Formerly known as The Flapper and Firkin the pub has now lost the last part of its Firkin name and we found that little has changed since our last visits.
The pub was fairly quiet but we were given a warm welcome by the barman who showed us a photo of the pub in its previous carnation The Long Boat, sadly, highlighting our advancing years, pub veterans Gray and myself admitted that we'd both visited the pub when it carried that name around twenty five years ago !!
I was pleasantly surprised with the beer on offer and chose a pint of the previously untried Cottage Brewing Big Boy which this big boy felt was pretty decent.
Lack of people in the pub meant that the pool table was free so it was game on in the age old battle of the sexes, boys v girls. Now I'm not one to gloat, but I doubled the black into the middle pocket to put us one nil up, and Gray cut the black into the top pocket for the boys to go running round the Bull Ring with the cup after securing a two nil victory.
Photographic evidence would suggest that the girls did not take defeat in good grace..
Unfortunately that was where sporting success ended for the day, news came through of a 4 1 loss for Blues, we watched the Irish beat the French and take the six nations title and later on we discovered that v*lla had beaten Chelsea. What a Firkin disaster !!
Our friends Val and Paul joined us at quarter to seven though maybe their late arrival was ill advised being as by that stage we'd been drinking for over six hours !!
The Flapper was definitely pub of the day for me and this opinion was further evidenced as firstly, my last couple of pints were of Robinson's Trooper (the Iron Maiden beer) and, secondly, the soundtrack for our visit from the jukebox was second to none : Led Zep, Sabbath, Floyd, Foo Fighters, Hendrix, Santana etc.
Let's Rock !!!
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