The Travellers Friend, Woodford Green

What is happening with this place? Hardly any beer in there this week,had not visited for about a year and had heard its days were numbered as they had gone into liquidation. Should say that I am not at all surprised with the current Staff running the pub. Regulars say that the daughter is leaving to become head of Midwifery in the NHS which was a bit of a shock as she does not seem to be the type of person you could trust to handle a goldfish and I thought that she had only attained a basic degree at some obscure subject at the Welsh University for Desperado's . The licensee mother is apparently waiting for the men in suits holding clip-boards to arrive at anytime to evict her from the premises and shut up shop.

All very sad, but is to be expected when they have systematically run the place into the ground over the last few years. I must say that there was quite an atmosphere in there when I called in. The same old faces propped up at the bar, drowning their sorrows, with an East and West divide in the premises. Blue collar workers one end and the white collar high flyers at the other. So it is probably the last time I will see these two behind the bar and when I come back from my holiday, I expect to see some nice East European lovelies with broad enticing smiles, shapely rears and Barmaid bosoms, enthusiastically serving the hard pressed long suffering punters with tempting pints of real ales, instead of the dopey daughter with her fixed vacant and haunting glare and moronic personality or the abrupt and unwelcoming mother, both seemingly desiring that they would rather be upstairs smoking, eating pizza and watching X Factor or anywhere else for that matter.

Looks like their wishes may soon come to fruition.

Ho! Ho! Ho! I just imagined the daughter riding around dressed as a Midwife on a bicycle pretending she is one and the mother pushing the trolleys around the car park at Woodford Tesco, puffing a fag out the corner of her mouth. Happy days.

16 Nov 2013 10:27