The Bull at Sonning is another of the pubs visited by the original Three Men in a Boat team and so we just had ro visit it as well. The following passage describes it in the book
“We got out at Sonning, and went for a walk round the village. It is the most fairy-like little nook on the whole river. It is more like a stage village than one built of bricks and mortar. Every house is smothered in roses, and now, in early June, they were bursting forth in clouds of dainty splendour. If you stop at Sonning, put up at the "Bull," behind
the church. It is a veritable picture of an old country inn, with green, square courtyard in front, where, on seats beneath the trees, the old men group of an evening to drink their ale and gossip over village politics; with low, quaint rooms and latticed windows, and awkward stairs and winding passages”
Seeing that what written over 120 years ago, things haven’t changed that much. The Bull still consists of low beams and around the court yard there are a series of tables for people to chat.
On entering the Bull, the Captain was recognised by one of his former college colleagues in the form of mathematician and statistician supremo Paul Roberts who he hadn’t seen for many years. “” said Paul” but not as kind as to you, if I remember correctly you retired four years before me at the grand age of 48. “Wrong “said Paul “48 years,2 months and 28 days”...once a mathematician always a mathematician. The Captain wondered if Paul did everything by numbers including the bedroom room department....Up two three, in two three, out two three etc etc
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