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A Diary Moment! A wonderful, clear and warm Sunday, a free day, so what should we to do with it? Fortunately the question had been solved on Friday night by the 1st Mrs Izzard who was saying that she'd like to go for a stroll by the riverside, but was complaining that according to the weather forecasts, she had no notion when that might be.
So when we woke up on Sunday it was just a case of picking which river and town. Came the solution most easily - Stratford along the Avon since I had never been there and she hadn't for years. The only thing outstanding was to collect a pal who was by himself for the weekend as his partner was off on an outing in Wales.
When we arrived we went down the bank of the Avon to the ferry, a famous landmark (water mark?) and across the water for a beer at the famous Dirty Duck, or Black Swan as it is properly named which is where all the marvellous actor types go as the RSC Theatre is just across the road. We went out into the garden and were a tad shocked to discover that they had a really nice bbq area with a big double set of bbq grills which was entirely unused. If ever there was a day for the landlord to roll up his sleeves and break out the briquettes, Sunday was it. What was just as puzzling is that since it is just by the river and the ferry, getting the smoke drifting out over the area and pulling in the hungry hordes was straightforward so why ignore it?
It irritates me when I see this. Particularly when the climate hasn't been ideal and you get a day, especially a Sunday, when conditions are improved and the chance is either ignored or missed. There is a pub nearby which has an operation especially set for getting out the bbq as soon as everything is in place they just spring into action, up go the blackboards and everything is ready. All that is needed are customers and that is easy as everyone knows that if the sun is out then the pub has got the charcoal grills and you just need to get there.
The bbq grills are constructed into a purpose built cabin which is in the garden and has a food prep area, deep fryers for chips and a work surface for making salads. It's a really impressive set up and depending on how busy they are then either the landlord can man the defences by himself or there are two charcoal grills together so he can have an assistant lend a hand on the meat. And there are usually 2 people on meat duty.
This is really impressive since if you are looking for somewhere for lunch on a sunny weekend afternoon, fancy a bit of bbq tuck but don't want to cook it yourself then you know where to be without needing to ask beforehand if it's on today. And because they are on the route through to popular driving, walking and cycling places, they also pick up an great deal of passing trade as well as people off the canals as they are also handily located next to a lock.
So why, when you have a celebrated pub useful as a watering hole for celebrity spotters as well as well balanced folks would you not use a particular area when the conditions for it are perfect?
So when we woke up on Sunday it was just a case of picking which river and town. Came the solution most easily - Stratford along the Avon since I had never been there and she hadn't for years. The only thing outstanding was to collect a pal who was by himself for the weekend as his partner was off on an outing in Wales.
When we arrived we went down the bank of the Avon to the ferry, a famous landmark (water mark?) and across the water for a beer at the famous Dirty Duck, or Black Swan as it is properly named which is where all the marvellous actor types go as the RSC Theatre is just across the road. We went out into the garden and were a tad shocked to discover that they had a really nice bbq area with a big double set of bbq grills which was entirely unused. If ever there was a day for the landlord to roll up his sleeves and break out the briquettes, Sunday was it. What was just as puzzling is that since it is just by the river and the ferry, getting the smoke drifting out over the area and pulling in the hungry hordes was straightforward so why ignore it?
It irritates me when I see this. Particularly when the climate hasn't been ideal and you get a day, especially a Sunday, when conditions are improved and the chance is either ignored or missed. There is a pub nearby which has an operation especially set for getting out the bbq as soon as everything is in place they just spring into action, up go the blackboards and everything is ready. All that is needed are customers and that is easy as everyone knows that if the sun is out then the pub has got the charcoal grills and you just need to get there.
The bbq grills are constructed into a purpose built cabin which is in the garden and has a food prep area, deep fryers for chips and a work surface for making salads. It's a really impressive set up and depending on how busy they are then either the landlord can man the defences by himself or there are two charcoal grills together so he can have an assistant lend a hand on the meat. And there are usually 2 people on meat duty.
This is really impressive since if you are looking for somewhere for lunch on a sunny weekend afternoon, fancy a bit of bbq tuck but don't want to cook it yourself then you know where to be without needing to ask beforehand if it's on today. And because they are on the route through to popular driving, walking and cycling places, they also pick up an great deal of passing trade as well as people off the canals as they are also handily located next to a lock.
So why, when you have a celebrated pub useful as a watering hole for celebrity spotters as well as well balanced folks would you not use a particular area when the conditions for it are perfect?
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