Eagle eyed among you will notice “Gin the pub dog” from earlier in my photostream in the window of the Six Barrels pub, with Helen. It was Gin who I spotted first and asked Helen if it was her dog and was she the landlady of the pub.
“No it’s not my dog, I am a customer, the dog’s called ‘Gin’, I am here watching Pride. It’s my first Pride, I am here to learn, I work in a pub in Arnold and need to understand”
“Ahh right, I’m from Arnold, what pub do you work in”
Helen told me the name of the pub.
“Really, that’s quite a recent addition to Arnold, it’s quite upmarket for our town centre. Are you the manager there”
“No, my best friend owns it, I work there”
“Does your friend own the bar across the street too?” (another new bar, again quite up market for Arnold)
“No, they are rivals, but we are opening a bar a few door down from us, it used to be a children’s milk bar”
“Oh yes I know where you mean”
“Well in early October it is going to be a sports bar, an Irish bar”
“That will be a good addition”
“I am working tomorrow from 3 o’clock to 11 o’clock. Are you going to come for a drink”
“Well we don’t tend to drink in pubs and bars, we’d prefer a meal out in a restaurant to a drink in a bar”
“OK, well we have a 50’s theme afternoon on a Wednesday, from 3 o’clock, lots of ladies come dressed in 50s outfits and we play swing music”
“That a good idea, is it popular”
“Yes very popular”
“Actually I am an amateur photographer, I take photos of people I meet on the streets, can I take yours?”
“Yes of course you can”
“Where’s Gin gone, can you get her on the photo too?”
Helen goes and retrieves Gin. And then I take some photos.
“Wow look at that costume” says Helen admiring the Parade still passing by “I must photograph it and she gets her mobile phone out
I show Helen the photos on the back of my camera.
“Awww they are nice, can you make me look slimmer”
“I don’t know how to do that”
I give Helen a contact card.
“Thanks Phil, I like you, you’ve shown a lot of interest”
“That’s kind of you”
I actually bumped into Helen a few days later, she was walking the pub dog of her pub and I was walking Ruby ! I told her the photos I took were fabulous and reminded her to email me. She said she would but has never emailed me.
