Freshly made sandwiches, jacket potatoes, salad boxes, homemade soups, cakes & much much more! Duke Street. Tel: 01245 499114 t: 01245 601407 e: info@studio-24-7.com www.studio-24-7.com website design logos wedding stationery graphic design Chelmsford Barber Shop SUMMER DEALS NOW AVAILABLE ple<strong>as</strong>e check advertised prices listed! DRY CUT £8.50 CUT WASH & DRY £10.00 FACE SHAVE £8.50 HEAD SHAVE £8.50 BOYS CUT £6.00 BOYS CUT SAT/SUN £8.50 £8.50 BEARD TRIM CUT WASH DRY £4.00 & FACE SHAVE SPECIAL FULL £17.00 SERVICE £19.00 OAP’s MON-THURS. £6.00 High Chelmer Shopping Centre opp: Chelmsford Market TEL: 01245 357778 Open 9am - 7pm six days a week inc. Sundays 10am - 4pm WHAT THIS PICTURE SAYS TO THE EDGE... “Niall Teague & <strong>The</strong> F<strong>as</strong>t Company....probably the best Irish band in the world.” <strong>The</strong>y were certainly playing outside the best pub in the world (the Square & Comp<strong>as</strong>s at Worth Matravers, situated at the head of a valley running down to the ‘Ledges of Winspit’ on the beautiful jur<strong>as</strong>sic co<strong>as</strong>t) and it just so happened to be on the weekend of my 50th birthday celebrations, so how lucky a bloke w<strong>as</strong> I? We also got wind of the fact that the weather back in Chelmsford w<strong>as</strong> somewhat inclement to say the very le<strong>as</strong>t, so a double-bonus for we intrepid (eight) travellers. I’d even go so far <strong>as</strong> to say that this particular afternoon proved to be one of the best afternoons of my entire life. A great pub, great view, great people around you, lovely music and some wonderful, wonderful cider. Aye, life don’t get no simpler or t<strong>as</strong>te no sweeter. Dorset might be a few counties away from Essex, but so far <strong>as</strong> I’m concerned, it might <strong>as</strong> well be another bloody country entirely, for every time I visit, I feel <strong>as</strong> though I’m entering an entirely different land and culture, particularly the bit we go to. When you come to think about it, the magic doesn’t happen very often in life, does it? And sometimes it really does seem to be that you’ve got to have a really major excuse to get the people you want all together, even if it’s just eight. In this particular instance, six months notice had to be given! Well worth the wait though. So how does this ‘old man’ feel now that his long weekend of celebrations are finally over? Gutted. Absolutely gutted. Because now I’m just another middle-aged fella struggling and muddling his way through life, yet for one afternoon at le<strong>as</strong>t, it honestly felt <strong>as</strong> though things couldn’t get any better. Dancing the afternoon away... Big venue stadiums, crap, overpriced lager and the music belting out to a 75,000 crowd, or something far more intimate just off the co<strong>as</strong>t? Anyway, why don’t you check out both the Square & Comp<strong>as</strong>s and Niall Teague & <strong>The</strong> F<strong>as</strong>t Company on the web for a little flavour of what you missed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I should be promoting a local pub and a local band, but cut me some slack, will you, readers, cos I’m feeling incredibly tender right about now, seeing <strong>as</strong> I’ve reached such a ripe old age. Cheers! Even the dogs were lapping it up. Mr. Charisma aka Kelvin Busher on the double b<strong>as</strong>s - a right cheeky chappy if ever there w<strong>as</strong> one. Page 6 shaun@theedgemag.co.uk
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