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There is no "South, North and Midland pattern", except that there is one crawl in each geographical area each year. There is nothing to prevent Birmingham being in the spring of 2020.

Nothing to...

Two shots of the backs of people's heads in the Nags Head, and two at the Loggerheads, one inside and one in the rain. (I wasn't going to hang around out there waiting for everyone else, so that's...

No, no, no!!! It was a team effort, with splinter groups going off in all directions and ending up in the wrong Wheatsheaf on purpose. You're just trying to wind me up, aren't you?

And not...

I'm sure Aqualung has his own plans.

I designated three pubs as "wild cards" because a) I have been there and wasn't that impressed, or b) the description on WP and/or PG wasn't all that...

What? Are they out of their minds?

Anyway. Thanks for that. As I said above, this was a quick fix in the absence of the local info I was hoping that you would provide. Still can't believe you...

I hope to be in the Salopian by about 11:45 or 12 at the latest.

There's a very sketchy plan that I did about an hour ago for my own benefit, so that at least I would know what I'm doing. (I was...

Oh no! Shrewsbury without Oggy just doesn't make sense. What time do you finish?

Looking forward to seeing yourself and himself.

That would be The Wheatsheaf in Frankwell, of course, not The Wheatsheaf in the centre, which was the one you mentioned in your post above (#9). Thanks for that, very useful bit of info. (I might...

What was that about every cloud having a silver lining? (Sorry about your holiday, though.)

Perhaps Oggy can enlighten us?



Seems like a good place to meet up, then. Unless anyone has a better idea?

Couldn't agree more. I wasn't rejecting or denigrating Oggy's suggested route, just seeing if we could incorporate some of the suggestions from others that had been made during the thread.



All...

OK, I swore I wasn't going to do this but I've run out of excuses.

Yes, no one objected to the date, no one objected to my idea of allowing until the end of July for objections, and no one contradicted BF when he said it was a sensible suggestion. So, Friday 18th...

How about we leave it until the end of July? If no one has objected to Friday October 18th by midnight on Wednesday this week, then that'll be the date. If anyone speaks up against it we'll have a...

I don't think anyone has actually said no to that date. Quinno said the earlier the better for him, and I did point out that it's the start of school holidays, so there may be some pressure on train...

Seems to be some sort of consensus forming around the 4th Ocotober. Do we need a poll or should we just go for it? Train tickets will already be on sale for that date, so time becomes (possibly) of...

I was hoping we'd hear from you before long!

Can we leave the route to you, then?

Beer was OK (though unadventurous) when I was there a year or so ago, and maybe the music would suit some tastes, but it's not a must-visit in my view.

I suggested last year that we bring the autumn crawl date forward - we had previously gone for November in order to avoid the school half term at the end of October and its likely impact on train...