KENT COMMUNITY ACTIVIST: acerbic, carping, caustic, curmudgeonly,critical, cynical, grumpy, moaning, sardonic and plain speaking.
The block of terraced houses being built on the former garden of the Red Lion in Rusthall proceeds apace. Price of a house over £500,000. We have an artist's impression adorning the side of the office on the site. The houses have no architectural merit, very little garden and a route march to the waste bins.
Before lockdown the Red Lion in Rusthall served Thai food which received rave reviews and had a live jazz night on Saturdays. Since the partial lifting of the lockdown the Thai food service has resumed but the jazz nights are off limits.
Sadly all has not gone well since re-opening. The popular Manager left before the re-opening but why has not been made public. This week all Thai kitchen staff have been given notice. Before lockdown the pub was closed on Mondays but is open now for what may be described as pub grub.
The surmise locally is that Thai is out and pub grub in every day.
The locals, well some of them, are up in arms and have taken to social media to vent their fury. Fingers are being pointed, accusations made and conclusions reached based on no hard evidence or any unbiased objective analysis.
