Darts

27 July 2010, 10:03 pm

The new darts season is about to start. All who want to sign up please let us know, we will have at least one team.

Don’t Drink at Home

25 June 2010, 2:13 pm

Recently published in the Daily Mail. Although I can’t say I believe nearly anything I read in the Mail. I think this one is a corker. Middle class parents remember come to the pub and protect your children

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‘Drinking at home puts middle-class children at risk’

25 June, 2010

By Laura Rivers

Your round-up of the national news – June 25, 2010

White middle-class children who are allowed to have alcohol at home are fuelling a ‘drinking culture’ in suburban secondary schools, a Government study shows. Teenagers are more likely to consume alcohol, and more likely to drink frequently, if they are white, non-religious and from a more affluent background, it says. They are more likely to have tasted alcohol in the home and then be drawn into underage drinking by friends at school. The study also found that girls are more likely to drink than boys. Youngsters who play sport or a musical instrument are also more likely to drink than those who do not – Daily Mail

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Whitebait

12 February 2010, 1:20 pm

As you all know we have been selling quite a bit of Whitebait in the last few months. It is very popular and has been positively flying out.

At the bar we had a discussion as to what the little fellows actually were.

We had a little look at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitebait and saw the following:

“In the United Kingdom today, whitebait generally refers to young sprats, most commonly herring. They are normally deep-fried, coated in flour or a light batter, and served very hot with sprinkled lemon juice and bread and butter.

Given that UK and imported Whitebait still consists of immature herring, sprat, sardines, mackerel, bass and many others, it is not an ecologicial foodstuff. Removing these fish at such a juvenile stage, before they have had a chance to grow and reproduce, might severely reduce future fish stocks. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) is the only non-government organisation to provide independent information on the sustainability of fish stocks and species around the world, and to have a rating system for fish sustainability, in order to safeguard future stocks. The MCS suggests avoiding eating and purchasing the juvenile whitebait as it is detrimental to sustainable fish populations.�

We were ignorant of this!

We have therefore decided to remove Whitebait from our menu as soon as we have finished our current stock.

Blues and Booze 2009

23 May 2009, 2:50 pm

Blues and booze 2009 started last night at the White Horse Inn, Clun.  Rik Martin his wife Helen, brother Wayne and  Geoff Ockingham on bass. A great set thoroughly enjoyed by all that came, problem being the comments after were “how are you going to follow that, over the next three days”. Well we’ll see what we can do! Gigs are available on You tube.  Link to you tube http://www.youtube.com/user/whitehorseinnclun I think I got a bit carried away by the good times and felt a little fuzzy this morning.  See more about the White Horse Inn, Clun’s Booze and Blues Festival at  http://tinyurl.com/om9l84

Well the whole of Blues and Blues was spectacular except Michael Berk who failed to turn up. Still no explanation videos of most of the gigs will be going on Youtube ASAP.

Highlights for me espcially were the Rik Martin Band, the  Convulsions  and Kent DuChaine. Wow!!!

Watch this space and the website for more info for next years.

Sky / Setanta Sports etc

21 May 2009, 1:44 pm

Firstly I must thank the idiot that stole my Sky card and remote control last Saturday. Tried today to get a new card. It transpires that last December I was mis-sold Setanta, this means that to continue I have to renew not with Setanta, but with Sky. The cost for this will be £3,000 a year or £57.00 a week. So well done idiot. The cost of this is so prohibitive that I will never recover it. So unfortunately I have to cancel my Setanta subscription for the pub, even more annoying because West Ham are playing live this weekend, and I’m obviously going to miss it.

Why do we let SKY have this monopoly of our sport. To subscribe to SKY would cost £6,000 a year.

I urge all to go to http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/SportForAllOnTV/ and attempt to get the government to ban this scandalous monopoly at least with international matches.

Or better still premiership matches, at http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/livefootballontv/ although this will reduce the money in the game. Would that be a bad thing?

Bowling

21 May 2009, 1:03 pm

Last night we welcomed back the Clun Bowling Club, who won their game against Chirbury. We wish them well with the rest of the season.

Greenman

20 May 2009, 12:26 pm

Finally got rid of the last of the Greenman signs today. That’s Greenman 2009 put to bed. Now just to update the safety policy and ready for planning for next years event.

The beginning of the beginning

20 May 2009, 11:01 am

Well, I’ve finally taken the plunge. Here it is the White Horse Inn, Cluns own little blog.

Welcome to our site and please feel free to make any comments etc.

J