Publican of The Wharf. Freehouse pub on Brook Street, Macclesfield. Keen on live music, especially blues, jazz and rock. Big fan of beer, from cask ales to Belgian Trappist.
Hi all, A little blog to say hello and to announce the great news that Jane, my adored wife, is pregnant with our second child. A due date of early November means it is going to be a busy summer as I squeeze all the preparation around running the pub. Also I am hopefully pushing [...]
Seems that our local MP, David Rutley, isn’t supporting reform of the Beer Duty. This isn’t surprising really but not very good when his constituency has such a proud tradition of brewing. This town accommodates two very fine breweries and many super pubs. We have tourists coming into the town just to try these pubs. [...]
A brief review of our Sunday Showcase at the end of January 2013. “The Sunday Showcase at The Wharf on the last Sunday of the month brought us its usual variety of seasoned pros, regular session artists and debutants. A little comedy from co-organiser Gary Baker, aka Chester le Flange, opened. Then to a debut [...]
yes, so there, I admit it. I am a really poor blogger and never post anything! I promise, in the new year I will try harder!
Dear Mr Rutley, As you will no doubt be aware, the topic of the Beer Duty Escalator is to be discussed in the Commons on November 1st. This is after over 100 thousand people signed a petition raised by CAMRA to force the house into the discussion. Macclesfield has a great reputation for beer and [...]
Wow, its been a long time since my last blog. I suspect this will be a little lengthy! Been a busy boy you see, and just haven’t gotten round to putting finger to key. I can’t blame Draw Something entirely, but that has occupied some of my random free time! Now I think a chronological [...]
Supposedly it is World Homeopathy Awareness Week. I would like to use this time to highlight the stupidity of homeopathy and the danger that these quacks can, and have, caused. Attached are links to a Guardian articlehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2012/apr/17/1, a letter to a homeopath from her victim http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2011/s3260776.htm, and an attempted legal action from the aforementioned quack to [...]
It’s been ages since I last wrote a blog post, so thought I should make a bit of time. Well, it’s Sunday, I’m in the quiet spell pre-football match. I should have done the Cat and Fiddle this morning in training for the quickly approaching Coast to Coast in June. More on that another time. [...]
It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m sat behind the bar with my normal eclectic mix of audio stimulation. Its been a pretty manic few days really. The good news is that I seem to be making a chip into the mountainous pile of jobs that I have been putting off. The back garden is now separated [...]
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