Thursday 28 March 2013

Beermat of the month

Very pagan. I wasn't actually drinking the beer, they've not got it on at the moment. They did have their Summer Lightning a bit back, which, after four or five pints, I decided I wasn't that keen on. Somewhere else though I tried the Odyssey, which was one of the nicest beers I've ever drunk. But, looking at the website, I don't think they're making it anymore.

19 comments:

  1. I do hope Beermat Of The Month will become a regular feature.

    Green men? Tricky. Ask Gawain.

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  2. It's got the potential, but I doubt I drink enough to be sure of a truly worthy mat every month. I've picked up other mats in the past that have caught my (slightly glassy) eye, but this is exactly the kind of thing that my wife classifies as rubbish, so unlikely to be any survivors. I'll have a rummage.

    It's not easy being green. Ask Kermit. (Which leads seamlessly into my relating the impossibility of parking in Richmond the other day, all the spaces taken up by those enormous film industry lorries. Turns out they were filming The Muppets...Again. Bloody Muppets.)

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  3. I had a fair old collection of beermats as a lad in the 70s. Wish I'd kept 'em, could have blogged each and every one.

    Speaking of our furry felt friends, did you see Adam Buxton's Twitter link to this vintage Muppet movie screen test wherein Frank Oz and Jim Henson 'improvise existential banter' ? Genius.

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  4. The title alone surely deserves it to become a monthly feature.

    Not a fan of the Muppets.

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  5. By popular demand (two mildly favourable comments anyway) I see I'm going to have to make the effort with the beermats.

    I thought, for children of the seventies, the Muppets were compulsory? I remember I had two consecutive pairs of Muppet pyjamas. And when I went to see the first film the bit where Kermit rides the bike blew my mind. (It still does a bit.)

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  6. Beermat of the Month? Inspired! Too little time is given over to the thin film of compressed card that separates bottom of glass from top of table. I'll get my coat etc.

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  7. Yes, but where do you stand on the Muppets John?

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  8. You can't disown me cos I don't like the Muppets.

    Maybe you can.

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  9. No, no, you remain an esteemed visitor to these pages. Even if you are a Muppet-hating weirdo.

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  10. I see your men have boom boom sticks!

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  11. I've been called many things in my time but 'Muppet hating weirdo' takes the biscuit

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  12. To be clear, in this case, the epithet weirdo was applied solely on the grounds of the muppet hating.

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  13. Oh, and I went to the Graves Art Gallery last weekend in a second attempt to see that Leonard Beaumont exhibition, and it was closed again. The first time was my fault for not studying the opening times carefully enough. But the second time the library doors were just arbitrarily shut. I hung around for a couple of minutes as part of a small crowd of baffled punters before stomping off muttering about the bloody Tories.

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  14. Third time lucky hopefully.

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