Winter in England

[georg ruf jr.]

well Rhona. I know you don't live anywhere in the British Isles. They'd always put you out of a pub at 11:00pm. (11:10pm) At least the last time I was there.

[barb (Fry)]

Ah, chosen few who are trustworthy to play the game !,
Georg the laws are changing here, publican's can acquire extended license for extending opening times.

[Rhona]

As far as I know they still do throw you out by 11.10, but here in Ireland (if you're lucky enough), the publican bolts the door and keeps on serving............his very own personal extended liscence...........keeps serving until there is a loud knock on the door and then there is a scatter from inside...........

[barb (Fry)]

UK laws have changed, Friday night are different to Saturday as I understand it due to the laws of the Sabbath... anyway what do I know I don't go out in the city.

[georg ruf jr.]

I spent a couple of evenings in Irish pubs back in the eighties. Wil music. Wild singing. Wild drinking. Good Irishcrack. 5 to 11:00: "Last drink folks." Everybody storms the bar coming back with as much booze they can carry. 10 past the pub was empty. Mad!

[Rhona]

Bet the pub wasn't completely empty George, the chosen few were hiding out the back, in the hallways or slowly sipping the last of their drink, and then the doors were bolted and the craic continued on into the night while you were fighting the queue in the chip shop, the chosen few were ordering more booze and singing 'The town I loved so well...........' and all the other good irish songs that every one knows at least one of.............

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Sounds like this "lock in" thing could be great fun.Like the idea of the chosen few.   

[Barbara Eia (Brownless)]

The pub down the road from me has many lockins .........the pub is only a couple of metres away so can crawl home. Some pubs in the town can stay open untill early hours of the morning, there is one that only closes at 6.00am.

[Claire Mc Cullagh]

woke up to 6 inches of snow on friday - couldn't go to work - what a shame.  So Frank and the two boys and I all went to down the street to our local for a meal and a few pints.  Crumlin pubs are normally last orders at 12:00 - so we buy 4 drinks and stay till they are finnished.   

[georg ruf jr.]

woke up to 6 inches of snow on friday - couldn't go to work - what a shame.  So Frank and the two boys and I all went to down the street to our local for a meal and a few pints.  Crumlin pubs are normally last orders at 12:00 - so we buy 4 drinks and stay till they are finnished.   

As far as I remwember the Erin pubs aren't as strict as the British ones?!? So slante' to you...

[Barbara Eia (Brownless)]

     winter

Its blowing a gale 75 - 80 miles an hour and hailing at the same time.    winter

And they say we have global warming

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

Thank heaven I don't live there.  Looking for something warm to put on -  I get cold from just reading about your winters.   Will never be able to get up in the mornings  -  even in our SA Kalahari winters I swear that I am a bear, 'cos I tend to go into a state of hybernation.

Have only been to the UK in summertime. 

Shame, now I feel extra sorry for Pole King alias Keith the Dancer who lives in Canada.  I fully understand why it will be difficult for him to make the effort for the reunion --   they have to dig themselves out from under the snow first, and then start that long journey he has told us about.     

[Barbara Eia (Brownless)]

My only saving grace is that we have cental heating in all the rooms, so mine is always on full blast. I try not to venture outside. I have been here 15 years and still cannot get used to it. My bones need some sun.

Yes it will be worse for our canadian Keith.

[georg ruf jr.]

Thank heaven I don't live there.  Looking for something warm to put on -  I get cold from just reading about your winters.   Will never be able to get up in the mornings  -  even in our SA Kalahari winters I swear that I am a bear, 'cos I tend to go into a state of hybernation.

Have only been to the UK in summertime. 

Shame, now I feel extra sorry for Pole King alias Keith the Dancer who lives in Canada.  I fully understand why it will be difficult for him to make the effort for the reunion --   they have to dig themselves out from under the snow first, and then start that long journey he has told us about.     

i remember the winters in Windhoek well. Temperastures below zero at night and the countryside embeded in white frost. That was cold. But tough boys wear shorts and go to school that way. You knew by the time you get back, you'll have temoeratures up to 30°C.
In Germany you're glad when the temperatures don't go further down over the day.... (Sometimes they really do...) coldest winter I had went down to -17°C Brrrrr. I used to work as a chef then. So I took a shower at work and by the time I got home (5 minute walk) I had ice in my beard. Brrrrrr...

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

George jnr, don't go sticking your tongue out at us ladies again, 'cos this is what's gonna happen to you....