retiredmartin

February 2025. Hunston. Chichester.

It wasn’t just Mrs RM and I “Catching Up With With The Southworths” (repeats available on Dave TV) this month.

A great photo* of Pub Men smiling (well, a smile by Dave’s standard) with the Pride drinking well in Chichester, and the positivity shines through Joan and Dave’s posts from the coast.

Yes ! They even like our public transport ! And you’ll know how good that is in the States.

We were staying at a lodge next to a pond in Runcton, which excitingly I’d never heard of before.

Having turned it down at £126 a night on Saturday it unexpectedly popped up at half price on the Monday and at that price was a bargain with its posh capsule coffee machine and frog on the doorstep on Thursday morning.

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10 minutes from Chichester bus station, this isn’t a highly pubbed area,

and the Southworth’s “local for a fortnight” in Hunston seemed a bit gastro.

But we could sit in the bar area rather than the restaurant,

and, just as Dave promised, the HSB was as good as in the GBG pubs (NBSS 3.5).

A proper lid on the pies, too.

But it’s chat, not crust or cask you go to pubs for, and it was great to compare notes over a supper during which the Old Boys at the bar all came over to wish the Southworths well as they prepared to make the dangerous West-to-East Sussex border. Those Americans make friends easily**.

“You’ll never forget the pliers” was the only note I made. What can it mean ?

*Several pics stolen with pride off Joan Southworth, who knows how to take a photo

**Well, most of them