Sunday 13 April 2008

G. Morris and Sons

The start of Songkran started off with warm sunshine – T-shirt weather and appropriately with the forecast of rain showers later. Vidor the batterer, just back from fighting the Pjork Scratchings @ the battle of Rackheath Village Hall, led us North to Tunstead... Visiting St. Swithin's church in Ashmanhaugh, revealed a smart scratch dial with Arabic numerals. The pre pie pub had now become “The Olive Branch” restaurant bar and sold no real ales! We made do with various offerings and toasted Ricky’s choices of pub “Up yours!” consuming our beverages in the warm sunshine. We headed back to the cars to sample pies from G. Morris & Sons, an old staple, not having time to source an interesting pie. Previously they had scored 7.5 and 8, today they were bland, lacking seasoning and scored a disappointing 6.14286 with a reasonably high standard deviation of 0.69, so a normalised 6 for G. Morris & Sons. Thor was not happy with the pie offering either – the sky turned black and he pelted us with 1/4” hailstones!!!