Wrong longshot, but thought they had a better chance than Wigan! Sorry RB.
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The streetmap view of the Crown, presumably before HB's acquisition, shows a large 'Brakes' delivery lorry. I also like the article referring to the Hind's Head as 'The Golden Hind' - no doubt attracting maritime interest the world over!
But, yes, the main text of Heston converting another regular pub to overpriced gastro is most worrying.
BBC News today. This has got to be scaremongering at its best by The North West Public Health Observatory , a fancy name for a room full of number crunchers in the John Moore University.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11138535
The usual tat but with some unscientific admissions.
"Although there is no medical confirmation that patients have these conditions through alcohol consumption, the researchers assume on the basis of a previous studies that a certain proportion will have been caused by misuse"
"It is time to recognize that we are not a population of responsible drinkers with just a hand full of irresponsible individuals ruining it for others"
At least Lord Howe took a less hysterical view,
"Supply and price are not the only factors fueling misuse though, attitudes are crucial. We need to understand better the psychology behind why different groups of people drink too much. Legislation or initiatives will not work unless we have a better understanding of what drives people's decisions"
Sod this I will stick to the cartoons in future.
notice Rochdale in the list...RobCAMRA must get round a lot...
I think I represent the entire level of harm in my area.:eek:
Seems like another good opportunity to pimp Ed's student brewer blog again. His believe that pubs will be there for the enjoyment of beer tasting (6th paragraph onwards) due to the cost of buying a pint. I hope he is wrong, but it ties in to both the pieces of news posted today.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11156782 :rolleyes:
I'm another who hopes Ed's wrong. Indeed I think he's overstating the case, but then, he's the landlord, not me.
I've certainly noticed a growing interest in strong and or dark beers in the better real ale pubs. The boss at my local 'spoons agrees, to give two recent examples, Orkney Dark Island and Cottage Brewerys' Norman Conquest vanished in less than a day. I know I helped out with the Dark Island but I barely got a sniff at the other.
:drinkup::drinkup::drinkup:
And to add more fuel to that fire: Alcohol consumption 'continues to fall'
"In 2009, the UK ale market increased its market share of all beers for the first time since the 1960s. The number of UK brewers is now at its highest since 1940."
This bit was good news though
I just love it when the number crunchers start contradicting each other. Who said " There are lies, damned lies and statistics" ?
This last Bank Holiday was very quiet out here in the boonies. One group of old dears came into my local and ordered 9 coffees just as the first small surge of regulars arrived. The hard pressed barmaid tried her best but there was much muttering into beards.The ladies then sat themselves beneath the dart board, even more muttering but no one had the bottle to ask them to move. You can understand why the English have never had a revolution, they spend too much time muttering. ( I do not include the Civil War. That was organised by Politicians who provided bread, beer and money to their followers. Hardly a grass roots movement).
It just gets better and better. The number crunchers are excelling themselves this week.
http://news.uk.msn.com/world/article...ntid=154575037
Sir Clement FreudQuote:
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just feels like it.
just catching up after a few days without electric in caravan.
The comment about the ladies sitting in front of the dartboard made me think that a lot of the pubs I do actually see a dartboard in, seem to have tables and chairs in front of the board. Was really suprised in Wylam recently to see a dartboard being used.
News just in from our Bromyard coresp,corresssp,choress......bloke with a mobile phone.
Pub Licencees tremble with fear as main income dries up .
Arwkrite is off the booze for the foreseeable future. After contracting an abcess over a front tooth Arwkrite now sports a face that belongs to a bulldog after being stung by a wasp on the chops. It bloody hurts. Eating and drinking is agony .Got some pills from the Doc ( Are you still drinking too excess?...reply " yes I have more than half a pint at a time " ). I know from previous experience they make beer taste horrible.
Hay bales fall off lorries pretty often around here. Make sure you keep well back from them.
I'm tempted to buy the book so I can avoid the listed pubs.
Dunno who 'lost' oxtail and kidney pudding, but 'e never looked very far. At least two pubs round my way serve it during the winter, usually as a special. Another does o&k pie now and then.:drinkup::drinkup:
One of the O&K pubs does squirrel every now and then, it sells well. I've eaten squirrel more than a few times and enjoy it. Just about the leanest meat around, the Yanks can't understand why we don't eat more of it.
Mind you, they do call it Baltimore rabbit..........
Bon appetit and may the Beast be with you:drinkup::drinkup::drinkup:
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/golf/b...y/article/520/
Amused me anyway. :D
The neutral thong puzzled me. Why not go the whole hog and wrap a string sausages around the relevant parts ?:sick:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11304208 :confused:
it's just like watching Brazil :notworthy:
http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/65901/