End of term report.

[Mobyduck]

Assuming no one here lives on the Isles of Scilly or the Isle of Man, anyone want to hazard a guess at when their first tick of 2021 will be? I'll be surprised if it comes before March.

Yes March is probably the best we can hope for, hopefully the substantial meal nonsense will be re-thought , absolutely kills a pub crawl, but then that was its aim.

[Tris39]

Yes March is probably the best we can hope for, hopefully the substantial meal nonsense will be re-thought , absolutely kills a pub crawl, but then that was its aim.

Just heard a nurse on the radio saying that lifting of restrictions by March will be laughable.

[sheffield hatter]

Just heard a nurse on the radio saying that lifting of restrictions by March will be laughable.

Is that nurse necessarily better informed than our own Spinko?

[Mobyduck]

Just heard a nurse on the radio saying that lifting of restrictions by March will be laughable.

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[Tris39]

34 new pubs this year, 27 since the 4th July as I thought it best to pay a trip to the ones I've been too lazy to visit, but decided to get round to it in case they never reopen:

The Blind Beggar Most Infamous
The Camel Most Cute
The Lord Tredegar Most Pubby
The Palm Tree Most Interesting
The Pembury Tavern Best Beer
People's Park Tavern Worst
The Salisbury Hotel Greatest Wow Factor
The Victoria Prettiest
The Widow's Son Nicest Buns

[Tris39]

...and:

The Morgan Arms Most Ornate Bar Gantry/Pot Shelf

[Quinno]

80 new pubs in 2020

The roll of honour;

Globe Inn
Tamworth Tap
The King's Ditch (what a superb drinking town Tamworth is!)
Black Boy Inn

The walk of shame;

The Alfred

At least I got through the 4000 review barrier, but it feels like a wasted year. On the plus side I have over 30 days of leave accumulated to spend before the end of July 2022 with another 25 coming in on top in August. so when we're jabbed and the pubs are open, I'll be a whirlwind!

[sheffield hatter]

The walk of shame;

The Alfred

Sorry to hear about the Alfred - I was there a few years ago and the beer was pretty good, and the atmosphere too. What a shame, indeed.

[sheffield hatter]

Globe Inn
Tamworth Tap
The King's Ditch (what a superb drinking town Tamworth is!)

If you'd written that five or six years ago I'd have said you were bonkers. I went to Tamworth a few times when the Hatters were in non-league and the football was always better than the beer. Most of my Luton mates preferred the Robert Peel to the Globe, though I disagreed (they were swayed by the niche beer offering from small independents, whereas I liked the quality of the more mainstream beers). On the last occasion of the Hatters gracing the Lamb Ground, a few of us went to Lichfield instead, that's how bad it was. Since we got back in the football league I've only been to Tamworth to change trains, and only found the Kings Ditch open on one such occasion, when the atmosphere was poor and the service consisted mostly of a young man looking at his smart phone. And I've not been there during the Tamworth Tap's existence, so it looks like you've struck lucky.

[Quinno]

If you'd written that five or six years ago I'd have said you were bonkers. I went to Tamworth a few times when the Hatters were in non-league and the football was always better than the beer. Most of my Luton mates preferred the Robert Peel to the Globe, though I disagreed (they were swayed by the niche beer offering from small independents, whereas I liked the quality of the more mainstream beers). On the last occasion of the Hatters gracing the Lamb Ground, a few of us went to Lichfield instead, that's how bad it was. Since we got back in the football league I've only been to Tamworth to change trains, and only found the Kings Ditch open on one such occasion, when the atmosphere was poor and the service consisted mostly of a young man looking at his smart phone. And I've not been there during the Tamworth Tap's existence, so it looks like you've struck lucky.

I was in the KD around 9.30 on a Saturday night and it was great, full of life and friendly faces.

Sometimes you hit places on a good or bad day - all you can do is say what you see...