Someone Else: by Elliot Mason, and the David Goo Variety Band
Someone Else: by Elliot Mason, and the David Goo Variety Band
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Qype: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese in London
London – Eating & Drinking – Pubs & Bars – Pubs Out on a Saturday evening’s pub-skylarking with a friend we found ourselves in Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, and I have to say – I was very impressed! Initially the heat from the fireplace seemed oppressive, but that was possibly in contrast from the frigid…
Aye, there’s the rub. A dub dub.
One of the reasons, it’s been said, that the rationalist/skeptic movement haven’t swollen their membership in the same way as say, an organised religion, is that there’s no obvious focal point for them to congregate at. So in 1999 a group called Skeptics In The Pub was formed to provide a regular chance for people…
Qype: Greenwich Union in London
London – Eating & Drinking – Pubs & Bars – Pubs We recently bowled in here for a Sunday roast whilst in the neighbourhood – as a visitor from the far North I’d often heard of The Union in the wilds of Greenwich, and was quite pleased with what I found. The main drawcard of…
‘Oss ‘oss!
England is a country rife with tradition & local custom, which gives rise to some fascinating events – I’ve written before about the tar barrel running in Ottery St Mary before, and alluded to but not gotten around to writing about the cheese rolling race at Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire. In May I was lucky…
This ain’t no Hank Williams song…
Buying a ticket to see German industrial hard rockers Rammstein seemed like a good idea at the time, and then afterwards I started to have a few hesitations, as the fans give over a certain image being a fairly hard & intense crowd, and though I’ve survived Iron Maiden and Prodigy gigs before, I really…
How to sum up 19 days of bliss & awesomeness
It’s probably abundantly clear – because I clearly mentioned it several times – that back in December I was extremely fortunate to be able to get back to my hometown of Adelaide and spend a few weeks there, soaking up the sun and spending time with friends & family. Organising relaxing holidays has never been…
Qype: The Speaker in London
London – Eating & Drinking – Pubs & Bars – Pubs The Speaker is a neat, cosy little bolthole tucked away in Westminster – a perfect place to be snugly installed with a pint of real ale when the freezing rain’s lashing down outside! A favourite of nearby officeworkers (and often, parlimentarians), if you arrive…
Qype: Cafe Fresco in London
London There’s a tendency in this country for quite mediocre businesses to survive or even flourish based on their proximity to large groups of lazy people. There’s the Station-to-Pub-Proximity-Rule to illustrate this (in that by and large the quality of a pub will be inversely proportional to its distance from a train station), and then…