Dream that might not translate
Sep. 5th, 2024 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethDreamed my favourite pub, that I haven't been to since the pandemic, had been renamed, had the insides stripped out so they could call it 'industrial', and was now serving food from a much spicier culture.
Which I have seen happen many times so when I woke up I had to go check the internet to see it was still there.
I realise I am not supporting it any more but if a place has been there for a few centuries you get used to it, you know?
Also in the dream we tried going to sit down in the basement by the river bridge, but they had opened up the store rooms that probably arent there in reality, and it all turned into a maze of basement forever, and then the dream developed a plot, and violence.
And Owen Harper. Who had tentacles in disconcerting places. Which is an odd note in a dream otherwise about the vanishment of old communities and things being replaced with the cheap rubbish version that rich people then decide is cool.
I saw a post on tumblr the other day that called pubs bars and was disconcerted by how many Britain has. But pubs and bars are distinct. Sure there's a bar in a pub, but you don't call a pub a bar, a bar is somewhere you go to have alcohol, a pub is just somewhere you go. Bars don't have a children's play area, that I know of. Pubs might have a really nifty one with a scramble net and climbing frames, or just a bit of grass further away from the exits, or it might not. Some people have a seperate category in mind for ones that served food and had a climbing frame, but as far as I can tell if it has pub in the name and a pub sign and some evidence it has been there since Shakespeare it is very probably a pub.
... was a pub. Just looked it up. The one I was thinking of closed in 2015.
Centuries of broadly the same thing in the same places, and they're all closing.
I wouldnt miss alcohol going all away, but I would miss pubs.
Already the sci fi group meetings seem all gone, the board games keep having to change venue, though some of that change is to venues specifically for board games so as an activity that seems to be on the up, but in general even if I were to mask up and attempt to rejoin social life, the places to go are going.
Boo.
Which I have seen happen many times so when I woke up I had to go check the internet to see it was still there.
I realise I am not supporting it any more but if a place has been there for a few centuries you get used to it, you know?
Also in the dream we tried going to sit down in the basement by the river bridge, but they had opened up the store rooms that probably arent there in reality, and it all turned into a maze of basement forever, and then the dream developed a plot, and violence.
And Owen Harper. Who had tentacles in disconcerting places. Which is an odd note in a dream otherwise about the vanishment of old communities and things being replaced with the cheap rubbish version that rich people then decide is cool.
I saw a post on tumblr the other day that called pubs bars and was disconcerted by how many Britain has. But pubs and bars are distinct. Sure there's a bar in a pub, but you don't call a pub a bar, a bar is somewhere you go to have alcohol, a pub is just somewhere you go. Bars don't have a children's play area, that I know of. Pubs might have a really nifty one with a scramble net and climbing frames, or just a bit of grass further away from the exits, or it might not. Some people have a seperate category in mind for ones that served food and had a climbing frame, but as far as I can tell if it has pub in the name and a pub sign and some evidence it has been there since Shakespeare it is very probably a pub.
... was a pub. Just looked it up. The one I was thinking of closed in 2015.
Centuries of broadly the same thing in the same places, and they're all closing.
I wouldnt miss alcohol going all away, but I would miss pubs.
Already the sci fi group meetings seem all gone, the board games keep having to change venue, though some of that change is to venues specifically for board games so as an activity that seems to be on the up, but in general even if I were to mask up and attempt to rejoin social life, the places to go are going.
Boo.
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Date: 2024-09-05 09:38 pm (UTC)