June

For most of the afternoon there was nobody in the public bar at all. Not a soul, completely empty.

Outside however...


Yes, summer has finally arrived. It was toasty warm and sales of cold beer were pretty good.

We're going to open the beer garden this weekend because the weather's forecast to be the same for the next two days. After that it'll have to close again because of the work going on in the rooms above. The bar will be closed during the day on Monday through Wednesday anyway because we are painting the bar and front hall. We weren't going to open at all, but that would lose too much money and since it's emulsion paint it should be dry in a couple of hours.

The joiners' foreman and the squad who will be down on Monday were on site today looking round and being shown the work needing done. THAT makes a change - the builders never seemed to have a clue what was required and usually asked us. Of course since D**** had written the job spec we didn't know either.