Malice Aforethought!
I had lunch at the Good Pub Guide's 2011 pub of the year, the Tempest Arms, yesterday, and 
sigmonster didn't. Heeheehee.
(Actually, it was disappointing- it was perfectly OK, but I must have been into half-a-dozen just as nice that haven't won anything (and I'm not even a pub person), and surely a Pub! Of! The! Year! shouldn't just have bitter, stout and IPA on the hand-pulls? Surely you shouldn't order a medium plain steak and get a well done pepper steak? Ah well, it got us out of the snow, anyway.)
Also saw Love's Labours Lost yesterday, with a nice early-thirties, Noel Coward-ish setting. It's one of the very talky ones, where the aristocrats have some big fat chunks of clever wordplay to put across and the rustics have malapropisms, but most of the cast managed to make them interesting (the male lead, Berowne, was probably the best) and they'd put in enough physical comedy that it was a fun evening.
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sigmonster didn't. Heeheehee.
(Actually, it was disappointing- it was perfectly OK, but I must have been into half-a-dozen just as nice that haven't won anything (and I'm not even a pub person), and surely a Pub! Of! The! Year! shouldn't just have bitter, stout and IPA on the hand-pulls? Surely you shouldn't order a medium plain steak and get a well done pepper steak? Ah well, it got us out of the snow, anyway.)
Also saw Love's Labours Lost yesterday, with a nice early-thirties, Noel Coward-ish setting. It's one of the very talky ones, where the aristocrats have some big fat chunks of clever wordplay to put across and the rustics have malapropisms, but most of the cast managed to make them interesting (the male lead, Berowne, was probably the best) and they'd put in enough physical comedy that it was a fun evening.
This entry was originally posted at http://shark-hat.dreamwidth.org/167084.html. Comment here or there.