28.
Cup Final day stroll in Walton Manor and Jericho - the Urinelard
crawl,
Another weekend visit from Graham Buckley
allowed us to have a look at some fine
Anyway, on with the Saturday crawl. We got
prime seats in front of the big screen in the Anchor, Walton Manor and washed
down our fine pub grub with pints which were on special offer at 50p off till
the first goal (Theirry Henry nearly put paid to this
one early on). Beer was OK, JCB, Henry's IPA, 6X and Pedigree, and the barmaid
was rather chatty and pleasant. The architecture in the toilets is classic, and
a nice touch is the sideways mounted lightswitch in
the poo chamber. We stayed until full time and then
made our way to the next pub, the Gardeners' Arms on Plantation Road.
Now I've not been in here for a long time,
and it used to be a fantastic winter pub selling Morrells
College ale and having huge sofas to flop into. This has changed a bit now, but
the pub is still reasonable, selling OK pints of Morland
Bitter and Old Speckled Hen.
Becoming jaded of that place, we pushed on
to the Victoria, a great Banks pub with an upstairs that afford views of the
lower floor. Banks bitter was the only beer on but was reasonable, and the bar snacks
were fair. The TV was on and added to the atmosphere because it was showing
Magic and VH1 classic. But not enough to keep us there that
long.
A traditional thing to do is to visit the
Harcourt Arms. Sadly we were just too late for food, but we still managed to
get a good game of Rude Scrabble played, such gems including POOMATE, URINELARD
and C*NT. Once again, the Chiswick, ESB and London
Pride were in very good condition. This has to be one of
Final stop (via an exceptionally good Ali
kebab) was
Dan
Lovegrove
dan@doctor-lovegrove.com
Last updated 4th June 2003.