cider for breakfast

Good morning, all! We're at Churchill's Pub so we can watch the West Ham v. Wigan football match.



Sorry if that pic seems a tad small - I'm going back to using smaller pics in the body of my posts for the time being, as it's the easiest solution I've found to the narrow-browser-window problem I mentioned a few posts ago. If you want to see a bigger version, you can always click on it. I'll work on figuring out a better way, but for now, y'all will just have to deal. Sorry. :(

So, Churchill's. We love this place. (Match update: West Ham just scored! Whooo!) It's a pub owned by a Brit expat situated in the middle of Miami's Little Haiti. On weekends, they show all the football matches on satellite TV (they show cricket and rugby, too - whatever people want to watch, basically), and expats & other football fans show up and start drinking at like, 9 or 10 in the morning. You can get bangers & mash, shepherd's pie, or fish & chips for grub. It is great.

Usually the crowd's a bit sparse until around noon, but it's pretty packed in here today. We figure it's 'cause it's near the end of the season and there are a lot of games on. (Update: West Ham scored again! It's 3-0 now! If they'd played this way all season, they wouldn't be in danger of getting relegated now.) We're at the far end of the bar from the TVs showing the West Ham game, so I can barely see what's going on, but the Middleborough v. Tottenham match on the closest telly is pretty interesting, too. Johnny does not have my nearsightedness, so he's telling me what's going on when I can't see it. All the matches today seem to be pretty high-scoring ones - in addition to the 3-0 West Ham tally, M'borough/T'ham is 2-3 and Portsmouth/Liverpool is 2-1.

Well, there are about 3 minutes to go until West Ham wins (they just showed an exodus of Wigan fans streaming out of the stadium), and then it will be time for us to get some bangers and mash to go with our cider. Mmm, sausages. Health food, it ain't - but it sure is tasty.