Katria
/Call In On Katria
Call in any time during a weekend at the Rose and Plum Tree, a quaint old pub in Dunbury, Gloucestershire, and it's odds-on you'll find Katria serving behind the bar, helping her father. He owns the pub and finds that when she helps him, she doubles his trade. We can't say we're surprised.
Relaxing in her room upstairs she assured us that being a part-time barmaid didn't interfere with her social life. She's a friendly person, knows a lot of people she meets in her job. They often drop round for a chat and a drop! - after hours. "There's nothing like spirits to revive one's spirits", she says.
"Tell us more", we said, holding out our glass. Well, another thing, she told us, is how much more freely men talk when they've had a little something to warm them up. Little secrets, like their weaknesses, special likes and dislikes, marriage plans . . . it's not long before she knows more about them than they do.
"Of course, we never touch the stuff normally", we said hastily, pushing the glass aside. 'Especially when driving.' But with the shrewd look she was giving us, it looked as if she'd guessed all our little secrets already. One thing we forgot to mention when Katria isn't serving behind the bar of the Rose and Plum Tree, she's a degree student in psychology at Cambridge University.
Relax No 12 Gold Star Publications 1967
I can’t find Dunbury in Gloucestershire or anything like it.