It was a long, cold, lonely winter in England.
When four months of a nationwide exclusion finally came to an end, nothing could stop people from enjoying a refreshing pint of beer during the dawn of a Monday morning, not even rain, icy temperatures and some fair off-season. snowfall.
Pubs have once again started serving outdoors as part of a reopening plan that also covers indoor gyms, swimming pools, non-essential shops, beauty salons, and, for those who have struggled to see sad animals, zoos. Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged people to “behave responsibly” with their new freedoms, but did not explicitly say they should not get drunk in the snow before eating breakfast.
One bar in Huddersfield town was flooded when it opened at midnight. “We did not even know if anyone was coming,” the landlord aptly called Ian Snowball. “It’s in Huddersfield, it’s midnight, it’s freezing, but look, everyone’s come.”
One drinker said matter-of-factly: “It used to snow, but I still wanted to get out, I was just putting on my coat.” Another one, sitting in a thick jacket next to an icy gin and tonic, put the fair point: ‘After 14 months without going anywhere but funerals, this is a wonderful place. ‘
Sky News reported that 50 pub goers were on their way to the Fox On The Hill bar in south London this morning. Perhaps the most emotional was Tony Blake, 59, who streamed to the news network: “I’m so glad it’s open again, it’s amazing, I’m so happy.” Student Sasha Carrington, 19, said she was planning to spend the entire icy cold day there, explaining, “We have low layers on, thermal, we’re going to stay outside.”
Pippa Ingram, 51, and Sue Bell, 55, celebrated a cold pint by the sea in Kent, with Ingram describing her first swallow in detail. “Absolutely delicious,” she said. ‘It’s not going to last long at all! It beats. ‘Back in Huddersfield, in footage tempered at 8:17 a.m., a woman just identified as Sandy was seen, and she was having pins with her friends. Good morning Britain: “After a while it’s not as cold as sitting in the sun.”
It seems like one bar in Coventry has taken things a little too far. On videos posted online, more than 100 people showed up down the street outside the Oak Inn after announcing its grand plans to open a massive outdoor section with heaters, exhibits and blankets. The bar is now under investigation due to the ‘uncontrollable amount of visitors’.
But, for the most part, the grand reopening was welcomed as an important milestone – especially after the success of the vaccination of Britain, which many hope will not be an exclusion again. Nicholas Hair, landlord of the Kentish Belle in south-east London, told BBC News that there was a ‘feeling of celebration’ in the country, adding: ‘I hope it’s a kind of rebirth and that we reopened for the foreseeable. ”
As for Boris himself, government sources confirmed that the prime minister received a long-awaited haircut on Monday – but his planned trip to the bar was canceled out of respect for the late Prince Philip.