Pub beer, beer pub
Jun. 1st, 2014 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hirezFor whatever reason, we tend not to 'do' Sunday Pub Lunch when visiting Ma. Mostly because when I was growing up Ma & Pa really really didn't care for that sort of thing. And, later, I'm not sure I ever got quite used to trooping into some random boozer, having Pa go 'No, I really don't think so. Do you?' and then all trooping out again.
Thus I never really understood it, and tend to view the whole set of weekend-lunchtime drinkers and their odd behaviours with a similar attitude to some telly naturalist encountering some recently-discovered tribe. Or that Theroux bloke goading some American fascists or MRAs or something.
Of course, now my own drinking is confined to the weekend, I have become the thing I hate. Well, apart from last week in Bath. And the previous weekend in Southwold...
... Anyway. This is probably the best reason I have for only just getting around to visiting The Plough, which is only one field away from Ma's house. The bit you probably don't get from the website is that, modulo the prices and the plugs, it's largely unchanged since I don't know when. A lounge and a snug bar. Outside bogs. No taps for the ale and cider - it's all out of barrels behind the bar. And indeed the bar itself is more of a cubbyhole, so you have to ask the nice person what they've got on. There is a big board, but that's hidden in the corridor that is apparently the back bar.
Thus I never really understood it, and tend to view the whole set of weekend-lunchtime drinkers and their odd behaviours with a similar attitude to some telly naturalist encountering some recently-discovered tribe. Or that Theroux bloke goading some American fascists or MRAs or something.
Of course, now my own drinking is confined to the weekend, I have become the thing I hate. Well, apart from last week in Bath. And the previous weekend in Southwold...
... Anyway. This is probably the best reason I have for only just getting around to visiting The Plough, which is only one field away from Ma's house. The bit you probably don't get from the website is that, modulo the prices and the plugs, it's largely unchanged since I don't know when. A lounge and a snug bar. Outside bogs. No taps for the ale and cider - it's all out of barrels behind the bar. And indeed the bar itself is more of a cubbyhole, so you have to ask the nice person what they've got on. There is a big board, but that's hidden in the corridor that is apparently the back bar.
