A Pint Or Two

April The Wonston Arms – Wonston April’s pub goes to The Wonston Arm’s ,currently a CAMRA top four national pub of the year , I await February’s results, but know it’s more than worthy. The local community got together and saved the village  from being a pub desert, the transformation from a near derelict pub a… Continue reading 2018 pubs Of The Year Part Two

Well that’s seen the back of an at times an eventful year for me, so here are some of the better bits, my favorite pubs visited month by month. January The Surrey Oaks – Newdigate It can often be a bleak month but for me it was somewhat brightened  by a chance visit to The… Continue reading 2018 A Year In Pubs Part One

It was a grey and dreary day when the four of us set off toward the hinterland that is the Isle of Purbeck. Big Nigel sacrificed himself and did the hour and forty five minute drive, myself , big Trev and GB, aka The Sage Of Odiham made up the numbers. The target was the… Continue reading Squaring Up To a Gloomy Saturday

Continuing the stroll around St Albans with the band of merry men I met up with in The Robin Hood, we had visited The Mermaid, then the Boot. Next was the turn of The Lower Red Lion. Another pleasant old pub , rather homely inside. The conversation resumed, aided in my case with a decent… Continue reading Red Lions And Fighting Cocks

You know its a proper country pub when you are greeted by some of the locals, hanging around outside the pub door. The Anchor In Lower Froyle, set in the Hampshire countryside certainly is one. Inside it is everything you would expect, ancient wooden beams and rafters ,dangerously low ceiling’s, horse brasses and endless bric… Continue reading Hanging Around In The Countryside