Drinking my way out of lockdown
Is it safe to go for a pint yet? The Brunswick I guess it's predictable that in the current pandemic a Tory government would introduce access to pubs as one of the first relaxations to lockdown. After all, if you give the plebs their simple pleasures they won't complain so much, will they? All the same, I was nervous about visiting my favourite Brighton and Hove watering holes because most of them are extremely small. How on earth were they going to operate safely? The answer has been: surprisingly easily. Over the last few weeks I have visited these pubs at least once: the Foghorn , the Watchmakers , Bison Craft House , the Brunswick , Brighton Beer Dispensary , the Evening Star and the Brighton Bier Haus . I felt safe in all of them although it has helped that most have an outside drinking area, and that the weather has been surprisingly equable. I guess that's probably global warming but I'll take my pleasures where I find them. The first thing that I looked for