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Midnight Pool Parties #20

...the local pub. Every time we went in everybody wanted an update on what was going on at the Hall with my parents and their quabbles. It was a bit like a local soap opera! We had also become engaged and I stayed at Kev’s house in the week so I could get to work easily having failed my driving test a couple of times; weekends were spent at the Hall. Hoar Cross and the surrounding villages were a bit of a Birmingham commuter belt area and a lot of the families were quite well-to-do. We met up with a crowd of young people in the Meynell every weekend whose fathers were stockbrokers, barristers and local gentry; most of their houses had swimming pools and we would...

Panto Pranks #21

...e Meynell pub in the village and the pantomime was the topic of conversation for weeks afterwards. As well as our large crowd of younger people there was also a crowd of older men who were always in there. One of them asked Kev if he could sell his wife’s car (as Kev was always buying and selling things in those days). Kev readily agreed and a few days later drove the car up to the Hall and parked it on the drive. The next day my mum pushed a note under my dad’s lounge door telling him to move the car at once. My dad as usual ignored the note from my mum, saying we had every right to park on the drive as much as her! So we left the car where it was. Oh dear...

Midnight Pool Parties #21

...the local pub. Every time we went in everybody wanted an update on what was going on at the Hall with my parents and their quabbles. It was a bit like a local soap opera! We had also become engaged and I stayed at Kev’s house in the week so I could get to work easily having failed my driving test a couple of times; weekends were spent at the Hall. Hoar Cross and the surrounding villages were a bit of a Birmingham commuter belt area and a lot of the families were quite well-to-do. We met up with a crowd of young people in the Meynell every weekend whose fathers were stockbrokers, barristers and local gentry; most of their houses had swimming pools and we would...

Coming Of Age #21

...the local pub. We had also become engaged and I stayed at Kev’s house in the week so I could get to work easily having failed my driving test a couple of times; weekends were spent at the Hall.   Hoar Cross and the surrounding villages were a bit of a Birmingham commuter belt area and a lot of the families were quite well-to-do.  We met up with a crowd of young people in the Meynell every weekend whose fathers were stockbrokers, barristers and local gentry; most of their houses had swimming pools and we would often go back to one or another of their homes for a midnight swim!  Once we had been to a fancy dress party where Kev had dressed up as a knight wit...

See You In Court! #28

...the local pub in the village.  When we walked in of an evening, everyone was keen to know the latest updates on the divorce and we would spend half an hour telling them all the news – it was like a real life soap opera!  On Tuesday nights a bunch of the local businessmen would all meet up for a drink.  These men were all middle aged, respectable professionals but on a Tuesday night they turned into a bunch of mad men!  We loved it of course, being young and wanting to forget our miserable home life – what better way than a bit of madness?   And so, after quite a few drinks, these guys would decide to take sides and have a 'beer' fight.  A Typical...

Here comes the bride (Part 1) #30

...up at the pub and started to do their act.  The Landlady was a bit strait laced and ordered them all out so where to go now?  They all decided to come back to the Hall as two of our friends now lived in the East Wing apartments, and they carried on with their party there. When I came home and went up to bed, I passed the door leading to the apartments and could hear a lot of noise.  I went in to the East Wing and listened at the door; it sounded like they were having a lot more fun than me so in I went!  The place was full of men watching the strippers and when I walked in all dressed up they thought another one had arrived until they realised it was me! ...