Rich B
@mrrichb.bsky.social
Outdoor educator from sunny south Devon. Loves Dartmoor, hills and mountains, cycling, beer, France and Wales. Torquay United fan. Owner of s-1 bikes.
@brotherbikini.bsky.social Sainte Cru Don’t Panic Hitch Hikers IPA
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
@brotherbikini.bsky.social Sainte Cru Don’t Panic Hitch Hikers IPA
Two fantastic goats cheeses in our hotel room in Cherbourg. A soft and gooey sweet chestnut wrapped leaf Étoile de Provence and an absolutely wonderful Valençay. So good.
December 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Two fantastic goats cheeses in our hotel room in Cherbourg. A soft and gooey sweet chestnut wrapped leaf Étoile de Provence and an absolutely wonderful Valençay. So good.
My gig review from the Wildhearts in Torquay last Sunday is now on the PRSD website:
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Fast-paced, crowd-pleasing and oh so loud | The Wildhearts - the PRSD
Since the early '90s The Wildhearts have never really gone away. Rich Blagden saw them cloud-pleasing and ear-pumping in Torquay
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December 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
My gig review from the Wildhearts in Torquay last Sunday is now on the PRSD website:
www.theprsd.co.uk/2025/12/13/f...
www.theprsd.co.uk/2025/12/13/f...
Our local Post Office has just got in a stock of reindeer slippers. As designed by the late Benny Hill.
December 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Our local Post Office has just got in a stock of reindeer slippers. As designed by the late Benny Hill.
Pint of Dragon’s Breath and Johnny Flynn’s Sillion, I’ve heard it a thousand times but it always sounds fantastic #midweekbeer
December 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Pint of Dragon’s Breath and Johnny Flynn’s Sillion, I’ve heard it a thousand times but it always sounds fantastic #midweekbeer
‘You’re not going to post this on social media, are you dad?’ #dogsofbluesky #festivedog
November 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
‘You’re not going to post this on social media, are you dad?’ #dogsofbluesky #festivedog
Crikey, that’s either some well-positioned fruit or a fine specimen of a howler monkey on Race Around the World!
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Crikey, that’s either some well-positioned fruit or a fine specimen of a howler monkey on Race Around the World!
Looking forward to the weekend already 🥱 This week’s #midweekbeer is a Goram IPA, accompanied by some classic Jesus and Mary Chain.
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Looking forward to the weekend already 🥱 This week’s #midweekbeer is a Goram IPA, accompanied by some classic Jesus and Mary Chain.
A rare visit to Cornwall for a walk around Constantine Bay and Trevose Head.
Constantine Bay and Trevose Head
As someone who lives just 30 miles or so from the Tamar, you'd be amazed at how infrequently I visit Cornwall. We go to Dorset multiple times a year, but a trip out west is as rare as hen's teeth. Aside from a cricket tour, a bike ride and the obligatory geology field trip or two, I haven't been to Cornwall since 2013, when I only had half as many sons as I do now.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A rare visit to Cornwall for a walk around Constantine Bay and Trevose Head.
How can you improve on last week’s #midweekbeer? Well…
November 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
How can you improve on last week’s #midweekbeer? Well…
I'm very proud to have been offered the presidency of the cricket club I founded back in 2008 and skippered for 15 years. Lots of very happy memories created over the years and I'm glad to see the club still thriving #cavendishcavaliers
The Cavendish Cavaliers
Last night I was invited to the end-of-season awards night for the Cavendish Cavaliers, a very fine local cricket club that I ran and skippered for many happy years. To my surprise, the committee had an award for me and I was very proud to be offered the Presidency of the club. An absolute honour and one I was delighted to accept.
blaggers.blog
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I'm very proud to have been offered the presidency of the cricket club I founded back in 2008 and skippered for 15 years. Lots of very happy memories created over the years and I'm glad to see the club still thriving #cavendishcavaliers
Guilty pleasures tonight, this week’s #midweekbeer is one of my homebrews accompanied by the Grease soundtrack.
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Guilty pleasures tonight, this week’s #midweekbeer is one of my homebrews accompanied by the Grease soundtrack.
On Friday I took part in the Moonrakers and Sunseekers audax, a 300km from Bristol to Poole and back. Here is the story of the ride.
Moonrakers and Sunseekers 2025
Beautiful dawn at Bournemouth It's 5.30am on a Saturday. The air is cold and crisp, bitingly sharp on the lungs. My fingers and toes are satisfyingly numb with the cold. Behind us, away to the east, the sky is starting to crimson below a thin line of grey clouds, and the warming air will soon shroud the water with a glorious fine mist that will scatter the dawn light.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
On Friday I took part in the Moonrakers and Sunseekers audax, a 300km from Bristol to Poole and back. Here is the story of the ride.
There could only be one accompaniment tonight, after watching Deliver Me From Nowhere it has to be Nebraska. Exeter Brewery’s Darkness is the fine #midweekbeer
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
There could only be one accompaniment tonight, after watching Deliver Me From Nowhere it has to be Nebraska. Exeter Brewery’s Darkness is the fine #midweekbeer
A middle aged man in faded jeans, an 80s rock band T-shirt and a leather jacket walks into a cinema and orders a beer. Must be time for the Springsteen movie.
November 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A middle aged man in faded jeans, an 80s rock band T-shirt and a leather jacket walks into a cinema and orders a beer. Must be time for the Springsteen movie.
Back at Hennock tonight on the edge of Dartmoor. So much amazing sky in this photo looking east from Hennock: Pleiades, Taurus, Orion rising and, I think, Jupiter bottom left. What a night.
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Back at Hennock tonight on the edge of Dartmoor. So much amazing sky in this photo looking east from Hennock: Pleiades, Taurus, Orion rising and, I think, Jupiter bottom left. What a night.
This week’s #midweekbeer is a homebrew (unnamed) Vienna lager, only from a kit but it’s very nice. Accompanied by the brilliant and also slightly BIY pink-folk madness of Peat and Diesel 🏴 🏝️
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This week’s #midweekbeer is a homebrew (unnamed) Vienna lager, only from a kit but it’s very nice. Accompanied by the brilliant and also slightly BIY pink-folk madness of Peat and Diesel 🏴 🏝️
This week’s #midweekbeer is a pint of Trail Blazer, a 5.6% west coast pale ale from Dark Revolution in Salisbury. Every mouthful a reminder of those sweet three points. Accompanied on the vinyl by the Wildhearts, I must be in a good mood 😎 and looking forward to seeing them in Torquay in December
October 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This week’s #midweekbeer is a pint of Trail Blazer, a 5.6% west coast pale ale from Dark Revolution in Salisbury. Every mouthful a reminder of those sweet three points. Accompanied on the vinyl by the Wildhearts, I must be in a good mood 😎 and looking forward to seeing them in Torquay in December
It’s funny rewatching Star Trek TNG and realising that we’ve already got better torches than they imagined we could have in 350 years’ time. It’s the little things.
October 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It’s funny rewatching Star Trek TNG and realising that we’ve already got better torches than they imagined we could have in 350 years’ time. It’s the little things.
Owing to a lack of decent beer in either my house or the local shops, this week’s #midweekbeer is a Hobgoblin King Goblin. Sometimes the right mood music presents itself and Springsteen’s Letter to You fits the bill perfectly - a wonderful record bursting with sentimentality and big picture warmth.
October 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Owing to a lack of decent beer in either my house or the local shops, this week’s #midweekbeer is a Hobgoblin King Goblin. Sometimes the right mood music presents itself and Springsteen’s Letter to You fits the bill perfectly - a wonderful record bursting with sentimentality and big picture warmth.
Something a little different - a post about the enduring friendships forged 25 years ago in the Andes.
A Bunch of Lovely Trekkers
Machu Picchu seen from the Sun Gate at dawn, September 2000 Last weekend, I went away to Hay-on-Wye with a small but wonderful group of people. A group of people who, I have realised over the last couple of weeks, are very special to me. Back in September 2000, I was part of a group of about 40 charity trekkers who met at Heathrow airport heading for Peru.
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September 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Something a little different - a post about the enduring friendships forged 25 years ago in the Andes.
Slowly working my way back through Star Trek, starting with TNG. Boys are watching with interest and I’ve just had a short but complicated discussion with eldest about ST physics and how and why it differs from Red Dwarf. More interesting conversations ahead I expect!
a bald man in a red uniform with a star trek logo on his chest .
ALT: a bald man in a red uniform with a star trek logo on his chest .
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September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Slowly working my way back through Star Trek, starting with TNG. Boys are watching with interest and I’ve just had a short but complicated discussion with eldest about ST physics and how and why it differs from Red Dwarf. More interesting conversations ahead I expect!
Does anyone still read blogs? If so, you're in luck. In which I get morose about autumn, enjoy a savage climb and hit a large pothole.
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Green Lanes, Potholes and Punctures
Summer ended pretty sharpish, didn’t it? One day I was sitting on the decking in the evening sunshine enjoying a pre-dinner pastis and a few olives, and the next I was sitting in my kitchen l…
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September 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Does anyone still read blogs? If so, you're in luck. In which I get morose about autumn, enjoy a savage climb and hit a large pothole.
blaggers.blog/2025/09/15/g...
blaggers.blog/2025/09/15/g...