I Am The Music Man – Made Of Stone

A big thank you first of all to those readers who sent in devious plans ideas to keep up my #apubadayforaweek challenge before I go back to work next Monday. Mrs BB was perfectly happy for me to visit The Carpenters Arms on Monday after five and a half months at home, in fact she…

Be Nice…We’re Tripping In Nottingham

Wetting the baby’s head on a Tuesday afternoon?  In these ‘unprecedented times’ where there has been an ‘exponential rise’ in pubs being shut then ‘the new normal’ is Tuesday lunchtime celebrations. I think the phrase anything goes is probably more apt and now the shackles are off it is great to see the people of…

The Carpenters Arms – Pubs Are Open!

“If this place bites the dust then the pub world has ended as we know it!” was what I wrote way back in December in my last pub blog post. Talking about the Derby Inn – read here – I reckoned that if this cracking boozer, selling 660 pints of Bass per month, near to…

Book Review: The Sadness Of The King George

OK…so the pubs are shut and my blog has virtually gone to sleep so what can I write about? I know, what about a book that is as true to life as you could imagine about a edge of town centre boozer commonly known as an ‘old man’s pub.’  It’s the sort of pub that…