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the b never fails to attract a crowd and boy was it busy on a pre-christmas weekend. seems like everyone went from christmas shopping to needing a winter warmer! find the door bs kinda haughty, presuming only there for drinks as who'd be so stupid as to think they could waltz in without a lunch reso :P it's as if they derive some pleasure from smugly turning people away. but hah wouldn't eat there (food's not great) and was just after mulled wine that wasn't in a styrofoam cup (the mulled wine at the pseudo christmas market was all in disposable cups...) so that suited just fine.

warmed up then ducked indoors to avoid the rain and chanced upon this sweet little deal. lindisfarne oysters going for £1 a pop (when it's usually £2.50!!!) even with my abysmal grasp of numbers i knew it was a good deal. tried not to fall for their loss-leader trap and got the house white and nothing else. win big lose small?

have also passed a furniture shop with alarming regularity but failed to venture in to their cafe. it reminded me of cafe string in stockholm where the furniture is for sale. clever tactic but pity the flat white came as a cappucino but was too tired to send it back and left it undrunk. need to get better at polite, constructive feedback. find i'm too shy / apologetic to be any good at it. probably why commercial litigation wasn't for me :P