{"id":8145,"date":"2021-02-06T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8145"},"modified":"2021-02-06T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T16:00:00","slug":"cdd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/06\/cdd\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid Drinking Dens 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>06\/02\/2021<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/CDD_210206_1248.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8148\" src=\"http:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/CDD_210206_1248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"703\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The weather was not as bad as forecast, so I did a quick painting of the sub-station, with St Patrick\u2019s Chapel in the background. I drank a couple of cans of Kirkstall Perpetuous whilst waiting for the others to arrive. Only six as it turned out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/CDD_210206_1400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8147\" src=\"http:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/CDD_210206_1400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"713\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dave arrived and let us in. He was carrying a couple of lanterns, and the dim light they offered barely illuminated the available space in the stone hut. Ironically, despite the lack of power, the majority of that space was taken up by the large and sadly defunct transformer.<\/p>\n<p>A pin of the local brewery\u2019s Pale Ale lay on a small table, covered in a few wet beer cloths. Dave had tapped the thing the day before, and we quickly drew a pint each.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/CDD_210206_1504.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8146\" src=\"http:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/CDD_210206_1504.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"718\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>It was cold, damp, and dark in the hut, but it was the first accompanied cask pint we\u2019d had for a couple of months. That first pint was delicious. The second was judge-able, but it somehow didn\u2019t feel right to do so. Yes, it needed a more flavoursome hop, with a bitterer finish, but it was perfectly drinkable! Pint number three had us grumbling a bit; damp and cramped, we wanted some variety. Wasn\u2019t it great to have someone to moan to, to have invented non-problem, problems! Where next?<\/p>\n<p>I suggested having a small midweek meet-up at the old Bubbles toilet building. I had noticed the loose lock on the door, and had a sneaky peak. All the innards had been removed, and there was ample space inside, but sadly no windows. Can\u2019t see out, but can\u2019t see in!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bring some cans next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-drinking-dens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}