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The pub, ‘rona edition
Greene King shows what ‘safe pubs’ might look like during the coronavirus pandemic. It isn’t pretty.
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The case for sitting on your own with a pint
Sitting on your own with a pint, and perhaps something to read, is most definitely one of life’s pleasures. If it’s partway through a weekday afternoon, while the rest of the world is still chained to a desk, so much the better.
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The Woolpack, Slad
I visited an unpretentious country pub set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It was perhaps the best I’ve been to in years, and now I want to return.
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The Dean Swift, Bermondsey
The Dean Swift feels like a secret to gloat over. There’s so much right about this pub, yet none of these things alone quite explain why I like it so much.
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Drinking in The Dove at Hammersmith
Time moves differently down by the river. The Thames, tidal here, slips slowly by. Quiet and contemplative, I bask in the sun’s warmth. Its light is doubled, its twin reflected back at…
