It was a well known phrase or saying in the Legends of the NERDS that a quorum
of at least three people was necessary for a ramble to take place (Were there only two it would be described as Sandyballs and Lafayette just going for a drink.)
So....... when Laf turned up at Lewes station with just Froggy in tow the lack of numbers was a little surprising, but not catastrophic.
Paco was off having a device fitted to his heart, Matt was off to Dublin on another holiday, Steve Gorilla was in Calais swatting illegals and the Bish was presumably at home nursing his new cataract-less eyes.
Sandyballs sighed about the lack of NERDS' enthusiasm and Lafayette said he was thirsty already so they all went off to The John Harvey Tavern to drink some weird Harvey's concoction which was very low in alcohol
and was at least brown in colour.
We sat outside in the shade
- it was a riotously hot day, and just the weather for drinking a lot of beer. After the experiment of the crap Harveys beer we graduated to Harveys Best
and felt more at home. Froggy
regaled us with tales of his holidays with His Mate Nick, and when we had had enough of this S, B.
took us on a little tour
of the back end of the Mighty Ouse and we all got a bit lost.
Suddenly we found ourselves outside Zorbas. a Turkish, not Greek restaurant
where some of us had been before but couldn't remember when. The food was OK but took a long time to arrive since it was cooked in front of us downstairs, and there was a queue of other people waiting to be served.
After this we went round to The Gardeners Arms and sat down a side alley drinking proper Harveys and listening to Froggy telling us of his passionate ambition to hire a music studio and record
all the songs he had ever written.
(Sorry, Froggy, someone else has already written "Ba, ba, Black Sheep,
and you've missed out on the royalties.)
As we were all now getting frizzled
in the afternoon sun,
we decided to call it a day and head our separate ways before death or taxes decimated the NERDS even further.
At least the weather had been good and Froggy had taken a lot of photos of -yes, you've guessed it -of NERDS holding up pint glasses and trying to look as if there were really a large number of us.
So back home we went and the next ramble will be Wednesday the 14th of August. Hope there are still some NERDS alive by then who can make up a quorum.
Bye for now.
Lafayette.
