THE Barmaid's Bosom was a hive of activity this week. Well, one or two people moved and sat in different seats.

It's strange how people go into the same pub for years and always try to sit in the same seat, or stand at the same spot at the bar.

Many will remember the Old Greyhound in New Street in Worcester, That was a proper old-style pub.

One old boy called Don sat in the same seat there for years. But one night he came in and a youngster was sat in his seat.

"That's my seat" he complained.

But the young lad refused to move, saying anyone could sit there, which was true enough. After about 10 minutes the lad went to the gents and Don poured his almost full pint all over the chair. "Sit there now, ya ******" he was heard to mutter.

Well, things like that do not happen in the Barmaid's. But Farmer Giles (not a farmer just haemorrhoid problems) was going on about people of habit last week, and reckoned he knew a bloke who had been into the same pub in Pershore every night for more than 40 years - yes, even Christmas Day, when the pubs don't open at night. He went in at lunch time.

He never missed and even went in there the day of his wedding.

I do recall myself talking to a chap in Defford, who had been in a pub, but not the same one, every day of his adult life.

He had never travelled further than Pershore, which must be about four miles away, but he did manage to go in a few different hostelries.

We went for a long walk in the Forest Of Dean last weekend, and what a delight it is.

It's long time since I'd been down that way, and they have made a lot of improvements. We got a map of the forest and spent a very healthy two-and-a-half hours tramping through the woods, and even managed to get a little bit lost.

Some of the routes are on the old railway tracks that ran through the forest to the mines, so nothing too up and down, some long gradients and a lot of folks out on bikes, most enjoyable.

Well, here we go again on Sunday. There's another season of Premiership rugby at Sixways and it's Gloucester first up.

It'll be another great atmosphere and it's on the telly as well, so should be a great occasion.