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Pub crawling

January 30th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life, Music

I would not normally go to three pubs in a month, but today I managed three pubs in the same day!  First was the one over the road from work for a leaving do – there were a lot of them today as a result of our restructuring.  Then in the evening it was across [...]

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Beer in a box

March 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life

An idle thougth from today: why can’t you buy beer in a box?  I am not a huge expert on boozing so maybe you can buy beer in a box and I have just never heard of it.

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Time To Get Ill

December 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Life

This has been a bit of a plague house since Wednesday or Thursday.  Jayne was sent home from work because of her flu-like symptoms, and now I seem to have the same sort of thing and at exactly the wrong time.

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Drinking For England

November 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics

Hypothetically… would I be concerned if the leaked list of BNP members had one of them giving his address as a pub in Crawley?   Not if it was one that was already on my mental list of places where I wouldn’t go for a beer if I was dying of thirst is the hypothetical answer [...]

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Milk & Alcohol

August 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Life

I rarely bother to drink alcohol, but when I was up in London on Wednesday I had a couple of pints at the Foundry Arms for old times’ sake – I used to go there before the Tate Modern opened next door when it was a quiet local pub and not a tourist magnet.  Its [...]

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Two totally unconnected stories

April 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life

It was with some dismay that I came across a story in my newspaper today about pub closures. Not that I am much of a pub-goer these days but, the story was illustrated by a photo of one of the pubs I particularly enjoyed when I did visit them more often – the Intrepid [...]

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Every Little Helps

February 16th, 2007 · No Comments · Life

Thanks to Danivon for pointing this out. Last month Tesco’s case before the council’s licensing committee was deferred to give them more time to prepare their case, and I had a sneaking suspicion that it was going to end up with a slap on the wrist – token fine or something.
Having a drinks licence [...]

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24 hour booze chaos

November 28th, 2005 · No Comments · Life, Politics

The media seemed to be terribly disappointed to not find examples of full-scale, booze-fuelled rioting Friday night. They were out there with camera crews waiting for the trouble, but the police said that it was quieter than normal.
Of course it was. Everyone was still in the pub! I was half-expecting to see crowds of bleary-eyed [...]

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24-hour drinking?

November 15th, 2005 · No Comments · Politics

I see that the Tories failed in their attempt to get the 24-hour drinking act kicked out, and I realise that it probably has a much more boring name than “the 24-hour drinking act”.

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