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Visiting the UK's shortest motorway?A day in Moreton In Marsh today.
I wondered how long it would take for someone to post this!
That's what I'm normally like! Then I'm usually glad that I did go in the end... Go and have a great night out @GadgetMy friends Christmas party tonight, I really want to go, I also really don't want to go and so it will continue until I get picked up to go. Anxiety
Oh noLost my keys on Xmas eve
Off to Fracture clinic today with minime, fingers crossed...
We were in Leicester yesterday (Christmas Day).
Son is now a pub landlord, running a pub in Leicester city centre. The pub was open yesterday so over we went to spend time with him and some of the locals.
He’s expecting the pub to be busy today and this evening with all the sport on (he shows it on tv in one area of the pub) especially with the Leicester/Liverpool match tonight.
Then tomorrow we’re having our Christmas Day at home with the turkey, the presents, the fizz etc.
Just prepped the turkey and the veg for tomorrow, so today feels like Christmas Eve.
I wish him the best of luck with his new venture!
I hope it goes well! Xxx
Well done to your son @CaroleThank you. I know that you met Alex in Edinburgh so I’ll pass on your good wishes.
The pub thing happened very quickly, he was given an opportunity and completely thrown in at the deep end.
But Alex has always been up for a challenge and the time was right so he’s giving it his best shot.
The pub is doing well and he’s enjoying it.
He’s still doing his comedy and looking forward to The Leicester Comedy festival in February.
Well done to your son @Carole
That was always my dream in my younger days, to own my own pub . I used to enjoy my barmaid days, Hubby wouldn't take the risk and sell up though to take the plunge.
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Had Google your sons pub for a nosey, as you do.Thanks @staffordjas
Alex doesn’t own his own pub, (Yet!).
He’s a tenant landlord running a pub, The Salmon, in Leicester which is a Black Country Ales pub.
It’s a great way to start out, he gets to see how it all works, and if he likes it, without actually taking the gamble of purchasing a lease or buying a pub.
Black Country Ales are a chain, so he’s got people there in the background helping him and the more he sells, the more he earns so the incentive is there to make a success of it.
Some of you will know Black Country Ales, it’s the same group that own two Stafford pubs... The Bird in Hand and The Shrewsbury Arms.