The Flowerpots Inn, Cheriton

The Flowerpots Inn will always fall comfortably short of perfection for its bizarre policy of refusing to allow children entry. The place is perfectly hospitable if you ignore the treatment of children due to its association with local brewing and reasonable food. If it were a tired old man's drinking hole next to a betting shop in a run down part of Southampton filled with overflowing ashtrays and old soaks, it would make sense not to allow children. Since over eighteens are just as likely to misbehave as are under eighteens this moribund poicy, still adopted by some rural village pubs without good reason, should be consigned to the dustbin of outdated sensless social conventions.

13 Mar 2007 11:58