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Happening to be strolling up South Street this morning, I noticed the mess in what was the garden attached to the pub called Acorn 30, a garden which had, ages ago, been the site of a substantial tree down, noticed somewhere near here at the time.

Clearly a matter for need to know, so first stop, I tried various likely search terms on reference 3, where the last post is something over four years ago. Second stop, reference 2, where the last post is something less than a year ago. Giving up on both of them, in desperation I tried the current blog, with the search term 'ribena' yielding reference 1 in fairly short order. So just about nine months and I had thought it was years.

But while nine months might be better than nine years, it is still quite a long time to leave all this mess in what could so easily be a fine smoking den. All of which perhaps reflects the fact that the place still has no web site but is up for sale for a paltry £100,000 at reference 4. Doesn't seem much to pay for a whole pub in an expensive area, so perhaps one is only buying furniture, fittings and a short lease.

Maybe it is a listed building and the listers have not been bribed enough for them to give their permission for the place to be converted into (still much needed) flats.

PS: I remember, a long time ago, working with a middle aged painter who got most of his lady friends through Dalton's Weekly, then a popular printed weekly, when classified ads ruled the world and the net had not been invented. Presumably the same lot as at reference 4.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/pinafore.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/.

Reference 3: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.co.uk/.

Reference 4: http://www.daltonsbusiness.com/pubs-for-sale/acorn-30-epsom-surrey-uk/388927.