The Old Grote pub is a half-timbered holdout in Shoreditch, reached by cutting through Old Winsonby, and left through The Grobbings, just behind Great Pretext. Here, it’s said that Barbara Skelton once slapped Dylan Thomas because he said that Wolf Mankowitz... ooooh arggghhh there’s really no time for local colour.

Today was just your average day in parliament: PM Theresa May effectively resigned in advance, the House of Commons took over from the government in the management of Brexit, and then failed to vote up a single majority alternative, while the speaker all but ruled out a re-presentation of the "government’s" official withdrawal bill.