Something was familiar about the Emperer but I couldn’t put my finger on it until I was ready to leave and stopped by the toilets to evacuate…it USED to be the Globe Ale House.  I had many steaks in here at lunchtime when I worked around the corner, but the new paint, the pleasant music [...]

So it has come to this…1000 posts in less than 3 years (975 days, to be precise). In that time we have come quite far together:  712 pub stops, 4025 miles running (1740 unique miles in the UK, at that), almost 96000 views of this blog  (averaging about 200/day the last few months after slow [...]

I claimed at some point in the blog’s history that I would not enter a chain pub…like All-Bar-One or The Snug.  Okay, fine.  It was the end of a long and stressful moving week for the lab and I made such a scene at the Panton (fuck the Panton) last time that we had to [...]

The Ozzy is now open days.  The Christmas shoppers and seasonal office drinkers were too tempting and the bar has decided to tap this market.  I stopped in with a half mile remaining to return to work from a cold and dreary run and was cheered to find the place open before 6 and even [...]

The clock on the mass spec desktop was running 15 minutes slow and I missed the 7:10 bus as a result, resulting in an hour and ten minute wait for the next one.  I fell back on killing the time with a copy of the Gaurdian and a beer at the St. Radegund.  Walking in [...]

I have said before that, as regards hashing, I’m not a big fan of dead (pre-laid) trails, but I have to admit that last night’s Cantabrigensis HHH trail is an exception to that rule. Twenty hashers met at the St. Radegund on King Street, Cambridge and were transported by taxi to the start at the [...]

Fuck ‘em. Ordered a burger with blue cheese and bacon but no mayo at 12:35.  Stooge behind the bar writes down burger, blue and bacon no mayo.  1:50 pm rolls around and she brings out a plate and asks who had a burger blue cheese bacon no mayo?  I get it and proceed to scrape [...]

I have visited the Alma close to a dozen times during its posted opening hours and this was the first time I wasn’t greeted by a locked door or a sign stating that they will reopen some number of hours later.  I shouldn’t have bothered. The door was open to the spacious and empty front [...]

Or London, or Glasgow…or could be staying put. A world of opportunity in such a small island. You know, it’s funny how things never turn out the way you had ‘em planned. The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter is that his name wasn’t Henry Porter. And, you know there was something [...]

The weather has been absolutely gorgeous except for the times when it has been completely shit.  Above, there was a nice day in the village, so I shot the house (above) on my way to catch the bus to work. Then, I noticed that the neighbourhood kids must have been bored the night before, having [...]