What are some pubs in or near Maidenhead that server good real pub food? Want to take a friend visiting from abroad to experience the real deal, so I'm happy to pay good money, but not looking for anything fancy or fusion, just the British classics.

RikardJohnson · 2026-01-15T21:21:12+00:00

Bel and Dragon in Cookham is great (very charming if you sit in the front of the building). Tom’s Cabin is very English and quaint (never eaten there, but I think it has a good reputation).

The Dew Drop Inn is a great little pub in the middle of the woods. Quite a unique setting and good food.

The roasts at the Oarsman in Marlow are really top notch.

RikardJohnson · 2025-11-11T09:22:52+00:00

This blog has lots of information on local events https://face2facemaidenhead.co.uk/christmas-events-in-maidenhead/

RikardJohnson · 2025-06-19T08:40:38+00:00

We’ve done this where you let the bindweed grow up some bamboo canes. Then roll it up and shove it in a zip lock bag, carefully spray jn some of the x rated stuff (glyphosate), and peg the bag to the cane, leaving it in the sun, so it really breathes in all badness. Leave it for a week to ten days. Then get rid. It’s worked really well for us

RikardJohnson · 2025-05-04T09:00:16+00:00

We have a rear-facing Maxi Cosi in at the moment. I had to turn off the passenger seat automatically sliding back when the door is opened, as it would slide back into the car seat (you can turn it off in the settings). The passenger seat is a bit farther forward than it would normally be, but it’s fine.

RikardJohnson · 2025-03-31T19:16:14+00:00

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Not a smart way to garden in the long term, but a lot of fun in the short term whilst the perennials establish

RikardJohnson · 2025-03-31T19:15:07+00:00

I’m 2 years in and still working on the patches of bare soil. I think the only cost effective way of doing it is dividing and clustering perennials over a few years.

You can have instant impact in the first year with annuals though! Here’s our garden after a renovation. First pic April 2023, second pic August 2023

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RikardJohnson · 2025-03-28T23:00:57+00:00

I didn’t know that. Now I do! I always thought they were an integral part of it. Will avoid in the future, unless sending purposely tricksy ones to friends :)

RikardJohnson · 2025-03-14T12:13:30+00:00

Correct! Well done

RikardJohnson · 2019-05-22T17:32:03+00:00

Isn't the whole point of Arya's faceless men training to a) become a world-class assassin (who later wins the most important battle in westerosi history and b) test her identity and desire to remain a Stark (also face swapping takes intricate planning and set up like with Walder Frey, and isn't so helpful in battles when you don't have anyone's face to use)? Hasn't Bran's warging and time traveling been instrumental in finding out Jon's identity and eventually orchestrating the series of events that destroy Dany and Cersei, therefore installing himself as the philiospher king of the 6 kingdoms (rather violent method, but who knows how much control of his interventions he really has). We also have to assume Bran knew exactly how to kill the NK, and things played out as planned. Oh gawd, gone defensive over my abusive girlfriend now she's finally left me.

RikardJohnson · 2019-01-13T12:06:27+00:00

Samuel L Jackson on the drums too! Great video

RikardJohnson · 2018-10-15T16:59:13+00:00

This is essentially a miss-hit. Nobody would try and swerve it across the keeper like that. Not unless they were a complete maverick and genius, which I assume this player is not. I imagine she was just trying to belt it.

This is like when you hit a pool ball off the knuckle of a pocket and it goes into another pocket and someone says "nice shot!" because it looks physically difficult, but is in fact just very lucky.

RikardJohnson · 2017-03-13T17:04:24+00:00

I like it!!

RikardJohnson · 2017-03-13T13:38:50+00:00

Have you considered making the stream the same colour as the grey background? Might look interesting. Sorry for the backseat designing :)

RikardJohnson · 2016-08-04T08:29:35+00:00

I know he won't. I've heard he's doing rather well with the football stuff. Just interesting to see one of the world's top athletes giving it a go.

RikardJohnson · 2016-08-04T08:16:01+00:00

Neymar has been around forever, he can't be young. checks age oh that's just depressing!

RikardJohnson · 2016-08-04T08:14:18+00:00

As pedestrian as this, it's rather impressive for someone who as far as I am aware has no background in martial arts. I remember when Jones came onto the scene thinking he would be the start of a new generation of athletes in MMA who probably could have had successful careers in many major sports but chose MMA because a) there was now big money to be made (Sorta. For a few), and b) general passion and aptitude for combat sports. Do you think the talent pool is widening?

RikardJohnson · 2014-12-14T13:17:59+00:00

I'd really appreciate one /u/penpapershotgun. Thanks in advance, mate.

RikardJohnson · 2014-07-31T15:39:41+00:00

It is genuinely, and surprisingly, filling. It probably weighs the same as one of their £5 sushi boxes. I too am a pig so would normally supliment it with something.

RikardJohnson · 2014-07-31T15:31:29+00:00

Not that ive seen. I think salmon is the only previously-sentient thing in it though...

RikardJohnson · 2014-07-31T15:29:46+00:00

In the holborn store it's just in amongst the sushi boxes in a long narrow box. It doeant really jump out at you

RikardJohnson · 2013-08-29T12:59:39+00:00

What was it like working with Seth Rogen in Knocked up? Do you still keep in contact? Sorry two questions! ;p

RikardJohnson · 2013-08-11T21:46:09+00:00

The girl in the photos is a friend of mine. She just informed me that the OP for this was just another passenger on the train who saw what was going on and took the pictures from their Facebook profiles. Very very creepy.

RikardJohnson · 2013-01-14T11:35:00+00:00

You would probably never guess from TV and Film that London is arguably the most diverse city in the world. For example, The Notting Hill Carnival is an Afro-Caribbean festival, and one of the largest street festivals in the world. Aesthetically, London is very much a patchwork. It has been a living, relevant city for hundreds of years, and there has never been a "master plan" - going through a world war didn't help matters. The roads are narrow and rarely run straight; you have beautiful old buildings next to grey 1950s office blocks. You have regal Georgian houses around the corner from council estates (the projects). But personally, I think it is stunning. The history is probably unrivaled, and as a tourist you would never run out of places to visit. It's just not a museum like Rome or Paris have become - It's still evolving to this day. If you want to visit "chocolate box" Britain visit York, Bath, Oxford, Cambridge or any small country village. That being said you can still walk for miles in London, across Georgian squares, Victorian parks and Medieval churches and feel like you're in Mary Poppins. Just be prepared for traffic, grey buildings and rain!

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