Week of Quiz suffered a weekend lapse, owing to unsurprising lack of quiz to be had on a Friday and Saturday and urgent need to end a commitment of some six-months standing, namely the final episode of 24. Undeterred, ‘Jack and Nina’ spe[…]

PUBS WHAT HAVE BEEN DONE UP. It always makes me chuckle when a dingey old man’s pub is tarted up a la Nu Shoreditch in relentless pursuit of the upwardly mobile drinker, and fails to quite shake off the old clientele. Such a Waterloo stalwar[…]

My Chain-pub Hell continues. Hogshead last night with fellow-pub-loggers Pete and John. However, Crouch End’s famous ex-funeral parlour venue was graced by not one, but TWO celebs. Sean Hughes and (I think) Paul Morley, only I was too star-str[…]

Lengthy Absence Having forgotten all my old passwords for Blogger. I have only been to two pubs this year – 1) The Head, 2) All Bar One. This must not stand. How about going to 37 out of the 38 All Bar Ones in London, and then you could say: &[…]

GET THIS MAN TO BUY YOU A DRINK TONIGHT
John left the pub last night just as the large round reached it’s critical mass. And it was his round. The cur, and I had to pay for the taxi/ambulance. This on-line dissing is intensely liberating.[…]

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[…]

A timely appraisal of this temperamental machine. Have you noticed the suspicious cartel of hand-dryer manufactures based either in Stanmore, Mx or Hemel Hempstead, Herts? Probably not, but I have, because I have paternal relatives in both of these u[…]

just a thought: getting pissed off by nicky wire is sort of like getting pissed off by your cat refusing to come when you call it, but this is a bit much. i’m honestly glad i don’t live in england so that i don’t have to hear his na[…]

Ordinary Decent Boozer -(ODB) because EC2 does that too
A little pause from the ramblings of last Thursday, for a brief perusal of the more down-to-earth and honest offerings of EC2.
Since I work (for the next 6 working days) at a company that has o[…]

Well here’s another live publog from “Sosho”. John, Magnus and Kate are on the tiles, mopping up a few wannabe haunts. And so we find ourselves strangely drawn to the prospect of revealing our innermost drinking thoughts in a sty[…]