Nothing Wooden About This Pub Lark

It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve moved house for the second time in about 18 months, started back to work and managed to see Birmingham City rise to eighth in the Championship and sign Troy Deeney for good measure. Moving house, as Martin will testify, is about as enjoyable as watching F1…

At Times Like This…You Need Bass

The morning after the night before… There are many positives to take from yesterday…..firstly, there are still pubs selling absolute top notch Bass. Secondly, we are one day closer to bar service being restored in pubs. Thirdly, the England game will have given many pubs a shot in the arm last night and such much…

Bass Is Back, Bass Is Back, ‘Allo…’Allo

Boozers are back; Bass is back; And grown men with tattoos calling you Duck after you buy a pint to prove that #publife in Derbyshire is slowly returning. That terrace chant from the seventies and eighties would have been booming out from the beer garden if I had my way when I visited 624 –…

Blitzkreig Bop

Always stick a punk title at the top of your blog to entice in Duncan and BRAPA and in true LifeAfterFootball fashion it is the loosest of links. A debut in East Leake, and in case you’re wondering there is a West Leake (steady on Russ) and it’s in the hinterlands between Kegworth and Wymeswold…