Whether you favour the Half Moon or the White Horse, please give them your support this Christmas. We are lucky to live in villages with good pubs and excellent licensees, and in these hard times we should not take them for granted.
As usual, they will be working hard for your pleasure. We asked both pubs to let us know what is happening this Christmas and New Year. We are still waiting to hear from the White Horse, but here is the Half Moon’s programme:
Sunday 23 December: Lunchtime Carvery as usual. An excuse to get out of the kitchen! Christmas Eve: Carols and mince pies from 8pm, with accompaniment by the Horsington Marsh Chamber Orchestra (Janet Coles and Brian Tunnicliffe)
Christmas Day: A quick pint from midday -2pm. The annual ritual of showing off your new M&S jersey and –oops -spilling a drink down it.
Sunday 30 December: Come and pit your brains against Horsington’s finest in the last quiz of 2012. 8pm. Teams of 4-(ish). Leave your mobile phone at home.
New Years Eve : closed all day .
New Year’s day: Delicious brunch from midday- 3pm. Bar closes at 4pm.
Wednesday 2nd January. Music Night 8 pm.
Until 30 January: Balvenie Whisky promotion. Enjoy three different delicious upmarket Balvenie malts for £8.95 and receive a free Monkey Shoulder*.
Starting in January: Curry Night returns. 2 for £10. Tuesday evenings. Come in for a drink, a chat and a “Ruby Murray “.
Landlord Andrew and Philippa wish everyone a very happy Christmas and look forward to welcoming you. As we are sure Paul and Sarah at the White Horse do as well. Let’s hear from you.- Ed
*Monkey Shoulder is a blend of 3 Speyside Malts matured in Bourbon casks. (Quiz question: Monkey Shoulder is the nickname for a temporary shoulder injury suffered by the distillery workers who used to turn the barley by hand.)