Recent Posts Tagged With 'pubs'

• A pint of numbers

  Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 15:24 in beer, pubs, slang, kronenbourg, 80 shilling, caley 80

  Down the pub this evening, one of my colleagues referred to the beer Kronenbourg as 'numbers' - presumably because its full name is 'Kronenbourg 1664'. That's a new one on me.Photo from FlickrAnd Googling 'Kronenbourg' and 'pint of numbers' threw up ...

• A MAPMe map of South London's best pubs

  Posted on Sunday June 28th, 2009 at 11:56 in London, Bars, maps, google maps, pubs

  I've been experimenting with the website MAPMe.com, which enables users to create personal or community maps and then embed them on to their website or blog. Yes, I know, Google Maps lets you do that too, but MAPMe.com seems to offer more functionali...

• Live Italian singer

  Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 03:00 in humour, singer, pubs, signs, huntington

  Yet another out-of-focus photo taken in a pub, although this time there's a difference - the pub was in Huntington.Anyway: this place has a "live Italian singer" in on Monday. I suppose that's better than getting a dead one in. ...

• Customer refreshment logistics technicians

  Posted on Tuesday May 12th, 2009 at 03:00 in humour, Advertising, London, jobs, pubs, bar staff

  Yes, I'm still on holiday, so here's another picture from my collection. There's no mistake to spot this time, just some amusing language use:If you haven't worked it out yet, this is an advert for bar staff. And yes, I took the photo in a pub using ...

• 'The best heated smoking area in Whetstone...'

  Posted on Sunday May 3rd, 2009 at 13:05 in London, pubs, signs, whetstone, beer garden, smoking area, the griffin

  This sign made me laugh. So the pub in question, The Griffin, has "the best heated smoking area in Whetstone with a big screen"...Whetstone isn't exactly the largest area of London - so how many pubs there have a heated smoking area with a big screen...

• Timothy Taylor steak and ale pie

  Posted on Saturday April 11th, 2009 at 14:36 in beer, London, menu, pubs, black friar, timothy taylor landlord

  This afternoon I found myself in one of my favourite London pubs, the Black Friar in Blackfriars.On the menu was 'Timothy Taylor steak and ale pie'. Very tasty, no doubt, but as Timothy Taylor referred to the ale (Timothy Taylor Landlord) rather than...

• You know you've been subbing too hard...

  Posted on Wednesday March 11th, 2009 at 05:00 in beer, journalism, pubs

  ...when you start hallucinating a giant glass of beer whenever you walk past a pub.I saw this one lunchtime in the street near my office. I was with one of my colleagues at the time, and he told the beer: "I've drunk your babies."Journalists can be s...

• A pint and a half, or a pint in a half

  Posted on Saturday February 21st, 2009 at 06:49 in beer, pubs, pint, coors

  I was in a busy pub in central London last night and went up to the bar to buy a couple of drinks."A pint and a half of Coors*, please," I said to the barman.He went off to start pouring the drinks and then came back to ask me: "Was that a pint and a...