Friday night, I normally go for a beer and watch some live Music. Gary was on call, so couldn’t come out. But I was bored, so I headed out on my own. If I go to The Red, I normally meet someone I know
When I got there they had no band on. Apparently they are having a bit of a break after Christmas – great.
Then something went wrong with the nitrogen gas used to pump the beer with, which is ironic as I have been writing about running out of gas all week. This is a very sad sight at 11 pm on a Friday night.
So no music and only bottled beer, unless you drink the brown stuff.
Just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse there was a fight outside the pub, and lots of Police turned up. I tried to take some pictures, but they did not come out.
All said, not a good Friday night. I don’t get out as much as I used to. I think I realise why now. I wasted an evening and £12.20 sitting listening to the duke box.
But, now I look at the pictures of the Police outside the pub, I see what an interesting effect all that reflecting material makes. So not a completely wasted evening then.
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I went out for a few beers last night with Gary. There was a two-and-a-half percent decrease in VAT on Monday. I was expecting the price of a pint to have dropped. The decrease is part of Gordon Brown’s master plan to get us all to spend more. He wants British consumers to rescue the economy from the mess he and his pals have created.
Anyway, the price of a pint had not gone down. I was outraged and complained to the Wayne the Manager, who patiently explained that they put the duty on beer, wine and spirits up at the same time as they dropped VAT, so the prices stayed the same.
Nanny Gordon knows best and does not want us to drink more. He doesn’t want us to waste our hard earned money on English Ale or Scotch Whisky. We should spend it instead on Chinese made toys.
It’s nice to know that the powers that be, having presided over the possibly the biggest financial f**k-up this country has known, still think they know better than us how to run our lives.
When it comes to running the economy, they can not find there own backsides with both hands. But that will not stop them from attempting to micro-mange the whole nation – in our own best interests of course.
If we all drink less, work harder and learn our place in the scheme of things, then one day our kids could be in a position where they will be protected from there own gross incompetence by their pals in the government splurging out our money.
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I was in the Red Lion with Gary Franks last night to watch Cold Jam.
They were pretty good. As I was leaving the Red Lion last night (1am this morning in fact), Bev Glanfield yells to me, “Tim, we tried!”. She repeated it, so I assume it must have been fairly important.
I have not got the vaguest idea what she was talking about. But I was on my way home and had had a few drinks so I thought I would leave it. This kind of thing happens way too often to me. Although not as often as it used to. Just once I wish I knew what was going on in my life.
I have left a message for her on facebook.
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