Paddock Wood And Tunbridge Wells Visit

[jazzy_dave]

This has been a splendid day, a frolicking satisfying day in essence, Helios was in fine fettle, and despite being a long day, a thoroughly good one.

Started the day in Faversham in which i picked up a book for my brother, and bought some cherry flavoured pipe shag. I popped into Wetherspoons tom try some of the ciders in the current festival. The two i tried today were good but not as flavoursome as the ginger and chilli cider i tried previously.

Time flew by, so unhesitatingly, i caught the bus going towards my two visitations for the afternoon. The first stop off was Paddock Wood, a sleepy village twixt Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone, and full of charity shops. I was only interested in one.



Across this road is a Red Cross chazzer, and it is that one i perused, and bought the following for a fiver -



plus two CD's -

Leonard Cohen- I'm Your Man (CBS)
The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues (Ensign)

Then it was off to Tunbridge Wells to my second visit of the day.

This was meant to be a food visit but as they do not do food except for Sundays it was converted to a drinks only visit. The fee was increased and the expenses for food or drink renamed  the same, so i took advantage of it and sampled, nay imbibed, four pints of the best English Ales available here -



With ten hand pumps there was an excellent choice available -



So £14 quid spent on beer in which i shall get paid for on the next pay run in August. Using reverse psychology on my erstwhile cousin.

I have more pics for tomorrow.

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Comments

[ba1126.livejournal.com]

Thanks for pictures!! You have a cool job!!

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Fisherman's Blues!!!

[ellettra.livejournal.com]

Wonderful pub!!

[toxicghoul.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you had a good time. :)

[nick-101.livejournal.com]

Fisherman's Blues was a classic.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a lovely day. :)

YAY for Garrison Keillor. :)
Was Up at the Villa a movie recently?
Hugs, Jon

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

No idea. Check the iMDB website - it is a datbase of all movies.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Ahh yes, Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn from 2000.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Ah so, the Somerset Maugham book was made into a film. They must have padded it out as the book is only 120 pages long.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Well, if anybody can pad, it's Hollywood. :o

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

G'Night!! Sounds like it was a rum day, so I can only hope you slept well and long!

*HUGS*

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Not a rum day, a very good beer day lol. Somewhat dampened by the shit that greeted me at the ATM this morning! Jeez!

[dadi.livejournal.com]

This ghost visiting thing you do is sure interesting. I did something like that in the past but in the framework of a project (hotels conforming to an environmental standard and me having to control secretly if they really did) and I know luxury hotel and restaurant chains do the mystery shopping thing regularly, but I wasn´t aware that happened also for "normal" venues. Do you do this for an agency? I wonder if something like that is possible also here in Germany, I´d absolutely love to do that :D

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Not an agency. Just different companies here in the UK. I am certain there may be similar companies in Europe that do these covert visits. Try googling mystery shopping in Europe. I think BAI are based there.
Ipsos and TNS are others that come to mind on a world wide basis.

[dadi.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I immediately googled and registered with a few.. let´s see what comes out of that :D! I am really curious if they do visits in my area. I owe you one if this takes off!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Paddock Wood sleepy? Not in my experience.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Aha, shenanigans in the suburbs!

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

A very good day. I love I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen as you know.

The beers sound good! Also, that pub looks good.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Ah, I don't think I've seen the ginger & chili cider at the local Wetherspoons yet - you'd recommend it? I generally tend more toward "plain" ciders, but I won't refuse a strawberry & lime Rekorderlig. =:) The offering from Orchard Pig was one I haven't encountered from them before - probably my favorite in the lineup (both theirs and the festival) so far, followed by the Cornish Cloudy. The Thistly Cross rum casked one was a bit on the sweet side for my taste - a pity, as I'm quite fond of rum (et al) casked ciders and perries.

I wonder if CAMRA could get Wetherspoons to tweak the T&Cs of the vouchers given to members to include cider as well as beer.. (subscribers receive 40 x 50p off vouchers good against real ale in their pubs. Not that Wetherspoons tend to be pricy to begin with, but a good pint at £1.90 or so is even better =:)

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

That is a fine cloudy cider. I have yet to try the Thistly Rum.