The Diary: September 1999

In September we suffered our first hit- university. It meant spreading a number of us all over the country:
Nick - To Nottingham Uni (I went far!)
Linda- To Manchester Uni
Jones- To Warwick Uni

With me being so local the bar carried on- and we could end the summer with out a bit fat bar night!

Bar nights including the 'Farewell' night
- Music playlist for Sat 5th September
- Music playlist for Fri 17th September
- Music playlist for Sat 25th September

Bar nights continued almost weekly- but the biggest in September was just before some people went to uni...

Nick tonguing some Metz (I was drunk ok!) - shows the optics above the bar well!

Another 'interesting' feature to the bar was a huge poster of Anastasia on the ceiling- always with a speech bubble with 'something to say'!

Nick & Laura pose for this piccy next to one of the bar's other features- 'word of the month' & 'phrase of the week' see bottom of page...

In front of the phrase of the week/word of the month board, Laura, Nick, Lisa

Paul, Linda & Martin (striking the pose... again...) sitting on the bed in the bar

The Jones holding his pint- in front of another bar feature- the wrought iron sale sign which was 'acquired' one evening (the sale had ended..) on bikes- not easy!
Why would we want that in a bar? Just because!

Arr... Paul & Linda in the shadow of Bottesford...

Mat & Rachel in front of out rather unsophisticated air conditioning system- a fan!

Spanner, Lisa, Martin & Rachel all looking somewhat drunk on the bed- in front of our signs which said things like 'Drink you know you want to' and 'Fancy a double- make it a triple!'. Advertising- but did it work... we think so!

Spanner, Rachel & Tom near the bar showing the 'beers of the world' poster (got that somewhere..)
and the tv stand that was demolished one night when Mat sat on it... he then drank the drip tray!

Word of the Month & Phrase of the Week
From around the beginning of the bar back in Oct '98 we had 'Phrase of the Week' & 'Word of the Month' usually made up when we thought of them and would relate to whatever was going on at the time. These continued until they were abolished when the bar was refurbished (no ideas left!). They were displayed with bits of paper on my bedroom wardrobe and were rather tatty by the end to say the least!