Raising a laugh

‘Don’t pull that string!’ warned the Bun House publican (see entry below). I didn’t. Then along came one of the guys who works there and he pulled it. The regulars must have seen this trick hundreds of times, but it seemed no less amusing to them than it did to me. The monk’s days of dangling over a mahogany bar are numbered: Friday, 27 January is the Bun House’s closing party after 114 years of pulling pints for Peckham punters.