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where have you been in London today?

Well, to continue and stretching the boundaries, battersea n Wandsworth...will expand horizons tomorrow starting with brekkie
 
Loved our trip across to the Tower Hamlets cemetery garden, but not such a nice day for it today
 
Yesterday - London Bridge, walk to the Sky Garden, and then on to Whitechapel Gallery. Then walked to Blackfriars station via the Millennium Bridge.

Tonight - off to sunny Catford!
 
I have not set paw in that london since just before the whole covid thing started - that was for a job interview, and the job didn't happen because of the plague...
 
editor said:
Yesterday - London Bridge, walk to the Sky Garden, and then on to Whitechapel Gallery. Then walked to Blackfriars station via the Millennium Bridge.

Tonight - off to sunny Catford!
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What are you upto in Catford, if that's not too nosey? It won't have been sunny, that I can guarantee!

Me - nowhere today. So cold and windy I haven't even been in the garden :oops: troglodyte oryx.
 
oryx said:
What are you upto in Catford, if that's not too nosey? It won't have been sunny, that I can guarantee!

Me - nowhere today. So cold and windy I haven't even been in the garden :oops: troglodyte oryx.
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Went to a meet a mate. Unwisely suggested we try a different pub to our usual Blythe Hill Tavern and went to the Ninth Life which was pretty awful. But they had beer and it was under a fiver, so not all bad!
 
Puddy_Tat said:
:(

not actually been there but the impression I've been given is that they are trying just a bit too damn hard...
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I'm all for quirky/arty/non corporate pubs but this place was chaotic. It wasn't that busy but everything took forever. Even though I'd booked a table and had the number, I had to wait 10 mins on the door before I could get in. It took around 25 mins to get beers delivered to our table while you'd see bar staff walking around delivering one pint at a time. There was security everywhere with nothing to do.

It's a shame because it has the potential to be a great pub.
 
editor said:
It's a shame because it has the potential to be a great pub.
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:(

pre-covid, i understand they were trying to be more than a pub, with performance space, arts and crafts things and so on (although all possibly aimed more at the gentrifier market)

gratuitous picture of the 'black horse and harrow' some time before 1914

 
editor said:
I'm all for quirky/arty/non corporate pubs but this place was chaotic. It wasn't that busy but everything took forever. Even though I'd booked a table and had the number, I had to wait 10 mins on the door before I could get in. It took around 25 mins to get beers delivered to our table while you'd see bar staff walking around delivering one pint at a time. There was security everywhere with nothing to do.

It's a shame because it has the potential to be a great pub.
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It could have been worse. You could have gone when it was still The Goose and Granite.

Last time I went there (probably about 2010?) an enormous fight broke out, complete with flying bar stools!
 
Avoid Hyde park. Black lives matter and Palestinian demos. Everything coming to a standstill round thereabouts.
 
And today: Walk from Farringdon through Smithfield market, various bits of the city of London, Covent Garden and Tottenham Court Road.
 
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