Pub Curmudgeon 🌸🍻
@oldmudgie
Celebrating traditional beer and pubs and pub cats; opposing the Nanny State, especially the pub smoking ban.
True, to my shame (we were about to get hammered by India). The old Sunday opening hours applied except the pub landlord continued serving for a private party for Smokey bass player Terry Utley……. felt fine next day good stuff that Tetley’s
I rather think the players enjoyed it though. I was reading the other day that during the rest day of a Test in 1986 Derek Pringle supped 17 pints 😆 🍺 Any truth in that @derekpringle or another apocryphal urban myth?
I love a cheese and onion roll with a pint…..do you?
Can’t believe someone would eat that if it turned up on a plate in front of them…
Desert Rat, #Scunthorpe (Closed) #FlatRoofedPubs Opened in 1968 for the John Smiths brewery and named after the 7th Armoured Division of the British Army. Its exploits in the Western Desert Campaign gained it the Desert Rats nickname.
We already have plenty of hospitality zones. Unfortunately they are being crippled by taxes - National Insurance, business rates, VAT, alcohol duty etc. These headlines from govt are displacement activity while they annihilate the hospitality business with costs.
🚨 NEW: The Government is set to roll out "hospitality zones" across the UK to allow pubs and clubs to open in empty shops and operate with longer opening hours and alfresco dining
A piece of rocking horse crap has dropped 😄
Did a blog thepubman.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-we…
There are already whispers about new tenants.
This is a Punch lease, so not sure it’s in the gift of the departing licensees to say it’s closing “for good”. cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-c…
Here’s a wild idea - why not open pubs and clubs in empty pubs and clubs?
🚨 NEW: The Government is set to roll out "hospitality zones" across the UK to allow pubs and clubs to open in empty shops and operate with longer opening hours and alfresco dining
I can’t wait for a night out in a government hospitality zone, drinking government approved beverages and talking government approved talk.
POLL: What do you mostly do with copper coins you receive in change?
The current problems of hospitality are mainly down to high costs and lack of demand, so it’s hard to see how making it easier to open new venues is going to be much help.
🚨 NEW: The Government is set to roll out "hospitality zones" across the UK to allow pubs and clubs to open in empty shops and operate with longer opening hours and alfresco dining
This is a Punch lease, so not sure it’s in the gift of the departing licensees to say it’s closing “for good”. cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-c…
This was over Bradford Brewery many years ago.
George Galloway.
Hey @grok, who is the most famous person to block my account? Just give me a name. Don’t tag them.
Somebody should market a beer called “Occasionally”. So when asked, I can say, “I only drink occasionally”.
Worrying news about the state of the famous Three Tuns pub in Bishop’s Castle. shropshirestar.com/news/local-hub…
