Single hen

[Richard and Jo]

not if your stupid team moves to Milton Keynes you don't - as least they they are going to be demoted again

[Martin B]

OK! Highbury here I come, will be there on Saturdat to watch the mighty Claret and Blues!

[Hellcat]

Eeek! Football! I'm on the wrong thread!

 

Yeovil town - come on you green and whites?

[Sheilaz]

Er, Harpenden Rovers?

OK back to beer, much more important. Today, LSH & I decided to meet in town for lunch Can't remember the last time, and I thought we were going to a coffee shop or similar. Until OH said, "which pubs do good food?" Ah, hadn't thought of that.

We arranged 1pm in The Boot, hadn't been there for years, then realised it was our place & time every Saturday, 30 yrs ago!

Food was excellent, proper good stuff. Had Fuller's London Pride, yum. But, also learnt something, as you do in pubs!

They had Olde Black Sheep, which I thought I might try, but then wasn't sure if it was stronger or not (it's not). Apparently, it's made by a Theakston, as in Theakston's brewery, but he broke away from the family & brewed his own. In leaving the family business he had become the "black sheep of the family", hence the name of his new beer!

There you go. Wonder if we might try that next week.

[Lesley]

That will be Carl's lunch sorted when we come to see you then Sheila?

[Lesley]

Better stick to Homebrew then

[Hellcat]

They had Olde Black Sheep, which I thought I might try, but then wasn't sure if it was stronger or not (it's not). Apparently, it's made by a Theakston, as in Theakston's brewery, but he broke away from the family & brewed his own. In leaving the family business he had become the "black sheep of the family", hence the name of his new beer!

There you go. Wonder if we might try that next week.

 

It is and its yummy! Sam Smiths is good too, the brother of John, so I'm told!

[Martin B]

Going to highbury now! come on villa!

Cya later

[AnnieP]

Oh dear Martin...I do admire your optimism, but do you really think the Villa are going to turn over "Ooops, word censored!"nal? Don't forget to take some tissues with you.

[Hellcat]

[Sheilaz]

Sam Smiths is good too, the brother of John, so I'm told!

Oh yes, Helen, I'd forgotten Sam Smith's, we used to drink it all the time. Well, not all the time, you understand.

Some of the time we'd be drinking other beers.

Mmmm, that would be one of my Desert Island top ten beers.

PS. Yes, Lesley, was just thinking today that we could go to The Boot, if there's time!

P.P.S. Dan, didn't know about Fuller's closing down that brewery, will switch my allegiance.

P.P.S. Look what happened to Saturday nights!

[Cate in NZ]

Oh dear Martin...I do admire your optimism, but do you really think the Villa are going to turn over "Ooops, word censored!"nal? Don't forget to take some tissues with you.

 

I think he might have needed those tissues today.... not one of Villa's finest moments

[Martin B]

5-0 what a disaster! £35. IT WAS £7 A GOAL I SUPPOSE (for them)

[AnnieP]

Never mind. Magnaminous in defeat and all that..... You see, if you were a bit older it would be the perfect excuse to drown your sorrows with a good pint of....London Pride? Red Stripe?

[Lesley]

.......... and then Martin came to my house and met my SIL - an "Ooops, word censored!"nal supporter.

[Martin B]

I sat really close to the "Ooops, word censored!"nal fans and us Villa fans were having a bit of an arguement and jesture with themm but it was all good natured!

[Cavey]

Dear God, save me from poofball!!!!

 

Surely lager goes with football? Normally 5 pints of ET or at least Stella and then time for a fight?

 

Give me local beer (Hogs Back Brewery) and local rugby every time!

[AnnieP]

I take it you don't like football then?

[Cavey]

What makes you think that Annie

 

Any game that calls itself the peoples game and then pays its prima donna players more a week than most people earn a year is a waste of time IMHO. At least with rugby union you can watch a game with a beer and sit with opposition supporters and talk your mind without worrying about getting in a fight.

[Sheilaz]

...each to their own, but I do agree with Cavey.

But then, I wouldn't pick a fight with a rugby player anyway.

[Louise]

Cavey I am being a bit thick here (situtation normal ) you mentioned five pints of ET I am assuming you don't mean little green men from Mars

 

What is ET

[AnnieP]

I don't pick fights with anyone! Far too well brought up for any kind of fisticuffs.

I prefer cricket to anything: Sitting in the Wyatt stand at Edgbaston, drinking a pint of cold Guinness whilst watching England, next to me two hunky Australian guys in nurses uniforms Plus watching all the nutters in the Hollies stand of course!

However, if anybody wants to give me free tickets to Highbury to watch "Ooops, word censored!"nal, I wouldn't be so rude as to turn them down.... As long as I could meet Thierry Henry as well!

[Hellcat]

I prefer cricket to anything: Sitting in the Wyatt stand at Edgbaston, drinking a pint of cold Guinness whilst watching England, next to me two hunky Australian guys in nurses uniforms

 

and these two hunky Australians are...?

[AnnieP]

Complete strangers unfortunately!

[Hellcat]

oh boo. I was about to invite myself along. i could do with sitting next to two hunky Australians...

 

Oh, well, have to make do with the old man instead.