Blog ≫ 2025 ≫ Stewart Lee vs The Man Wulf was brilliant
Really good show at the Marlowe Theatre last night, man alive did he look like he was working hard though! He talks about his poor health and then he's sweating away for parts of the show in this giant wolf costume. He has a proper go at other comedians, this is to be expected these days though. Really enjoyed it. Thank you very much for this great present the ife...
Hey we went to the bar in the Marlowe, does this mean it counts for Febrewery..? It might, I will have to line it all up. We went to a few different places.
We got the train to Canterbury in the end as the bus was going to take an hour and twenty and we'd have to get the train back anyway. It was fine but not cheap! Not as expensive as work of course, but still £33 return for the two of us. We headed out about 9:30, it would have been a bit cheaper to wait until 10:00
We had a breakfast in The Refectory Kitchen, quite near the station, as Clare had heard a rave review of it. I had peacamole. Guacamole but made with peas. It was really nice, on toast, with chipotle mushrooms. We wondered if we should have anything as we had an actual lunch lined up at 1pm, but we knew it wouldn't be a big lunch. I liked the food but I found the little naggy notices about The Refectory a bit offputting, saying don't queue for the toilet, don't approach the counter, and we want your table back in on hour. Not sure about all of that.
The rain was horrible and cold. We broke up the walk from the Refectory up to Fenwicks at the other end of town by going in the charity bookshop and got a couple of Agatha Christies. Then on to Fenwicks to try and look at lights, but they've shrunk that department right down, they had nothing. So to our first pub.
We went in The Old Buttermarket, and it was nice and quiet. Nice to just sit and chat, in a quiet pub, when everyone else is at work.
Next to The Ivy for lunch, because we are posh like that. It was very good, good quality, a bit dainty. They did put the vegan starter on the set menu for me so we both had that, tossed Asian vegetables. Then I had the rendang curry and Clarehad some pasta dish with a ragou made of three kinds of meat. We did not drink any booze here!
After lunch to another pub, another walk in the rain to The Parrot. It was OK, we sat near the fire and played cards. I ddid not remember it being a Shepherd Neame. If it wasn't so much of an effort to go anywhere else (the Dolphin was strangely closed) I might have kept looking. But it was fine.
After this I might have to think and come back to this. We went to The Thomas Beckett and found there were some board games to play. I picked out one called something like Reminisce, it's all old film questions. VERY STRANGELY there was a wallet stuffed with cash in the box! Clare thought it was a prop at first, but no it was real. I say stuffed, there were a few notes in there, more than one twenty I think, plus all the cards and ID. We handed it in at the bar, and they said they tracked the owner down via Instagram.
Still raining when we left but we wanted to go to The Pegasus Taproom. It was better for Clare than for me. I thought they had real ale on before, they did not this time, but a big choice of keg beers. One in there, it was very quiet and a bit cold still. That is a real theme to my complaints these days isn't it? I'm always cold. We were even sat near a small fire there but it was more decorative than warm.
Next to The Unicorn, which did have better beer, and they were doing food. Yes, third meal out of the day! We got a couple of ten pound dinner and a pint deals, very good. I had vegan chilli over chips, Clare had a pizza.
Next to the theatre, which I already covered, then back to the Pegasus after the show, then train home. Taxi back from Folkestone West.
And that is all the writing up I will do on this for now I think! So how does all that affect Febrewery..?
- The Famous Ship Inn, Sandgate 1.
- The Potting Shed, Hythe 2.
- The Old Buttermarket, Canterbury.
- The Parrot, Canterbury.
- The Thomas Beckett, Canterbury.
- The Pegasus Taproom, Canterbury.
- The Unicorn, Canterbury.
- The Marlowe Theatre 3.
If I were to include pubs Clare has been to, if we could tag team this, we would also have
- Farl, Folkestone 4
- The Beer Shop, Folkestone.
- The Pullman, Folkestone.
Really not expecting to complete this in 2025.
- We didn't mean to but all the cafes were full.
- AND I went back again on Friday. I am not putting any effort into this challenge, revisiting the same pub twice.
- Yeah cheating here, but at least I did have a drink here.
- New Irish pub on The Old High Street.
⬅️ Survived our big Canterbury day out :: Health stats 12/2/25 ➡️