A Few Drinks In : Stafford

A few years ago, London Midland trains ran a promotion where they sold a day ticket covering their whole train network for £15. It was a genius idea which was rinsed by me on several occasions. It was ideal for beer trips, and one of these I took to Stafford. And I was so impressed…

Drinking Outside in Liverpool

Bank Holidays! We need more of them, St George’s Day should be one, we have the fewest in Western Europe you know etc etc. This early May Bank Holiday crept up on me seeing as I have been mostly off work for the past two months in what was a string of bank holidays one…

5 Beers To Drink Watching the Royal Wedding

  Five pints of Draught Bass

Bibit Illa Cervisium : How do we get women to drink beer?

One of my favourite films is Calamity Jane. There’s a great musical number where Jane – who smells like a horse and wears a raccoon skin hat – is convinced by her friend Katie that maybe their shack would be improved slightly by brushing up some of the crap off the floor and hanging some…

Drinking With A Broken Wrist

When people saw me sporting a beige arm splint they naturally assumed I had broken my wrist whilst drunk. Not true. We all know that when you’re drunk your body takes on a natural floppiness not unlike that of a five day old tulip stem, and that if you fall when drunk, most of the…