We wanted to make up for not being able to go to Martha's for boardgames on Sunday.
So we went yesterday instead.
We were greeted cheerily by the folk there and we spent a little while catching up with them to find out how their weekend had gone.
They'd sold 30% more beer this time than last which they said was a surprise since two arches is Unwins' taproom, also selling beer and, halfway through Saturday the heavens opened whereas last year it was sunny all the time. They declared themselves really happy.
They're part of a campaign to make this row of railway arches more of a destination, I really hope they're successful because it would pay better respect to the quirky, rough around the edges history of this bit of town than the retail units in all the new shiny buildings that have been going up over the last 10 years or so (most of them empty, by the way). I definitely prefer my urban development to be organic.
After catching up with the guys, we settled into a booth. A large group (probably off the train colleagues for a conference or meeting or whatever tomorrow) came in and very noisily hung around for about 30 minutes - it was hard to resent them too hard because it was nice to see the place with a few people in on a Tuesday after a bank holiday.
We played our new birdy game, now starting to get the measure of it so it didn't feel like such hard work - he won.
The beer? Oh, yeah - we had their house beers: Halo Orbit, Mysterious intergalatic object and Neighbour we left behind - plus the newer pale one. Nothing novel (they probably sold it all over the weekend) but beers we know and like. It worked well
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