No wonder pubs are closing

We’re staying at Breadsall Priory, a very up market hotel just north of Derby. The drinks and meals in the bar are horrendously expensive and the food even more so. I had fish and chips last night which cost £14.50 and it was no better than you’d find wrapped in yesterday’s newspaper. So tonight we decided to go back to a pub we spotted earlier. After travelling down narrow lanes in the pouring rain we pulled up in the car park and made our way inside to a scene from Deliverance.
Jane went to the bar and ordered our drinks and then asked for the menu only to be told that they stopped taking orders at 8pm – the time? 8.02, I kid you not. No wonder pubs are closing across the country.