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HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 64 - EDINBURGH AND THE LOTHIANS

HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 64 – EDINBURGH AND THE LOTHIANS

A belated return to the celebrated (in North Korea) “Half a dozen pubs…” series, which I might finish by 22nd December. Talking of which, where will I be on the most important day…

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retiredmartin

@NHS_Martin

2 years

What a place to finish the Good Beer Guide. The Taversoe, Rousay, Orkney Thanks to @christinet50 for putting up with me over the last 30 years of GBG ticking.

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7 months

Cheese and Onion cob, Pipers crisps, Neepsend 5% London Porter finished in a wooden cask, Sheffield hospitality. Six pounds £6. #Sheffield #Wellington

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2 years

GOOD BEER GUIDE ? DONE IT, MATE

Well, I’m there. The Taversoe, Rousay (pop.200). Tick 4,501 of 4,501. The GBG complete. And Mrs RM is with me. Sorry, black and white photo as it’s Scotland. Actually, she’s the o…

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8 months

Should I go in ?

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4 years

It's 8am and if you're not already in a Spoons ordering your full English with coffee for £2.24 and sending the 50% bill to your grandchildren then you hate pubs.

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2 years

Dryanuary going well so far...

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8 months

Not much beats the noise of chats and clinking glasses in a London pub at 5:45pm. Ship & Shovell

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

With 5 pubs in Orkney ticked in 75 minutes, just ONE remains to conquer GBG22 You know what it is.

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4 years

Pub.

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2 years

"Just to let you know, the mild is 6.5%".

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

INFAMY AT LAST

As you’ll know I’m incredibly shy, I really am. But also incredibly stupid, and could never say “No” to anything, particularly if there was a pub at the end of it. Having to…

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@NHS_Martin

7 months

2 blokes in the Wellington on bottles of coke discussing Jethro Tull albums. "Broadsword and the Beast" the best album apparently. First saw Tull 68. The Welly might be the best pub in the world @oldmudgie

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

Worth the mile walk in deep snow for the reopening of a packed Fagans, and the first (excellent) Bass in Sheffield since @thewickingman was in shorts. @shfCAMRA

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

Blimey. Bass in Kent. Miners Arms. Dunton Green.

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@NHS_Martin

5 years

Found the best opening times on the whole of WhatPub. Headed there next.

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@NHS_Martin

1 year

All the choice you ever need. [pic shows Bass on both pumps with two different clip designs}

Si BRAPA Everitt

@StymieSi

1 year

BRAPA is ..... THE KING OF WISHFUL HINCKING (Leics 2/2)

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@NHS_Martin

10 months

Mrs RM gets Old Peculier and Pipers for her birthday next to Isaac Newton's apple Tree.

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

Good morning. 4,500 down, 1 to go.

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

I AM THE ONE AND ONLY…TAVERSOE IN ROUSAY

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7 months

Train chaos at Derby. Only one answer..

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@NHS_Martin

3 years

Bass from the jug.

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@NHS_Martin

3 years

17:02. Plenty of time for a pint, Derby.

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

£1.95 your NBSS 4 pint of Banks's Mild in the Halfway House, a top new GBG entry in Aston-under-Lyne. Who says the Beer Guide is all micros and brewery taps ?

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@NHS_Martin

6 years

Deeply impressed by Eddie Mair's quiet, dignified departure from Radio 4 PM. A giant of broadcasting left the BBC yesterday. #EddieMair

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@NHS_Martin

6 years

Great day being shown around St Albans pubs by Roger Protz. City and pubs in fine form. @RogerProtzBeer @UllageBeer

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

NO MORE WORLDS LEFT TO CONQUER

Thank you for all your good wishes on completing the Beer Guide at lunchtime in Rousay. It was an emotional morning, a mix of worry, joy and panic. And calories. This was breakfast at the West End …

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@NHS_Martin

1 year

Train arrives Brigg 11.08 Leaves at 13.49 Time for 6 pubs then.

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@NHS_Martin

7 years

TOP PUB PHOTOS OF 2017

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@NHS_Martin

5 years

I'm not "a beer person" but I'm missing this. #Pub

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@NHS_Martin

4 years

My lads girlfriend's parents have Joy Division oven gloves.

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@NHS_Martin

11 months

A PINT UNDER A FIVER IN THE EUSTON TAP

November 2023. Euston. Walking fast in London is an art form. Somehow I’d knocked that 42 minutes to reach the station down to 26 by the time the Euston Tap hove into view, and while other op…

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@NHS_Martin

1 year

More pubs should tell us their payment preference.

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@NHS_Martin

1 year

YOUR HOTEL RECOMMENDATION FOR HIPSTER HALIFAX

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@NHS_Martin

7 months

New Post - Rochdale's refurbished Town Hall is a national gem. @VisitRochdale

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7 months

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9 months

Scousers dancing to Bay City Rollers in the White Star. I have completed life.

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@NHS_Martin

6 years

"We're a Campaign for Real Ale, not for beers from microbreweries in pubs with a huge range of beers" "The point of the GBG is to direct people to pubs where ordering a pint of cask, at any time, isn’t a lottery." Wise words from Mr Boley & Mr Edwardson on Discourse @oldmudgie

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@NHS_Martin

1 year

£2.05 your pint of Old Peculiar in Tunbridge Wells Spoons. #winning

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@NHS_Martin

7 years

"5 pubs closed in January.. Never mind, no doubt a new micropub will open, where you can perch on uncomfortable stools & drink a pint of ale from a brewery you’ve never heard of. So long as it’s not on a Monday or Tuesday, & not before 4 pm. So things aren’t too bad, then." 👏

Pub Curmudgeon 🌸🍻

@oldmudgie

7 years

New blogpost - a cold dry January has seen five more pubs lost in Stockport (photo: Victoria, Offerton)

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@NHS_Martin

5 years

Not good enough for the Beer Guide, apparently . Still good enough for my Top 10. Bass from the cask in front of the fire in the Poets is one of life's great joys. 🔺

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@NHS_Martin

3 years

It lives ! Greene King XX Mild in Stevenage Chequers. Lovely pint, top pub. @RogerProtzBeer @wscBeer

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@NHS_Martin

4 years

New Post - You'll miss it when it's gone, you really will. @TheJollyAngler @MCRCentralCamra

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@NHS_Martin

4 years

First pint of cask. No sign of carnage in Blyth yet. #PubsAreBack

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5 years

Are there better ways to waste two hours on a Wednesday afternoon in Borough ? @selcamra @royaloakborough

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@NHS_Martin

6 years

My face when I realise Aberdeen pubs aren't licensed till 11am.

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@NHS_Martin

6 years

AN OFFICIAL BASS SHRINE – THE STAR INN, BATH

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

I AM THE ONE AND ONLY…TAVERSOE IN ROUSAY

What a day this has been. Twelve (12) pubs, 6 pints of Scapa Special, 1 inadvisable Orkney whisky, far too much country music on the St Ola jukebox, which ends with me needing just the one (1) pub …

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

Happy Birthday to @christinet50 , who (checks notes) doesn't look as old as she is or I make her feel. Lunch at the Marble Arch.

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

Bass on a Wednesday afternoon.

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

The final 1%

I’m sitting in a hot pub garden in the Somerset levels, campervan parked for the night, drinking a second OK pint in an hour while Slade sing “Cum on feel the noize” (sic. As the …

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@NHS_Martin

4 years

Just told @christinet50 they'd found water on the moon. "Which Wetherspoons is that ?" she asks. #MoreToLifeThanPubsDear

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@NHS_Martin

1 year

Rochester is brilliant isn't it ?

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@NHS_Martin

5 years

Really sorry to just hear of the death of Richard Coldwell, a great mate as well as top beer writer and Yorkshireman. Thoughts with Cheryl and family. @RichardColdwell @RogerProtzBeer @StymieSi

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7 months

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2 years

Please open soon.

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7 months

Always a great looking pub, today the Posada delivered on beer quality. Cool, crisp, clean Banks's Amber a 4.5.

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2 years

You can trust a pub that sells Slabs. Free brown sauce with this one, too. A corker of a pub. @TheShirkersRest

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@NHS_Martin

5 years

My 18 year old son has been living in Manchester 3 days and has already, 1. Seen a man walking a ferret down Fairfield St at 11pm (why were you in Fairfield St. Matt? ) 2. Worked out United don't play in Manchester. 3. Learnt it's "cob" not bap. My work is done.

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@NHS_Martin

4 years

He's back! @StymieSi #BRAPA

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

Christmas morning means cheap Orkney cask in Spoons with the lad.

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

Great to see @RogerProtzBeer back in a pub today, and no better place than the Lower Red Lion !

Roger Protz

@RogerProtzBeer

2 years

Ignore the glass! My first #CaskAle since op in a pub @LowerRed St Albans. It's @TringBrewery Side Pocket & tasted sublime. The occasion, a celebration of 50 years of @SouthHertsCAMRA ! @CAMRA_Official

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@NHS_Martin

3 years

Real fire, pint of Mild, pork scratchings, finishing North Yorkshire Beer Guide in style. Life is Sweet.

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@NHS_Martin

4 years

Happy 60th Wedding Anniversary Mum and Dad. Better dressed than I was at your age.

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@NHS_Martin

4 years

New Post - Seven great places to drink Bass, flat, tight head or banked.🔺 A recount has been requested in Portishead and Pontfaen.

MY FAVOURITE BASS PUBS

“Your favourite pubs in which to have a pint of Bass” Another request from Dave; those Yanks are so demanding, aren’t they ? Here’s seven, one a day. Quite a celestial bunch…

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@NHS_Martin

1 year

FINALLY, THE TAN HILL INN

FINALLY, THE TAN HILL INN !

August 2023. Tan Hill. Having completed the Beer Guide I wondered if I’d finally visited all the classic pubs in the UK, but then I realised that the Crooked House never made the GBG while I …

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@NHS_Martin

7 months

Completely pissed in Harpenden on Sunday night.

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@NHS_Martin

3 years

Six months after moving to Sheffield, I finally finish the Beer Guide entries for South Yorkshire. The Stop Inn Time is a corking place to finish. @RotherhamCAMRA

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@NHS_Martin

1 year

Norfolk has fallen

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1 year

DOOMED IN CROMER

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5 years

AREN’T SAM SMITHS PUBS GORGEOUS ?

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

Pissed.

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@NHS_Martin

3 years

If you're not in a beer garden in the rain RIGHT NOW, then you hate pubs.

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

Isle of Man has fallen ! Okells Bitter cool and clean and consistent. 5 pubs all open as advertised. Thanks to @NorthIrishSea Dave for reassurance and research.

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@NHS_Martin

7 months

Now That's What I Call A Cob Vol. 5

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2 years

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN – 22 BECOMES 21

Two (2) weeks ago I completed Wales AND England and suddenly only had 22 to complete the Beer Guide and follow in the shadow of the Pubmeister. Twenty two ? Piece of ****, surely ? Well, first I ha…

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

Stuff the Good Beer Guide. Sam Smiths Brown Bear is the best pub in the world, and Sam Smiths Stout is the best beer.

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@NHS_Martin

10 months

Leicestershire is also, of course, the home of the classic cheese and onion cob and pint of Bass combo. (Shilton Vaults, Earl Shilton)

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10 months

HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY COUNTY. No. 20 - LEICESTERSHIRE

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3 years

I'd just like to thank the staff of the Westbury in Turnpike Lane for putting out the fire I (accidentally) started. Tea lights are a BAD idea.

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

No sleep till Cladach Kirkibost ! The assault on the final 22 pubs in the GBG begins at Ben Nevis.

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2 years

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN – 22 BECOMES 21

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3 years

Best 25 December lunch ever.

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@NHS_Martin

4 years

Happy Birthday @oldmudgie 🍻 Have a virtual pub cat and pint.

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@NHS_Martin

4 years

Joining the queue for the Spoons. If you're not in it, you hate pubs.

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

Sheffield CAMRA AGM to offer guided tours of “Good” Doom Bar venues

Well, the end of another fun month, and April brings with it both endless sunshine (where I’m going, anyway) and the return of the CAMRA Members Weekend to Sheffield. I need to get my volunte…

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@NHS_Martin

6 years

Spot the cats in Chris's new post from Brizzle. @oldmudgie #BagOfNails

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@NHS_Martin

3 years

I've left the rest of the Old Codgers to do their craft bars while I do a Proper Pub in Stockport.

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@NHS_Martin

7 years

Another one ticked off my Bucket List. Drinking warm Doom Bar in a tired Brewer's Fayre on the edge of Glenrothes. Gotta love the Good Beer Guide.

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@NHS_Martin

9 months

Bass in the White Star 🔺 @thewickingman

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@NHS_Martin

3 years

Thank you to the lovely Matthew in @CAMRA_Official Subs who kindly sorted my GBG issue. Will get it next week so will guess the new entries till then. Stress levels reducing.

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

First campervan overnighter for a while, just outside Accrington. £2.50 your Kebab meat, £3.70 your Thwaites in a posh dining pub. Admit it, you're jealous.

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1 year

THE BEST PART OF COMPLETING THE BEER GUIDE IS BEING ALLOWED TO DRINK PINTS IN PUBS LIKE THE SCHOLAR'S

THE BEST PART OF COMPLETING THE BEER GUIDE IS BEING ALLOWED TO DRINK PINTS IN PUBS LIKE THE SCHOL...

September 2023. Scarborough. Well, you can’t spend the equivalent of 13 and a third pints of OBB on your rail ticket getting to Scarborough and just do the two ticks. If I’d turned up a…

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1 year

In beautiful Newcastle to see The Japanese House. Mrs RM is watching Les Dennis. What can it mean ? And how good is the Bridge Hotel ?

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1 year

New Post - Pubs in record shops CAN work. Smugglers, Deal. Expect chaos.

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1 year

TOP 100 PUBS - SMUGGLERS RECORDS, DEAL

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2 years

Leaving Rousay having completed the Good Beer Guide. It's taken a toll on one of us, I can tell you. Mrs RM aged 25 years as I reversed on to the ferry.

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

What a place to finish the Good Beer Guide. The Taversoe, Rousay, Orkney Thanks to @christinet50 for putting up with me over the last 30 years of GBG ticking.

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3 years

Avoiding the pointless football in the Kelham Island Tavern. #FootballWithoutFodenIsNothing

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4 years

YES, CLIVE, IT WAS WORTH THE WAIT

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4 years

DRINKING AT HOME

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11 months

Nottinghamshire has fallen.

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11 months

DIVING INTO ATTENBOROUGH

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6 years

£5 to watch Sir Alastair bat in the Fenners sun on the opening day of the English cricket season. AND a couple of Spoons vouchers left for lunch. What a life. #CambridgeMCCU

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

Shropshire GBG has fallen, Herefordshire too. A great day. Thanks @christinet50 Celebrating unwisely with Thatchers in the Seven Stars near Builth Wells.

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3 years

Train delayed, no problem.

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11 months

😭😭😭😭😭

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@NHS_Martin

2 years

THE 2022 RETIRED MARTIN AWARDS ISSUE

As someone who treats every day as important as the next (except 22 December, obviously) you may be surprised I even recognise the end of the year as a thing. But the Awards issue is a contractual …

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