LAST week’s Examiner had a short news item saying that the Quarterbridge pub is to re-open soon after being closed because of flood damage on December 3, the cellar, kitchen and toilets having been left in need of urgent repairs.
This was, of course, good news: the re-opening I mean.
For myself I didn’t even know it had been closed until I got an email from Roger Cain, of Ballaughton Manor Hill in Douglas, to tell me so. He also told me that, at that stage, he had been unable to get the brewery to say when it would re-open.
This he found even more worrying. He wondered if it might never make a comeback.
He declared: ‘QB or not QB? That is the question.’
Well, Roger, by courtesy of Heron and Brearley, we now have the answer. It is: ‘Yes.’
Well, I think it is.
I HAVE had belated birthday greetings in verse from John Craig who likes to style himself ‘The Manx McGonigall.’ It goes like this:
‘Now attained another year,
‘Evidence is cristal (sic) clear;
‘Hope it’s a super day.
‘For TC time for him to play,
‘To dash in Mini along Douglas Front,
‘Or a similar hair-raising stunt,
‘To raise his spirits to feel alive,
‘Now he’s got to eight-five.’
Cristal? Champagne of course.
THIS week’s crossword clue has been sent in by Barbara Taylor and Richard Hetherington.
It is from the Daily Telegraph cryptic as follows: ‘The second of two races in genuine reversal (6).’
KEN Elliott says a story about drugs in the Isle of Man Courier said: ‘A search of the flat found more packages in a wardrobe of brown and white powder.’
Now that’s not to be sniffed at.
I HAVE had a call from my old friend and former politician David Martin to draw attention to an advertisement in the Manx Independent last week for the ‘Sunnydale Care Home Recruitment Week, February 15th-21st’. He wondered, innocently, if this means they are looking for old codgers like me to volunteer for residence in Sunnydale and if this is the case he will be glad to come and visit me there.
It’s his way of saying he’s not as old as me.
ANDREW Kerr-Phillips says there was a headline in last week’s Examiner saying ‘Slimmer flies every week at diet class.’ Good news, he says: ‘There’s nothing worse than overweight flies buzzing round a gym.’
They might make things go with a zip.
FUNNIES File: The Isle of Man Courier had an advertisement saying: ‘Free to good home. Black terrier dog. Eat anything.’
SILLY Sign on a repair shop door: ‘We can repair anything. (Please knock hard on the door – the bell doesn’t work).
CROSSWORD: Latter.