I left the Blunsdon Arms and ran up the hills toward the dog track and the A419 to give the Cold Harbor a visit.  It is attached to a Premier Inn, a discount hotel chain, but is actually very nice and stands on its own unlike a few of the restaurant-y pubs that also attach [...]

Or as my link to the left notes…100 Shit Beers as all real beer in the States is considered ‘craft’ or too la-di-fucking-da to qualify.  That’s alright, I LIKE Carling and that shit is everywhere over here. Places can be pubs (got that one covered) or someplace cool (I see some mid-race lagers in my [...]

My office mate asked how to fix her PC and I gave some suggestions and offered to have a look myself if it all went tits up.  She wasn’t in Monday but had dropped the PC off and I went ahead and took the initiative and sorted it out.  Wednesday there was a bag on [...]

The Lord Moon of the Mall is a Wetherspoon’s pub in a grand old building about 100 meters from Nelson’s Column.  I arrived hungry and prepared to run as fast as the lingering injuries and half-assed training would allow and so ordered the large breakfast (photo in the race review).  It came with scrambled eggs [...]

Trying to hit my 600th pub before my birthday next weekend, I went the long way for my Sunday farmer’s market errand run.  This took me to the Falcon Inn, a brilliant one room pub as you head west from the town centre.  The barkeep was friendly and the couple of guys already in shooting [...]

Last week was non-stop at work, in fact it was non-stop on EACH of no fewer than three projects at any one time.  This hasn’t happened since my days at University of Arizona and it was invigorating although I am fairly out of practice and these 3-to-5 things floating at one time actually got on [...]

Exiting the Faringdon Budgens with my bottle of chianti for supper just as the bus passed by, I comforted myself with a pint of Cotswold Cider in the Portwell Angel, another basement bar next door to the Old Crown.  The pint was tart, astringent, and very, very good…this was the best cider I’ve had in [...]

Hey, I’m now no longer an Oxford Hasher (having moved house deep into the heart of North Wilts HHH territory) and so I feel it is inappropriate to comment on the trail (at least on your own web site, and moreover: I lost my username and password).  Besides, I never found the trail anyway.  Apparently, [...]

When I hit Faringdon last year for some runs, I was pleased to find so many good pubs.  I ran up to the Swan on one of these loops and found that it was still being prepared to open (I believe the carpet was just being laid and there were scaffolds and shit everywhere.  Now, [...]

There was a beer and wine festival in Garth Park Saturday and included a couple of jazz combos (all part of a city wide jazz festival going on this weekend).  Quite a pleasant day and I tried out a Summer Glory from Vale Brewery and Marshmellow from the Oxfordshire Ales micro brewery.  Both were very [...]