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I'm going for a beer...I may be some time.
15 miles south of that, but looks similar !
Southerners....🙄
I’m going for a beer…I may be some time.
They’ve got too used to me saying that...
Same here in snowy Berks.
Spring has sprung, and the pubs are open.
Taps aff.
You all have wet weather gear ,warm clothing, and after being locked out for the last 12 months I'd have though nothing short of a hurricane would keep you away.
Pick the pub with outdoor heating and I'm sure you'll survive.
Think positively - Keeps your beer chilled.
I really don't get why this is such a big deal. Perhaps I'm not English enough
and after being locked out for the last 12 months
We weren’t. One of the few joys of last summer’s lockdown was cycling to a distant pub to sit in the garden with table service, beer and food.
And joking aside I’m a bit gutted for the girls who run our local who have been really gearing up fo today after a few months of ticking over by provid8ng takeaway meals.
Maybe I should have led with that,
We've been drinking outside our local throughout lockdown, we just take glasses and a brew and sit at a table.
It'll cost 4x as much when they're back open. 😡
We’ve been drinking outside our local throughout lockdown, we just take glasses and a brew and sit at a table
TBH I'm not sure you've quite grasped this whole "lockdown" concept.
lockdown returns in 3....2....1....
Never mind the pubs, the local rag has been reporting that people around the county have been queuing since 6.30am to get into various Primarks 🤣
I know I’m old when I rate that as much as the pubs being open.
going to be having cake and coffee in the garden tis lovely an sunny.
I've been in Primark. Don't ever want to do that again.
It's been sunny but cold here all weekend, the pumptrack has been empty of kids because they're all being dragged to the shops. Weird.
There was a 7 person long queue outside a charity shop this morning at 9am.
Think of the bargains that have been accumulating. 🙂
I’ve been in Primark. Don’t ever want to do that again.
I went once, out of curiosity, it seems you have to take something off a rack and drop it on the floor as you pass each rack, the place was a cross between a jumble sale and a zombie apocalypse.
Never mind the pubs, the local rag has been reporting that people around the county have been queuing since 6.30am to get into various Primarks
Yet weirdly, they didn't report similar queues to John Lewis...
Did my afternoon shopping ride. Sat in the sun under the tree full of bees where I got stung a couple of weeks back and drank my coffee and decided the pub garden can wait for the weekend.
Didn't get stung today but did jump skyward when I heard on walking on my jacket collar. The hive noises rivalled the hum from the rail transformers a few yards away.
Also saw a bunch of the little black bunnies* we have on this side of Didcot. Jet black and a lot smaller than the locals I'm assuming they're from and escaped rabbit or more likely something dumped by one of the delightful locals.
And now I'm back designing ads for 'interesting' shopping experiences. What joy.
* Not a Prince Philip description.
Think of the bargains that have been accumulating.
None, because they weren’t allowed to take in donations during lockdown. The charity shop that you support will really need your help with donated items right about now.
Kinell. Just back from a few hours freezing outside the local, £32+ for 6 drinks. Shan't be sprinting to do that again in a hurry. I can't see the 'higher prices in a crisis' coming down, we'll all be pre-loading like teenagers.
We had a queue outside our shop this morning.
Shame it was for the barbers 4 doors up.
A barbershop quartet.
We live next door to a pub, whilst it has calmed down now it was rammed earlier, obviously the alcohol made people immune to the virus.
Do we think the trails will be quieter now the usual leisure pursuits of shopping and drinking are on again?
The wife and I have just got back from the pub. It was really nice. Great to see people having a good time. I've not drunk very much at all over the last year, but didn't realise I have actually missed the atmosphere of a happy beer garden.
Had an evening round and about the Borough of Erewash and actually surprised how quiet the pubs were.
McDonald's looked busy
Unfortunately lots of people have been enjoying beer gardens.
I generally love(d) beer gardens before Covidiocy like that*. Let’s hope is isolated (sic, sic, sic!) event.
*Another casualty of modern people.
#feelold
It looks like a surreal Whack-a-mole event! Art installation? Quantumly-entangled with sausages lined up across a BBQ?
Every charity shop we went past today had queues outside them. Somewhat surprised to be honest. We did a loop out from Sheffield to Fox House for a few pints and then back to the Norfolk Arms for another. Very civilised and great to have a few beers with friends after a shitty winter. Happy days.
Every charity shop we went past today had queues outside them
Local economŷ booming then. Am going to check one out tomorrow as Mrs P spied some boots she liked the look of, and I fancy me a chess-piece or maybe Pass The Pigs
#1974
#spamwich
West Sheffield, so usually quite an affluent demographic but clearly times are tough. Or there are bargains to be had.
Had a lovely night in our local looking out on Brixham harbour. Was especially ace to hear the drunk youngsters having a laugh and trying to chat up the girlies. They deserve it
Looking forward to seeing everyone at my usual drinking establishment this Friday. They do have an outdoor drinking area, but just like last year, we have to pre-book a table, and we’ll get table service. This has proved to be very popular, so they’re sticking with it - beats the hell out of joining a scrum at the bar, trying to order through the people who get their drinks then stand at the bar yakking and getting in the way of those who don’t want to stand there for ten minutes, time that can be better utilised by sitting down with a pint kindly presented by a friendly member of staff!
How STW thinks they looked in the "beer garden" last night:
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How they actually looked:
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Never mind the pubs, the local rag has been reporting that people around the county have been queuing since 6.30am to get into various Primarks 🤣
What is it with Primark? I understand it's a place to buy clothes, but do people really need new clothes so much that they'll queue in the street to buy them?
All the pubs round here are pre-booked for months so I'll continue my drinking from home
Got work finished bang on deadline so celebrated by going to the pub garden at 5 when it was still warm. 2 beers and chatting were nice but the highspot was finding that one of the small stables walk past on the shortcut through the fields have a pair of delightful Oxford Sandy and Black piglets.
Really cute little buggers.
We went for a couple of beers the other night with a couple of mates. It was great to feel something like normality.
I do hope that this table service lark continues once things are back to 'normal' (whatever that is?). It's far more civilised.
All the pubs round here are pre-booked for months so I’ll continue my drinking from home
I'd try your luck if you just happen to be out. After what happened last summer with people pre-booking tables then not turning up, a lot of pubs are being a bit smarter this time and keeping a certain number of tables for walk-ins. They were where we went the other night and other places locally are doing the same.
And folks, if you're going out then give the staff a decent tip when you leave. They've had a shit last 12 months, money-wise.
I do hope that this table service lark continues once things are back to ‘normal’ (whatever that is?). It’s far more civilised.
We'll have none of that civilised bollocks here mate, sounds far too bloody European to me.
Actually what you really want is the beer pump at the table, went to a bar in Vienna once that had that, they zero it when you sit down and you serve yourself and you pay at the end for how much you've had. Of course introduce that here and you'd have people lying on the table mouths open while their mates see how many pints they can swallow before it turns into waterboarding
I just hope that pubs open is going to reduce the tons of glass I'm picking up every day off the floor on my recycling round. Not going to help with the mountains of cardboard but you can't have everything.
Of course introduce that here and you’d have people lying on the table mouths open while their mates see how many pints they can swallow before it turns into waterboarding
You say that like it's a bad thing 🤷♂️🚰🍻