Down South

 We're back in Eastbourne.

It was a painless journey back on Tuesday and we were blessed by a bus arriving just outside the station as we emerged.   We were home in just a few minutes.

The house seemed to be in order and even the garden hadn't suffered too much in the heat.

On Wednesday I had to go to Hastings so when I got back and needed to chill with the Beer Buddy, we went to Beerarama, had a catch-up with Jamie and came down from the after-effects of the work I'd been doing.

Thursday, the Crown's Easter Beer festival started so we made haste to try the first beers.  It was lovely to be there but we've noticed that our absolute beer capacity continues to reduce.  We managed 5 pints between us.  Same on Saturday, too. 

Easter Sunday was dull and cool, contrasted with the beautiful gardening weather of Saturday so we did a few jobs around the house, and then played boardgames with fridge-beer.

Both of us are a bit discombobulated at the excess of weekend - even though we were tinkering at "work" on Friday.  Today we have to go to the Wish Tower to meet with a member/builder who is going to help with some renovations we have secured funding for.  Undoubtedly there will be beer after that - possibly the Bohemian which is now - if not a regular haunt - then certainly an acceptable place to go in this town with few venues for us, at least, to choose from.

Betwixt

 We've been in the Bristol residence for nearly 3 weeks, now and heading back in a couple of days.

It's Saturday morning and I'm going to try and take most of the day off work - like the BBB says, when the "work" is as much hobby/volunteering as it is Work it's not so bad to tinker a bit at the weekend.

We've not been anywhere new, particularly, but we did make the pilgrimage to Arbor Brewery Tap - I'm so glad it's now regularly open on Fridays and Saturdays.  The day we walked over there, there was even a cracking impy stout on offer.

 On Wednesday this week we thought it would be safe to head to King Street and sit in the sun, surely it wouldn't be that busy at 4.30pm.  Boy, were we wrong.  As much as we generally avoid crowds, we actually both enjoyed sharing space on the outside benches with about another 150 people.  We won't be doing it again any time soon - but as a once-in-a-while thing, it made us smile.  It was followed by a quieter drink in Small Bar and then Potato Tikki Chat in Dhamaka-  yeah, it was fun.

Yesterday, I wanted to sit outside drinking beer for a bit...but I also wanted it to be fairly quiet.  A tricky one on a Friday.  So we strolled around to the LHG Taproom with its multitude of tables on tarmac.  We had a cracking pale cask beer (not overly generous in the poured pint, but delicious) and a signature NEIPA (two different ones, actually, but very similar in character).

Today, it's record shop day and the BBB has suggested a nod to the day by popping up to Plastic Wax and seeing what pre-loved 45's might be available.  I predict a taproom on the walk home...