Welcome to Issue 2 - I hope you enjoy it!
Good-time Charlie is an irregular newsletter containing items that I hope will be of interest you, our readers. It is based on eating, drink, music, fun stuff and well … good times. The best news is that is socially distanced by the mere fact that is an email newsletter!
Good-time Charlie
Why Cook Books are looking more and more like Comic Books? An interesting read, as the tradition of hand drawn illustrated cook books, started in the 1960’s by Len Deighton, is brought up to date.
Eat
If you are going to have a good-time and it is increasingly likely, any sort of time outside your home, then a face mask is becoming de rigour. So, you may as well look your best and read these tests and reports on stylish face masks all available in the UK.
Wear It - Well
An interesting article comparing the price of a pint around England to find the most and least expensive. London is first on the ‘how much’ scale, Brighton second with Cambridge, Edinburgh and Oxford completing the top five – oh … it also mentions that the price of a pint has increased by 6% post lock down. No mention that the price of wheat beer in Samuel Smith pubs has gone up from £5.40 to £6.20 – an astonishing 80p a pint and it isn’t particularly wonderful!
Drinking - is a costly business
With the ‘new normal’ is beginning to resemble ‘new normal’ wartime austerity, except “put that light out” is being replaced by “pull your mask up over your nose”. I spotted this little treasure that might make interesting reading. Click READ ARTICLE to download a PDF of Make Do and Mend – yours to save for free and not the 3d cover price.
Keeps you busy
Amazing life-like, highly detailed sculptures hewn from wood – take a look, they really are an incredible work of art.
Art
The Moon under Water, a George Orwell Essay in which he describes his perfect pub. It is thought to be based on a pub near Highbury and Islington station that he frequented - along with the several dozen other pubs in London with a sign saying ‘George Orwell drank here’. An evocative image of the public house originally published in the Evening Standard in February 1946. J D Wetherspoon hijacked the name and now have 14 Moon Under Water pubs in their estate, including one in Manchester which is the largest public house in the UK – lots of room for social distancing then.
Read and drink
Well that wraps up Issue 2 … you will no doubt be pleased to hear that the collection of old tat and general guff that will make up the content of Issue 3 has already started! Until the next time …