Oldest pub in Britain closes after 1,229 years…

https://citizenfreepress.com ^ | Posted by Kane on February 14, 2022 12:45 pm

[JBW1949]

Midsomer Murders is a really, really good show...it is hard to figure out who the guilty party is because of the little side stories going on...

[SJackson]

Thanks, I didn't know they had year pages. I'll look at them now for entertainment.

I noticed this on the page. King Offa of Mercia founds an abbey at St Albans. Since the pub is in St. Albans, I'd speculate this was their origin. Workers get thirsty.

[rhinohunter]

Socialism is the actual plague that it could not survive.

BINGO!

[Jamestown1630]

I thought I’d like that, but I saw a few early episodes and they were too dark for me.

[JBW1949]

Have you tried “All Creatures, Great and Small”????

That’s really good...

[Jamestown1630]

I remember when it was on TV but don’t think I ever watched it.

I was interested in Midsomer because I generally like mystery and detective stories. I just didn’t like those, at least the ones I saw.

(I did like the one about the doctor in Cornwall - Doc ‘Martin’.)

[moovova]

That’s just wrong.

[Reily]

The “Doc Martin” movie the seris is based on is better.
Martin is more “likeable” in the movie hence more believable.

[Jamestown1630]

I’ll have to look for it.

I mainly liked all the quirky townspeople.

[Kartographer]

Its enough to drive one to drink if there was a place to get a drink

[Fiji Hill]

even Brits went gaga for vindaloo.

Probably because the expression "English cuisine" is oxymoronic. After you die, if you go to heaven, you'll get a French cook. If you go to hell, you'll get an English cook.

[nesnah]

What happened, were a couple of poofters offended by the name?

[JBW1949]

I watch ION network quite a bit...It has continuous:

Monday........NCIS Los Angles
Tuesday.......Chicago Fire
Wednesday.....Blue Bloods
Thursday......Chicago PD
Friday........Hawaii 5-0 (the new episodes)
Saturday......Law & Order SVU
Sunday........NCIS

[joma89]

The owners of that pub survived the plague but modern day communists destroyed them.

[ro_dreaming]

In Texas establishments need to have insurance, too. That’s a fair chunk of change.

[Pharmboy]

Me and me mates stopped by there during the plague.

[heartwood]

They still have the þ in Icelandic.

[sushiman]

Alcohol license in Japan costs under $ 300 !

[seowulf]

Doesn’t surprise me. Iceland was pretty isolated for long time.

I sometimes wish we had kept some of our missing alphabet. It would make pronunciations a little more obvious sometimes.