Just heading back from our annual mud and Americana/punk/weird stuff festival in Dorset.
Day 2 saw long queues at the Craft bar as the internet went on strike and the folk dispensing Lost & Grounded and Beak weren’t allowed to take cash. If you thought the Sleaford Mods were angry you’ve never seen Mrs RM deprived of her pint of 8% murk.
Back in Godalming last week we awoke, not at all hungover oh no, to the prospect of French crepes in a noted Surrey dogging site. It’s always the French, isn’t it ?
I was delighted to see that were so clearly expressing their payment preferences.
It may be my affectation, but I always ask bar staff how they’d like me to pay, what with so many places going card only or defiantly rejecting anything but groats (Sam Smiths).
I count out my £17.40 in coins, and then the young lad says “oh no, card only today, I thought I’d hidden that sign”.
I suppose he sort of had.
Anyway, guess the calories.
retiredmartin 
Calorie count: sufficient.
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But for what ?
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An assault on the summit of Everest?
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Ten to midday today I was sat in a beer garden waiting for opening time, as one does, and a helpful employee sees me, comes outside and tells me that there’s a power cut for the whole area ( that’s what happens when the utilities have been privatised ) and that the pub isn’t expected to open much before 2pm.
I said that that was a shame given that I had walked out there for a pint of Pedigree and intended paying by cash.
He said he would see what he could do and within a couple of minutes had brought a pint of Pedigree outside and told me it was £3.85.
I gave him a fiver, told him to keep the change and thanked him profusely.
That wouldn’t have happened had I been one for paying by card.
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Excellent work Paul, always reward a helpful person. Which pub was it (and was the Pedi worth a visit ?).
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It was the Blue Boar at Mancetter and the Pedigree was well worth the walk out from Atherstone which had the best of pubs, the worst of pubs and pubs I didn’t get in as they don’t open till late afternoon on weekdays.
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Great comments, Paul!
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Well done Paul, and yet banks, with passive support from the UK government, seem determined to restrict our access to cash.
Appart from the Halifax and Nationwide, which are in effect, building societies, there are no banks left at all in Tonbridge – as I commented on recently, on my own blog.
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