Flooded pub

We play pool on a Tuesday night. Nothing terribly serious, but eight
or nine of us get down the puib and have a few beers, then try to have
over whoever The League sends to take the piss that night. We've been
a bit lucky so far this season, and are currently a couple of points
clear at the top of Div One (gloats while the gloating is good).

Anyway - we were away in Ampthill tonight, and I did notice that my
feetses got a bit damp at the top of the path to the car park, as it
had been raining a bit for a couple of hours and was running down off
the fields behind the pub. Still, we squeezed into a couple of cars
and splashed our merry way a few miles, where we drank beer, played
pool, drank more beer and got rained on when out for a fag, reasonably
heavily.

I checked my phone on the way home (after scoring another three points
for a famous victory) and there was a voicemail from The Landlord (an
unusual occurrence) instructing use of the side door. This turned out
to be because the back doorway and the patio were under six inches of
dirty water, as was the bar, and the front door was locked. He
stayed, ready to serve us on our return, becasue he's a gent. A
rather damp gent, but there you go.

So we had a couple of beers and a couple of games, (the pool room
being up a step) and waited for the rain to stop. We've been Vaxxing
the bar and sweeping the Snug for the past two hours and it all looks
pretty good apart from being just a tiny bit squelchy underpaw.

He's intending to open tomorrow, but it looks like new carpets,
curtains, tables and chairs are on the list for the immediate future.
Well I'm fucked, I've been at the epicentre of a Village Happening
again. Best have another beerr, I think.

 

Shit! What about the cellar?

 

Heh. We were working on draining that too, but fortunately it is an
above-ground job, with a floor level higher than the flooded bit of
the bar. Hallelujah!

 

It's full of crocodiles.

 

http://www.ahhahh.com/ [ws]

 

FYYFF

 

<snip tale of dampness>

Coo, Ampthill, my old stomping ground. There's only the Sun had a pool
table there, was that the one? Happy memories, and mighty short cues for
some shots IIRC.

 

My only memory of Ampthill is of a bike rally back in about '84[1].
It's a pretty hazy memory, natch, but I can remember some bloke
wheelying his brand new VF1000R up the main drag.

[1] I had my GS550E at the time.

 

CT says...

2nd Straw Hat rally. I was at that one too.

 

Nearly as mad a pushing someone in a pram all the way from the Cross
Keys up and down that hill. Do they still do that?

 

That's the badger. I was racking my brain to think of the name of it,
but it wouldn't come.

 

The Old Sun, on the main drag into what passes as a town centre? The
table there is in the back room and that's about all there is in
there, with reasonable space around it. More than we have at home,
with the smallest table you can get, in what is definitely the
smallest room in the league (Summer breaking is easier, with the
window open to allow a bit of backswing, still fraught with peril as
you can get your butt tangled in the curtain hazard).

No, we were at The Cellar Bar[1] last night, a fairly recent
innovation in a barn conversion to the rear of the White Hart Hotel.
There's others too - The Albion (opposite and down the road from the
Old Sun) the Ossory Arms (down the side street opposite the Albion)
and of course every sporting gentleman's favourite venue, the
Wingfield Club, at the top of the hill going out towards Maulden.


1. http://thepoolpirates.co.uk/

 

Heh, the pool table used to be in the room at the front, even smaller in
there IIRC. The back room was darts and space invaders.

More than we have at home,

Haha, as used to be 'The Stables' setup for us underage drinkers *cough*
years ago.

Good grief. The Wingfield club was cheese skittles and bar billiards
last time I was there.

 

CT says...

I won the Rat-bike trophy with my old XS250. I think what clinched it
was that I rode across the field to where my mates were and just got off
it, letting it fall to the deck, and left it there all weekend. I came
second in the 'drink a pint of cold baked beans' contest too.

 

When you sober up, can you dig out the V5 for that CG125? Only I've just
had a SORN reminder for it...

 

Just re-SORNed it online.

I thought I'd had a letter through confirming the change of keeper, but
I've bought and sold enough vehicles in the last year or so that they've
all kind of blended together. If I did get it, I don't appear to have
kept it.

 

I'll have a fumble through the significant folder of docs after dinner
and check for a V5 in my name.

 

I shall have to dig out my old photo albums - I'm sure I'll have
pictures it somewhere.

 

The last time I drank in Ampthill it was in the pub just up the hill
from the registry office, it was at about midday and it was on
31/12/2004. There were even other ukrm'ers (past and present) there at
the time.

 

Blimey, doesn't time fly....