So there we were hoping for a weekend of sunshine and sitting on the beach! Woke this morning to the sound of rain trickling through the trees outside the window and no sign of it clearing all day. I headed out around noon to walk through the drizzle to the shops, the beach and out to the pier, the sea was the flattest I’ve seen for ages — a lazy swell that wasn’t even breaking on the beach.
Something dodgy is happening here with the beer in Victoria. More and more pubs seem to be serving “schooners”, 425ml1 glasses previously unknown south of the Murray. It seems to have happened just this summer, Oakleigh, Bright, now here at Lorne. Suspiciously, they also seem to be taking it as an opportunity to whack up the price. An ordinary glass (a pot, 285ml) costs anywhere up to about $2.90, $5 for a schooner is somewhere around 20% more per litre!
Footnotes
1 Of course these used to be a standard number of fluid ounces — 20 fl oz for a pint, 15 fl oz a schooner, 10 fl oz for a middie — but back in 1974 they were converted to metric and rounded off. Now we find that there pubs selling purported “pints” that hold 500ml!
