just received so news on the pub in Garrigill. It reopened on Christmas Eve, so that's good news. Looking at stopping in Garrigill now rather than Alston in May.
Hope it stays open. Garrigill has suffered depopulation, as the price of small houses has soared, and when I was there last year the pub was almost empty on a Saturday evening.
I've been doing my best to keep my local rural pubs open by walking to them during the snow - keeps me fit, helps their accounts, and a few drinks strike me as better value than I'd get in the shopping malls.