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Aye move in with me. I'd expect nightly conjugal rights though. 😯
Has anyone mentioned the traffic yet?
Or.....the way you approach the end of the motorway in the right lane, go round the roundabout once then indicate legitimately to turn into the queue on the roundabout? 😆 😈
[quote=BadlyWiredDog ]The Oakwood is pleasant if you want an alternative near the centre of town.
I've always thought it looks like a nice pub, but as it's a robbie's pub I've never been tempted - excpect when i heard Simon Armitage was going to do a poetry reading there, but then I found out I'd missed it by a week
god I sound pretentious there
Forgot to say - a couple of very good butchers on the high st
Or.....the way you approach the end of the motorway in the right lane, go round the roundabout once then indicate legitimately to turn into the queue on the roundabout?
That used to be quite a good trick before everyone started doing it. I like the way everyone goes round the roundabout when there's obviously no point. If you're going to jump the queue at least do it properly.
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BadlyWiredDog » The Oakwood is pleasant if you want an alternative near the centre of town.
I've always thought it looks like a nice pub, but as it's a robbie's pub I've never been tempted - excpect when i heard Simon Armitage was going to do a poetry reading there, but then I found out I'd missed it by a weekgod I sound pretentious there
They have other beers too... it used to be quite a scary place, but it's good now in a relaxed sort of way. They do fishfinger sarnies as well 🙂
The roundabout thing is the mark of a complete tosser, mostly because it holds you up if you're legitimately turning right...
Oh, on the traffic front, for some reason, United Utilities appears to have a statutory legal duty to dig up the High Street every summer, usually but not exclusively over a Bank Holiday weekend. No-one quite knows why, but it seems to be some sort of local tradition.
Why not turn right at the roundabout and then cut thru Broadbottom and Charlesworth - usually quicker than Mottram Moor
[quote=BadlyWiredDog ]
They have other beers too... it used to be quite a scary place, but it's good now in a relaxed sort of way. They do fishfinger sarnies as well
Odd, Robbbies round here only evr have Robbies beer. Some of the "guest ales" are from breweries that Robinson's own, mind you
You could always get a helicopter?
I quite like a pint of Dizzy Blonde...
Odd, Robbbies round here only evr have Robbies beer. Some of the "guest ales" are from breweries that Robinson's own, mind you
Maybe I just imagined it. You could always try The Star up by the station. They have beer 🙂
Don't get me wrong I like Robinson's - the mild is lovely - but *EVERY* pub in Marple is a Robinson's pub, so when out and about I like to try other stuff
Getting vaguely back on topic, the planning permission for Asda to knock down Marple 6th fom college's Hibbert Lane campus and build a supermarket has been rejected, so do keep Marple in mind.
Yuo can join in the parties if you promise to wear a bag on your head and not show the scars
Glossop is not a bad place at all especially if you have no need to go to Mancrapchester in a car, biking into the smoke is ok though and many do it. Any where close to Manor Park is nice. Padfield is not a bad spot, most of Hadfield is a dump though it does have a pretty good pub.
Hadfield was the location of most of the Royston Vasey seens, funnily enough it was almost a documentry. It did bring a load sad gits as tourists. That picture of the shopkeepers and the Royston Vasey sign earlier was taken just out of Marsden below Deer Hill (some distance away but on a fast downhill). Though you could say that Glossop is a bigger version of Marsden (its worth a look), if you know what I mean. In all you could live in a worse place but it's access to the peaks is brilliant (it there out the door). On a quiet morning I could be in Wilf's Cafe, Staveley in an 1:30 or down in Rhayader in 2:30 Also climbing on the Orme in an 1:20.
High Peak Cycles is a great shop and Jamie is well underrated as a bike rider and an all round good bloke. Mettricks butchers good and Sowerbutts for veg. Curry and beer at the Bull in Old Glossop, great. Would I move back? Hmmm, not from where I am now.
Hope that helps.
[i]Hmmm, not from where I am now.[/i]
Which would be?
It's actually called Glorrop by everyone who lives near it, and everyone who lives there is an honorary yonner..
(You have to be from Oldham or Mossley to be a real yonner)
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You have to be local..
(You have to be from Oldham or Mossley to be a real yonner)
From o'er yon (der)
nbt, been out ont tandem recently?
Getting vaguely back on topic, the planning permission for Asda to knock down Marple 6th fom college's Hibbert Lane campus and build a supermarket has been rejected, so do keep Marple in mind.
I heard that was only to free land up for the nuclear power project that no-one's talking about for fear of damaging property values...
[quote=mt ]nbt, been out ont tandem recently?
Tandem's in bits in the garage, need to replace both bottom brakcets. Finally got the cranks off last night!
mt doesn't want to say where he lives, as it's truely mtbing and cake heaven, he wants to keep the riff raff out 🙂
I've found the local shops are quite reasonably priced. Shame that there is a huge tesco.
The New Marks and Spencer food store is good, however they made the passageway for people travelling on foot a little tricky to get back to the local shops as it's hidden away.
Also there's lots of wildlife http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/calling-stw-birders-bird-id-help-required-glossop-area
Shame that there is a huge tesco.
Yeah, it's a shame it's not a Sainsbury 😉 How come you think M&S is so good then - were you under the impression that Messrs Marks and Spencer were Glossop locals? Or is it just reassuringly expensive... I'm liking the idea that the back way through past High Peak Cycles has been hidden away to prevent people from finding the local shops... that's proper sneaky of them.
Seriously though, if you guys haven't tried it already, you should visit the very local Thai noodle place down the High Street past Greggs - just awesome 🙂
Oooh yes must try that. Let's get together one night and try it out?
I only buy pizzas from M&S, everything else is from the local shops. BWD you should try out my friends cakes and cookies - 'Alice Rose'.
Cakes and cookies are for losers and men with pink bike jerseys who are trying way too hard...
But anyway... you guys should come over for an evening ride one night and we'll drag out J and J and get a Thai afterwards, just drop me a line.
Sounds like a plan.
Cakes and cookies are for losers and men with pink bike jerseys who are trying way too hard...
Oi, I resemble that comment!
Although on the plus side, I don't live in Glossop...
Although on the plus side, I don't live in Glossop...
Probably just as well, you seem to have issues remembering which train to catch as it is, moving somewhere else could only make it worse... 🙂
Seriously though, if you guys haven't tried it already, you should visit the very local Thai noodle place down the High Street past Greggs - just awesome
WHAT?!! Better than Greggs? 😯