--- In [email protected], Steve Haywood <stevephayw...@...> wrote: > > 2009/2/19 Adrian Stott <re...@...> > > > Surely the problem can't be that boaters don't drink enough these > > days? > > > I think in some respects it's true. In the past on the cut, if you drunk at > all, you drunk at pubs. You might, God forbid, have a Watneys Party Seven on > board; and occasionally you might take a jug along for carry out. But beer > was the drink. Now, of course, we all drink wine. And gin and whiskey and I > don't know what else too. Part of it the fact we can afford it; part of it's > the social revolution in the country and the canals the last 25 years. Part > of it is just boaters being tight the way we always have been. For a couple > of pints in a pub you can get a half decent bottle of wine. >
Were there party "sevens" as well ? I have only evidence of "fours". Name the man clutching it in our Arcive" file? With regard to pubs - as with canals - it is a factor "use them or lose them". How many peeps have rushed up/down the flight without partaking of the Nelsons facilities ? Regards Pete www.thecanalshop.com
