{"id":8250,"date":"2021-02-27T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8250"},"modified":"2021-02-27T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T16:00:00","slug":"covid-drinking-dens-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/27\/covid-drinking-dens-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid Drinking Dens &#8211; 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>27\/02\/2021<\/p>\n<p>Will we get to be in, or even outside of, a real pub in April?<\/p>\n<p>Until then, we need to keep being vigilant when it comes to spotting communal drinking opportunities. This week, we\u2019re got to go somewhere special.<\/p>\n<p>We got Budgie to fly his helicopter to the isle of Man for a few drinks. Why budgie? Harry was a staunch royalist who was always wittering on about his flying ability. He had never regarded Sarah Ferguson as a <em>real<\/em> royal, so we called him Budgie to wind him up!<\/p>\n<p>The flight took off from Greenlands Farm, which itself held potential for drinks, and was quickly over Morecambe Bay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cdd_210227_1415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8251\" src=\"http:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cdd_210227_1415.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t take long to arrive at Ronaldsway Airfield on the island, and a mate of Budgie\u2019s was waiting for us with his car to drive us to the ruined abbey at Ballasalla about a mile away.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cdd_210227_1500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8252\" src=\"http:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cdd_210227_1500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a couple of bottles of Heineken on the flight over, but upon arriving at the Abbey, we discovered some bottles of local beer had been left for us; Okell\u2019s Triskelion, and plain old Bitter from the same Douglass brewery. I had some Fell Tinderbox, and Dave had his favourite Big Wednesday from Harbour Brewery. Budgie had some cans of John Smith\u2019s, but he also had the lift home, so we let him off with a warning!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cdd_210227_1547.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8253\" src=\"http:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cdd_210227_1547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/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-8250","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\/8250","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=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcprill.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}