9 days ago by justmidlife

News reached me this week that the small village pub which my friends and I have frequented on a regular basis for many years has called time for the last time. This will be a huge blow for the local community as well as lovers of the fortnightly pub quiz. Thirteen rural pubs are shutting down in Br ...

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12 days ago by Steve Green

Save Our Boozers is a new reality tv show following the efforts of five rural communities as they strive to preserve their local pub. The first of the five-part series premieres on the new cable channel Blighty this coming Tuesday at 8pm. Presenter Jay Smith, himself an experienced pub owner, said: ...

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12 days ago by Matthew Scattergood-Morris

Save Our Boozer is the compelling new factual entertainment series on Blighty that sees award-winning bar owner Jay Smith lead five communities as they revamp their stricken pubs, learn how to run them and take them over for good as part of a mission to bring back the great British boozer in their h ...

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13 days ago by John Owen

£2.22 Info / Buy Product Information Dip Dabs - An absolute classic if you grew up in Blighty in the 70s and 80s! A sachet full of fluffy white zingy sherbet with that unmistakable red juicy lolly stuck in the middle. I don`t know about you, but I could never resist bypassing the lolly and pouring a ...

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17 days ago by jochip

Most of us have heard of a “mono diet” but here in Blighty we’re having “mono weather”, served up with a medley of seasonal annoyances found in the local environs, like a piece of limp cabbage you would rather scrape from your plate. For example, why do some people walk round Brighton wearing denim ...

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17 days ago by kerryswindow

A big thank you to Valerie at Not Exactly True for a lovely Creativ Blogger award. More so because it reminded me that I actually have a blog and therefore prompted me to do a bit of writing on it. It is my first day back to work today and it is like I’ve never been away, eating Covent Garden Soup a ...

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19 days ago by jamesofranklin

In a departure from the usual this week, as part of the newspaper groups Album of the Decade debate/battle to the death, I’ve decided to have a crack at my choice. Follow the debate on Twitter by using this hashtag: #albumofthedecade, and vote using the poll at the bottom of this post. Up The Bracke ...

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20 days ago by admin

Hunter Sunday, 9pm on Alibi Hugh Bonneville and Janet McTier star as detective team Barclay and Foster in this gripping kidnap mystery. Following on from the Five Days series, Hunter sees Det Supt Iain Barclay and DS Amy Foster and their team dropped into the middle of a sensitive crime. When extrem ...

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25 days ago by jochip

    As mentioned in a previous entry, I hail from Newcastle upon Tyne, home of the notorious Viz comic magazine. Perhaps my pigeons are coming home to roost (can you ever really buck your background?) as it has come to my attention that, since being back in the East Sussex environs of Bl ...

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35 days ago by jochip

I’m currently in the north of England, up Tyneside way (yes, that’s right, Geordie Land) visiting my elderly folks with my two small boys. Yesterday evening, we ventured into the nearby Waitrose to buy some milk, as my ‘leche’-loving lil’ guzzlers can drink litres of it daily (“there’s no point cryi ...

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