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Having not set foot in the place for two years – which by now feels like an absolute aeon – i’m setting off today for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, where i’ll (hopefully) be happily immersed for the next few days. Words to follow once i get back next week.
I’ll be at the GBSR Duo + Eva Maria Houben gig. Debating whether there’ll be time for last orders afterwards. Probably not at the kind of pub I’d be seen dead in these days…
Knowing Huddersfield, in the two years since i was last there, at least half of the drinking and eating places i know will have either closed down or changed hands…
The last time I went out eating and drinking there (with the selfsame friend I’m dragging along to one of the Shorts sessions on Monday) was in August*; most of the usual suspects were still extant then.
I know I’ve never been the greatest town-painter anyway, but it’s still dispiriting how a single hand-pulled pint has acquired “special treat” status during the pandemic…