I somehow doubt the bar staff at 'Spoons will be anything like this.
Our planned picnic having been unceremoniously cancelled thanks to the hurricane-force winds and rain battering the country at the mo ("Storm Evert", apparently), our little gang is gathering instead at the rather lovely former HQ of of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, now The Crosse Keys, a Wetherspoons pub.
We're starting at lunchtime, and I have no doubt it'll be another long session...
Have a lovely time, dear. I wish I had such a crowd to hang with in such a manner. "You gotta have friends!" Am I right? I love the photo. And I know it is popular in the states to dismiss the song, but it always makes me smile. Kizzes. Enjoy, you bright young thing!
ReplyDeleteIt was a fabulous afternoon/evening of banter and badinage, and we didn't "get knocked down and get back up again" once! Jx
DeleteI hope you are having a wonderful time! I know the area very well.
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I imagine when you were working in the City, the pub might well have still been a bank! It's a stupendous building. Jx
DeleteMy dear friend from Austin is visiting and we have a fancy dinner out tonight and then a fancy brunch for tomorrow scheduled. I can hardly keep up in this whirl of excitement.
ReplyDeleteIt's just a blessed relief to get out and do "stuff". Of course, true to "our gang", we chose a Wetherspoons, which about as far away from "posh" as Nicki Minaj is from Dame Joan Sutherland. Jx
DeleteThat man is smooth as a baby's bottom!
ReplyDeleteThat's why he's so popular! Jx
DeleteI visited a Witherspoons once, we were left waiting at the entrance for about 10 minutes, I didn't mind that as it gave me the opportunity to have a good look around, suss the place out, I was appalled to see a baby in a high chair eating spaghetti with it's hands, it's parents thought it was funny and was taking pictures of it covered in tomato sauce, then the hard faced server/cow or whatever they are called came up to us, no words of greeting or a curtsey or even a simple bob of the knees to which I am accustomed to. She said, it'll be a 50 min wait, coz we're short staffed due to Covid. I gave an exaggerated sigh of relief, pressing my hand onto my clavicle and said "THANK CHRIST FOR THAT" This was in Castleford.
ReplyDeleteThankfully this particular branch of Wetherspoons is of a slightly different calibre - by no means a classy clientele; they never are in such cheap venues - as its location in the City means it isn't really a destination for families or tourists. There were, of course, the inevitable stag parties and such, but none too raucous - and certainly, such groups of testosterone-and-Stella-fuelled lads are quite easy on the eye and make trips to the loos quite an experience... Jx
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