Peggy's Mundane Thread

Definitely NOT !! Francis wouldn't be seen within a 100 mile radius of that awful man   

AstiSpumante wrote:

Definitely NOT !!  Francis wouldn't be seen within a 100 mile radius of that awful man   

I assume... 'Panama'... isn't within a hundred miles of Halstead ?

My wife said, talk about pie in the sky, but not this


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zyph wrote:

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

I once took part in tug o' war at a pub called The Cock Inn. It was in Kent. I forget the name of the village but it was somewhere near Sevenoaks. Very pleasant indeed. Proper chocolate box stuff. It was very hot and I ached for days afterwards.

....Could it be 'The Cock Inn' at Halstead near Polhill and Sevenoaks.....just a couple of miles from Nigel Farage at Downe ?

No idea.

It wasn't far from a truck stop called The Retreat that I used to kip over at on occasion. Not far off the M2something near Badger's somethingorother. It must have been nearly 30 years ago that I was there and I don't recall the details.

A very beautiful and very expensive part of the world, even back then, with every village having a green and every green having a cricket team playing on it. Proper Midsomer Murders territory. If Farage is targeting that area he'll probably walk it if they don't view UKIP as a bit too lefty around there, that is. Golf courses everywhere.

There was an annual tog o' war between the Cock and the boozer in the next village. They wanted to practice and and somehow an invite went up to the truckstop where a crew of mostly lardy middle-aged blokes in trainers assembled and got trounced by a proper tug o' war team comprising of young burly men in rugby boots.

I've  just googled "The Retreat truckstop Kent" to no avail so that place is obviously long gone.

AstiSpumante wrote:

Definitely NOT !!  Francis wouldn't be seen within a 100 mile radius of that awful man   

More a case of 30 years in this instance!

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

zyph wrote:

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

I once took part in tug o' war at a pub called The Cock Inn. It was in Kent. I forget the name of the village but it was somewhere near Sevenoaks. Very pleasant indeed. Proper chocolate box stuff. It was very hot and I ached for days afterwards.

....Could it be 'The Cock Inn' at Halstead near Polhill and Sevenoaks.....just a couple of miles from Nigel Farage at Downe ?

No idea.

It wasn't far from a truck stop called The Retreat that I used to kip over at on occasion. Not far off the M2something near Badger's somethingorother. It must have been nearly 30 years ago that I was there and I don't recall the details.

A very beautiful and very expensive part of the world, even back then, with every village having a green and every green having a cricket team playing on it. Proper Midsomer Murders territory. If Farage is targeting that area he'll probably walk it if they don't view UKIP as a bit too lefty around there, that is. Golf courses everywhere.

There was an annual tog o' war between the Cock and the boozer in the next village. They wanted to practice and and somehow an invite went up to the truckstop where a crew of mostly lardy middle-aged blokes in trainers assembled and got trounced by a proper tug o' war team comprising of young burly men in rugby boots.

I've  just googled "The Retreat truckstop Kent" to no avail so that place is obviously long gone.

Try this SFD.

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click on story or gallery for a picture of the pub.

Pratt's Bottom!

Pretty sure this is the place.

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No longer, alas, what it once was...

Which is probably just as well.

I don't think I've even thought of that place in at least 25 years!

mouldyoldgoat wrote:

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

zyph wrote:

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

I once took part in tug o' war at a pub called The Cock Inn. It was in Kent. I forget the name of the village but it was somewhere near Sevenoaks. Very pleasant indeed. Proper chocolate box stuff. It was very hot and I ached for days afterwards.

....Could it be 'The Cock Inn' at Halstead near Polhill and Sevenoaks.....just a couple of miles from Nigel Farage at Downe ?

No idea.

It wasn't far from a truck stop called The Retreat that I used to kip over at on occasion. Not far off the M2something near Badger's somethingorother. It must have been nearly 30 years ago that I was there and I don't recall the details.

A very beautiful and very expensive part of the world, even back then, with every village having a green and every green having a cricket team playing on it. Proper Midsomer Murders territory. If Farage is targeting that area he'll probably walk it if they don't view UKIP as a bit too lefty around there, that is. Golf courses everywhere.

There was an annual tog o' war between the Cock and the boozer in the next village. They wanted to practice and and somehow an invite went up to the truckstop where a crew of mostly lardy middle-aged blokes in trainers assembled and got trounced by a proper tug o' war team comprising of young burly men in rugby boots.

I've  just googled "The Retreat truckstop Kent" to no avail so that place is obviously long gone.

Try this SFD.

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click on story or gallery for a picture of the pub.

That's the place.

Lovely it was back then. Probably still is by the looks of it.

Proper posh and hoity toity.

Only went there the once. If it wasn't for the tug o' war it'd've long since been forgotten.

It is a nice pub.

Grandchildren day' where to take them? At 5 G/son have diving lesson then the cup game. A walk through Mount Edgecombe to Cawsands I think.

mouldyoldgoat wrote:

It is a nice pub.

Was that when you where courting your GSG girl mouldy ?

Yes, I was allowed in pubs then. I'm married now!
l think that's the pub that has a picture of WG Grace???, the cricketer, with my wife's grand parents next to him.

That's not a bit of name dropping by any chance mouldy ?

It's the only bit I can do!
its the wife's family.

On the Hoe waiting for the fireworks to start.

Jamie Oliver called his pub in his lorry "The Cock Inn" certainly true when he's at home.

Years ago, when I lived up near that London, I worked with a woman who also had a part-time job as a waitress in the Cricketers, a pub in Clavering. She was always complaining about the landlord's son. Who turned out, of course, to be Jamie Oliver.

(I could put a link to prove this, but obviously I wouldn't make it up.)

In other news, yesterday I redecorated the bathroom. Got up this morning and thought I'd moved.

What colour is the bathroom ?

I moved my fridge and am now wasting time walking to the place in the kitchen that it used to be.

Try moving house after 39 yrs......more than the fridge in the wrong place.

Took ages to get the car not to keep going to the wrong address.

I'm moving in a few weeks time. Off to the rural idle of the Cornish.

I have never been so stressed in my life!! Still, what an excuse to down a few more frothing ales than normal.

PS: Is there that eletrikery stuff down in Cornwall yet?
PPS: Just had a terrifying thought!! Will I be officially Cornish?  

Person Of Interest wrote:

I'm moving in a few weeks time. Off to the rural idle of the Cornish.

I have never been so stressed in my life!! Still, what an excuse to down a few more frothing ales than normal.

PS: Is there that eletrikery stuff down in Cornwall yet?
PPS: Just had a terrifying thought!! Will I be officially Cornish?  

Terrible Bus services around Newquay area as I found out recently.......made inquiries at the Bus Terminus.......twelve bus stops...not a Bus in sight.....and the inquiry office locked up......without any notice telling you when it might be open.....and this was on a Wednesday.....no busses after 1830hrs either.....teach me to leave the car at home and let the train take the strain.

Me thinks the local taxi firms have bought out the bus companies.

The only reliable Bus was the 'Bus Train' around Newquay pay once get on and off when and where you like.....trouble is it's last trip was 1600hrs

Back home after my adventures in Paignton, Plymouth, Gunnislake and (Tavy!   )

mouldyoldgoat wrote:

Back home after my adventures in Paignton, Plymouth, Gunnislake and (Tavy!   )

Bloody grockles.