Keeping the memories alive…
Ok, not actually in Huddersfield for Christmas but this trip was a Christmas present to Patrick from me so technically it was Huddersfield for Christmas. Two nights in a Travelodge I know how to treat a man eh! So, the plan was to visit Magic Rock Tap on Friday night, spend the Saturday mooching and shopping in Huddersfield town centre and then a Saturday night pub crawl around some of the fine ale lovers hostelries followed …
Read moreOh My Word, I have been so neglectful of this blog and I’m quite disappointed in myself because I do this primarily for myself because I enjoy looking back through it from time to time. It’s surprising how you forget how you felt until you read your own words back. So, I think I’d better try and bring things up to date as much as possible. So much has happened that I’ll have blog in …
Read moreAs I mentioned a few weeks ago, I volunteered to help at the Hull & East Yorkshire CAMRA beer festival this year and I have to say, I had great fun. It was being held inside the Holy Trinity Church in Hull’s market place which is apparently the largest parish church in the UK. I arrived on the Thursday at around 5:30 ready to start my shift on the handpulled beers bar at 6pm not …
Read moreHow time flies! I really did intend on making sure I had a new post out each week so I can’t believe that two weeks have gone by since my last post. Firstly the brilliant news for this post is that my work colleague took her triplets home from the hospital last Friday. Here are the little teensy matinee sets that I had knitted, I was chuffed to bits to discover that she had used …
Read moreA few weeks ago, Patrick and I went to Hipperholme in Halifax. Why would anyone do that you ask? Well it was specifically to visit The Cock O’ The North pub which is the tap of the Halifax Steam Brewing Company. We had had the place recommended to us by a couple of guys in our local pub The Wellington Inn (which doesn’t appear to have it’s own website any longer). So, The Cock o’ the …
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