The Week In Pubs - 'My Old Knee Of The North'

The Moon Under Water

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The clocks have finally gone back, thus bringing an end to 'pub garden' season and ushering in the equally enjoyable 'pub snug' season; and to celebrate, Landlord John has taken residence next to an open fire (sort of like Jackanory but for pints).

In this episode of The Week In Pubs discussion turns to Halloween costumes, drinking after some time off, and the ultimate pub crisp.

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0:00.0	And that sound there
0:11.0	And that sound there is the relaxing flicker and crackle of the fire here at the moon underwater and I've been tending it all day.
0:33.7	It's a horrible wet weather outside so I'm sat down here in the hearth, the hearth arbor, I think you could call it, the hearth eaves, the hearth awnings.
0:47.3	And here at the moon under water we've got one main fire, but it sort of connects to several other smaller hearthlets
0:59.1	where we dry various hides.
1:05.8	Sometimes we use it for tanning leather,
1:10.2	which is actually quite an unpleasant experience.
1:12.8	You can't do that when people are coming in
1:13.9	because you use urine to tan the leather.
1:16.4	So it's not as actually romantic as it sounds.
1:18.6	It's a bad example of what we use the hearths for.
1:21.8	But we do make toast, don't we, Robin?
1:24.4	What, toast in front of the fire?
1:26.1	Yes.
1:26.7	Yes, with a toasting fork.
1:28.9	And are you going to come and join me on one of these leather armchairs next to this beautiful fire?
1:34.3	I will.
1:34.9	I will.
1:35.5	I mean, it's a lovely sound, but, you know, I can see the fire, but to a listener, it might
1:40.1	sound like frying bacon or a very crackly LP.
1:44.5	Yes.
1:45.3	So maybe it's like, you know, in modern houses in the other realm,
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