The Moon Under Water - London, Balham

Visited 14th April 2012.
  
Another short tube ride (in fact it took longer to get through the barriers than the ride lasted) and we were in Balham. Once again, we could see the pub from the tube station so it wasn't to arduous a walk for us. It was dark and fairly busy inside but we managed to get a table where we could sit and watch the race. Once again I went for a double Buffalo Trace and Pepsi with Mrs S. opting for a double Malibu and Pepsi. And they're off... eventually... after a few false starts... again. Mrs S. had three horses running, as had I. Very early on one of my horses fell, another refused a fence and my third managed to struggle in to fourth place. Woohoo! Mrs S. on the other hand was getting very excited as her horse Shakalakaboomboom was leading... Edge of the seat stuff followed, at least for Mrs S. Sadly Shakalakaboomboom faded towards the end of the race and after leading for most of it ended up not being placed. However with typical Mrs S. luck she had managed to pick the winner, Neptune Collonges and the third place horse, Seabass. How does she do that? Time to make a move, we have one more pub to visit before meeting up with our friends.

  
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The Wibbas Down Inn - London, Wimbledon

Visited 14th April 2012. 

From the Wimbledon underground station we had a bit of a walk to 'The Wibbas Down Inn' (great name) which was nice in the sunshine. By now it was lunchtime and it was pretty busy inside with a lot of people eating. So we thought we would too. Mrs S. ordered the ham and eggs with a Pepsi and I went for the chilli with a pint of John Smiths. We had managed to get a table almost directly in front of one of the screens where we could watch the start of the Grand National coverage. We still had plenty of time before the race started but we had already started planning where we should be to watch the race. Mrs S. usually manages to pick one of the top three, I usually managed to pick the first horse to fall. But I felt this year would be different!!! We had started our journey on the District line and the plan had been to walk from 'The Wibbas' to South Wimbledon where we would pick up the Northern line and visit a few pubs near to the stations on that line. I asked a barmaid for directions who gave me the best instructions ever with every route marker being a theatre, nightclub, pub or kebab shop. We had no trouble finding the station. 

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