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Today I paid £5.10p for a pint of draught lager in a pub.
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I paid a fiver today, early this month in london i paid £5.50 a couple of times i think.
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I remember paying a fiver for a pint in the 100 Club in Oxford St over two years ago.
A round comprising a Pint of Peroni, large glass of red wine and a Coke zero in Covent Garden last week cost me £17.50.
...and I was drinking the Coke.
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>> A round comprising a Pint of Peroni,
Mrs CS and I went to two of our local pubs last week, where the Peroni was £6.66 / £6.68 for a pint and a half.
I don't usually drink lager, but that was around the price I expected.
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> Mrs CS and I went to two of our local pubs last week, where the
>> Peroni was £6.66 / £6.68 for a pint and a half.
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>> I don't usually drink lager, but that was around the price I expected.
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that's steep, whereabouts is that?
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>> that's steep,
Not that steep for my pint and a half for the wife.
Two shots of Green Chartreuse in a seafront pub in 1961 set me back ten shillings. Now, I've never recovered from that one!
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>> >> that's steep,
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>> Not that steep for my pint and a half for the wife.
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I remember paying around a tenner in the ME for a pint, Norway wasn't far behind around 9 quid for a short pint.
Last edited by: sooty123 on Tue 3 Jul 18 at 10:41
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>> I remember paying around a tenner in the ME for a pint, Norway wasn't far
>> behind around 9 quid for a short pint.
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I visited Norway a number of times for work, always struck me as a really nice country in many ways, but not somewhere to drink unless the company is paying.
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not sonewhere to drink unless the company is paying.
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I dream of such luxury :-)
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This might be making me feel old. I can remember when a fiver would have got you a not entirely shabby bottle of wine at your table.
I'll willingly pay whatever it costs for something good, but I can't imagine a scenario where I'd actually want a pint of lager or beer enough to pay £5 for one.
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>> but I can't imagine a scenario
>> where I'd actually want a pint of lager or beer enough to pay £5 for
>> one.
I walked 7km in 31c of heat.
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A whole 7k? Wow, pretty much an "Ice cold in Alex" sort of situation then?
;-))
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>> A whole 7k? Wow, pretty much an "Ice cold in Alex" sort of situation then?
>> ;-))
It was, thats it exactly
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If you are away from readily available drinking water sources then I recommend the Katadyn Hiker Microfilter, used in conjunction with a wide necked Nalgene water container or bottle.
Wild camping in the Lakes last week would have been impossible without. 60 miles backpacking in just over 4 days, with full packs ( tarptent, stove, fuel, dehydrated food) was much harder work given the temperatures. And lack of cooling breeze even on the tops.
Good workout and weight loss programme for an old bloke....
I need a lighter sleeping bag for my next mini adventure in September. More expense!!
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>> Wild camping in the Lakes last week would have been impossible without.
Is wild camping there legal? Perhaps above a certain height or something? I seem to remember that apart from about two square miles on Dartmoor, there is no right to camp anywhere in England. I may have that wrong as I've not considered camping for years.
Or is it one of those "no, not legal, but nobody actually minds as long as you are sensible" scenarios?
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>> Or is it one of those "no, not legal, but nobody actually minds as long
>> as you are sensible" scenarios?
Article from Guardian suggests it's illegal:
www.theguardian.com/travel/2010/jul/09/illegal-wild-camping
National Parks OTOH seem to welcome it but of course they're not the landowner.
www.nationalparks.gov.uk/visiting/outdoor-activities/camping
Fairly common to see wild campers in upper valleys in Lakeland, for example around Sprinkling Tarn.
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>> National Parks OTOH seem to welcome it but of course they're not the landowner.
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That's a good point. Who DOES own Scafell or Helvellyn? Duke of Somewhere? The Queen?
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>> That's a good point. Who DOES own Scafell or Helvellyn? Duke of Somewhere? The Queen?
Quite a lot, including the summit of Scafell Pike, is owned by the National Trust. According to links from Google one side of Helvellyn, the gathering ground for Thirlmere which is reservoir, is owned by United Utilities as successor to Manchester Corporation. The Ullswater side is apparently owned by the National Park Authority.
Other areas are part of private estates, probably with grazing rights leased to local farms. An estate including most of Blencathra (aka Saddleback) came up for sale recently, offered by the Lowther Trust. An attempt was made to purchase it as a community asset but raised insufficient funds and eventually the estate took it off the market.
Community buy outs have been very successful in Scotland but i think there is Scottish law designed to encourage or even compel such sales. Returning to Harris/Lewis last month for first time in 9 years we found large areas including the mountains of North Harris and the shoreline and Machair of West Harris and also significant parts of Lewis in community hands. There is a bid afoot to bring the wild and stony ground of the bays on East Harris into another community trust.
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Thanks for that, Bromp. I guess the mass trespass did achieve something nationally, of a sort, in the end.
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I should have asked my outdoor journalist pal about the legalities of wild camping, or not, in England. I often bivvy out just a few miles from where I live....a 3 mile walk, dip in the hills, perfect for star gazing when conditions allow. I’d walk home at 6 AM, breakfast, shower, off to work at 7:30.
Last week whilst in the Lakes there were two tents wild camped at Grizedale Tarn ( above Patterdale) with the campers swimming there. The only wild camping I saw in 5 days.
I pack out all my rubbish, and other peoples, leaving no trace. I even burn my toilet paper and use my orange plastic trowel to bury ‘waste’.
I wild camped most of the SW Coast Path ( the only National Trail over 1k kilometres), tent up late at night, away before 7AM. I felt quite privileged to enjoy amazing sunrises and sunsets on many cliff tops.
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If it proves to be illegal then I really do hope you continue to do it and enjoy it.
It would really be a case the law is an ass.
Pat
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>> It would really be a case the law is an ass.
While there are many sources that say wild camping is illegal in England and Wales I've yet to find one that gives a link to the relevant statute or a common law reference. Presumably there was some real or imagined mischief that was being addressed (mass trespass? homeless camps? ) but Scottish experience suggests that allowing wild camping on unenclosed land doesn't result in a free for all. In fact there was a tent pitched below the cottage we stayed in on Harris. Out of sight over a rise in ground but near enough the track into the village that occupier (who we never saw) could have wandered in for supplies and to use the public bar in Hotel Hebrides.
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b***** hell that's a lot.
About £2.50 here for a lager.
As for an English beer then coincidentally I happened to be in a place selling Spitfire yesterday for about £2.00 a bottle.
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£35 for a bottle of plonk in a chain restaurant recently. Same one in the off-licence was £12.
Don't worry about the prices though soon beers will be surcharged to account for the shortage of CO2. That'll be £5.50, plus £1 for the bubbles please!
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Off to the Smoke night of Friday coming for summer get together with former Civil Service colleagues at pub in 'Legal London' between River, Strand/Fleet Street and Holborn.
If a pint costs £4 plus I'll not be surprised.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Sun 1 Jul 18 at 22:11
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A pint of London Pride in Weatherspoons in London these days will cost you £4.05 if you buy on its own.Other beers were between £3 and £4 last week.
Meal deal with a Cheese and Ham or Tuna Panini with chips or salad and a pint was around £ 7.50.
You will not get any cheaper in London Brompt. According to the Metro the average price of a London pint is £5.15.
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Was recently at a wedding in a swanky hotel. Pints were a fiver and a small glass of wine was £5.50. Vodka and coke was £6.
Just as well we were all Scots and had all the tricks of the trade for getting our own booze in disguised as presents as we had been tipped off on the prices.
As a result, the bar got very little money from us.
However we all agreed that if it was more like £3.50 a pint or glass of wine, then realistically the bar would have got hundreds of pounds from our three tables.
As Humph alluded to, there comes a trigger point where you say, na, I'm not going to pay that. I am not going to be ripped off.
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My local charges £3.20... Ilkley Brewery Mary Jane tonight. Buy 10 get the 11th free ( stamps on a loyalty card)= £2.90 pint
My other local charges £3.00, buy 8 get 1 FOC = £2.67 pint ..Gooseye Brewery Chinook & Wishbone Brewery Tiller Pin always available. Lovely.
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>> Today I paid £5.10p for a pint of draught lager in a pub.
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Crumbs!
Which branch of Wetherspoons was that?
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In forty-odd years of drinking my cost per pint has risen from under 10p to around £4. This outstrips wider inflation by a factor of about 4.
If this continues it follows that drinking now, rather than later, is effectively a cost saving. Man maths never fails.
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Likewise I can remember 1/6 d a pint or7.5p for the younger ones...but that was for Tavern keg or Watneys red barrell which was the sort of muck we used to drink back in the 60's.
Cider was around a shilling a pint when I was working on the M5 motorway construction in 1971...and it was lethal
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When I started drinking in 1978 it was just over 30p/pint in the lounge bar. Once paid less than 30 in a lino floor/vinyl seats public bar but it was a real dive.
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I guess it will surprise nobody to hear I don't believe I've ever had a pint. I tried some beer of some sort once from a companion's glass and it was vile. Never wanted to try again, and more recently developed a medical condition that requires no alcohol of any sort anyway, so nothing at all for the last ten years or so.
Sorry, didn't mean to be Captain Bringdown and the Buzzkills.
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>> I guess it will surprise nobody to hear I don't believe I've ever had a
>> pint.
I am not in the least bit surprised, in fact it merely reinforces my views about your, how can I say this kindly, errr hmmmm - yes! eccentricities
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I can remember buying a pint of scrumpy and a tiddy-oggy for under a shilling!
(Devon circa 1954 when at ITCRM, Lympstone, Devon)
Similarly I can remember a horse's neck costing tuppence ha'penny for the brandy and a tanner
for the dry ginger. That WAS, however in the gun-room of HMS Theseus in late 1955!
I've just bought a dozen 500 ml.bottles of Golden Crown beer (a delightful flowery and sort of scented tipple) from Aldi at £1.19 a bottle. Ideal for hot weather slurping.
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According to a friend of mine, who imports the stuff by the container, he can buy beer in England, ship it here, pay duty, add margin and still sell it for the same price as the UK, just because of all the UK tax he doesn't have to pay on it.
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The Hole in the Wall, Bodmin, sold scrumpy for sixpence a pint to impecunious squaddies in 1949.
"She'em loike drinkin' barbed wire" commented an appreciative local; an accurate assessment and, apart from that, I have always found cider very unpredictable in outcome.
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Cider. I got paralytic on the stuff as a 14 yo schoolboy visiting the Great Yorkshire Show. My mother was not impressed and I haven't touched the stuff since. I still have deep psychological scars of that occasion.
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That's one drink I've never got into. Had the odd one or two, but not a big fan.
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My old man was a cider drinker, Strongbow was his choice. I thought it was like drinking ground glass.
Cheapest pint I ever had was 11p for best bitter.
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I still remember the shock I felt when Brew Xl went up to 2/6d a pint in the late 60s. And, horror of horrors, when a pack of 20 Embassy tipped hit 10 shillings around 1975/76.
When was it ever going to stop...
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>> I still remember the shock I felt when Brew Xl went up to 2/6d a
>> pint in the late 60s. And, horror of horrors, when a pack of 20 Embassy
>> tipped hit 10 shillings around 1975/76.
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>> When was it ever going to stop...
When I first started on the weed as a schoolboy, about 1971, 20 No6 were 4s6d. Although being a wee schoolboy with nae money, it was 10 sovereign at 2s a packet.
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>> When I first started on the weed as a schoolboy, about 1971, 20 No6 were
>> 4s6d. Although being a wee schoolboy with nae money, it was 10 sovereign at 2s
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I'd forgotten about Sovereign, the preserve of an underpaid apprentice. Prior to that the fag of choice was No 6 or Embassy, depending on which parent left their fags unattended.
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There’s lots of local ciders around here. One of our boozers keeps 15 or so.
A mates wife is quite partial to Dickin’s Cider.
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Talking of scrumpy - I can't accurately remember the date, but it must have been mid 1960s when I was with the 5th/8th Bn, The Sherwood Foresters T.A. (Yes, I joined the pongos, aka "brown jobs", as a reservist). We were at a T.A. annual camp in Thetford when, on a night out, I was introduced to the Devil's own brew.
Order a pint of scrumpy and a large port.
Take a healthy gulp of scrumpy. Into the space released in the pint pot, pour the port.
Slug down the mixture.
Falling down juice par excellence :-)
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>> A mates wife is quite partial to Dickin’s Cider.
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>>A mates wife is quite partial to Dickin’s Cider
Urrrr…………….?
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OMG - sooty123
