Off to Gatwick for an 11 hour flight to LA shortly. Who knows what the Gatwick South terminal Spoons will offer.
I’d wish you a happy Christmas but you’d know I didn’t mean it.
Make sure you get to a pub on Christmas Day, perhaps the Bull Baiters in Worcester (open 12-3) and rejoice that a micro pub is open lunchtime. On a Monday.
Despite the “Bah Humbug” touches it’s a bright cheery little place.
A strong range of local brews served, intriguingly, in third, two-thirds or pint measures.
So my request for a half gets a “Double Stick” in an oversized half pint glass. Odd.
I complimented the owner that he’s open during January, apart perhaps from the day Simon visits.
I’ll do a fuller review later, but any place with Watneys memorabilia is OK with me.
Roll out the Barrel.
retiredmartin 
I can’t wait to see the RM biopic. An English version of Sideways is what I’m expecting with your mate Charles. Mudgie tucked up in the corner of the perfect proper pub. Good luck with the filming. Who’s playing Mr & Mrs RM? A cameo from a Hollywood great on a mobility scooter?
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Obviously RM + Mudgie will be played by the exciting new talents of Statler & Waldorf, sitting in a Victorian snugg and sharing a pot of posset.
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“BRAPA – The Movie” would probably be much more entertaining 😀
My biopic would be like an extended version of Unlucky Alf from the Fast Show 😉
“This looks like a nice pub, let’s go in and take a look. Urgh, it’s full of posing tables. And they’ve put ham in the Ploughman’s!”
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BRAPA already is a TV show, aired by Albania TV74 on Thursdays at 1am.
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Unlucky Alf is who I had in mind too !
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Emma Stone will have to do for Mrs RM.
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The point has been made to me that, at present, I don’t look entirely unlike the actor John Sessions, which is also a very appropriate name 😉
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Perhaps you, Simon, Duncan a pub cat and I can crowdfund a film.Yo choose the pub, Si attracts the weirdos. I hear those North Americans are suckers for that kind of film.
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I’ve been in bull baiters with pals and we ended up playing that hoopla game quite loudly which I’m not sure is what micros want! 😉 Enjoy LA and your rock and roll lifestyle….
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You speak when spoken to in micropubs ! And keep the noise down.
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” Make sure you get to a pub on Christmas Day ” is like a dagger to my heart.
For here in 1960s Ireland with its antiquated abortion laws and god-fearing religious fundamentalists all pubs stay resolutely shut on Christmas Day.
Up until this year the same applied to Good Friday although this may finally be changing as the country wakes up to the fact that tourists and non-religious people think it a bit daft.
” Sure,can you not do without drink for one day ” say the holier-than-thous as they head home from Mass to give a bottle of Jameson a thorough going-over.
Those two hours on Christmas Day were my favourite session in the whole year.
And back home for the grub and a bit of a chat from Her Madge.
I’m bereft,I tell you.Bereft.
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Don’t expect sympathy, you get Guinness at £8 a pint in Dublin.
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Here’s to hoping you have a great trip. Make use of that free wifi you get in first class and put up some new posts.
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“I’d wish you a happy Christmas but you’d know I didn’t mean it.”
Well… in that spirit:
https://www.jibjab.com/view/make/macareindeer/18c2fe9b-e8a2-496f-94cd-7a28e60d1af9
Notice it does not mention Christmas (as such). 🙂
Cheers!
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