Visited 14th April 2012.
A short tube ride later and we are in Tooting and from the station entrance we can see our target. Mrs S. takes the photos and then in we go, only to find it is quite narrow and seems to be quite small. And very busy. Mrs S. heads off in to the darkness, past the books and booths and manages to find us a table near the back, which turns out to be quite a long way back. I, meanwhile am at the bar ordering a double Malibu and Pepsi for Mrs S. and a double Buffalo Trace and Pepsi for myself. We dawdled with our drinks as we still had plenty of time and I knew the next pub was also near to a tube station. Although we had been finding that it could take a few minutes to get in and out of the stations today. The tickets we had bought would not work the gates and the railway bods refused to replace them with ones that would. This meant that at every gate we had to find a member of staff to open the gates for us. Although we complained every time it was apparently impossible to do anything about the situation and it was just something we were going to have to put up with. Can you imaging during the Olympics thousands of people clogging up the tube system because their tickets, although valid, don't work the tube station gates. Come on Boris, this sort of thing should have been sorted years ago! Rant over - and it's off to Balham.
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