End of lockdown and back to the pub memes

[Epona]

I'm unlucky as I will get to miss 2 birthdays thanks to this (fuck you, Covid), was hoping to be able to at least go to pub garden for a socially distanced pint on my 50th but no such luck. Might go the park with a bottle of wine if it isn't raining though.

I think as soon as pub gardens open I will be wanting to sit outside and have a nice pint, we don't even go to pubs that often due to cost, but it is something we have missed doing while they have been closed. Although of course hopefully when they reopen OH will be back at his regular part time job - initially probably in a pub but he may be back to the nightclub in June - fingers crossed that lockdown and vaccinations will mean it is possible to get back to some semblance of normality come summer (please please please, so depressed at this point).

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I'm unlucky as I will get to miss 2 birthdays thanks to this (fuck you, Covid), was hoping to be able to at least go to pub garden for a socially distanced pint on my 50th but no such luck. Might go the park with a bottle of wine if it isn't raining though.

I think as soon as pub gardens open I will be wanting to sit outside and have a nice pint, we don't even go to pubs that often due to cost, but it is something we have missed doing while they have been closed. Although of course hopefully when they reopen OH will be back at his regular part time job - initially probably in a pub but he may be back to the nightclub in June - fingers crossed that lockdown and vaccinations will mean it is possible to get back to some semblance of normality come summer (please please please, so depressed at this point).

We're so nearly there Epona, hold tight and soon enough all this crap will be but an unpleasant memory.

 

[editor]

I'm unlucky as I will get to miss 2 birthdays thanks to this (fuck you, Covid), was hoping to be able to at least go to pub garden for a socially distanced pint on my 50th but no such luck. Might go the park with a bottle of wine if it isn't raining though.

I think as soon as pub gardens open I will be wanting to sit outside and have a nice pint, we don't even go to pubs that often due to cost, but it is something we have missed doing while they have been closed. Although of course hopefully when they reopen OH will be back at his regular part time job - initially probably in a pub but he may be back to the nightclub in June - fingers crossed that lockdown and vaccinations will mean it is possible to get back to some semblance of normality come summer (please please please, so depressed at this point).

Sending hugs from another member of the 'missed two birthdays' club.

 

[Epona]

Sending hugs from another member of the 'missed two birthdays' club.

Thanks, and same to you too - I thought of you immediately as being in the same boat wrt birthday crapness

 

[WouldBe]

With the rush to get back to the pubs the police may need to deploy water cannon to control the crowds but filled with beer instead of water.

 

[dessiato]

Stop it you're making me miss my dad now

(((Mrs Miggins )))

They scattered my dad from there, the wind was in the wrong direction...

 

[Numbers]

Sending hugs from another member of the 'missed two birthdays' club.

I’ll add to that, had my 50th via Zoom last March.

 

[May Kasahara]

 

[The39thStep]

We have been lucky. Bars have stayed open since lockdown 1. Limited hours, and only outside, it has sometimes been a godsend to have those few minutes in the open air with two friends and a glass or two of something

They shut here totally Jan 13th in the post Xmas lockdown , three days later they banned takeaway coffee and beer.

 

[editor]

 

[William of Walworth]

the idea of whiling away a few hours in a cafe getting wrecked on coffee seems idealistic.

I've missed cafes so much. Just sitting there with a coffee, pain au raisin treat and my little Chromebook...

Very much this!

Well maybe not the Chromebook -- old-style newspapers for me!
Or the snacky treats thing so much -- it's all about the coffee!

And our tradition of the Saturday veggie breakfast in the cafe is hugely missed

Will cafes count as 'non-essential'** shops, in the re-opening schedules? That is, will they re-open ahead of pubs?

**Wrong!!

 

[Pickman's model]

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Now let's see if you can get the people filming gigs to actually watch the band and listen too

 

[Artaxerxes]

Now let's see if you can get the people filming gigs to actually watch the band and listen too

"If we just hold our iPads over our heads noone will mind!"

 

[Hyperdark]

Don't do Pubs, looking forward to riding the trails, I desperately need to see the Bluebells and wild Garlic again

 

[editor]

 

[Cloo]

I don't tend to go to the pub as an end in itself much, but I like to have them there on a country walk or other day out, so I'm looking forward to that being an option.

 

[BassJunkie]

I'm unlucky as I will get to miss 2 birthdays thanks to this (fuck you, Covid), was hoping to be able to at least go to pub garden for a socially distanced pint on my 50th but no such luck. Might go the park with a bottle of wine if it isn't raining though.

I'm with you Epona! I turn 50 mid April. Second "missed" birthday. And certainly not how I imagined my 50th birthday would be.

Despite being a staunch republican I think, like the queen, I'll have a second, official birthday, later in the year.

 

[BassJunkie]

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[A380]

I had put this on the ‘rona meme thread too.

 

[moomoo]

 

[William of Walworth]

I don't tend to go to the pub as an end in itself much, but I like to have them there on a country walk or other day out, so I'm looking forward to that being an option.

For us, and for many in our acquaintance, when setting off on a country (or town) walk, ending up in the pub is NOT an option!!

 

[existentialist]

Don't do Pubs, looking forward to riding the trails, I desperately need to see the Bluebells and wild Garlic again

TBF, nobody is going to have seen bluebells or wild garlic for the last nine months or so, lockdown or not

 

[William of Walworth]

TBF, nobody is going to have seen bluebells or wild garlic for the last nine months or so, lockdown or not

There's some every year alongside the Clyne Valley path, Swansea, which is within walking distance of our house, thankfully

ETA : and that's on the way to one of Swansea's best pubs too ... I wonder why I know the above, then .....

 

[hitmouse]

Relieved that no-one's posted that bloody singing video yet.

 

[krtek a houby]

Yes. To wake up and not have the dark cloud there anymore.

Tbf, I normally sit in the corner, these days

 

[cupid_stunt]

Mask Life in the Pub, modern take on the Two Ronnies...

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[krtek a houby]

Mask Life in the Pub, modern take on the Two Ronnies...

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Is he doing a Two Ronnies sketch?

ETA: ah, he is

 

[cupid_stunt]

Is he doing a Two Ronnies sketch?

ETA: ah, he is

Yep, he's just miming.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Extended version

 

[Pickman's model]

Don't do Pubs, looking forward to riding the trails, I desperately need to see the Bluebells and wild Garlic again

Plant wild garlic in a window box or garden