NUKE - LOL!
All of Beet1e's stories have a familiar structure.
1. "When I was in America 50 years ago, yap yap yap"
2. "I went back to England, blah blah blah"
3. "I recently visited a friend in the USA, yadda yadda yadda"
50 years ago, I was no more than a glint in the milkman's eye. And not all my stories are about America. One was about Venice-Italy, but clearly some people didn't read past the word Venice, and thought I might be talking about Venice,CA.
Gatso! Your news has made my day. Really. I am
hugely encouraged by what you said. By the way, you and I seem to be following each other around! We grow up two streets apart, then we both go to Herts for a bit. I was living in St. Albans when I joined CAMRA. My local was the Jolly Sailor, which served Charles Wells - Eagle and Fargo. I used to drink Eagle. I even served at the 1977 CAMRA beer festival at Hatfield. In the Birstall days, I used to drink at the White Horse, but that went down the pan when the landlord left to enter the scrap metal business. I remember buying a round of 7 pints of Ansells Bitter there, and getting change out of £1. (14p a pint in those days) Lots more to say and questions to ask, but can you email me directly? We can talk away from the BBS.
