Only 177 so far this year, and not looking like there'll be many more.
Update: Final score: 184. Must do better in 2024.
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'Beer is for all day, not just for breakfast'.
Finished with 225.
I'd be happpy to do a similar number in 2024, but won't be beating myself up if I don't make it. Or if I get too many!
Come On You Hatters!
Targets hit and missed in 2023:
- Upload all 2023 reviews before the end of the year - achieved yesterday, after having been reasonably on top of things each month.
- Upload all 2023 photographs before the end of the year - also achieved on the 31st of December, but only just, after having been eight months behind at one stage.
- Reach 70% of all open Kent pubs reviewed - another cracking year (now 74.7%).
- Reach 55% of all open Central London pubs reviewed - finally achieved after four years (was 53.4% three years ago, down to 52.8% two years ago, only back to 53.3% last year but up to 56.6% by the end of 2023 - no idea how, but must be something to do with more closures than openings) - I think I'll drop this as a target area in 2024 because I can't see me ever reaching 60%.
- Reach 50% of all open West Midlands pubs reviewed - much better progress this year (now 54.7%).
- Reach 30% of all open East Sussex pubs reviewed - new for 2023, and better-than-expected progress made (at 32.7%, although I'm not sure what the end of 2022 total would have been).
Ended up with 170, just one localish new pub in December and one more in London (and just realised I've omitted to leave a review which I shall sort shortly), having decided London was far to over populated in December and continuing rail travel shenanigans
I kept reasonably local which apart from the above new one there aren't any left I'm likely to visit for the sake of a tick.
If next year is a normal one I shall aim for 200 and take it from there.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
A combination of Christmas, weather, dodgy trains and a lousy cold saw December fizzle out a bit, but the year's total was a successful 418. That did include a few confirmations on closed pubs which perhaps aren't quite proper reviews, but over 400 anyway. Lots of possibilities from my new Northern base to work on now!
On leaving the bar, I felt a strong blow to the back of my head. Turning round, I discovered it was the pavement
252 new visits with just one new place for the whole of December.
Ten new ticks on December took the total for 2023 to 204 new pubs,and pretty much my long term average.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Final scores are in - 437.
Thanks mainly to the beak letting me off two weeks worth of jury duty, which gave me free time to bag 66 pubs!