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December 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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TOP 100 PUBS.  THE RUDDY DUCK, BEXHILL-on-SEA
December 2025. Bexhill-on-Sea. Mrs RM enjoyed our lunchtime in Sussex-by-the-Sea, remembering the times that her aunt (it was probably her granny but I’m not strong on genealogy) took her to …
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December 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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THE ALBATROSS
December 2025. Bexhill-on-Sea. There’s no point sitting in a caravan in the rain in Rye, waiting for the next elderly parent crisis to hit, when you could be on a train to a town with pubs. M…
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December 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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FUTURE FOLKESTONE FROLICS
December 2025. Folkestone. Kent. Lots of pubs in Folkestone to revisit, but the two Harbour taps that interest me (Floc and Iron Pier) don’t open till later in the week, and they’re cer…
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December 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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FINALLY ! AN UNSCUFFED HARVEY’S GLASS. THE MARINER, FOLKESTONE
December 2025. Folkestone. Kent. Leaving Folkestone Harbour Arm, with its scary giant seagulls that look like they’ve escaped from Squid Games, we suddenly find it’s nearly half three, …
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December 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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WHY DID NO-ONE TELL MRS RM ABOUT FOLKESTONE HARBOUR ARM
December 2025. Folkestone. Kent. Where did you leave us ? Oh yes, clambering up the steps from the Hymn and Hyrs in Folkestone Spoons, about to tackle the High Street (aka Steep Hill). Even the scr…
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December 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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“FOLKESTONE IS AN ART SCHOOL”
December 2025. Folkestone. Kent. Mrs RM is planning a series of posts on the Kent coast, which by her definition starts at Rochester and skips Gillingham on the way to Whitstable and beyond. Graves…
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December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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THE TOILET AT THE BURGESS HILL SIGNALBOX
Finally from Burgess Hill, an unexpected source of blog material, a bit of art, and a bit of craft. The Signalbox opens at 4pm, and I’ll skip over the question of why craft bars open when it&…
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December 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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“Lower your expectations”. ChatGPT prepares me for bucolic Burgess Hill.
December 2025. Burgess Hill. If this blog had a Mission Statement, it it would be “to promote the UK’s lesser known highlights” (Leek, Leicester, Leigh) and to warn people away fr…
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December 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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TOAD IN THE HOLE AT BN6 CRAFT BAR
December 2025. Hassocks. The vagaries of pub opening times laid bare in one day’s ticking. 1. Burgess Hill Spoons, open from 9am 2. Hassocks BN6 craft bar, open from 3pm 3. Burgess Hill Signa…
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December 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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IS KEYMER PART OF HASSOCKS, OR VICE VERSA ?
December 2025. Keymer and Hassocks. An exciting Tuesday in the South Downs, but not exciting enough to attract Mrs RM away from the comfort of her caravan in Rye Harbour where she had a) working Wi…
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December 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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THE JOY OF BURGESS HILL SPOONS
December 2025. Burgess Hill. West Sussex Ah, Bucolic Burgess Hill. I’d been before, just the once, when Quench got in the GBG over a decade ago. Even Harvey’s can’t keep Quench in…
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December 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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WHY, WIVELSFIELD ?
December 2025. Wivelsfield. West Sussex. But first, “Where, Wivelsfield ?” Firmly Mid Sussex, though as Mid Sussex doesn’t exist in the GBG, it’s a dip into the West Sussex …
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December 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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A PINT FOR MUDGIE
December 2025. Rye Harbour. Back in Rye from Waterbeach last Sunday, stunned at the news that Peter had died, I spent the next day writing about Mudgie and reading tributes to the man. Mrs RM had e…
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December 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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YOU SHOULD ALWAYS KEEP IN TOUCH WITH YOUR FRIENDS. NOW, MORE THAN EVER
December 2025. Waterbeach. I forgot this photo last time, Dale’s Brewery converted to Hot Numbers coffee shop, one of Cambridge’s premier meeting points for folk who don’t pub. Wh…
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December 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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REINDEERS AT THE CAMBRIDGE BLUE
December 2025. Cambridge. I barely spent an hour at the Mill Road Winter Fair, enough for a couple of pubs, a couple of carols (is “Get Lucky” a carol ?), an ounce of regret I’d a…
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December 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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MILL ROAD WINTER FAIR
December 2025. Cambridge. For the first time in a decade, I found myself in Cambridge on the same day as the Mill Road Winter Fair, one of the Big events in a social calendar dominated by Shakespea…
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December 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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NATIVITY
December 2025. Waterbeach. Back at Sunnyside to see Dad in his care home, greeted by the smile that melts your heart, and feeling rather jealous of his meat balls lunch while we survive on meal dea…
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December 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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PUTTING UP THE TREE IN OLD HARLOW
December 2025. Old Harlow. A day in Southborough with the in-laws; a cancelled medical appointment causes irritation but a Meal for 3 from Meows compensates a little. Now this will come as a surpri…
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December 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAKE IN TANKERTON
December 2025. Tankerton. Whitstable. Finally we come to the end of our Whitstable overnighter, ignoring the call of the seafood bistros in favour of the Tesco Express yards from our campervan in T…
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December 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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OYSTER BEDS
December 2025. Folkestone. Leaving the Old Neptune, and the glorious sunset Mrs RM had just missed, we headed over seashells and pebbles towards Whitstable’s oyster beds. I’ll eat (and …
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December 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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SUNSET OVER THE OLD NEPTUNE
December 2025. Whitstable. I’d only been gone those 67 minutes in Sittingbourne, leaving Mrs RM in Whitstable Spoons to do what Spoons are there for; recharge your phone, use the free Wi-Fi, …
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December 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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MRS RM SITS OUT SITTINGBOURNE IN SPOONS
December 2025. Whitstable. “Sittingbourne !!! Why on EARTH would I want to go there ?” said Mrs RM, crossing the road to Whitstable Spoons. And so I left her to charge her phone in the …
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December 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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THE PARK TAVERN, SITTINGBOURNE. AN OLD MUDGIE SORT OF PUB
December 2025. Sittingbourne. Back to my campervan overnighter in Whitstable last week, as I leave Mrs RM in the glamour of the Spoons and nip off to Sittingbourne to tick the sort of new GBG entry…
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December 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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A tale of two beers, Oxford Rd Tap and Co-Op Live
Useful numbers all Train station tap rooms are some of my favourite things, as a permanently early person who would rather give up a major organ than miss a pre-booked train. Don’t talk to me…
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December 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM