Connections...

You know how your mind freewheels sometimes and sort of joins dots you never even realised were there?  A TV report on the need to repair the Netherton canal tunnel, and an article in the paper about a a pub selling a mammoth "dare you eat it all" meal, and - "ding" - into my mind popped the name of The Dry Dock.  The Dry Dock was (and unfortunately it is "was" - it's long since closed) a pub on the canalside at Netherton (just outside Dudley) whose particular claim to fame was that the bar - where you went to get your drinks - was a canal narrow boat - a real one, Heaven only knows how they got it in there. The house beer was called Lumphammer and what made the connection is that they used to advertise a "Desperate Dan Pie" which was put out as a challenge to big eaters. Happy memories of several visits there - though I never plucked up the courage to order the pie.