Just as there is a thin line between love and hate, or strong ale and LOOPY JUICE, there can some times be not much between excellent pubcraft and pubtwattery. One man’s smart land grab for a table in a pub is another’s aggressive take-over bid. […]

THE SEVEN DEADLY PUB SINS: 5. Menus On The Table
The pub deadly sins have been quiet for a while. That is because past the first four I could not think of anything which seem so severe as to be a deadly sin. Plenty of annoying incidents occur in the […]

THE PUB SEVEN DEADLY SINS: 4: No Smoking Areas REACTION NUMBER TWO
The major problem with Pub No-Smoking Areas is that the only way to guarantee their being smoke-free is to open all the doors and windows nearby so the No-Smoking Area is also the Dra[…]

THE PUB SEVEN DEADLY SINS: 4 : No Smoking Areas REACTION NUMBER ONE
Taking a partial an unilateral view on a subject. Not something that Mr Baran has been un-guilty of before (Year of New Racism eh? Not quite unilateral if you count the Tory back-b[…]

THE PUB SEVEN DEADLY SINS: 4 : No Smoking Areas
Now those who know me will be well aware that I rarely puff on the evil weed. Or, for that matter, its slightly less evil and more charitable weed. So you would think that I would be a clean air fanatic[…]

The Pub Seven Deadly Sins: 3: Fake Doors
There is a joke about this. “When is a door not a door? When it is the left hand door of the Lord John Russell.”
It is cold, dark and relatively late. You are scurrying to meet friends in a local p[…]

THE PUB SEVEN DEADLY SINS: 2: Stainless Steel Pissers
Luckily this is the realm of the more wanky bars and nearly all Mean Fiddler venues, rather than the average pub – but nevertheless there is the odd hostelry which has this man baiting horro[…]

THE PUB SEVEN DEADLY SINS: 1: Jukebox / MTV combo’s
Many pubs are now littered with televisions. Useful in sporting occasions, which therefore draw in the punters who drink more. Certainly I have spent many a happy afternoon in a Saloon, pint o[…]