tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post5685601675480546370..comments2024-03-11T08:28:30.817+00:00Comments on No Good Boyo: CamrastanNo Good Boyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-38042083447570574052012-04-20T00:00:23.543+00:002012-04-20T00:00:23.543+00:00Cider really is the booze equivalent of a pipefull...Cider really is the booze equivalent of a pipefull of neat perique, Ron. Good on you!No Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-49033371953643088772012-04-19T19:30:02.517+00:002012-04-19T19:30:02.517+00:00In my childhood town there was, and maybe still is...In my childhood town there was, and maybe still is, a Cider Bar. The town is Newton Abbot in Devonshire. It is singularly unattractive (the town, the Cider Bar was/is merely revolting). Behind the bar of this 'pub' were three barrels, each the size of an Austin Mini Minor. Left to right, each was identified with a chalked "Dry', 'Medium' and 'Sweet". Often spelt incorrectly. It's where everything started to go wrong.Ron Combohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05270358674385406494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-52524535218666436572012-03-26T07:26:00.970+00:002012-03-26T07:26:00.970+00:00Dear Erse, it's a pint of Johnson, but I'v...Dear Erse, it's a pint of Johnson, but I've been known to go for a pint of plain (yer only man) on a hot day.<br /><br />I take it you#re still on your old hotmail?No Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-17301208572691880242012-03-24T23:34:43.238+00:002012-03-24T23:34:43.238+00:00Get in touch anytime, my friend.
I've a bas...Get in touch anytime, my friend. <br /><br />I've a base back in the UK now.<br /><br />August Erse<br /><br />PS: Is that a pint of Guinness in your picture? You must do the Hop Store in Dublin - better than Chester Beatty's.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06086814399704879791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-40787009493780683812012-03-18T09:23:13.287+00:002012-03-18T09:23:13.287+00:00Yes Rod, there was some sporting glee yesterday, a...Yes Rod, there was some sporting glee yesterday, although whether it was because we won or because Ireland lost to England on St Patrick's Day I couldn't say. Celtic brotherhood rarely trumps Schadenfreude.<br /><br />I've been thinking of brewing my own, Gadj, as I have the requisite shed. Mrs Boyo may have an opinion, one that she may choose to express in percussive form.No Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-55506100990196677292012-03-18T06:32:04.673+00:002012-03-18T06:32:04.673+00:00The horror, the horror!! (though it's almost w...The horror, the horror!! (though it's almost worth it just so's we can be shot of 'lager' once and for all.....) But you forgot the home brewers (like my father), Boyo - the revolutionaries in pre-Camra days, mashing up bucket fulls of illicit Old Scrotum's Inscrutable in the cupboard under the stairs. In your new world, however, I suspect that their love of defiance will triumph over their love of beers with dead ferrets floating in them and they'll become the lager-smuggling outlaws you seek.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-62480879943851636762012-03-17T22:17:11.320+00:002012-03-17T22:17:11.320+00:00The treble whammy is the Camra Crew, the local ste...The treble whammy is the Camra Crew, the local steam train trust volunteers (known to us cynics as 'The Railway Children') and the Narrowboat Navy. The town I live in is on a ley line stretching from Burton on Trent to intersect with the Grand Union Canal and the resurrected Grand Central line. One of my locals accommodates the above Unholy Triple Alliance although usually and mercifully not at the same time. The space time continuum could be disrupted by such an event - probably helped along by the flatulence levels rising too rapidly...<br />Sipping my German wheat beer earlier, I thought at one point that this event had occurred but it was only two out of three. Noise levels rising considerably when the Welsh contingent arrived from the pub down the road with the big screen, loud and celebrating a victory of some sort.Rod Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14812717242954233213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-90895630544259829542012-03-16T08:48:39.570+00:002012-03-16T08:48:39.570+00:00The trailing sleeves of the Welsh have a long and ...The trailing sleeves of the Welsh have a long and fraying reach, Rod.No Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-13636433033308301012012-03-15T19:27:55.560+00:002012-03-15T19:27:55.560+00:00Do you have a wire tap into my local?Do you have a wire tap into my local?Rod Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14812717242954233213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-32571829600927140782012-03-15T08:56:07.565+00:002012-03-15T08:56:07.565+00:00Like Orwell, Jams, I think that if there was hope,...Like Orwell, Jams, I think that if there was hope, it must lie in Essex.<br /><br />Thanks Daph! I'm thinking of pitching it to Radio 4, but will have to make it less amusing.<br /><br />CAMRA is still doing a good job of keeping strange men away from railway platforms, GB. Notice how trainspotters have declined since the rise of the Ale.No Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-57848009220740675222012-03-14T23:37:31.075+00:002012-03-14T23:37:31.075+00:00You mean the campaign for real ale are still campa...You mean the campaign for real ale are still campaigning 40 years later? When are they going to admit defeat? I don't see what Felicity Kendall's got to do with it, she was famous for her arse rather than her drinking habits.Gorilla Bananashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13044093013423635830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-15841519930653876632012-03-14T19:29:02.020+00:002012-03-14T19:29:02.020+00:00ROFLing, and I didn't understand the half of i...ROFLing, and I didn't understand the half of it. The other half was bloody funny though.Daphne Wayne-Boughhttp://daphnewaynebough.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-39652783115143943252012-03-14T15:42:18.299+00:002012-03-14T15:42:18.299+00:00What a dystopia! I'm surprised that Essex is n...What a dystopia! I'm surprised that Essex is not the heartland of the Tollyban.jams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-21441601133059838022012-03-14T14:31:04.291+00:002012-03-14T14:31:04.291+00:00Indubitably, my liege. May I remind you of the pre...Indubitably, my liege. May I remind you of the previous juncture at or during which we quaffed a measure of that unstready mustalid? It was, I believe, at the Blazing Festival, Ludlow. The landlord's name was Cadwaladr, as was that of the representative of the local constabulary.No Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-12664566353426446242012-03-14T13:09:21.345+00:002012-03-14T13:09:21.345+00:00Hail fellow and well met! A fine and amusing offer...Hail fellow and well met! A fine and amusing offering, and mine's a pint of Stumbling Badger, if you would be so good, stout yeoman of the bar!Gyppo Byardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08823690986571629011noreply@blogger.com