Sums up our local branch , it has had an extension built on the back with 11 rooms but this will be seperate from the pub .
A member:muppet: put it up as closed on the branch Facebook site and was...
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Sums up our local branch , it has had an extension built on the back with 11 rooms but this will be seperate from the pub .
A member:muppet: put it up as closed on the branch Facebook site and was...
The Duke is now the Tap and Barrel
Meadow Inn is now The Water Rat
You can get 30 litre kegs of Guinness rather than the standard 50 litre keg
Surger cans are 520ml , any decent Wine Merchant/Wholesaler will stock them , they should also be able to get you a surger unit or get in contact with someone to supply and install it .
Maybe a bit of good news , we have been told at work to pick up all Marstons Group Barrels/Kegs (empty/ out of date/part full) from the customers we supply , Marstons are desperate to get them back...
Talking to a couple of Landlords this week , they are planning for an early July opening with every other table removed and table service only , these are food led pubs , one more drinking based pub...
I have got a few mates who have made a half decent living playing in Bands and touring the UK and Europe without ever making it big , they watch This is Spinal Tap through their fingers as its so...
Blazing Saddles
Animal House
Airplane
Ghostbusters
Its a Mad Mad Mad World
Any of the old Ealing comedies .
The Three Musketeers (the Michael York/Oliver Reed version)
I do like the Carry...
Michael Wood
Janina Ramirez
Bethany Hughes
Alice Roberts
James Burke
Dan Snow (in small doses)
Julia Bradbury
Used to love Time Team even though Tony Robinson needs a good slap
Distance being kept , just leave box on doorstep and ring the doorbell to let them know its there , everyone seems to be home at the moment for some reason:rolleyes:
Selling lots of premium stuff...
Last couple of nights drinking
Hobgoblin IPA - Hoppy aroma , bland taste
Brew Foundation - Laughing Water , pleasant if unremarkable
Camden - Pale Ale , enjoyed this one
Thornbridge - Green...
I have been back at work since Easter , and no ones more suprised than me , internet sales have gone through the roof , so delivering to lots of private houses , lots of pubs still having booze...
I have the omnibus edition of the first four , have to admit i have not read part 5 .
Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (a trilogy in four parts) - Douglass Adams
Corfu Trilogy - Gerald Durrell
Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchet , like OB any Discworld...
When the Music Rags do the 100 Greatest Guitarists Ever , if voted by the Readership he rarely gets a mention , when voted by fellow Guitarists he is usually in the top 3 , which says it all to me .
Normally stay in on a Friday ready for a Saturday pass from Mrs O , for Pub ,Football ,Pub more Pub :D so probally where i am now , on the setee half way down my 2nd bottle of Red watching weird...
The Young Ones
Pulp Video
Big Train
Not the Nine O`Clock News
Q
The Fast Show
Spitting Image {the first couple of series}
Kenny Everetts TV Show
Brass Eye
Married with Children
Blazing Saddles
Apocalypse Now
Jason and the Argonauts
The Dawn Patrol
The Adventures of Robin Hood
American Graffiti
Animal House
The early Connery Bond films
Natural Born Killers
Star...
Rammstein at the M.E.N Arena was pretty special , but the best was Stone Sour / Saliva at Rock City , great gig but memorable for my mate deiciding to show the kids in the mosh pit that a 50 year old...
A few of my favorites
Joy Division
Lords of the New Church
The Stranglers
Buzzcocks (Pete Shelleys solo stuff is worth a listen as well)
Rammstein
Nightwish
Half Man Half Biscuit
Iron...
1977 listening to the Damned , Buzzcocks , The Clash and the Adverts and other great bands to come out of Punk , number 1 on my 12th Birthday , Mull of fkin Kintyre , dreary piece of shite . number 1...
54 but a few weeks younger than Real Ale Ray :D
Driver for a Wine Merchant and Wholesaler , 95% of business is delivering to Pubs/Clubs/Restaurants , got laid off today , hopefully the Goverment will stick to paying the 80% of wages they promised...
Its risen another couple of feet since https://www.telford-live.com/2020/02/jackfield-bears-the-brunt-of-the-flooding/