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Post by Mr Stabby on Jun 11, 2024 8:53:57 GMT
Chilly here too although have the truck heater keeping me warm. Have decided to postpone the Peak District ride-out as rain is forecast for the entire four days that Charle will be on the road, and I think the Peak District itself requires dry roads and good visibility.
Car being welded today.
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Post by on Jun 11, 2024 8:59:09 GMT
Chilly here too although have the truck heater keeping me warm. Have decided to postpone the Peak District ride-out as rain is forecast for the entire four days that Charle will be on the road, and I think the Peak District itself requires dry roads and good visibility. Car being welded today. Shame about the bike trip but wet roads don't seem ideal. Some murmurings by the weather dudes that this summer may be a wet one. I suppose its a change from searingly hot droughts.
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Post by on Jun 11, 2024 9:02:25 GMT
I'm moored outside one of the old stately home derelict pleasure gardens so will have to have a trek through what is now basically a jungle with a substrate of endless wealth to the main road then twenty minute walk to the Aldi shop.
Its a bit of an odd one here. About 30 acres of prime riverside land nobody has developed. I suppose it is a bit low lying so perhaps just flood plain area.
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Post by dogless on Jun 11, 2024 9:19:29 GMT
You definitely need to do Cat and Fiddle and Ladybower in good visibility if possible.
Had a walk yesterday and called in a pub for a pint of Hobgoblin IPA.
Now it's a jolly fine beer but it was served full to the glass top, with no head whatsoever.
Obviously it was served that way intentionally ... do you southern folk actually prefer it ?
Rog
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Post by on Jun 11, 2024 9:22:07 GMT
my beer comes from cans or bottles.
Pubs too expensive.
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Post by dogless on Jun 11, 2024 9:27:52 GMT
my beer comes from cans or bottles. Pubs too expensive. Sometimes beer's more about the social environment rather than the alcohol ... I like pubs but they are expensive. £5.90 for the pint as opposed to a can back at the boat for about £1.25. Actually I didn't rate the pub either ... Packet Boat Inn ... it was more like a caravan site social club than a pub. Rog
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Post by The Cat Man on Jun 11, 2024 9:35:12 GMT
This southerner doesn't - I'd be wondering how long the beer had been sitting there in the barrel. (obviously depends a bit on whether you have watched them pour the pint)
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Post by The Cat Man on Jun 11, 2024 9:40:07 GMT
my beer comes from cans or bottles. Pubs too expensive. Sometimes beer's more about the social environment rather than the alcohol ... I like pubs but they are expensive. £5.90 for the pint as opposed to a can back at the boat for about £1.25. Actually I didn't rate the pub either ... Packet Boat Inn ... it was more like a caravan site social club than a pub. Rog Where abouts are you - the Packet Boat Inn at Cowley closed years ago - no wonder the beer is stale...
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Post by dogless on Jun 11, 2024 10:15:12 GMT
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Post by The Cat Man on Jun 11, 2024 10:22:09 GMT
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Post by dogless on Jun 11, 2024 10:35:49 GMT
My mistake ... it's on Packet Boat Lane but is called (Jane tells me) the Waters Edge or something similar 👍
Rog
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Post by brummieboy on Jun 11, 2024 10:37:48 GMT
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/pints-beer-short-measure-pubs-b2550636.htmlMaybe if your pub was like a caravan park and has regulars rather than lots of passing trade, they're fed up of being asked to top up. I must admit, I often ask for a top up when there is an inch of froth. Often it is because bar staff don't understand the physics of gas dispensers and open the tap up a little way just frothing up the liquid. Where the pub is managed by an owner or tenant mindful of the cost of froth, the problem does not exist. A proper cask beer on a manual pump is hardly ever over headed, and where you get fresh out of a cask through a tap in even more traditional pubs, there is hardly any head, yet the beer is not flat.
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Post by The Cat Man on Jun 11, 2024 10:39:50 GMT
My mistake ... it's on Packet Boat Lane but is called (Jane tells me) the Waters Edge or something similar 👍 Rog I thought it might be......
Suffers a lot from the clientel from all the long term caravan sites along the Slough Arm. Never been in..... Strange place, looks ok but....
Far far from a normal pub!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2024 12:39:22 GMT
Have seen two Oakum electric boats this week. Both passed me in almost silence… well apart from both having a diesel/petrol genny blaring away on the well deck. Odd.
Weather is crap isn’t it. Can’t remember a June that I’ve spent so much time in pubs. I’ve half a mind to buy a motor home and go spend some months in the sunnier parts of Europe.
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Post by on Jun 11, 2024 12:47:36 GMT
my beer comes from cans or bottles. Pubs too expensive. Sometimes beer's more about the social environment rather than the alcohol ... I like pubs but they are expensive. £5.90 for the pint as opposed to a can back at the boat for about £1.25. Actually I didn't rate the pub either ... Packet Boat Inn ... it was more like a caravan site social club than a pub. Rog I'm anti social with nothing to say. . No. In reality I am the last person there after everyone else has left and it would get very expensive ! Anyway. Survived the mental road on the way to Aldi and they had Rioja on sale half price. So I got some. I drink to remember my problems. Nice enough watching the Boats and the River glide by.
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