News

Snippets of non-pub related news is here. Click here for recent Pub news.

• 18 August 2005. Finally, a couple of pictures of our home bar, here and here, complete with pump, bar snacks and optics.
• May 2005. I have been offline for a while as I have been embrolied in a house move to Kidlington. Richard Bradshaw announces TWO pub crawls. A bootleg crawl of stations on the Marylebone to Warwick railway line took place on 28th May [write up here], plus the more traditional crawl Pub Crawl X takes place on Saturday 25th June, theme: The Monopoly Board of Brighton, details here.
• 10th May 2005. Fourth edition of Richard Bradshaw's Face of Cheam newsletter can be accessed via this page .
• 23rd March 2005. The Rants Page has moved to a blog page so that I can capture the essence of a tirade as it happens. Access still via this link.
• 23rd March 2005. Cheam 2016 Olympic Bid is further refined.
• 1st March 2005. Third edition of Richard Bradshaw's Face of Cheam newsletter can be accessed via this page .
• 21st December 2004. Second edition of Richard Bradshaw's Face of Cheam newsletter can be accessed via this page .
• 21st December 2004. Gallery of venues added to Cheam 2016 Olympic Bid page. Click here.
• December 2004. The long-awaited Rants Page is now available here.
• December 2004. Bus map now available in Cheam Olympic Bid section. Click here. Frequency guide to follow soon.
• 6th August 2004. Attended the Great British Beer Festival at Kensington Olympia along with Richard Bradshaw, Matthew Bradshaw and Andy Wright; consumed 6 pints of fine ale. Chas 'n' Dave were the entertainment.
• 4th August 2004. Launch of the Yellow Squirrel pro-roll-up smokers campaign.
• 1st August 2004. Richard Bradshaw's Face of Cheam newsletter is now online. Access it vis his entry on the chums page.
• July 2004. Venue Map now available in Cheam Olympic Bid section. Click here.
• 19th April 2004. Geology section has been much expanded - a synopsis of my thesis is here.
• 19th April 2004. The notable buses section has finally been lauched! Here.
• 20th March 2004. Richard Bradshaw announces the 2004 Whitsun Saturday crawl 29 May 2004 - RICHMOND and TWICKENHAM. Click here for a map.
• 1st February 2004. Post grads win Geology 6-a-side Tournament. After topping the group stages in a rather goalless tournament, the postgrads geology side pulls off a penalty shoot out win in the final which finished 0-0 against the First Year Undies.
• 21st January 2004. Confirmation of 726 bus fares. London Transport tell me that the 726 bus now has fares which are the same as other london buses. You can now go all the way from Bromley to Heathrow for a quid (70p with a saver). Why don't they advertise this more? And why don't they put more buses on the route?

Links to Other People's Sites

Beer

• Self explanatory database of pubs - Beer in the Evening.
• Another useful resource - World Pub Guide.
• Some More Oxford pubs.
• Dossiers of some inspirational pub crawls - London Men's Self Help Pub Crawl Group.

Sport

• The exploits of Elsevier's Sunday league football team can be followed in the Autotype Upper Thames Valley League.
• A sport that perhaps the English are still that masters of... Stoolball.

Transport

• Steven Parascandolo's excellent site on the Croydon Tramlink may be accessed here.
• General transport musings, and very good too from Transport of Delight.
• A more specialist site - Trolleycoaches for London.
• Ian's Bus and Coach Stop contains some fine bus and coach pictures.
• Smaller vehicles here - Matchbox Picture Gallery: Standard Lesney.

Silliness etc.

• Kate Hobson's vegetable productions site - legumious solutions for the 21st century.
• Silliness on the Oxford University Geology 2nd year field trip to Castellane in France may be found in pictorial form, courtesy of Lisa Hall.
• MTV's Jackass, here or here [links at bottom of page from this one]. Americans fooling around. Marvellous.
• Midsomer Murders. A couple of good websites here and here
• The Journal of Mundane Behaviour - a leading scientific organ.
• Nostalgia Chart - a useful pop database.
• The famous TV Cream site, full of nostalgia, the kind of thing people like Stuart Marconie, Vernon Kay consult before being interviewed for one of those 'I love the 1970/80s' shows.
• UK Game Shows. Ultraquiz is on here so it must be comprehensive.
• Axis of Evil. George Bush Jr. has expanded his list from Iran, Iraq and North Korea to include Cuba, Libya and Syria (I wonder how a nation goes about joining this elite set?). I try and select these sides when playing Football games on the Playstation.
• The sound of Worcester Park and Cheam Radio Jackie.

Miscellany and Odds and Sods on this site

Ho hum what have we here

• Coming Soon! Rants page. Diatribes, rants and venting of spleen.
• A list of steeds past and present that have comprised the Bike Fleet (and in HTML.)
• Coming soon! Cheam Olympic Bid
• Splendid cars from a bygone age...
• ... and even more splendid, some buses from a bygone age.
• Rudi Voller and Frank Rijkaard having a bit of a set-to in the World Cup of 1990. Note the globule of spittle mid-air aiming for the bubble-permed mullet of Voller.
• Coming Soon! Scandal page. Things that famous people would rather forget.
• At last! A fair deal for the roll-up smoker! The Yellow Squirrel campaign stands up for the rights of Roll-Up Smokers everywhere. You are cordially invited to smoke roll-ups where you see the internationally recognised sign.
  

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