The Bat & Ball is the other end of Main Street and is frequented by those from the Cricket Club. It's pretty near the Cricket Club in fact. As such most of its clientele is snobs. I don't go there much. But recently they've been putting on a beer festival. I am planning on being there this weekend with my mates Andy from Bluebell Books and Steve from Rock n Rave. Truth to tell, I quite fancy the barmaid there - Mary Regan. I'll see if I can get a photo of her for you. She used to work for the TV at one point as a receptionist down at Bristol. The owner of the Bat & Ball - Henry has his eye on her, fat bald slug of a man that he is. He's got no chance. I'll show her my ferrets and she'll be mine. (that's not a euphemism by the way). A lot of women don't like ferrets but I think a proper country girl like Mary should. By the way none of them munters in the picture is Mary.
Anyway they had their beer board out yesterday so I took a snap.
Another beer I'm hoping they have is Summer Lightning Ale. It's 5% volume and I once went to a wedding in Warwickshire and got completely banjaxed on it. I made a complete fool of myself and got thrown out. They have another called Crop Circle Ale. They were selling it down the George & Dragon at one point but it attracted too many hippies. We got enough hippies here. I don't know if you can make out the All Body Shop board behind the beer board in the photo. They are offering to test you for allergies. Of course you always have one so they can sell you their remedies.
I think I'm allergic to real ale in fact. It always makes me feel sick, have bad guts, fart and dog-breath the day after. Still it's worth it.
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