12 November (Part 2) - All hands to the beer pumps
I have run out of time, there's another meeting to go to this evening,
but I implied there would be a Part 2 by suffixing the Splash Park report
with Part 1. I suppose I had better concoct something brief and easy to write.
The suggestions of paranoia and insanity
from my councillor friend continue to provoke comment. I shall confine myself to mentioning
just two recent emails. One reader said he came close to bursting out laughing at an important
business meeting while sneaking a look at BiB on his tablet. Serves him right, shirking on the job
☺; but
another message provided a welcome surprise.
It’s a bit of a tight rope act to balance upsetting Bexley council as much as
possible while sticking firmly to the truth and not offending too many innocents along the way but it would appear
that councillors do not have many friends so I generally get away with it.
When I expressed surprise that
Teresa O’Neill chose to feature the Bexley
Brewery in her leader’s report my suspicious mind smelled a rat but some
research later suggested I was wrong. Yesterday I received a message which would
appear to confirm I was very wrong.
I opened it with some trepidation as it came from Bexley Breweries but I need
not have worried. Mr. Bexley Brewery is a regular Bonkers reader and offered
kind words of encouragement. I’d better not relay his exact words or he might be
blacklisted by you know who.
I don’t dislike beer but as a coeliac I shouldn’t drink it because of the barley
(traces of gluten), but I am going to drop into one of their resellers this evening and risk half a pint.
Later I shall get myself down to the brewery with my widest angle lens to see if a
suitable image for a new Bonker’s site banner can be found. I refuse all requests to carry
adverts but interesting views from around the borough are not adverts are they?
For the record the monthly blog usually gets around 30,000 visitors a month,
quite a lot of them repeat visits I am sure and over the years Bonkers has had
visits from every country in the world bar Greenland and a few insignificant
islands. No wonder Bexley council hates me. But I may help shift a few more beers.
Bexley Brewery.