Rocks

At reference 1 I continued my remarks about the rocks at Earlsfield, rocks used to stuff the table pedestals of the front garden furniture at the 'Leather Bottle', part of the Young's pub empire - an empire mainly made up of pubs located in the London area.

The rocks illustrated left were part of the front garden of the 'Waverley', possibly the south pole of the Young's empire, right on the esplanade at Bognor Regis, a large house with a sign combining sea side motifs with the cross of St. Andrew, the patron saint of railway stations north of the border.

I am pleased to be able to say that the rocks, along with the food, were sourced locally, being large pebbles, rather than the chunks of quarried limestone used at Earlsfield. Another plus will be that pebbles will be a lot easier to keep clean than said chunks.

PS: we were amused yesterday by a curry house which boasted, in its advertisement in a local free paper, that all its ingredients were sourced locally. Which seemed a bit of a nonsense for a food which was clearly foreign, certainly in inspiration. Perhaps the young chap responsible for advertising copy at the free newspaper - hardly the dizzy heights of meaningful investigative journalism - did not know any better, having been brought up on the stuff.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/the-rocks-of-earlsfield.html.