Eating alone - when I was young I thought it was horribly sad.

[Pat Vegas]

I used to hate it personally.

12 weeks I lived in the Thistle Hotel on Central Street, like a more upmarket Irish Alan Partridge.

“Fúck me, must be great to live in a hotel” my colleagues would say.

Take away kebab maybe then by 9pm sat at the bar again, just me and the barman. On a Tuesday. Beezer.

I worked there for 2 weeks that was enough.

[Burney]

Never at the bar B.

I admire a man who has a code, sw.

[World's End Stella]

When I first came to England I worked for about a year and a half at a software house in Farringdon. It was so incompetently managed that I used to take 2 hour lunches as there was so little to do. I'd go to a place called the Betsy Trotwood early doors when no one else was there and chat to the landlord and consume 3-4 pints of bitter, packet of cheese and onion crisps (as a starter), a ham sandwich with chips and on occasion a cheese board to finish.

It was during the England/Saffie test series when Atherton batted for two days, probably 96? The landlord explained test cricket to me and I developed a love for it, bitter and Coleman's mustard which I lathered all over the bread before eating my sandwich.

The good ole days

[SWv2]

When I first came to England I worked for about a year and a half at a software house in Farringdon. It was so incompetently managed that I used to take 2 hour lunches as there was so little to do. I'd go to a place called the Betsy Trotwood early doors when no one else was there and chat to the landlord and consume 3-4 pints of bitter, packet of cheese and onion crisps (as a starter), a ham sandwich with chips and on occasion a cheese board to finish.

It was during the England/Saffie test series when Atherton batted for two days, probably 96? The landlord explained test cricket to me and I developed a love for it, bitter and Coleman's mustard which I lathered all over the bread before eating my sandwich.

The good ole days

A cheese board, in a pub, in 1996.

Good lord.

[World's End Stella]

A cheese board, in a pub, in 1996.

Good lord.

It was some cheese on a plate with some savoury biscuits and a bit of bread and butter.

Cheese board may be an overstatement.

[Ash]

When I first came to England I worked for about a year and a half at a software house in Farringdon. It was so incompetently managed that I used to take 2 hour lunches as there was so little to do. I'd go to a place called the Betsy Trotwood early doors when no one else was there and chat to the landlord and consume 3-4 pints of bitter, packet of cheese and onion crisps (as a starter), a ham sandwich with chips and on occasion a cheese board to finish.

I used to play gigs downstairs at the Betsey. Great little place. Like the Hope & Anchor in Islington but even more intimate. You're basically standing in the audience.

[World's End Stella]

I used to play gigs downstairs at the Betsey. Great little place. Like the Hope & Anchor in Islington but even more intimate. You're basically standing in the audience.

Yeah loved it back then. Went back a few years ago when I was in the area and it's now a gastro pub (restaurant) effectively.

May have had braised pork belly on the menu.

[Pat Vegas]

Yeah loved it back then. Went back a few years ago when I was in the area and it's now a gastro pub (restaurant) effectively.

May have had braised pork belly on the menu.

Pork belly is tremendous

[World's End Stella]

Pork belly is tremendous

Yeah but it has no place in a pub. Not a proper one, anyway.