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Little Known Facts About Andy Murray #43297
He played with Slade in 1974 almost 40 years before winning the US Open.
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Great Grannie’s Favorite Pub Was A Boat
Great-grannie passed away in 1946. Tales have been told about her ways. If you click on the thumbnail you will see the house above the car where she lived on the second floor, stepping out on the...
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Scotland: The Holyrood 9A, Edinburgh
Made it. Fourteen hours door to door to Uncle and Auntie’s. Next day? Children down to the pub. Well, a pub. The Holyrood 9A in Edinburgh’s Old Town. It’s warm. The warmest room so far. Williams Caesar...
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If This Is Monday Is That Longniddry?
By the second week, I’ve given up on most places listed in the guides like The Malt Shovel as there are rules against kids even in their mid-teens coming into some pubs that have me befuddled. I...
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So That’s Us Back From Scotland. Did I Learn Anything?
The Golfer’s Rest in North Berwick, East Lothian. When we sat down on the bay window sofa cushions, I said to the kids “now, this is a pub” by which I meant a space that had the feel of a shared...
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Back From That Trip To Scotland That I Mentioned…
I was away for a week on a business trip to Scotland. A whole week? Well, as I am the son of two of those Scots who took to the four corners of the world, I did add a couple of days of vacation but,...
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Looking Out The Window Of A Pub
It’s one of my favorite things to do, sitting looking out the window of a pub. This was last Monday afternoon. The Bow Bar in Edinburgh. I was just getting used to the time zone and would fly out the...
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Your Saturday Morning News Not From Boak And Bailey
Six thirty Ay Hem. That’s what you get when you go to bed early on a Friday. After having a nap around supper time. That’s how I think of myself on this sort of Saturday. Okocimiski. Three elections in...
View ArticleDavid Shrigley’s “My Beer”
I heard this yesterday on BBC 6 at about 3:30 in the afternoon. On Iggy Pop‘s show. Afternoon off. Snoozing on a summer day. Or was it folding laundry. Catching up with chores or closed eyelids. David...
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Rebus Drinking In Scotland and England
Something very odd has happened to me over these last two months, August and September. I am reading novels. Rebus novels. I haven’t read novels for years. Decades. For some reason, I was driven off...
View ArticleA Few (Hah!) Additional Tudor Calais Brewery Tidbits
The Tudor resources over at British History Online are a wee bucket of gold. The last few posts under the 1500s tag are largely from the Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 1,...
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All The Good News Beer News For 03Q218
What day is it? The meds are making for a blur. Without getting overly graphic, the other day there were four hands within inches of my nose and two of them were working a thread and needle. Gums were...
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Some Beery News Links For The Sudden Coming Of Spring
It is obviously a tough time here in Ontario and in Canada. The mass murder on Yonge Street in Toronto on Monday has struck hard and will affect many for years to come. It has come so soon after the...
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The Post Victoria Day Blues Edition Of Your Beery News Notes
Erg. I have post Victoria Day general body disorder. When one is a young adult in Canada, the May 2-4 weekend can lead to the three day hangover version of VDGBD but in my case it is merely a case of...
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It’s Your Mid-October Beer News For A Thursday
Another Thursday, another week of watching the ticker tape of tweets go by. I turn 55 and 1/2 today. Because it’s my brother’s birthday and he was born a year and a half to the day before me. That’s...
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The Resistance to Change As Spring Arrives Edition of Your Thursday Beer News
Spring! Let’s get going right away with this tweet from Joe: I am against fetishizing containers and dispense methods. I am for glasses of beer with sturdy foam in comfortable pub and home settings....
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England’s Increasing Concern Over Beer Brewing, 1430s to 1580s
I have a thing for a beer I have never had. Double Double. As I understand it, this beer was made by recirculating perfectly good wort and rebrewing it through a new batch of malt. In the mid-1500s, it...
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June! June?? June!!! The Thursday Beer News For The First Week Of June
So… on Monday night it was just +5C overnight in nearby Ottawa. I have my furnace on June. I sat out the other afternoon and wondered if I might put on long pants and mull a little ale. My radishes...
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The Thursday Beer News For All Of Us Actually Putting In A Day’s Work
I don’t know if this is a warning or tidings of good cheer. Boak and Bailey issued a short news post on Saturday because “not much has really grabbed our attention” and Stan followed suit. That’s...
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The 36 Hours From Vacation Edition Of Your Thursday Beer Notes
Have I mentioned I am going on vacation? Not really doing much but not doing much is exactly what I want to do. Napping. Snoozing. The whole rang of middle aged man stuff. Mowing will be in there, too....
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