Schantieman - no he wasn't outside on his own, and he got his share of the draught Bass when we got home.

There is/was a pub in Wakefield called the "Tut'n'Shive", part of a chain of the Tap 'n' Spile type of thing. The term is used in the building trade for a bit of a bodged up job, I think, and there were all sorts of odd joinery, plumbing and hardware effects in the place, including doors on the ceiling. My abiding memory of it is seeing Castleford Longsword standing in a circle sharing a half-pint glass of a 9% beer because, even though they were going to share it, the jobsworth behind the bar said she wasn't allowed to serve that one in more than half pints. They'd only wanted a bit each to try, but a half between about 8 men...

Andrea