... to slum it, there is a John Smiths pub nearby that charges about £1.40 a pint, a snooker club that has a happy hour on a Thursday where beer is £1 and a Holt's pub that charges about £1.70 normally for a cracking pint and about £1.40 on a Monday. What a comprehensive knowledge of hostelries and their prices you have there, Brian, for someone who imbibes as little as you do...

...the good word of Samuel Smith's Brewery. Please do :-) The beer may all be brewed in Yorkshire but central London plays host to many of Sam Smith's distinctively convivial hostelries - traditional pubs, no music, decent fellow drinkers, a lovely pint, and minimal damage to your wallet. 'Tis a winner. If it's your round, this is the place to buy it! Slight warning if...

... Weatherspoons). May I merrily spread the good word of Samuel Smith's Brewery. The beer may all be brewed in Yorkshire but central London plays host to many of Sam Smith's distinctively convivial hostelries - traditional pubs, no music, decent fellow drinkers, a lovely pint, and minimal damage to your wallet. 'Tis a winner. If it's your round, this is the place to buy it! List of ...

... - they are both, after all, on the Jubilee line! Though I suppose a double-vodka tonic is somewhat cheaper in the Wetherspoon's pub in the Finchley Rd O2 (at least I think the hostelry within is owned by that all pervasive chain). Incidentally for many years the B&Q on the Old Kent Road genuinely was worth avoiding - the place was completely chaotic, stock was anywhere and everywhere (or...

..., public houses, parking machines, fast-food outlets and supermarkets". Oyster and pubs just sounds like a recipe for trouble! Can you not picture the scenario - the lubricated multitude leaving the hostelries of London town and then finding, to their puzzlement, on trying to board a bus or pass through a stations ticket gates, a delightful error code of 36, the Oyster equivalent of "go ...

...T wrote: "Walter Briscoe" <wbriscoe@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote: .... I can imagine that it might seem like an attractive route option late at night after one has been imbibing in a hostelry - or perhaps I should say that I can almost imagine that *my* fuzzified mind might think along those lines! That's perhaps the worst time to walk though because as well as the wobble factor ...

... driving through. I wonder if the count really was for the whole 24 hours. I can imagine that it might seem like an attractive route option late at night after one has been imbibing in a hostelry - or perhaps I should say that I can almost imagine that *my* fuzzified mind might think along those lines! That's perhaps the worst time to walk though because as well as the wobble factor some...

... publicans not to sell alcohol for fear of people doing stupid and dangerous things whilst under the influence. I really don't think that possibility is too far away:-) Gordon has promised less government so your sojourns to local hostelries are probably safe. Unless he's another ****ing liar. Ya think? -- Enzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.

... alcohol for fear of people doing stupid and dangerous things whilst under the influence. I really don't think that possibility is too far away:-) Gordon has promised less government so your sojourns to local hostelries are probably safe. Unless he's another ****ing liar. -- Mick. <Magister mundi sum!> "I'm pledging my time to you, Hopin' you'll come through, too."

...didn't drag the floor. So those of you that can chew gum and walk erect seem to be in a tiny minority. http://redditch.standardtoday.co.uk/news.tvt?_scope=Flow/Websites/Redditch /News&id=296371 Speechless... Ah well, The Nailer's Arms on t'other side of the motorway was pleasant enough and not that far away. And there were a couple of other decent local hostelries.