August 2023. Godalming.
We’d paid zero (0) pounds to camp in Godalming and we were going to get our money’s worth.
Leaving the bustling Star to the drunk billiards women we stopped to admire the puffer fish,
and the high street,
and then ignored the interesting looking pre-emptives in favour of the Spoons.
Long an ex-GBG entry, but worth a visit because a) it’s a Spoons, b) it sells the award-winning Abbot, c) the name commemorates Jack Phillips, wireless operator on the Titanic. As you’ll know the main protagonist in Titanic is Rose DeWitt Bukater.
It all makes sense.
If Jack had known his name would be associated with such a scruffy pub he’d have jumped ship early and never been heard of again.
The beer range isn’t bad by 2023 Spoons standards, including that Tillingbourne one with the terrible clip.
But at £2.77 you’re only going one way, aren’t you ? Cool, 3+, £2 cheaper than in Liverpool Street.
Unless you’re Mrs RM with her Sauvignon Blanc meal deal.
We shared that veggie pizza, a bargain.
“Do you have a ****ing idea what you’re doing !” shouts someone on the next table.
It’s presumably a question directed at the Spoons carpet designer, who has failed badly here.
The drunken billiards women from the Star turn up and set up camp behind us. I order, for reason unknown, a duppy rum, which never turns up.
And then on the trip to the loo I see it on drunken billiard women table. They’ve nicked it !
Oh, actually I’d typed in the wrong table number. The nice Spoons staff gave me another one, and rescued the fudge cask headed out as well.
They are our friends.
retiredmartin 
Never knew you could make Godalming so exciting 😀.
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Everywhere is POTENTIALLY exciting, Tony 😄
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Not while Llangefni still stands.
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Not Haslemere.
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……..apart from Walton on Thames
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“a) it’s a Spoons, b) it sells the award-winning Abbot”
On Tuesday morning Tim’s Stone venue, one of his better ones, also had Abbot Reserve, three pints of which had drunk very well by 1pm. Friends from Liverpool and Wolverhampton had driven and so missed out on one of GK’s finest brews.
That was my best Wetherspoons visit since on Waverley railway station over four years ago and all that I could fault were the upstairs toilets and the rotten window frames.
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What’s a duppy rum?
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An Osmonds song, wasn’t it, Bill?
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I was going to ask the same question, Bill, but felt embarrassed because I thought it is something I should know!
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It’s a brand of rum known as Duppy Share. You can get it in supermarkets. It’s a marketing brand rather than an actual distillery. A lot of people seem to rather like it, but my resident rum expert doesn’t rate it at all.
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Thanks for putting us out of our misery.
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What’s Duppy Rum?
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