Depends on what you mean by pub? In the valleys all the "pubs" are **** holes run by idiots serving Carling and wondering why no ****er comes in all week followed by a weekend of complete ****ers getting tanked up and having a fight. The good old country pub needs protecting without a doubt, the kind of place that serves local ale and a few more so called by locals fancy beers and serve it all up with good pub grub. But the back Street boozer can **** right off, infested by morons. Breweries opening tap rooms are great imo, they tend to draw in a good crowd who like a beer and a chat, really friendly modern places. I'm very glad that I happen to frequent one, often.
Yeah, find we tend to glamorize these places like they're a beautiful coffee house perched in the centre of Vienna. Probably 7/10 pubs are ****e old buildings full of miserable alchies in the day and a bunch of pricks in the evening coked off their heads. Some folk think of The Fat Duck or something when they think of a pub. I think of some clattered down **** hole in Birkenhead your parents warned you about as a kid That being said, bars/clubs in Norway are utter ****. Its like they read about "drinking culture" in a British/German Magazine 40 years ago and tried their best to replicate what they read.
Two days in the office this week, so not working today. Feet up on sofa and drinking tea, so like normal really.
So the Mrs has gone all Michael Mosley, we do alright but she wants us to do better, so she asked me to listen to a couple of his podcasts, so I started with an anti inflammatory one with Prof Janet Lord. Ffs these are boring ****ers, no idea if they'll live longer but I bet they feel they have. Where's that bottle of malt?
I'll be responsible for some more felling next week as I'm helping my friend build a big wine storage rack for her shed.
