Well I'm just back from a long weekend in Whitby! It's a hard life but someone has to do it! As part of my dedication to the Mudcaters I have spent some considerable time this weekend making sure that the beer in all the Pubs in Whitby would meet with the approval of the any Mudcaters visiting Whitby. I took my several pint's of John Smith's Magnet Ale on special offer at £1 a pint in the Board Inn on Church Street and three or four visit's before I felt that I could recommend it to other Mudcater's.

However once I regained the use of my legs I managed to make it to the Endeavour for a couple of pints of Broadside. It was there I ran into one of the organisers of the Moor and Coast festival and he said that he would be only too happy to include a Mudcater's event within the festival. We then left the Endeavour along with one of the Organiser of the Whitby Folk Club Mick Haywood managed with some effort to cross the bridge and stagger into the Plough on Baxtergate the Beer Sam Smiths at £1.25 a pint is very good value. I was pleased to discover that the Plough, home of the Whitby Folk Club on Wednesday Nights, will be used this year for the first time by the Moor and Coast. After a few beers in the Plough we decided to reconvene in the Tap and Spile it was round and about here that thing seemed to get a little blurred and my memory is a little weak. But I think it is safe to say that a musical weekend in Whitby sound like a lot of fun! See you all there at the Moor and Coast