A pint of beer and a siege please...
Yesterday I took the Mrs. on a trip to the New Forest to get some fresh air and get out of town.
First things first we stopped off at 'the Oak', a 19th century pub in the hamlet of Bank, just outside Lyndhurst. It's listed in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide so it's purported to serve a decent pint of real ale. And decent it was too... a pint of Stonehenge "Great Bustard" and a fat doorstep sandwhich for lunch.
Setting off again toward Highcliffe in Dorset, where I once lived when I was really young, we followed a cop car into town - he had his lights flashing but no siren then turned off into a housing estate and that was that. Or so we thought...
We spent a few hours in Highcliffe, bummed around, drifted along the beach, had ice cream and stuff and then jumped back in the car to go home.
As I drove through a housing estate, looking for my old home and taking a pretty random shortcut, I got us lost and then saw a cop car parked at a junction. Joking that he'd help us with directions, we noticed that there was another cop car, then another... then there were all the residents of the estate standing at the kerbside and then more cop cars - they were EVERYWHERE.
We counted a good 10-20 or more police cars, vans, ambulances and armed police too. We've got used to seeing them at the Airports now, but guns in a quiet residential area... whoa!
It turns out that it's a guy taking a baby hostage with nail-gun, but but don't trouble yourself with thinking about it, looks like it's all over.
Other than that it was quite a pleasant day :)
First things first we stopped off at 'the Oak', a 19th century pub in the hamlet of Bank, just outside Lyndhurst. It's listed in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide so it's purported to serve a decent pint of real ale. And decent it was too... a pint of Stonehenge "Great Bustard" and a fat doorstep sandwhich for lunch.
Setting off again toward Highcliffe in Dorset, where I once lived when I was really young, we followed a cop car into town - he had his lights flashing but no siren then turned off into a housing estate and that was that. Or so we thought...
We spent a few hours in Highcliffe, bummed around, drifted along the beach, had ice cream and stuff and then jumped back in the car to go home.
As I drove through a housing estate, looking for my old home and taking a pretty random shortcut, I got us lost and then saw a cop car parked at a junction. Joking that he'd help us with directions, we noticed that there was another cop car, then another... then there were all the residents of the estate standing at the kerbside and then more cop cars - they were EVERYWHERE.
We counted a good 10-20 or more police cars, vans, ambulances and armed police too. We've got used to seeing them at the Airports now, but guns in a quiet residential area... whoa!
It turns out that it's a guy taking a baby hostage with nail-gun, but but don't trouble yourself with thinking about it, looks like it's all over.
Other than that it was quite a pleasant day :)
Blue Skies thinking @ 8/31/2004 04:55:00 PM
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