Some of you - certainly David - will know the Fox And Hounds pub in Christmas Common, South Oxfordshire.

It's set in the heart of the tiny village, with a small gravel car park leading to a beautiful countryside building comprising a bar with roaring fire on the left as you enter, and a rather gastronomically cultured restaurant on the right. (Octopus salad, anyone?)

A couple of months ago Amy and I decided to meet for lunch there, only to discover on arrival that it was closed for refurbishment and would re-open in early May.

It's on my way to work each day and duly, by early May, it had re-emerged as something quite different entirely. The very traditional Fox And Hounds sign and title letters had disappeared, to be replace by a garish - frankly, ugly - logo for a place called The Treacle Well. If you think the logo for the 2012 Olympics is bad, believe, it was a work of art compared to The Treacle Well's new sign. I've nothing against change, but I was horrified.

I didn't get the chance to go in and sample The Treacle Well's fare, but a quick search online reveals someone who did, and they were less than impressed:

Regrettably, the heart and soul of this wonderful old pub has been ripped out in the name of gastro-pub world domination. It has been re-named The Treacle Well (WTF???) and is now utterly and completely without salvation.

They'll be even less impressed when they realise they've been completely and utterly had - by the BBC.

Amy and I went back there today for a second attempt and, lo and beholf, everything was back to normal! The Fox And Hounds sign is back, the lettering is back, and there's no sign at all of The Treacle Well.

As we parked I was already thinking this mightily odd. Had the regulars been so furious that the old owners had been restored? It's unheard of for a pub to change ownership, then change back, in two months.

Inside we went. It was after 3pm, a time when many pubs aren't serving (boy did we find that out), so we asked the man behind the bar if there was any food going. The response:

"No, sorry, we're not serving any food. We're still getting everything back together after the BBC moved out."

Eh? If ever a sentence needed some elaboration it was that one, but he wasn't giving too much away.

"Yeah, the BBC were here for seven weeks filming a competition. People had to take over a pub and run it as best they could."

So that explains that. The Fox And Hounds became The Treacle Well for a forthcoming BBC television series in which some poor people try to run a pub to the best of their ability - clearly not well enough if our earlier correspondent is to be believed. Keep an eye out for it! But in the mean time, go back to enjoying your old pub, restored to its former glory.

After another four pubs told us they weren't doing food, we eventually found ourselves at The White Horse, the pub opposite the BBC in Caversham, which did us a very reasonable (and late) pub lunch for just over £15 total between the two of us, in a surprisingly quiet courtyard behind the pub. Certainly nicer than I remember the pub.

Our afternoon continued with Toby, the resident dog, now into his eleventh year on the planet and showing a little wear and tear in the limbs, but not in the enthusiasm for a good walk. Amy and I drove him out to the Chiltern Sculpture Trail, a wooded area punctuated by sculptures that may or may not actually be there - some were clearly visible, others had apparently been 'removed' at some point, lawfully or otherwise. We think this might have been one, with a little helpful graffiti:

The dog and Amy may never speak again after one incident which I can't possibly relay here, but otherwise it was a tranquil way to celebrate Amy's elevation to the post of Woman About Hong Kong-elect. Congratulations Amy!