I remember coming out of a pub one evening in Edinburgh and looking up at the sky with all the light pollution in the city and seeing this esoteric light across the sky hovering there.
They were rewarded for leaving their firesides when the Riddles' cook arrived dramatically in their midst and announced to the suddenly silent pub that a man called Frank Bryce had just been arrested.
“That's not that unusual, yeh get a lot o' funny folk in the Hog's Head — that's the pub down in the village. Might be a dragon dealer, mightn' he? I never saw his face, he kept his hood up.”
So, it was probably a bit of a joke to start with: " Let's have all-day pubs" , because they're only open in the evening 30 years ago, and now you can go in from 11 o'clock.