Our local Sainsbury has been getting a revamp. It has made shopping a mixture of adventure and confusion. Every time you go there the car park has a different layout and so has the shop. Everything is in a different place each visit – even the ATMs and the front door. As a consequence, when […]
Entries Tagged as 'Drinking'
Resolution fail
January 5th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Life
I don’t really do new year resolutions, but the closest I have got is that I decided I shall watch more TV and drink more alcohol this year. So far I am not doing too well: it is now Jan 5th and I still haven’t found an excuse to have a drink. In fact I […]
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 […]
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.
Tags: Drinking
Time To Get Ill
December 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Time To Get Ill · 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.
Tags: Drinking·Medicine/Health
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 […]
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 […]
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 Fox […]
Every Little Helps
February 16th, 2007 · Comments Off on Every Little Helps · 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 […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Drinking·Shopping
24 hour booze chaos
November 28th, 2005 · Comments Off on 24 hour booze chaos · 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 […]
