At the risk of severe thread drift I cannot let that pass.

Even when it was brewed in Nottingham Hardy and Hanson's hardly made it this far north. (I am in one of the great beer capitals of the world - Sheffield). And of course the famous Harvey's of Lewes is now owned by a greedy capitalist brewery company called Greene King who brew in...- well dang me as we Goths say - Bury St Edmunds.

Now we didn't have to fight to get our local beer back into our local pubs. (Congratulations on winning that one by the way - but it does worry me that you had to do it. I suspect the landlord and brewery might not take to a three piece Goth Band as easy as the members of the folk club might do if that's his attitude).

We struggle to choose good pubs with excellent beer, there are so many. Tonight we are off to the Kashmir Curry Centre on Spital Hill, which as well as being famous for its food is also famous for its mixed cricket team - not just asians and whites, but men and women!!) Then onto

http://www.thefatcat.co.uk/ and all of fifty yards to....

http://www.kelhamislandtavern.co.uk/

It's a tough life up north.