Life beyond beer...

In the early hours of this morning I was musing on this blog, and I wondered whether it made me look like someone who has no interests outside beer.

I'll freely admit I drink a lot of it, and I drink it frequently (although I've not drunk any at all since Sunday).  More importantly, I drink it because I love the taste, and it's an interesting time to be drinking beer in the UK.

It isn't all I do, though, and although many of my conversations and excursions with my favourite beer-drinking buddy have a beerish theme (after all, we'd never walk miles based upon going somewhere just with a good wine list, or a fancy chef) - that's not all we're interested in.

Here's a list of current interests, just to prove that I haven't got a one-track mind...

• Tour of Britain and its visit to Eastbourne
• Electronics education for youngsters and encouraging them in 'making' activities
• Music:  listening to, analysing and playing it (current obsession:  I Wish I knew How it Would Feel to be Free...played on the piano..badly)
• Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Biology...in abstract, and in little bursts of specific interests
• A Martello Tower in Eastbourne and its future
• The hooting owl I can hear at night - I suspect it's a tawny and it's either in the Rec across the road or in the woods about 600m away...wherever it is, I love the sound.
• The consolidation of the contents of two houses into one (today I've been putting up shelves, and ridding myself of my huge desk to accommodate more stuff in what will be a shared office)
• A funding bid for a heritage project
• Heritage Open days - and Eastbourne first real crack at it (wish us luck)
• A few forthcoming events in our Martello and how we can please all the people, all of the time (I suspect this is not possible)
• Friends coming to stay - so I guess I'd better get the spare room ready
• Friends coming to stay - so I guess I'd better replace the bulb in the only light on the landing
• Football.  More specifically BHAFC.  Even more specifically a couple of away matches in Norwich and Wolverhampton we're plotting to attend
• Trying (and largely failing ) to get our garden from under the tyrannical yoke of climbers:  jasmine, wisteria, grape vine, clematis, honeysuckle and, the devil's work itself - bindweed.  Another binful today...and I know by the time the bin has been emptied next week, the bloody stuff will be coming at me again.
• Naiscent plans for an extension to this house so we can make better use of the space (and accommodate the things from the housal consolidation).
• Newly renewed love of reading books (currently Christopher Brookmyre's "Bedlam")
• Walking on the South Downs - almost on our doorstep and a bit of a slog up the hill, but so completely worth it when you get up there.

There are other things, for sure (making falafels might count, mightn't it?) but now I can relax safe in the knowledge that you know there's more to me that water, malt, yeast and hops.  Actually, you never really cared that much, did you?