Barmy world huh? So the bloody Church of England Archbishops and other frock wearing clergy don’t like our so-called secular society. It’s about time we chucked em out of the House of Lords. Who do they represent? Certainly they don’t speak for us Jedie!! Get real you overindulged loonies!

The 7*s is our only village pub, so it needs nurturing and frequent supportive visits. We can gloss over the cuisine for the moment and instead be rapturous about the real ale and the real fire. The Landlord is doing his very best to make it a viable business. He and his son work really hard to make go of it. I haven’t been to a karaoke evening myself, but I hear they are popular. He also has local talent playing music now and again.

The real customers are a real mixture, from the local laird to the rabbit man (he is also the rat man and the mole man). We have, amongst many other professions, an ex RAF Tornado pilot who plays the trumpet, an ex helicopter pilot who flew in Iraq, an ex Boeing 737 pilot who has nearly destroyed his liver, a creepy ex police inspector (what’s with all these “exes”? ed), a nice elderly man with a pony tail who delivers cars, farmers of course and farm workers, a window cleaner, a sitting MP, a biological chemist, a very nervous undertaker, a mad Irishman, a real Scotsman and a butcher.

DRAWINGS FROM MY SKETCHBOOK:

PIP PIP.