Sex & the single gin – The Chav Tavern

Tlleing Tileing Tileing. Is there no end to the land of Tiles?

It’s not as if they are particularly big or complicated to put on the wall. Not the problem is that the walls are wonky, and each tile has to be exactly right in three dimensions, as opposed to the usual two.

Ettamogah Pub, Sydney

Looking back on the walls I’ve previously done, it’s clear that I’m getting better as I go on, even if it is sending me demented.

However this weekend I turned the corner – as it were – and managed to get most of the tiles in for where the bath is going to be, and then made it to the pub for a well earned pint.

Except pubs don’t really do the hills district. There is no cute looking local. Instead, there is just the regular Bull and Bush – or the Chav Tavern, also known as the Etimorgorrah tavern. It’s a classic Australian pub, by which I mean a huge beer bar of a place, selling overpriced burgers, and reaping profits from the pokies.

In most countries morning is what you go into when the beer runs out. In the Australian suburbs, it seems to be state of mind. I’m in mourning for that most rare of things in Australia - a British Pub.