the Red Lion
today steph and i went to the red line in alough. it took abuot 40 mins to get out there by train, then a 40 min walk from slough station.
Slough is a very quaint litte suburb. When we went there is was miserable, but not rainy. Add that to all the desidious trees and brick walls every where, and you have a barren place to be. The pub its self is very warm and cosy. The building is about 400 years old (its amazing to think that building is older than my country) and still has some original fitting. there is a barrel there that comes with the building, and was used to brew something (?)
when we were there we met Kim, the deputy manager. She was really nice, and the drink we had there were on the house. We spoke mainly about the pub and what we would be doing there. Steph will be waitressing and i will be going straight to the bar. We both got out frist choces of work to do, which we were both happy about.
another thing thats worthy of note was the sunday just past. Myself, angus and nicole went to a place called 'the church'. it is names so because its open every sunday and is next to a church. Church starts at about 11.30, but when we got there 15 mins beforehand, there was a Q about 100 meters long, 3 -4 people deep, and it wrapped around 2 corners. It was the most epic que i have ever seen.
When we got in, the church is a massive theatre place, with no seats on the ground floor. to buy rour drink, you frist buy a voucher off a guy sitting on one end of the bar. you then go to the bar and select what drink you want. you then get your 3 750ml cans of you drink in a plastic bag. 1 drink ticket costs £7.50.
By about 2 in the afternoon i was quite drunk, which was good because at that time there was was 2 strip shows. About an hr after the 2nd strip show we went to maccas and i tried to sober up. A few hours after that i was on my way to heathrow aiport to pick steph up.
I spent the nihgt at the aiport because stephs flight got in before the tube opened. long story short, i dodnt have stephs flight info, so i just aksed the info desk for flights coming in at 6.30 from singapore. I was out by 1 hr for the time and so went to the wrond terminal, and it took me 3 hrs to get steph. In the end all was good.
thats about it. tomorrow i will be sorting out visa stuff. im quietly confident that i might be able to get a visa. then after that i will be moving into the red lion accomodation.
cheers.
jash
posted by §prax at
7:30 AM
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hahah i left a blog to commnt.. short story short sloughs not bleak :) hahahah im so lame.. i can see u watching me lol./.
Weird isn't it? When I was around 15 and staying up at Grandpa Stoney's and Auntie Trix & Uncle George's in Goldthorpe in Yorkshire (mining town)where my mum grew up with my Mum & Dad & Carol & Peter the boys in the family all went up to the Working Man's Club for a Sunday morning drink (I forget why) - and yes, the strip shows came on before lunch. Because I was under age the men decided we should take that as our cue to go home to Sunday lunch :p. Also remeber David H doing "performance clown" for a Sunday bikie gang family get-together on a Sunday morning and again I hear there were strippers (in front of the wives & children too) as well as the clowns for the kids. I suppose when it's dreary weather you want some glamour but on the other hand the bikie gang was in Sydney - I guess the idea was to provide some entertainment for the guys who didn't have families ... and I thought Slough was a dull place. I trust everyone went next door to the church afterwards to pray to be "good-er"?
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