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[Oggwyn Trench]

I bet these lads could write a few reviews. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/drink-every...4.html#IKWhe0X

Hereford and Worcester must be bucking the trend for pub closures , they have done 250 , there are 198 in Worcester alone and over 600 in Worcetershire plus well over 200 in Herefordshire !

[rpadam]

I believe the last bastion of Sunday closing, the Lleyn Peninsula, gave up the ghost some years ago now, conceding they could open. I'm sure they would have done so long before that, if places like working clubs & golf courses hadn't been exempt...

In the distant past, I remember a long Sunday walk to the Victoria Inn only to find it closed (as were all other pubs in Meirionnydd at the time). Changed now, thank goodness...

[Maldenman]

Not sure if this is old news.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24090573

The Porcupine

[Al 10000]

Thanks TM, that was precisely my thoughts. 17,000 and they've done every pub in England and Wales?! They must be using the wrong pub site

Also if you are reading this Al10000, how many are you up to now?

I am now on 10,765,i did a new one today that is not on the site which i will add shortly.

I have just started doing some towns in South Yorkshire and there are loads of pubs for me to do there,i would have thought there were around 50,000 pubs in this country.

I would also like to bet that none of them are married with children,i am married and have two grown up kids ,plus a grandson,and my son gets married next Saturday,this puts a strain on money and pub crawling .

[hondo]

[QUOTE=Al 10000;58232]I am now on 10,765,i did a new one today that is not on the site which i will add shortly.

I have just started doing some towns in South Yorkshire and there are loads of pubs for me to do there,i would have thought there were around 50,000 pubs in this country.

I would also like to bet that none of them are married with children,i am married and have two grown up kids ,plus a grandson,and my son gets married next Saturday,this puts a strain on money and pub crawling .[/QUOTE

[hondo]

"gut fermentation syndrome"
http://www.medicaldaily.com/texas-ma...ur-own-stomach

[hondo]

"extra malty ale to light, lady-friendly cocktails"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...il%5Eheadlines

[hondo]

"sparking national soul-searching as never before because of an unofficial holiday dreamed up by Guinness"
http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pb...9770/-1/LIVING
seems like 17th march isn't enough for them

[Aqualung]

"extra malty ale to light, lady-friendly cocktails"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...il%5Eheadlines

Is Sommelier the French word for "bore"?

[trainman]

"sparking national soul-searching as never before because of an unofficial holiday dreamed up by Guinness"
http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pb...9770/-1/LIVING
seems like 17th march isn't enough for them

Most of the imbibers of Arthur's finest won't ever have tasted a real stout in their lives, nor ever be likely to, but I wonder how many of them know that its fore-runner was called 'Protestant Porter', modelled, (plagiarised?) of course, on London Porter.