Janet and John have been to a family funeral. Just before the service which was at a  church set in the heart of the welsh countryside, they decided to stop off at a small pub. As they opened the front door they were greeted by a sheep dog who welcomed them by jumping up and barking, the woman behind the bar shouted and swore at the dog, which sent him skulking into the corner. Janet asked the woman who had a hacking cough, some of her own teeth and dull grey hair tied in a bun, who appeared to be in her eighties for a drink. John had a lager which he said had a funny smell, Janet decided to stick to a bottle of juice. The bar looked like someones lounge, a lounge that had been forgotten by time, Janet hesitated when it came to ordering sandwiches but they were both hungry. As she was trying to narrow down the safest option, bearing in mind it didn’t look as if that many people used this pub, the phone rang, the dog started barking and jumping, which prompted the woman to start shouting and swearing again. A man who had been hunched up over a lap top answered it, the dog left the bar, Janet ordered cheese baps and followed him. After thirty minutes Janet went to check on the order which was just appearing from the kitchen, she asked for a serviette, this brought on a fit of coughing and swearing. John was really hungry by this point but he struggled with the bap which had been defrosted in the microwave was hard in places and held the biggest slab of cheese he had seen outside a supermarket. Janet and John wanted to drag their tongue across the floor after they had eaten it. In future they will  think twice before stopping  in remote pubs, especially those run by the cast of the Deliverance.

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