So today I needed to meet a colleague at a mutually convenient location between our two homes. He suggested a place that he’d been to in the last week or so with another of my new colleagues. So I set off to meet him at Chievely Services just off the M4, prior to taking to the lanes.
After rendezvousing at Chievely, we go just a few miles down the lanes following the new A34, through countryside that has been hacked about in order to lay the new road through it, and just under a bridge, we find the Fox and Hounds. This is a reasonable little pub that’s open most of the day, and has a different and interesting perspective on it’s role in the community. You often read in the papers that pubs have closed, and that the community around suffers, but this pub is stuck out in the middle of nowhere (it probably was as
