MOONBASE CENTRAL

Thursday, 11 March 2021

IT'S SCOOP'S BIRTHDAY READERS!

ALL THE BEST SCOOP FROM WOODSY

AND MOONBASE CENTRAL!

HERE'S TO YOUR VERY OWN CAKE ODYSSEY!

Wednesday, 10 March 2021

Me and the Missus love Premier Inn. Its cheap and cheerful and virtually everywhere. The hypnos beds are to die for and you always know what to expect as the rooms are always the same. Its a home from home with no washing up. We can't wait to go somewhere again and stay at the Inn this year sometime post-pandemic. Premier trips always involve lots of charity shops and car boot sales, which has got to be good!

When we first turned up at a Premier Inn years ago I had a bit of a double take. Right next to it was a restaurant I associated wholly with the Seventies, namely Brewers Fayre, which turned out to be Premier's eatery of choice.

Once I saw it I got to thinking though whether I actually meant Brewers Fayre or was the lost chain something else?

And then I remembered. Berni Inns! Yes, that's it!

I associated Berni Inns completely with the Seventies and with my parents' generation. Log fires, steak and chips and big fat tomatoes, bearnaise sauce, romantic candle-lit sheepskin rug nights. I've no idea if you could stay there or whether there was more to eat than simply steak. Its a thick cardigan and Yardley scent sort of memory of my parents for me, a nice memory. I'm pretty sure I never went with them so it must have been an adult eatery.

Does Berni Inns still exist I wonder? Did Premier Inn ever consider taking Berni or like Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons did they never meet?

Which old eating chains do you remember readers? Whilst you ponder I'm off for steak and chips with a big fat tomato!

LEAVING THE SHELVES

More spring cleaning at Moonbase has freed up some reference books for freecycle and auction. I've a big vintage toy and film book collection but these are surplus to requirements now. There's Barbie, Antiques Roadshow, Overstreet Comics [EC Comics special], Fangoria films and Model Soldiers.

Have you reference books like this that could be culled?