Episode 40… Decision ‘Esme… I’ve been giving our situation a lot of thought.’ Charles looked at her with careful consideration. She seemed to him to have more maturity now than ever he realised. She had grown into a fine woman. She sipped from a small cup of coffee whilst her crystalline eyes studied him back. She lowered the cup gently to its saucer. ‘Charles, If I were a smoker, this would be the moment I would light up!’ She grinned lavishly. He smiled back a reply and said: ‘I want us to stay with some friends of mine that live in North Wales. Toby can run things here for a while and his brother Barney will help out. Look we both need a break…Get away from London for a while. It would do us both some good.’ ‘But North Wales Charles… Snowdonia! It will be cold this time of year.’ ‘You won’t feel the cold I promise and you will just love ‘the Porrits’.
With “Goodnight Sweetheart” making a welcome return to DVD, it could almost be D’eja’ vu when you walk into The Royal Oak
public house at Columbia road in the East End of London. It was as if I
had time travelled through the time portal with Gary Sparrow into
Ducketts Passage and wartime London. I half expected to find Pheobe
serving behind the bar, Gary at his piano, and Reg supping a pint at a
table. Could this wonderful setting have been a seed in the minds of
writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran?
Had they visited The Royal Oak all those years ago? I would like to
think that perhaps they did. This lovely old London pub can be found @ http://www.royaloaklondon.com
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