After hogging our prized booth at the Crown we left Matt and Emma to watch the FA Cup Final, a minor tournament for teams that aren’t the Champions of England.
I don’t THINK they took the party bike..
Mrs RM and I took a cultural interlude through the University quarter and the Botanic.
The museum in the Botanic has an informative section on The Troubles;
but the only reference to pubs and beer is, bizarrely, the Brew Dog can in the Covid display. Thinking about it, the only Brew Dog I saw al trip. Have they been cancelled or something ?
The gardens are gorgeous, with Europe’s biggest lily pond,
and a hot house that is begging to be turned into a micropub. Someone on this blog told me that the authorities only grant new licences when old ones are surrendered.
Wonderful flora, but the fauna is just a bit too weird.
I retraced my steps from 2 days earlier, resisted a return visit to see if Northern Lights had cask on yet, and headed for the Errigle.
retiredmartin 
“Protestants love soup”. True, actually. I can’t be doing with soup and I’m Catholic (sort of) Mrs B is nominally Church of Scotland and and she loves soup.
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So true, her was educated by Irish Catholic Nuns in Matlock and cares little for my finely crafted Soups, the inspiration for which must surely come from my Protestant/atheist Northern Irish background.
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It’s as simple as that.
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The thing that always confused me was Protestants keeping the toaster in a cupboard? I’m from a Catholic background, and it was always on the kitchen counter. Can’t imagine it being put away
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Comment of the year.
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It’s easy to get confused in these matters.
Some people who used to put their chairs on their desks before prayers at the end of school spent the rest of their lives thinking that this act had equal religious significance to the prayer.
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