Take A Butchers

A trip to Southampton last Saturday saw me leave The Bookshop Alehouse  on a number 7 bus crossing the River Itchen into Bitterne in search of a new scalp, The Butchers Hook. I would have happily walked the mile or so but the weather was being less than cooperative, it was two quid well spent. Well…

2018 Pubs Of The Year Part Four

October October was quite a month, my first ever visit to Manchester, I stayed over two nights and visited several pubs that should grace these pages, but unfortunately the rule is one pub per month, also October graced  me with my first near death and out of body experience, weird to say the least. But enough…

More Pubs Of The Year 2018 Part Three

July The Harp July’s pub is an Iconic London pub on the edge of Covent Garden, one I have been using six or seven times a year for more than a decade now. It was July 1st  in the midst of a heatwave and my first pub of the month, I got there 10 minutes…

2018 pubs Of The Year Part 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…

2018 A Year In Pubs Part One

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…