Some years I went on the Chesterfield Licensed Victuallers outings, always male only affairs. Really the only purpose of the day out was to enable landlords to be together to get roaring drunk.
An early start at a pub for a liquid breakfast, then piling the booze on to the coach, a stop at a pub on the way and then to the 'secret destination' for lunch.
One year the destination was the Guinness bottling plant at Runcorn. Lunch was roast beef and yorkshire pudding. We were shown a couple of films about Guinness and then it was time for the trip round the premises. This took the form of getting on our coach and driving round the perimeter wall - after all one bottling plant is much like any other. Then it was off to a pub for an afternoon of serious drinking. The journey home was broken for a pre-arranged evening meal - roast beef and yorkshire pudding - at the pub we had stopped at on the outward journey. Thoughts as to who was the idiot who planned the meals were lost in mist of the drink induced bonhomie
All in all a reet good day out.
KENT COMMUNITY ACTIVIST: acerbic, carping, caustic, curmudgeonly,critical, cynical, grumpy, moaning, sardonic and plain speaking.
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