Bonds

Being a town without a university Tamworth doesn't really have a large student population, however those that attend the college seem to congregate in Bonds in the town centre so this is probably as close as it gets to a Tamworth student bar.

There weren't many students in Bonds when we popped in part way through our Tamworth pub crawl, in fact there weren't that many people in there at all. From memory I can't recall any ale of any sort on my last visit so I was very surprised to see a couple of ales on offer with me opting for a fairly uninspiring pint of Gone For a Burton by the Tower Brewery.

We made our way to the back of the pub, and I attempted to sit in what looked like a comfy armchair, it nearly swallowed me up..

Maybe it's just me or does my seat need reupholstering?!!

I swapped seats to one by the tv screen as we were just in time to witness what turned out to be a fairly boring penalty shoot out in the Wigan v Arsenal FA Cup semi final with Arsenal emerging as the eventual victors.

We were sat by an elderly gentleman who appeared to know most of the people in the pub, I had my suspicions that he was the pub's drug dealer when he was approached by people who he proceeded to give small bags to. We eventually found out that the bags contained nothing more harmful than sweets, and it wasn't long before he offered me a mintoe !! The gentleman in question was called Michael and he had quite an eye for the ladies, demonstrated by the fact that he told Shelley that she'd got 'come to bed eyes' when I foolishly visited the loo and left her alone with the predator !!

Michael was knocking back a bottle of wine and it must have put him in the mood for a dance as he told us that he was going night clubbing later that night !! How we laughed when we left, Shelley gave him a hug and a peck on the cheek and he got that excited that his hat fell off !!!!