The mystery of Arturo Fernandez
To Bonham's in Knightsbridge for a most entertaining distraction - a preview of their latest auction stock, organised by the BASC London social committee. Nick Harlow was on-hand to talk us through what took our fancy - which, of course, was ...
When reality clashes with fantasy
One of the golden rules of marketing is that the claims you make about a product or service must be congruous with reality. And, of course, it's not your version of reality that counts, it's your customers'. Which brings me, as a ...
Review: Netherlands National Circus, Sefton Park, Liverpool
Regular readers may remember that Town Gun's experience at Lord of the Dance was most satisfying from a bloke's perspective - the only pity being that it was their farewell tour. Well, in the pantheon of blokish delights a replacement has been quickly ...
Should Wales sell water to the south east?
An intriguing article in the Telegraph asks whether 'the Welsh people' should be allowed to profit from selling water to England, to ease the drought in the south east. The suggestion comes from John Elfed Jones, the former head of Welsh Water, ...
To Norfolk, for rabbit and some Wherry, Wherry nice ale
Town Gun, Mrs TG and the nippers are holed-up in lovely north Norfolk for a week's respite from the hustle of the PR world and the hassle of running round after energetic little children. Except, of course, the children are ...
Darned sociable, this here Norfolk
Just outside some Norfolk village or other on the way to nowhere in particular is a road sign that sums it all up: 'Slow you down'. So we did, realising that the TG family was bombing about like impatient townies rather than ...
Leave the yokel alone
Rural counties and small towns have a lot to put up with from smug townies. "High six!", they say in faint jest at suggestions that the local gene pool is, well, compromised. "Nothing wrong with your sister if nowt else is ...
Pub review: The Gunton Arms, Thorpe Market, Norfolk
Perhaps it was the huge framed photograph in the gents' loos of a Chinese lady masturbating; or maybe the portrait of the enthusiastically copulating dinosaurs in the hall; or perhaps the 3D genitalia tastefully hanging from an internal buttress. Whatever, something ...
Pub review: The Gunton Arms, Thorpe Market, Norfolk
Perhaps it was the huge framed photograph in the gents’ loos of a Chinese lady masturbating; or maybe the portrait of the enthusiastically copulating dinosaurs in the hall; or perhaps the 3D genitalia tastefully hanging from an internal buttress. Whatever, something told me this perhaps wasn’t a pub for Town Gun’s nippers or for those of a gentle disposition.
Throw in signed works by Gilbert & George and neon artwork over the kitchen doorway and you were in no doubt that this was a very metropolitan bolt-hole; a creative and gastronomic redoubt for Londoners keen to bring culture to the yokels.
It was all a bit knowing for TG’s liking – and very much at odds with the sixty-something, country lady clientelle that had the place fit to bursting on a Friday lunch time.
- That’s right, madam – straight ahead for the sculpted testicals
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