"Haggis on French" - yum! My local does excellent pub grub of the usual variety - steak & kid, fish & chips, etc. It also does a wonderful vegetarian balti - and a full tapas menu. And it does it very well. I drop in two or three times week, around 5pm, for an hour and half of ribaldry and chat in the Old Gits corner.

I run a session there once a month. We have an excellent jazz, rag and blues guitarist, a friend who plays all sorts on mandolin and guitar, a woman who plays and sings John Prine and country classics, a young couple where he plays fiddle tunes from all over Europe and backs his very talented young wife on guitar when she sings her 1930s torch songs, a chap who plays traditional English tunes on flute and whistles... and we all muck in and sing and play what we can. We're now starting to get locals coming in just to listen to us.

Yes - we'll have a clog dancer or two, and anyone else, if they want to join in - but this is our village here and now, and I wouldn't want it to be re-imagined any differently.