Given the fact that my tour guide Jack is not long out of adolescence I kept my protective eyes peeled for any Cougaresque Mrs Robinson type characters on the hunt for a modern day Dustin Hoffman !!
The Graduate is situated in the centre of Sheffield and I didn't need a pair of Dennis Taylor glasses to notice the fact that the pub is very near to iconic Sheffield landmark The Crucible, the spiritual home of snooker.
As you would imagine The Graduate is very much aimed at the student market, and those whacky young folk can get their pints for just £1 in The Graduate if they turn up in a pair of pyjamas. Male students should naturally ensure that they avoid any wardrobe malfunction issues as a result of their pyjama flies gaping open when they are quaffing their cheap pints !!
The beer selection was better than I had anticipated and a pint of old favourite Marstons Pedigree was what this scholar ordered.
Our conversation got onto the subject of our recent visit to Lords for the final of the Royal London One Day Cup. The day itself was a boozy one and I confessed to Jack that I was still carrying the scars of a cut shin incident from the day which I have no memory of. How I laughed therefore when Jack also came clean that he had still got grazed knees from a man down incident on his way home that same night !!
We had just got enough time to have one for the road before I made my way home, the barman offered me a free discount card entitling me to money off drinks, when I told him that I was only stopping for the night he informed me that already I would have made a ten pence saving. There's a lot to be said about the merits of student life !!
Although Sheffield is home to some notable musical acts, Def Leppard, Pulp and Arctic Monkeys for example, the music that I heard on my night in Sheffield left a lot to be desired. Not only had I been subjected to Peter Andre's Mysterious Girl earlier that night, we left The Graduate, not to the sounds of Simon and Garfunkel, but instead to Save Your Love by Renee and Renato !! I worry about the musical future of this country !!
I said goodbye to Jack and made my way back to the station after a brief but enjoyable pub crawl around Sheffield.
Ah'll si thee...
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