Panic at the Disco, okay?? I'm writing this with a bit o' red wine and Aussie punk rock in my system, in case...

March started with a two mile walk to the Buckinghamshire hamlet of Asheridge ...... And ended with a disgraceful but tasty £7 pint of...

Saturday 22nd March 2025 A blank football weekend for supporters of teams as good as, if not better than Hull City. If you can imagine...

Thursday 20th March 2025 My first Northumberland ticks of the 2024/25 season saw me climb from 60 to 70% completion, as it leapfrogs...

Saturday 15th March 2025 Could 2025 finally be the year I complete Kent? Lord knows, I've been trying for long enough (well 2022 to be...

Saturday 8th March, 3pm Worcester strikes me as a rare example of a pretty city. I guess I have York. Oh there's Cambridge, Norwich,...

Saturday 8th March 2025 Looking south towards Worcestershire might sound like crazy talk when you're booked down to Brum New Street with...

Saturday 1st March 2025 The thing about Chesham is that there's only one way out, back into London on a Met Tube train. You could catch...