Someone who reads this will remember where I was where the debate about Llan-Dud-No or Llan-Did-No was raging.
Luckily you don’t need to be able to pronounce it when you’re there, and everyone is English anyway (except when the Southworths visit).
The Southworths managed rather better shots than I did on a dreich afternoon that was providing good late afternoon crowds for the tea shops.
Still time to capture an interesting font for Matthew.
As with Colwyn, another classic Spoons conversion for my flat white stop. Now I know that coffee is good for you (FACT) there’s no stopping me.
In a well-pubbed town, Tapps looks a bit plain.
But inside it’s a riot of noise.
For 10 points, name the song.
Hardly space at the bar to see the pumps, but I’d recognise Plum Porter anywhere.
Yes, there’s Welsh stuff, but then Stoke is virtually Welsh, isn’t it ?
More leather sofas to admire/detest, depending on your predilections.
I was lucky to get the sofa, really. The place was packed with the sort of mixed crowd rarely seen in a micropub (see also: Newport).
A bit too micro for me, but the Titanic was, er, titanic. Cool, rich, yummy NBSS 4.
Just as I left, the band broke into a deep cut from the “difficult” 3rd Kangaroo Air Force Ventilator album (Japanese import).
My timing is always out.
retiredmartin 
“Name the pub” – it looks like the Nevill to me, a pub that I’ve not used.
There was a body on the beach last time I was in Llandudno.
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I would have thought that there would often be bodies on the beach ?
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No.
It made the news.
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/body-found-at-deganwy-beach–12897838
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We did make it to Tapps. We much preferred Queen Vic(Pedigree, Banks’s Amber, Hobgoblin), Cottage Loaf(Landlord) and King’s Head.
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I remember your collective tweets.
I couldn’t fault the Plum Porter in Tapps, or the atmosphere. I think some of us just prefer larger pubs (I’m claustrophobic).
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Don’t you people know everything is supposed to be old and quaint for us? These new places are killing us.
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We shall do our best to keep you both out of “new places” and guide you towards proper old pubs, not all of them quaint, in October.
Only three months to go now.
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Speak for yourself, young Paul.
It’s time to convert these Americans to our rich heritage of rectangular craft bars.
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Well, yes, they shall probably want both pubs ancient and modern.
We shall just give them what information we can to help them sort out the best itinerary.
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That sounds far too reasonable, Paul.
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The Nevill is under threat of redevelopment into (you’ve guessed it) flats:
https://www.northwalespioneer.co.uk/news/17375477.plans-revealed-to-convert-llandudno-pub-the-nevill-into-20-apartments/
The Snowdon is a traditional Bass stronghold, and fortunately seems to have retained it following a recent refurbishment:
https://whatpub.com/pubs/ABC/9560/snowdon-llandudno
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Coincidently last weekend I heard Chris Bonington talking about his first visit to Snowdon, the mountain not the pub, in 1951.
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We had the Bass when we were there in August. The pub is dramatically different than it was in the past. Very well done refurbishment, but not my type of ambiance.
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“Note my blurry finger ‘
And this before the Plum Porter!
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Either “Leaving On A Jet Plane”, or “Gee Gee Gee Gee Gee-ee-ee Gee Gehhh” by Black Lace, Martin.
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😳
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What was it, incidentally, Martin? Was it identifiable from the whole thing?
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I wrote down Oh la la by the Faces (wish i knew then what i know now) but I’m not sure that’s apparent from the clip 😳
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Font a typical Victorian design. Probably unnamed and done by the stonemason who carved it.
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Is that the latest BRAPA disguise for stealthy ticking?
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Is it bomber by Motorhead?
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That was the encore.
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“What Summer ?”
Wasn’t “I wandered lonely as a cloud” written about summer? 😉
“Name the pub”
I take it she’s tap dancing so… taps?
“Identify those handpumps,Russ”
Sadly the glare from the lights makes that impossible. 🙂
“For 10 points, name the song.”
Even my Shazam couldn’t figure that one out.
“depending on your predilections.”
Oooh. That’s right up there with perspicacious.
“Just as I left, the band broke into a deep cut from the “difficult” 3rd Kangaroo Air Force Ventilator album (Japanese import).”
Hah! My Shazam did get it then. It came up with “Nore sult”. 🙂
Cheers
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