Those who recall the 1976 drought will be aware that this summer’s version – which terrified the farmers – was played out against quite a different backdrop. THEN – Pubs did brisk business. NOW – Pubs, apart from Wetherspoons, which manages to charge less than the others, are struggling to make a go of it, especially in the countryside. THEN – Pubs wouldn’t have dreamt of serving unfamiliar foreign ‘muck’. NOW – Without that foreign muck, they don’t stand a chance. Our own drinking pub, much appreciated by locals with tiny houses, had to close because the pub itself was too small to allow for kitchens, as opposed to just freezers and a microwave. Now that the young don’t drink, smoking is banned and predatory police wait outside pubs, fancy food is the only way to attract the punters. And now that Rachel ‘Thieves’, who robs from both the rich...
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