Posted on 04/09/2020 5:20:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A kind-hearted pub landlord is delivering pints to residents in his area – but only if they stay inside during the coronavirus pandemic. Posting online, Kelvin Wong explained that normally The Watermead Inn would see a surge in customers as temperatures soar over the Easter weekend.
However, due to the pandemic, he said the team had decided to thank locals for their support ‘over the last nine years’ by bringing them a drink at home. Anyone wishing to receive a ‘free cold beer’ just needs to leave a pint glass two metres away from their front door. Kelvin said: ‘No contact with the glass will be made, as we will be pouring it via a jug.
‘If you see or hear the trailer just wave from a distance , we will be parking on the street of Watermead. I will NOT be serving if you are not indoors.’
Kelvin also noted that the team would be wearing ‘gloves and masks’ while serving the alcohol, starting from 3pm.
On Tuesday he delivered more than 600 pints to residents in the Aylesbury village before the beer ran out. He told the Bucks Herald it had been nice to get out in his trailer which had been sitting ‘gathering dust’. For all the latest news and updates on Coronavirus, click here. For our Coronavirus live blog click here. He continued:
‘I run the Watermead Inn and Miya in Aylesbury, and we have a lot of tap barrels sitting about that can’t be returned and the insurance company won’t help us either, so it would be a shame for it to go to waste. I wanted to give it to the community in Watermead.’ Two residents who received beers shared pictures of themselves drinking in the garden.
They wrote: ‘Maybe this lockdown business isn’t so bad after all, when you have the best local pub in Aylesbury on your doorstep! Thank you Kelvin Wong and his wonderful team of helpers, you’ve brightened up our day.’
The Watermead Inn team are now also offering to do any ‘outdoor chores’ for residents in the area who are in isolation of having difficulty doing things themselves. Kelvin and his team say they can walk dogs, cut grass, pick up grocery or paint fences for anyone nearby free of charge.
He is also working on trying to provide school dinners for some children who are now learning with their families at home. The pub is also offering a take away and delivery service from a reduced menu at reduced prices.
Some ting Wong with this.
“Anyone wishing to receive a ‘free cold beer’...”
Cold beer in England? I call fake news.
Lagers and ciders are cold. Not ale.
“Aylesbury village” A village I am most fond of but never visited on the surface. I was always a couple of thousand of feet in the air above in a glider. I learned to fly at Booker in Buckinghamshire. It was great fun to fly above the Chiltons and the Oxford plain and Oxford. All I needed was 3000 thousand feet in altitude to get home to Booker in my glider.
This was pre the 911 attacks on us. Prior to that time (actually 28 years prior) I often flew above the Prime Ministers country cottage of Checkers in the Chilton’s and Oxford City if it was a good day for gliding.
Today to do such would get you shot down. Most sad is times have change such.
ps
This Texan is most grateful to most superior instruction from my British instructors that taught me to fly at our Booker Gliding Club. The were mostly British Airways pilots and retired RAF pilots. Mr. Frank was the best. He was a Lancaster Pilot from WWII. If a student was a bit to nervous they gave him to Mr. Frank. I was given to Mr. Frank. He made it all right for me. It was just nervousness. Hell, he bombed Germany left seat in a Lancaster when he was 20 years old. I most respected this man in the extreme. He also made my landing correct.
Today I try to be “Mr Frank” and now instruct kids on how to fly. When Mr. Frank Instructed me he was a retired school master that was once a bomber pilot. Today I am just a retired geologist and pharmacist that does what Mr. Frank did for me. It is not a bad gig for an old man.
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