I’m thinking of starting a Peters & Lee* fan club you know.
It’ll really wind up all the Tull and Coldplay and Zappa fans who read my blog. I could give free membership to folk who join the Doom Bar NBSS 4.5 club.
Welcombe (pop 187) was my introduction to the delights of Devon, though the cream tea would have to wait.
A straggly village whose coast I missed.
My hour’s walk took me through some woods that would have challenged a pushbike, never mind a motorhome.
Soggy Well Lane (top) wasn’t just unsuitable for vehicles; after my Full English I struggled to squeeze through.
To be blunt, it was so quiet I didn’t believe there WAS a pub, let alone a vast rambling gastro house the size of the Old Smithy.
Only 13th Century, this one.
A pub for gentlefolk and gardeners.
A vast garden, including a raised area for local gentlefolk (all 13 of them) who wanted to be kept well away from the London plague we’d brought down. Fair enough.
I guess you can guess the inside.
No-one inside, bar a couple who looked distraught that a (very localised) power cut had deprived them of homemade fish stew, and they’d driven across from Maidenhead especially. They could have just had 3 packets of crisps each.
More BBB options. I didn’t see much c***t, cask or keg, the whole week.
Three families and a couple enjoyed a big orange spherical object in the garden, and I suddenly felt like a tourist. More than that, I didn’t feel like a plague carrier, which was nice.
As was the Proper Job, a cool and fresh NBSS 3.5 **
The walk back up the hill in 30 degrees was less pleasant.
*True story. While sitting on my Huawei on the way to Tesco last Monday I accidentally started some sort of Spotify listening group with 3 Durham pubs I’d messaged for opening times, and Welcome Home bared out of my back pocket as I left Tesco’s, to the bewilderment of masked gentlefolk.
DON’T SIT ON YOUR PHONE, FOLKS
**Don’t worry folks, there’ll be beer tipping before long, I’m sure.
Where was my Spotify invitation? 😦
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Also, surely that’s not the *only* road to the pub? How does the beer get there!?
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The Spotify invitations went to Crook and Ovingham, likely to be more appreciative of “Proper” music, Chris.
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That’s the “adventurous” road but the other roads weren’t much better. I’d hate a dray to meet a bus !
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My blood sugar went way up listening to that video….
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You don’t want to annoy those Tullophiles, they can cut up nasty
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“Odd handwash dispenser” easily mistaken for the replacement urinal !
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“It’ll really wind up all the Tull and Coldplay and Zappa fans who read my blog”
Thats already wound me up, putting Coldplay in the same company as Tull and Zappa!
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It’s all just transient pop, Citra.
I win the 2 pints of Doom Bar.
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“They could have just had 3 packets of crisps each.” –Honestly three packets of crisps, and a couple of pints to go with them, is my idea of heaven. 🙂
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Simple pleasures….
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Mark,
I liked crisps until I discovered the Great Western’s pork baps.
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Plant feeding is so 2019…drinking them to the finish is all the rage in the new cask renaissance!
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For over a month after pubs returned I just drank pints, figuring it was pointless on halves after all that necessary fuss getting in.
But I’m back on halves now till the end of the night, and drinking to a finish!
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That’s the Grand Plan, isn’t it?? You and Mrs RM are going to become the Premier Peters & Lee tribute in the North West, aren’t you??
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The Premier Inn Peters & Lee tribute, focusing on their lesser known prog phase.
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I was anticipating their Jazz Odyssey phase.
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“I could give free membership to folk who join the Doom Bar NBSS 4.5 club.”
Wouldn’t Doom Bar have to score that at least once in order for a club to start?
“Welcombe (pop 187) was my introduction to the delights of Devon”
In the OS map above, I see Henna Cliff. Is that where all of the wanna be redheads chuck their failed hair dyes into the ocean?
“All uphill”
Looks like something out of Lord of the Rings.
“after my Full English I struggled to squeeze through.”
Should’ve got rid of the Full English prior to the walk.
(i.e. had a morning constitutional before the morning constitutional?) 😉
“What, children aren’t animals ? Why do we call them “kids” then (private gripe)”
I think they mean there are children and animals who are somewhat mentally impaired. 😉
“Long table for non socially-distanced dining”
And they’ve got that 3 coloured phallus thingy BRAPA was talking about above the fireplace. 🙂
“that a (very localised) power cut had deprived them of homemade fish stew”
Hmmm. Maybe I should send some freeze dried seafood chowder over.
” I didn’t see much c***t”
I can’t fill in the three *s.
“Craft free choices”
Scratch the *s above comment. 🙂
“a cool and fresh NBSS 3.5 **”
3 for 3! (oh, wait, the Otter’s bush was only a 3).
“and Welcome Home bared out of my back pocket”
Still on the (s)nood bush theme I see. 😉
Cheers!
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It’s harder work reading your comments than actually writing this 😉
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Totally understood old chap!
I should consider doing hyperlinks to the part in the comments I’m referring to. 🙂
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Don’t get hyper. We’ve got BRAPA for that.
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“I win 2 pints of Doom Bar” and there is an audible sigh of relief from the other competitors… 😉
Probably the most controversial two paragraphs (at the start of this post) since the Head of Ofqual tried to justify their attempt to grade A level results with an algorithm (whatever that is)…
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An algorithm? Like the machines at Bingo halls that randomly generate numbers.
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That William Morris wallpaper ( Honeysuckle & Tulip ) reminds me of t’Moorbrook pub in Preston.
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