Editorial
NOT the best month to be working Mums and Dads who like to go to the Pub with
school-age children who like to go to Youth Club. Disaster all round, in fact.
Firstly, our immensely popular new publicans Sue & Pete have left the Pub. If you were one of the many that had not yet got round to returning after the Churchill fiasco, let's tell you: they were universally adored: staff, locals, visitors, real-beer-freaks, foodsters, dogs, cats, you name it, how could Clear Pubs have so short-sightedly let them go? Read Cambridge's Ale magazine article in this issue, and meanwhile Clear Pub's Area Manager has told us they are doing all they can (but his mobile was deluged, he had to turn it off). Readers can still comment to managing director Andy Wilkinson: andy@clearpubs.co.uk.
It can't be easy financing a pub, especially when it's been on its knees, but some things are free, like more Free House food to accompany the Free House beer, perhaps?
Secondly, what's this we hear that the Village Hall wants the thunderingly successful and much needed After School Club out after Christmas, and that 1-mile-away Reach Village Hall might be more suitable?
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that those in possession of pristine spanking brand new furbishings must quail at the sight of approaching infant life.. .?. Ah yes, a reprint from May 1999's editorial, as too the cartoon: but doesn't that make the furbishings a bit more elderly now?
Lastly (we hope!) the Youth Club! Never mind vandalism, sounds like rape & pillage to us! Readers please note, they're going to need both financial and practical assistance to put things right. See you Adventing, Village Variety Panto-ing, Christmas Marketing.....