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A friend of mine moved to Walkley earlier this year, not too far from the Blake Hotel, so I'm hoping I'll get a chance to visit him and check the pub out later this year.

I had six pubs that scored a 9 this year, which seems pretty good in such a lean year for pub-going. I'm a bit surprised to find that five of the six are micropubs - not really my favourite type of...

My worst pub this year has to be The Watersplash in St Ouen's Bay, Jersey - a beach-side pub/creche hybrid with excellent views of the sea wall, but not of the sea!

I finished on 106 this year which is a disappointing total compared to last year's 191, but pretty good going considering I was only on 34 when all the pubs shut in March.

Merry Christmas all - hope your festivities (i.e. beer consumption) are in full swing by now!

I didn't mean for that to come across as a slight to those two pubs, both of which look great - I just meant that in the context of the list, which comprised nearly 60% London pubs, having just one...

14 for me - just missing the Tabard and the list's token inclusons for Scotland and Wales. Some good pubs on there, although they could've cast their net a little wider.

Had a mini-crawl around Dulwich this evening - the average price of a pint was comfortably north of £5.50. Why on earth didn't I just go down to my local Spoons? :(

To be fair, although they are a small brewery, they do put on quite a lot of events such as gigs, comedy nights, markets, charity fundraisers as well as more obvious things like beer festivals,...

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I think the Antic 'closures' are only temporary. They adopted a phased reopening plan from 4th July - there were around 15 or so that opened straight away and they've been opening others as and when...

I forgot to mention it at the time, but a couple of weeks ago I was in the Bull's Head in Reigate when former Crystal Palace and England footballer John Salako walked in and sat at the table next to...

Quick - someone notify Custodian42!!

No, thankfully not - we arrived home on the 5th Aug after a fortnight in Holland and Belgium, which was early enough to avoid the stampede and all the quarantine malarkey.

I've made my first visit to a 'proper' pub since 10th March today (I visited a couple of keg-only industrial estate brewery taps last week which didn't really satisfy). I've had to hold off due to a...

The only pub I consider to be my 'local' in the sense that Moby describes, is Claret & Ale, which I visit fairly regularly, often for a final pint after a day of pub crawling elsewhere.

But there...

It's a machine used by rugby teams to practise scrums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_machine

This very nearly made the final cut for my list - it's a terrific album and I was fortunate enough to see them perform it in full at the Royal Albert Hall last year. It was also my 'lucky' album...

The two TV theme tunes guaranteed to be stuck in my head for hours on end after watching are Red Dwarf and The Littlest Hobo.

I'm not too fussy about the type of glass I get, although I would always prefer a conical or nonic to a tulip and think stemmed glasses are best used in smaller measures for 'sipping' beers such as...

Just finished reading this - thought it was excellent.

Fiction:
1984 - George Orwell
This Thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Don Quixote - Cervantes
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Garbriel Garcia Marquez
The...

Stumbled across another this evening:

The Red Lion (JD Wetherspoon)

I only went to a handful of games in my childhood - my Dad lost interest in football in the late '70's so I contented myself in following my team from afar until I was old enough to pay my own way. I...