Following a happy childhood in 30's and 40's Ireland, Patrick Eades sets out on an adventure away from village life and the colourful characters he has grown up with. Just before his seventeenth birthday he leaves all that is familiar and boards a boat to England to continue life's humorous journey and complete an engineering apprenticeship - little knowing that he is to encounter and befriend a host of just as colourful characters in the people of the King's pub in the Harrow Road who take him to their hearts. Witty and funny, this tale of a life so ordinary brings an extraordinary glow and warmth which can only be expected from Two Large Whiskeys...