The Prince of Wales

is for sale I see. I have always thought that this looked to be a pub with potential. It has a small garden out the back which backs onto part of the common and it is quite a light and airy pub. Or well it could be.
They often have bands play in here on a Friday and a Saturday night. So I shall wait to see what happens to it.

Hungry

I am starving, what I really want today is a nice Sunday lunch. I'm thinking of a big fat roast with yorkshire puddings and lashings of gravy.
It's days like this that I really grumble about being in Plumstead and there being nowhere to go. I just fancy wandering down to a pub, reading the Sunday papers and having a nice roast with a bottle of wine.
Honestly, I would have made someone very rich by now if someone had opened such a place.

Our Common Story

We bought this book when we first moved here. I think it is published by the PCEG and tells the history of Plumstead etc. I found it last night when I was llooking through some paperwork and realise that now we have lived here longer I at least recognise most of the places referred to in it. The front page has the list of the Plumstead Idlers I think they are called - essentially the main pubs. Ship, Star, Who'd have thought it, Woodman and the Mill (no mention of the Prince Albert, perhaps that was a newer pub) Anyway I realise that the Woodman is still empty. Perhaps I will write to the main brewers and highlight the need for a gastropub in Plumstead. If Mottingham, Woolwich, Eltham etc have them then surely Plumstead which is far prettier should have something. So I am officially on a crusade to encourage any local brewers, pub owners to invest in Plumstead Village...

New pub...

sadly don't get too excited as it's in Woolwich. Or it will be. I see that there is going to be a new gastropib (a chain one I think) in the Arsenal. Very exciting indeeed, things are slowly creeping outwards. Although I'll probably still drink and eat in Blackheath until something or someone bothers to open something half decent in Plumstead Village!