Page 127 - IT'S A RUM LIFE BOOK FOUR Volume 1 "Northcote 1984 to 1998"

ADMIRAL TAKES A BREAK
At 2am they took a break and after everyone had been fed by the caterers they seemed to
descend on the pub and leave me taking still photos of the scenes around us.

It was about this time that Admiral decided he had endured sufficient and decided to go
“walk about”, complete with his heavy iron wheeled Lincolnshire farm cart.
I was his minder at that moment and had been distracted and thought him asleep!

He turned in a circle and moved sharply towards the pub at a trot! He had seen a chap
going that way and decided to follow.
The only thing was, that around the entire pub front were rows of heavy wooden benches
and tables. These meant nothing to our Admiral and he demolished these in a trice.

This brought him to the attention of the chap he had been following who turned to see
what had caused the huge noise. The chap turned as white as a sheet, ran for the pub
door and tried to close it!
Too late was the cry as they say, as the mentally exhausted Admiral already had his head
and collar through the door. Fortunately the brickwork held and Admiral came to a sharp
halt jammed in the doorway.

The tables and benches were literally matchwood under the wheels of the heavy cart and
it took me several minutes to release him from the cart sufficiently to ease him back from
the door.

( Admiral and his cart, “I thought he was asleep”!)