Good Night, Irene
Feb. 23rd, 2025 07:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo It's warming up. I've stopped wearing fingerless gloves and a scarf indoors
We met Mike and Su and Sej at the Nevill Crest and Gun at Eridge- which is close to being halfway between Greenwich and Eastbourne. Sej thought it was a great game to gather up handfuls of gravel from the pub car park and post them down a grid. he was so happy we didn't exactly discourage him and just hoped no-one was watching.
He was going on about Irene. "Who is this Irene he is so besotted with?" I wondered. Eventually it was explained to me he was actually saying "Ice cream".
When it came to the ice cream course he wound up eating a good half of my raspberry sorbet.
The Nevill Crest and Gun is in my top ten of great names for pubs- or would be if I had one. The Nevills were/are the big landowners in those parts- and the gun references the fact that the Kent and Sussex Weald was a centre of of the late mediaeval/early renaissance arms industry. Weald=forest=charcoal=founderies=guns. I read that there was one particular gun they used to keep in Eridge and haul out and fire on public holidays. I don't see why this wouldn't be true.
We met Mike and Su and Sej at the Nevill Crest and Gun at Eridge- which is close to being halfway between Greenwich and Eastbourne. Sej thought it was a great game to gather up handfuls of gravel from the pub car park and post them down a grid. he was so happy we didn't exactly discourage him and just hoped no-one was watching.
He was going on about Irene. "Who is this Irene he is so besotted with?" I wondered. Eventually it was explained to me he was actually saying "Ice cream".
When it came to the ice cream course he wound up eating a good half of my raspberry sorbet.
The Nevill Crest and Gun is in my top ten of great names for pubs- or would be if I had one. The Nevills were/are the big landowners in those parts- and the gun references the fact that the Kent and Sussex Weald was a centre of of the late mediaeval/early renaissance arms industry. Weald=forest=charcoal=founderies=guns. I read that there was one particular gun they used to keep in Eridge and haul out and fire on public holidays. I don't see why this wouldn't be true.
