DWCon Update

[Tonyblack]

Groan!

Is that Wee Mad Arthur on the cover of the proof? Is he really blue?

That picture is on the back of I Shall Wear Midnight.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Groan!

Is that Wee Mad Arthur on the cover of the proof? Is he really blue?

That picture is on the back of I Shall Wear Midnight.

But not on the limited edition

 

[Dotsie]

But still, he isn't blue is he? Without wanting to go into any spoilers of course...

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

And he is using the watch badge as a shield.

 

[poohcarrot]

The next time I go to England will be with my whole family in 2012. My wife wants to watch the women's marathon and cheer on the Japanese women - Japan are good at the women's marathon. Today she said to me that I can stay on and go to the DWCon. Bless her! I love my wife.

The next time, Sjoerd and me are going to win the Maskerade. Also, I'm not going to spend hundreds of pounds drinking the over-priced fizzy chemical nonsense they serve at the hotel. Every evening I'm going to hire a taxi and go to the Griffin pub and drink "Aunt Sally's (or whatever it was called) and Pedigree. The only time I felt drunk was on the last night in that pub - the pork pie was really nice too!

 

[The Mad Collector]

Glad you are planning to get back here Pooh. It was Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby that you had first, a fabulous beer and one I would have liked to have myself if I wasn't being chauffeur, still I can get there often enough, you will have to wait a couple of years to try it again.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Make sure you let us know so we can leave the country. :twisted:

or we could all meet up for a beer or three.

 

[poohcarrot]

One pint of that Dark Ruby was equivalent to at least 5 pints of that Becks, and the Becks was the only thing worth drinking in the hotel. Why did you think I bought you a whisky WWD? I wanted to get drunk but couldn't.

And if you have three Dark Ruby's, you're gone!

 

[poohcarrot]

Who is or was Sarah Hughes?
It wasn't that Conservative MP in the 80s mistress, was it?

 

[The Mad Collector]

Who is or was Sarah Hughes?
It wasn't that Conservative MP in the 80s mistress, was it?

Well before her.

Sarah Hughes was the landlady of the Beacon Hotel near Dudley and in 1921 she bought the small brewery that supplied her pub. The brewery closed in about 1960 but her grandson reopened it in 1987 and still runs the place today, he started off brewing just Sarah Hughes Dark Mild as it was originally known but now has a reasonable range. It is possible to visit the brewery, it's about 25 miles from where the convention is held (now there is a challenge for someone to fit in) and I still hope they might bottle the beer again. They stopped about 8 or 9 years ago but it is probably safer not to have large quantities of the stuff at home

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Sara Hughes according to Wiki

 

[poohcarrot]

Jan, that's total bollux!

 

[The Mad Collector]

Sara Hughes according to Wiki

Wrong woman. See above

 

[poohcarrot]

I was thinking of Cecil Parkinson's mistress, who was called Sarah Keyes (I think - but haven't bothered to check coz he was a slimeball!)

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Jan, that's total bollux!

She's still a Sarah Hughes! And yeah the personal secretary (Whitehall terminology for mistress) you're thinking of is Sarah Keays

 

[Bouncy Castle]

the pork pie was really nice too!

Inna bun?