A Quick Pre Cinema Pint In Burton

I know how you enjoy my angst spending ages minutes agonising about blogpost titles so, this time, it does what it says on the tin. There’s an Ale Trail in Burton during the first weekend in September with around 14 /15 pubs taking part, which promises to be an extravaganza of beer. The home of…

Unspoilt Pubs: The Brushmakers Arms, Oulton

Always nice to bring up a century and my 100th Staffordshire boozer is a cracker.  Derbyshire is still my most visited county but Staffordshire is coming up on the rails of Leicestershire and the West Midlands as it has finally reached three figures. Anyway, when I say a cracker, I mean one of those wet…

Canadian Cricket For Russ

With Russ commenting on my last post and putting the squeeze on for some new material I thought I should come up with the goods. To be fair to Russ, he’s come up with some classics in my comments section over the years and as the doyen of blogging Martin Taylor says, “you’ve’ got to…

When The Boat (And Horses) Comes In

You left me in the gloriously overpubbed Derbyshire suburb of Shardlow.  However, as all Brian Clough fans know, where there is a Derby version it must be followed by a Nottingham one. The East Midlands big trio of Derby, Forest and Leicester have all been classed as England’s best team during my lifetime…and Cloughie was…