Forthcoming Events - Life is one long event full of fun and frolics.
Thank you for taking your time to get to almost the final page of our little website, hope your are still awake, firstly we here at the pub would like to wish you a very happy new year and hope that 2012 will be a prosperous one for us all. I hope that you all had a good Christmas and a very festive new year with lots of alcoholic grape juice. Hopefully the white stuff will stay away and that this year we actually will have a warm summer, lets face it they keep promising it..Last year really was a success even with my wrist operation, and being out of action for a while was pretty scary, everything went brilliantly and all that helped were fantastic and extremely kind to me while I was being so grumpy, the food was better than ever so I am told. The annual cricket game was won by us even though there were more Wield players than not, it is always a great fun day and a pleasure to play on such a fantastic ground, especially when its not under water. We had a couple of fantastic weddings, Wendy our gorgeous leader of the Northbrook and Tom (the former head barman of the Friday night team at the Yew Tree!!!!), both were fantastic fun, especially the brilliant band The Standards at Toms wedding, how to clear a dance floor in one easy lesson, play a Feeder cover while Little Chris and I have had a couple of shandies. The Good Pub Guide were kind to us again and are clearly deluded or my bribe just keeps on working, not sure which.
The Yew Tree has now returned to business after a very welcome break, my children have now remembered what an annoyiny Dad I am, and Julia and I have a play at ordinary life. We had a great time and can thoroughly give Swanage the thumbs up, the weather beautiful the beaches sandy and with plenty to do there even in January. The durdle door and Lulworth cove are beautiful and the Square and Compass pub at Worth Matravers is wonderfully unspoilt, at 4pm on a winters afternoon the pub was still rammed, beer and pasties outside surrounded by chickens was perfect. Also a trip to Brighton (alot of my teen years were spent there) was excellent, not only because of time with Julia. If you visit you MUST try the vegetarian restaurant, Terre A Terre the presentation was top notch and so many amazing flavours, backed up by fun, polite and knowledgeable staff. Also for a bit of history visit the Brighton Pavillion, quite stunning.
As always, the pub does not run itself and I couldn't do it without all the support I am offered by my fab staff, great customers!!!!!, very supportive wife Julia and my mini mees Alfie and Izzy. Also for the music lovers this is my top 10 for last year, they may not be all 2011 but I bought them in 2011 so my best of last year in no particular order:
-Rise Against - End Game
-You Me At Six - Sinners Never Sleep
-Young Guns - All Our Kings Are Dead
-Red Light Company - Fine Fascination
-Mona - Mona
-Silversun Pickups - Swoon
-Dashboard Confessional - Alter The Ending
-Sum 41 - Screaming Bloody Murder
-The Blackout - Hope
-Something Corporate - Played in Space
Thank you, see you soon