Strangest Thing You've Seen in a Pub.

[ROBCamra]

I thought the term Gipsy or gypsy or others was outlawed as not politically correct and we all have too use the word Travellers now.

My ex boss who has a small chunk of land in Shropshire and had quite a lot of trouble getting them off his land assures me that they are
commonly known in his village as Caravan Using Nomadic Travellers - Shropshire.

[Quinno]

Reopen thread. It is obvious to anyone that knows anything about football that Rex was just making it up.

No, it's true:


Admittedly he fell on his arse as he attempted to kick it (as usual)

[Farway]

Second hand hearsay I'm afraid, but I have just been talking to Santa in the Green Dragon, and he tells me he came across a small pub in Cornwall with full cream draught milk from a hand pull, and it was popular with locals

Santa BTW is only his part time job, normally drives buses

[Rex_Rattus]

Maybe it's just me but shouldn't it be Gypsies not Gipsies?

I've always spelt the word as "Gipsy". I suppose because I used to live very near to a place called Gipsy Hill (and my sister lived in Romany Road), and there was a local pub called the Gipsy Queen (now gone), and there is still one called the Gipsy Tavern. But Gypsy does seem to be right somehow - I think the origin of the word comes from the word "Egypt".

[arwkrite]

small pub in Cornwall with full cream draught milk from a hand pull, and it was popular with locals

Quite some years ago me and the first mrs rented a caravan near Holsworthy on a dairy farm. Fresh milk from the herd of Jersey cows was left each day in a mini milk churn together with freerange eggs from the chickens who followed us around the farm. I poured this milk, heavy in cream, over my breakfast cereal. Farm butter was liberaly spread over toast made with local baked bread before a couple of monster sized poached eggs were laid ontop. This was food for the gods.The mrs idea of breakfast was a bottle of Guiness..nuf said.
After about 4 days I had a serious outbreak of boils and spots on my back. The farmers wife was horrified to find I was drinking the milk as it came. It was so rich it needed mixing 50/50 with water to make similar to milk we drank every day.This milk you could have poured over Strawberries.

[Dave M]

Not something I've seen in a pub, but David Ross has just submitted this photo from the Kings Head in Kettlewell - he explains whats going on in his review.

[gillhalfpint]

Not something I've seen in a pub, but David Ross has just submitted this photo from the Kings Head in Kettlewell - he explains whats going on in his review.

I stayed in a pub in Kettlewell, am sure it was this one, in the early 1970's and was offered a lamb to bottle feed for £2 by one of the locals. Went to the farm next day just to see the lamb being bottle fed, and it was the size of a full grown sheep. It would have been difficult to get it in my sloping back Ford Anglia I had at the time.
PS. Unless it was going to be cut down to lamb chops first!

[aleandhearty]

Not something I've seen in a pub, but David Ross has just submitted this photo from the Kings Head in Kettlewell - he explains whats going on in his review.

Wonderful! Surely worthy of a caption competition? How about:

" I'll have a pint of mine please."
Or...
" I hear it gets rammed in here"

Any more?

[Farway]

Wonderful! Surely worthy of a caption competition? How about:

" I'll have a pint of mine please."
Or...
" I hear it gets rammed in here"

Any more?

What are ewe on about?

[rpadam]

I think that this probably counts as a pretty strange thing to see in a pub:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-n...wales-11193455