I'm home alone. I'm bored, and sick of being inside, so I do what anybody would do in this case: go to the pub. However, my local isn't quite so local at all, and between unseasonably cold weather and 30 MPH winds, I decided to find some place rather a bit more close. There's a place just up the road that's all the rage it seems like, so I went there.

I really should not have. To start, I went alone, so I had to sit at the bar. This wasn't a problem, since I prefer to sit there. Only apparently, the Crown and Anchor has a really wanky liquor license, and can only serve beer and wine at the bar; spirits are served to tables only. Since I've not found a single beer, wine, cider, ale, lager, or stout that I like (I'm totally a mixed-drink person), I just had a soda.

Then, we get to the matter of the food. They do actually do food, but I went with something simple and familiar: a steak and kidney pie with mash and brown gravy, and some peas on the side. It took a half hour to even get my food. When I finally did, the peas were from a can and cold, the mash was STRINGY (figure that one out, cause I can't), the gravy was just brown water, and the pie had the consistency of that dog food that makes its own gravy.

So Sean Patrick's is a bit out of the way. I've been going there for years, and have NEVER had a problem there. The only thing the Crown and Anchor has that Sean Patrick's hasn't is a darts board, and they show the football matches. But so what? I've got a darts board in my sitting room, where I can also watch the football matches.



And a bonus rant: the batteries in my keyboard are knackered apparently, so I typed up this whole thing with the on-screen keyboard. And now I'm going to the shop for new batteries, because I can't find any of the right size. D:

Never mind! I found a remote control that's not being used, and it had the right batteries! :D